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 Skeptic
Has seen stable apps arrive with a launch post and vanish two seasons later with the horse records inside. Reads "billing" that is a price list, "staff management" that is a chat, geofencing with no word on staff consent, and an imprint that names a riding stable rather than a software company — and asks what happens to the data then.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
The owner pages show invoices, contracts and open items managed in the app, with service documentation ending in a one-click monthly report for the bookkeeping, and billing sold as priced modules ('Abrechnung 25 € / Monat', 'Rechnungen 5 € / Monat'). We found no public information on SEPA direct debit with mandates, VAT rates per service type, credit notes or an export to a named accounting tool, so the money side is documented as invoices and open items rather than discharged in the system.
horsemanager+
Boarding contracts with services, a monthly invoice run, extras drawn from recorded bookings, SEPA direct debit with mandate management and dunning, and a DATEV file export are all documented — that is most of the way to the top tier. We found no public information on VAT rates per service type, credit notes or prepaid credit, and the terms themselves state the software is not certified specialist software for legally binding documentation duties such as GoBD-compliant bookkeeping, so we stop short of full marks.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
A feeding module exists ('Fütterung 10 € / Monat') and the marketing names feeding, group management and daily stable operations, with documents and horse assignment in the base package — that is a per-horse feeding operation. We found no public information on vaccination, worming, farrier or vet entries, a medication log with dose and administrator, or an exportable horse file, so the record as documented would not yet stand up to a vet's or inspector's questions.
horsemanager+
Per-horse master data with passport and pedigree fields, rations per feeding time visible to substitutes, vaccination, worming and farrier due dates, medication and treatment documentation, an audit log of every change, and export as CSV, Excel or PDF are documented. We found no public information on blanket and turnout instructions per horse or on dosing details and who administered in the medication log, and the vendor states there is no FN interface — due dates are recorded, not tied to a federation schedule.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
Task-related modules are named and priced — stable tasks, rider tasks, work services and Hofdienste — which evidences a shared task list, but the pages do not show assignment, completion ticking or a duty plan. We found no public information on time recording, holiday planning, boarder duty rotas, role permissions or an audit trail; on location, the privacy policy states only that no location history or movement profiles are built.
horsemanager+
A duty plan, a time clock by PIN, task management and per-person permissions are documented, and the privacy policy names employee shift and time-recording data as categories it processes. We found no public information on holiday and absence planning, boarder duty rotas for self-care stables, or export of time records to payroll, and the vendor states offline operation is not supported — a barn section without signal will need another answer.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
Riders use the app free of charge, yard news goes out by push with read-rate tracking, and boarders book the hall or solarium from home — a real owner-facing portal with news and bookings. We found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services and invoices billed to them, on instructions acknowledged by staff, or on how one boarder's data is kept out of another's view.
horsemanager+
The portal is invitation-only, the stable decides what each boarder sees, other customers' figures stay hidden, and boarders see their horse's feed and health information, marked due vaccinations, three weeks of appointments, their own invoices with status, and can leave notes to the stable; announcements go out with read receipts. We found no public information on push notifications, on status tracking for boarder requests, or on separate scoping for co-owners and part-riders, so the score sits below the strongest tier.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar lets boarders register themselves for the hall and solarium while the stable blocks riding-school times, courses and farrier dates in advance, and lesson scheduling, an events module and utilisation sit in the packages — booking with time slots and rules. We found no public information on capacity limits, booking rules per user group, equipment use linked to billing or credit, lesson cards or school-horse workload, so the facility is booked on the system but not run on it.
horsemanager+
Booking of indoor, outdoor, walker and solarium facilities together with courses and riding lessons is documented, as are student records, ten-ride cards, school-horse deployment, and boarders' own arena bookings shown in the portal. We found no public information on capacity limits, closures and booking rules per user group, on linking equipment use to billing or credit, or on events and clinics with participant management and payment.
European sovereignty
horse+
A German GmbH with a Munich commercial-register number, German governing law, and a privacy policy that names its providers with addresses: hosting via Google Frankfurt and Platform.sh GmbH in Köln, but also AWS in Seattle, Microsoft in Redmond, Sentry in San Francisco and Apple's app store, with third-country transfers resting on the EU standard contractual clauses. We found no public information on a data processing agreement offered to the stable for boarder and staff data, or on where boarder and horse data specifically reside beyond these provider names.
horsemanager+
A German GmbH with a Handelsregister entry, hosting stated as Supabase in the EU and Germany, a standard data processing agreement accepted on conclusion, thirty-day post-termination export with documented deletion, and AI providers named and engaged through their Irish subsidiaries — with third-country transfers declared to concern optional features only, under standard contractual clauses. The email, CDN and map services appear as categories without locations, we found no public information on the ownership structure, and security is described as TLS 1.3, encryption at rest, daily backups and optional two-factor rather than a certification statement.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module carries a public monthly price — the base package at '30 € netto monatlich', Abrechnung at 25 €, Rechnungen at 5 € and the further modules each priced — with no per-user or per-horse fees, riders free, a three-month trial, no minimum term but three months' notice to the month's end, and prices quoted exclusive of VAT, plus example packages for three stable types. The captured pages give different starting figures ('ab 20 € pro Monat zzgl. MwSt.' versus a 30 € base package), and we found no public information on setup fees or support costs; deletion of account data on termination is stated in the privacy policy.
horsemanager+
The pricing page states plainly that there is no public price list — every stable receives a written individual offer — so an annual cost cannot be computed from public pages, and the free demo and consultation do not change that. The terms do publish the shape around the offer: monthly or annual billing, payment in advance within fourteen days, prices plus statutory VAT, one-month notice, yearly auto-renewal, and a thirty-day data-export window with deletion after; the prices themselves remain a sales call, which is why the score is barely above the floor.
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.