Features
Every feature below exists to serve one idea: the record of your horse should be complete, current, and yours. Anything that did not serve that idea was left out.
Farrier, worming, vaccinations, dentist, vet, physio, saddle fitter, clipping, insurance, passport. Eleven kinds of care, each with its own cycle. Log a visit once, with the cost if you want it, and Stablebook works out when the next one is due.
Every yard works to different intervals, so every entry's cycle can be changed. Six weeks for the farrier is a default, not a rule.
A warning ahead of the due date, when there is still time to book, and another on the day itself. The lead time fits the job: five days for a farrier, three weeks for a vaccination, because those are booked differently.
Reminders are scheduled on your phone by iOS itself. No server is involved, which also means they work in a yard with no signal.
Start it, ride, stop it. Walk, trot and canter are worked out from how the phone moves and how fast you are travelling. In an indoor school, where GPS is useless, it reads the rhythm of the gait alone: a trot is a brisk two beat, a canter a slower rolling three beat.
Gait detection is honest about being an estimate. It is marked beta, every ride can be corrected by hand, and when its two signals disagree it deliberately picks the slower gait, because flattering your workload figures helps nobody.
Time in the saddle is not the same as work done. A minute of canter loads a horse more than a minute of walk, so the weekly chart weights them differently. You see load building week by week, which is when you notice you are asking too much, or too little.
One tap produces a PDF of everything: the horse's details, the current schedule, the full care history with costs, a work summary and the recent rides. Hand it to your vet before a consult, to a new yard, or to a buyer.
This is the point of the whole app. A record you cannot take with you is not really yours.
The next job that needs booking sits on your home screen, so you see it without opening anything. During a ride, the lock screen shows the time, the current gait and the distance, large enough to read with gloves on.
Nothing to sign up for. Open the app, add your horse, done.
Your record lives on your iPhone. There is no database of yours anywhere else.
Not now, not later. There is no analytics code in the app at all.
No likes, no followers, no leaderboard. Other apps do that well already.
Missing something you need? Say so: hello@stablebook.app. The roadmap is decided by what testers actually ask for.
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