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 Riding-School Lead
Runs lessons six days a week on twelve school horses, plus weekend clinics with guest riders. Wants lessons and arena slots booked without double bookings, school horses not over-worked, ten-lesson cards that count themselves, and course payments that land in the same books as board.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
Contracts, invoices and open items are handled in the app without separate Excel lists, and the gapless service documentation turns into a one-click monthly report for my accountant — that reaches the monthly billing level. I found no public information on SEPA direct debit, VAT rates per service type, credit notes, or an export to a named accounting tool such as DATEV.
horsemanager+
Boarding contracts feed a monthly invoice run, extra services come from the recorded bookings, and SEPA direct debit with mandate management, dunning and a DATEV export are all documented — exactly the money flow I need running beside the lesson business. We found no public information on VAT rates configurable per service type or credit notes, and the terms themselves state the software is not certified specialist software for GoBD-compliant bookkeeping or payment receipts, so I stop short of the top band.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
A feeding module and horse assignment are priced, and feed management with group handling is described, which moves feeding off the whiteboard and onto the phone. I found no public information on vaccination, worming, farrier or vet records, a medication log, or an exportable file per horse when it leaves.
horsemanager+
Rations per horse and feeding time that a substitute sees identically, vaccination, worming and farrier dates with due dates in the overview, a medication plan, Equidenpass and life-number fields, an audit log of every change, and a one-click export in PDF, CSV or Excel — a record I could put in front of a vet or an inspector. We found no public information on dose and administrator detail in the medication log or on owner instructions such as blankets and turnout, which keeps it off the very top step.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
Separate priced modules exist for yard tasks, rider tasks, work duties and stable services, and the completed-services documentation shows work marked done. I found no public information on shift and holiday planning, time recording for employees and mini-jobbers, or an audit trail of who did which task when.
horsemanager+
Duty rosters, a PIN-based time clock, task assignment and per-person permissions — where the helper sees tasks and horses but not contracts and figures — are all documented, which covers the daily round. We found no public information on holiday and absence planning or boarder duty rotas for self-care stables, and the browser-only software explicitly requires an internet connection, so no offline use in a dead-signal barn.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
The rider app is free, carries the digital notice board with push messages and read-rate tracking, and my liveries can book the hall or solarium themselves from home. I found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services billed to them, or on instructions being acknowledged by the staff member who reads them.
horsemanager+
The portal shows each boarder their own horse with feed and health notes, due vaccinations marked, their invoices with status, lessons and their own arena bookings, plus announcements with read receipts — and the stable decides what is released while other customers' figures stay hidden. Boarders can leave notes to the stable, though we found no public information on staff acknowledging those notes, and there is no app-store app, so no push notifications.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar lets riders self-book hall and solarium while I block fixed school times, clinics and farrier visits in advance, lesson scheduling sits in the base package, events with accept/decline are priced, and utilisation is included in the base. I found no public information on ten-lesson cards that count themselves, school-horse workload tracking, or course payments flowing into the same books as board.
horsemanager+
Booking for hall, outdoor arena, horse walker and solarium, lessons with groups, cancellations and billing in one flow, ten-lesson cards that the system itself administers, school-horse assignment, and public booking pages are all documented — the core of a riding school's week. We found no public information on capacity and booking rules per user group, school-horse workload limits, utilisation reporting, or device integration with gates and walkers, so it sits below the top band.
European sovereignty
horse+
The vendor is a German GmbH registered at the Munich court with German governing law and place of performance in Schongau, and the privacy policy names every subprocessor with its location, including Google Cloud in Frankfurt and Platform.sh in Cologne alongside US providers such as AWS, Microsoft and Sentry. Location data is used only punctually with no location history or movement profiles. I found no public information on which provider actually hosts the app data, a data processing agreement offered to the stable, or a published security certification.
horsemanager+
A German GmbH with a commercial register entry and VAT ID, servers in Germany on named infrastructure (Supabase, EU region), a standard data processing agreement accepted on contract conclusion, and named AI providers (OpenAI Ireland, Google Ireland) whose third-country transfers concern only optional features and rest on published safeguards. The ownership structure is not confirmed on the captured pages, the subprocessor list gives no locations for the email, CDN and map services, and no security certification is published.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module carries a public monthly net price — billing 25 €, invoices 5 €, feeding and yard tasks 10 € each, stable services 40 € — with no per-user or per-horse cost, so I can compute my annual cost for my yard. Three months free, monthly billing, VAT stated as added on top, no minimum term with monthly renewal and a three-month notice period, deletion of account data on termination, and example packages per stable type (40 € for a riding school, 85 € for a box stable) make the real cost computable. The entry price is quoted both as from 20 € and as a 30 € net base package, and I found no public information on setup or hardware fees.
horsemanager+
The pricing page states plainly that there is no public price list — every farm receives a written offer after a demo — so no stable owner can compute an annual cost from public pages. Published contract terms soften this a little: monthly or annual billing at the chosen tariff, prices plus statutory VAT, an individual free trial, and a 30-day export window after termination, which earns a single point.
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.