As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates horse+ 2.5/5 and horsemanager+ 3/5 in Stable & Equestrian Management. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick horse+ and 6 pick horsemanager+. horse+ scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Pricing transparency). horsemanager+ scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (Boarder portal & communication, Horse records, feeding & health, Staff, rotas & daily operations, plus 3 more). Provenance — horse+: EU-Made; horsemanager+: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
horsemanager+ (meinhofkind GmbH, Kempten) is ahead on six criteria: boarding and billing 7.0 to 5.0, horse care records 7.2 to 3.7, staff and operations 6.0 to 3.5 and boarder portal 7.5 to 3.8, with six judges leaning horsemanager+ on those four; facilities and lessons is 6.3 to 5.7 (four lean horsemanager+, two tie) and sovereignty is 7.0 to 6.0 (five lean, one tie). horse+ (KADACON GmbH, Munich) leads only pricing transparency, 7.8 to 1.5, with six judges leaning horse+, while horsemanager+'s pricing page states there is no public price list and each stable receives a written individual offer. Weighted totals span 4.4 to 5.3 for horse+ and 5.8 to 6.8 for horsemanager+. horsemanager+'s sovereignty attributes list German jurisdiction, European ownership, EU-only data residency and US CLOUD Act subprocessor exposure; horse+'s four sovereignty attributes are listed as unknown. No overall winner is declared; the flip by criterion is the answer.
Choose horse+ if
You need a public price list before you talk to sales — pricing transparency is the one criterion horse+ leads (7.8 to 1.5; six judges lean horse+), while horsemanager+'s pricing page states there is no public price list and each stable receives a written individual offer.
You must compute an annual cost from published pages — horse+'s captured pages give different figures, 20 € per month plus VAT and a base package of 30 € net monthly, whereas horsemanager+'s verdict states no annual cost is computable from public pages.
You need to review the full subprocessor chain before signing — horse+'s verdict credits a fully named subprocessor list (Google Cloud in Frankfurt, Upsun in Cologne, plus AWS, Microsoft and Sentry in the US).
You are buying as a private individual rather than a business — horsemanager+'s verdict states it is sold to businesses only, and we found no public information on such a restriction for horse+.
Choose horsemanager+ if
You bill monthly from boarding contracts and need SEPA direct debit, mandate management, dunning and a DATEV export — boarding and billing runs 7.0 to 5.0, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
Your yard depends on detailed horse care records — horsemanager+ leads 7.2 to 3.7, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
You want an invitation-only boarder portal with announcements and read receipts — the boarder portal criterion runs 7.5 to 3.8, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
Your staff run day-to-day operations in the app — staff and operations is 6.0 to 3.5, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
You need EU-only data residency under a German-jurisdiction, European-owned vendor — horsemanager+'s sovereignty attributes list EU-only data residency, jurisdiction in Germany and European ownership (sovereignty 7.0 to 6.0; five judges lean horsemanager+).
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Boarding-Stable Owner
Runs a forty-box Pensionsstall and loses a few hundred euros a month to blanket changes and leg wraps nobody wrote down. Wants extra services logged where they happen and billed without retyping, direct debit that collects on time, and one system instead of a spreadsheet and three WhatsApp groups.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
This is the closest to my wish list: an Abrechnung module at 25 € a month with open items included, a Rechnungen module at 5 €, contracts and open items managed without extra programs or Excel lists, and gapless service documentation that turns into a one-click month-end report for my bookkeeping. Monthly settlement built from logged services with receivables in view is what the pages show; we found no public information on invoices going automatically to the boarder, SEPA direct debit with mandates, VAT rates per service type, credit notes, or an export to DATEV or another named accounting tool.
horsemanager+
The monthly run builds the invoices out of the boarding contracts, and extra services come from the bookings as recorded — the blanket change gets written down once and lands on the bill without retyping. SEPA direct debit as a pain.008 file with mandate management, dunning, payment receipts and a DATEV export for my tax office are documented, and boarders see their invoices with payment status in the portal. We found no public information on configurable VAT rates per service type or on credit notes, and the terms themselves state the software is not certified specialist software for GoBD-compliant bookkeeping.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
Horses are managed entities — a Fütterung module for feeding and group management, Pferdezuweisung, Koppelplan and Boxenplan, plus the service documentation that would finally record my blanket changes and leg wraps as completed services. We found no public information on vaccination, worming or farrier dates with reminders, vet entries or a medication log, or an exportable file when a horse leaves, so this is feeding and placement rather than a health record.
