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 Stable Manager
Runs the morning round with two grooms, a trainee and a mini-jobber, and is the one the vet calls. Wants feeding plans the night shift can read on a phone, medication logged with who gave what, rotas and time records that hold up, and an app that still works at the far end of the barn.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
The money side has real modules: a billing module, a separate invoice module with open items included, contracts managed in the app, and service documentation that pulls every completed service into a one-click month-end report for the bookkeeper. I found no public information on invoices going out to boarders automatically, SEPA direct debit, VAT per service type, credit notes or an export to a named accounting tool.
horsemanager+
Boarding contracts with services feed a monthly invoice run, extras come from recorded bookings, and SEPA direct debit with mandate management, dunning and a DATEV export file for the tax office are all on board — the boarder sees their own invoices with status in the portal. I hold back because we found no public information on prepaid credit, credit notes or VAT rates configurable per service type, and the terms themselves state the software is not certified specialist software for GoBD-compliant bookkeeping and payment receipts.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
Horses are assigned records with a feeding module and group management, plus a paddock plan and live paddock status — enough for the morning round. I found no public information on vaccination, worming, farrier or vet entries, medication logs, or an exportable horse file, which is what the vet and the inspector will ask me for.
horsemanager+
A 360° file per horse carries master data, pedigree and life number, Equidenpass details, vaccinations, deworming and farrier dates with due dates in the overview; rations per horse and feeding time are exactly what the substitute sees, and a QR sign at the box opens the record where I stand. Medication and treatment documentation for vet, farrier and dentist is listed, every change is written to an audit log, and the file exports as CSV, Excel and PDF. We found no public information on medication entries naming dose and who administered it, and the terms state it is not certified for legally binding documentation duties, so the top mark stays out of reach.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
There are separate modules for yard tasks, rider tasks, work duties and stable services, and the completed-service documentation shows finished work lands somewhere durable. I found no public information on time recording for employees and mini-jobbers, holiday planning, role permissions or an audit trail of who did what; the hour scheduling in the base package reads like a lesson timetable rather than a staff rota.
horsemanager+
There is a duty plan, task management and a time clock by PIN, rights are set per person so an Aushilfe sees horses and tasks but not contracts and figures, and staff data covers shifts, time recording and task assignment. We found no public information on holiday and absence planning, boarder duty rotas for self-care yards, task completion history, or any statement that the time records satisfy the minimum-wage documentation duties. And the pages say it plainly: browser only, internet connection required, no offline use — that costs it at the far end of my barn.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
Riders use the app free of charge, get yard news by push, book the arena or solarium from home, receive rider tasks and answer surveys — that replaces a good deal of the WhatsApp traffic. I found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services and invoices billed to them, or on how one boarder's data is kept out of another boarder's view.
horsemanager+
Invitation-only portal where the boarder sees their horse with feed and health notes, marked due vaccinations, three weeks of appointments, lessons and their own arena bookings, and all their invoices with status; the stable decides what is released, and internal notes and other customers' figures stay hidden. Announcements go out with read receipts, and boarders can leave notes to the stable. We found no public information on separately scoped co-owners or riding shares, on push notifications (no app-store app; the portal runs in the browser), or on staff acknowledging a boarder's instruction.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar lets boarders book the arena and solarium themselves while the stable blocks fixed lesson times, clinics and farrier slots in advance, and occupancy plans, lesson scheduling, utilisation and an events module are all priced in. I found no public information on slot capacities, booking rules per user group, equipment use flowing into billing, or event payment.
horsemanager+
Booking covers indoor school, outdoor arena, horse walker and solarium together with courses and riding lessons; the riding school module carries student records, ten-ride cards and school-horse deployment, and there are public booking pages plus box occupancy with waiting list and door signs. We found no public information on capacities, closures or booking rules per user group, on linking equipment use to billing or credit, or on events with participant management and payment.
European sovereignty
horse+
The contracting party is KADACON GmbH of Schongau, registered at the Munich court, selling under German law, and the privacy policy names ten subprocessors each with address and purpose — webhosting via Google Cloud Frankfurt and Platform.sh in Cologne — with third-country safeguards and published security measures. Infrastructure and cloud storage also run through Amazon Web Services in Seattle and Microsoft in Redmond, and I found no public information on a data processing agreement offered to the stable.
horsemanager+
The contracting entity is meinhofkind GmbH of Kempten, entered in the commercial register at Amtsgericht Kempten with a German VAT ID; hosting is stated as Supabase in the EU region, servers in Germany, data does not leave the EU, and a standard Article 28 processing agreement is accepted at contract conclusion with the acknowledgment logged. The privacy policy names the AI providers as OpenAI Ireland and Google Ireland, with standard contractual clauses or the adequacy decision as the transfer basis. A complete subprocessor list with locations is not published — email provider, CDN and map services appear as categories only, and the only ownership reference is a participation by Robin Gassmann Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH — so I stop one step short of the top.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module is priced publicly — the base package, ten add-on modules and three example packages — with no per-user or per-horse fees, VAT stated as added on top, monthly billing, no minimum term, a three-month notice to month end, and a three-month free trial. The captured pages give different figures for the entry price — "ab 20 € pro Monat zzgl. MwSt." and "Das Basispaket kostet 30 € netto monatlich" — and I found no public information on setup fees, so the annual cost is close to computable but not fully.
horsemanager+
The pricing page states it outright: no public price list, every stable gets a written offer with price, term and conditions. Publicly you do learn that billing is monthly or yearly depending on tariff, prices come plus statutory VAT, setup and updates are included at no extra charge, an indefinite term runs with one month's notice on monthly billing and one-year auto-renewal on annual, and there is a 30-day window after termination to export everything before deletion. Useful terms, but no stable owner can compute an annual cost from the public pages alone.
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.