If keeping track of your equestrian lifestyle has been tricky recently, look no further than your phone to get your life together.
From trail trackers to digital diary apps, the world of tech has changed drastically over the past five years. Equestrian apps not only offer quality assistance for task management, but they can improve your training efficiency too.
There’re lots of great equine apps available. Some of these are free, some are fee-based, but the fundamental objective of all of them is to help you manage your equestrian lifestyle with ease.
Below are some of the best equestrian apps around to help bring order into your life, and progress in your training.
From checking in with your moods to scheduling your horses feeding routine, Equus Note is a journal app to jot down your training goals, ambitions, aspirations, and musings for your phone. This specially designed app was created by equestrians to help others keep track of their progress and document discoveries made along the way The app is great for recording spur-of-the-moment to-do-lists, scheduling routine horse care and organizing thoughts.
It can be hard enough to keep your own health information organized–let alone that of your horse. Many of us get-by with plastic manilla folders packed with paper records which can be frustrating, time-consuming and, in a crisis, stressful. Aussie-based Equine Organisers came up with a digital solution in the format of an online platform and phone app that helps you manage your horse’s information wherever you are. Equine Organisers can track and log location and status history, ownership details, racing results, training notes, horse details, history, and bloodline.
A horse owner’s worst nightmare is losing their horse – fortunately, there is an app designed to help you monitor and locate your horse too. Horse Passport allows horse owners the possibility of logging and validating a horse’s location, and that data is accessible whenever and wherever you need it because it is cloud-based. This crucial information can help control disease outbreaks and stable biosecurity as well as preventing horse theft.
If you are seeking ways to better manage your time and horse chores, Equicty is a great resource to help you keep your sanity and save your precious time. Equicty is a handy communication app designed in Belgium, that helps equine businesses create the perfect team workflow. Users can assign day-to-day tasks to their staff and optimize productivity and efficient teamwork. Each person working therefore knows well in advance what they have to do, where to do it, and at what time, preventing frustration and workplace mistakes. Teammates can check off their assigned tasks from their phone during the day, and the app can be used to track health records, auto schedule dewormings, vaccinations, horse training sessions and back-office admin.
When you’re in the middle of a training session, it can be easy to forget what you have completed. This is especially true when you are riding different horses. Equilab is a hugely popular app that can be used to track and analyze your schooling sessions while riding. The app can log gait distribution, speed, and strides per minute, as well as track your itinerary on hacks. It has a safety feature that allows a buddy to remotely track your ride and monitor your location and you can link it to health apps and your Apple Watch.
Another great app for monitoring your training is Equimo® which works with a tracking device to better understand your horse’s performance and measure your horse’s gait, pace, energy, symmetry orientation and much more. Using data from the device, you can measure and analyze training sessions, watch your horse’s calorie intake/burn, and even have your trainer monitor your schooling sessions remotely (handy during Covid times). The interactive dashboard shows how your horses training is progressing via different graphs that compare each ride with previous sessions – and these files are easily sharable online too.
If you suffer from information overload when studying dressage tests Learn A Dressage Test Board is a great app to improve memory recall. Brain scientists recommend writing things by hand for better recall – and this app helps you learn dressage tests by ‘drawing’ the pattern on your phone. This is a free app with a simple interface – but it is remarkably handy if you tend to forget tests.
If you are an event rider seeking to avoid off-course errors, CrossCountry app lets you record cross-country course walks with the GPS setting on your iPhone. To assist with recall, you can add prompts such as photos, videos, notes and striding pointers. The app has automatic minute markers which allow you to share courses or download and view virtual courses and “practice” them in your mind.
Never get lost on the trail again thanks to HorseGlobe, this app was devised in 2016 to help riders find suitable trails for horses around France. Today it has expanded into a mobile app used to record and share trails and training runs in more than 50 countries around the world. You can log in and utilize rides that were previously tracked by other riders, review current conditions, and add your own notes, images, and video files. The tracked rides are shareable on social media too–so you can help endorse little known routes or heritage trails to your mates and keep track of distance covered.
About Jessica
Jessica Morton is a freelance journalist living in Florence, Italy specializing in digital storytelling and equestrian news.
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