horsemanager+
Per-horse records cover master data, pedigree, documents, photos, vaccinations, deworming and farrier with due dates surfacing in the overview, plus equine passport and life-number fields, a medication plan, treatment documentation for vet, farrier and dentist, and an audit log of every change. Rations per horse and feeding time are what the substitute sees, and the whole file exports at any time as CSV, Excel or PDF. We found no public information on blanket and turnout instructions shown to whoever does the round or on dose-and-administrator medication entries, and the terms state that sensitive categories such as health data may not be processed unless agreed in a written supplementary contract.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
The yard-task side exists: Hofaufgaben, Arbeitsdienste and Reiteraufgaben modules, a Hofdienste module at 40 € a month, and completed services visible through the documentation feature — a shared task list with done-states I can check. We found no public information on employee time recording, holiday planning, role permissions or offline use, though the privacy policy states plainly that no location history or movement profiles are built.
horsemanager+
Shift plans, tasks assigned to people and a time clock by PIN are documented, with rights granted per person so a temp sees tasks and horses but not contracts and figures, and every change written to a log. We found no public information on holiday and absence planning, on time records meeting the minimum-wage and working-time documentation duties, or on boarder duty rotas for self-care yards, and the captured pages state that offline operation is not provided.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
Riders get the app free and receive news by push through a digital notice board with read-rate tracking — I would at last know who saw the paddock-closure notice — and they can book the hall or solarium from home. We found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services and invoices billed to them, a channel for instructions to the stable, or scoping that keeps one boarder's data out of another's view.
horsemanager+
The portal gives boarders their horse with feed and health notes and marked due vaccinations, the next three weeks of appointments including their own arena bookings, all their invoices with status, and a way to leave notes to the stable — invitation-only, with the farm deciding what is released and other customers' figures staying hidden. Announcements are delivered with read receipts, which is what finally replaces my WhatsApp groups. We found no public information on separate scoping for co-owners and Reitbeteiligungen, on push notifications for due dates and charges, or on staff acknowledging boarder instructions individually.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar is the strong suit: boarders sign themselves up for the hall or solarium from home while I block fixed riding-school times, Lehrgänge and farrier visits in advance; lesson scheduling, occupancy plans and utilization come in the base package and a Veranstaltungen module adds events. We found no public information on bookings linked to billing or credit, school-horse workload, capacity rules per user group, or device integration, so it is a strong shared calendar rather than a facility business.
horsemanager+
Booking of the arena, outdoor school, horse walker and solarium including courses and riding lessons is documented, along with public booking pages for the farm, ten-lesson cards, school-horse use, student records, and boarders' own arena bookings visible in their portal. We found no public information on capacity limits and booking rules per user group, on equipment use flowing into billing or credit, or on device integration such as gates or walker controllers.
European sovereignty
horse+
The contracting entity is proven European — KADACON GmbH in Schongau, registered at Amtsgericht München under HRB 281942, German law — and the privacy policy lists subprocessors with addresses: webhosting on Google Cloud in Frankfurt and Upsun (Platform.sh GmbH) in Köln, third-country transfers only with standard contractual clauses, and deletion of account data on termination. The same list puts infrastructure with Amazon Web Services in Seattle, cloud storage with Microsoft in Redmond and error monitoring with Sentry in San Francisco, and we found no public information on a data processing agreement offered to the stable.
horsemanager+
The contracting entity is meinhofkind GmbH of Kempten, registered in the commercial register, hosting is stated on Supabase in the EU region with servers in Germany, and a standard data processing agreement is accepted on conclusion with the acknowledgment logged. The privacy policy names its AI functions running through OpenAI and Google Irish contract subsidiaries with legal bases given for any third-country transfers, and lists hosting, AI gateway, e-mail, CDN and map services, though the e-mail, CDN and map providers themselves stay unnamed. Data export at any time, deletion after a 30-day window, published retention periods and encryption measures round out what is proven; we found no public information on the ownership structure beyond a named German holding participation.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module has a public monthly price — Abrechnung 25 €, Hofdienste 40 €, most others 10 €, Rechnungen 5 € — on a base package of 30 € net monthly, with no charge per user or horse, riders free, VAT stated as added, monthly billing, no minimum term with three months' notice to month end, and a free three-month trial; the pages also show a from-20 € starting price and example packages at 20 €, 40 € and 85 € a month. A stable owner can read off the yearly cost for a chosen module set; we found no public information on setup or hardware fees, and on cancellation the policy states data is deleted rather than handed back in a documented format.
horsemanager+
There is no public price list — every farm receives a written offer after a demonstration — so I cannot compute what a forty-box yard would cost me per year from the public pages alone. The contract terms, one-month notice, prices plus statutory VAT, setup at no extra charge, an individually granted free trial and a 30-day data-export window after termination are published, which tells me the conditions but not the number.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
horse+
horsemanager+
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
Not determined
US CLOUD Act reach
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Compliance · Third country transfers
Standardschutzklauseln der EU-Kommission · Zertifizierungen · verbindliche interne Datenschutzvorschriften1
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates horsemanager+ higher: 3/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick horse+ and 6 pick horsemanager+. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is horse+ or horsemanager+ European?
horse+ is European (EU-Made). horsemanager+ is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do horse+ and horsemanager+ store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — horse+: its pages as captured do not say. horsemanager+: Default not stated; pages mention Germany.