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 Tax Adviser
Does the books for a dozen equestrian businesses and knows that board, lessons and sold hay are not taxed alike. Wants invoices with GoBD-compliant numbering, VAT per service, a DATEV export instead of a shoebox of PDFs, and time records for the staff that would survive a customs minimum-wage check.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
The captured pages document invoices, contract management and open items handled inside the app, plus a one-click, error-free monthly report of all completed services for the bookkeeping — that is the monthly-invoice level with payment status visible. We found no public information on VAT rates per service type, SEPA direct debit with mandates, credit notes, or an export to DATEV or another named accounting tool, so I cannot certify the money side as discharged.
horsemanager+
Boarding contracts with services generate the invoices in a monthly run, extra services come from the recorded bookings, and SEPA direct debit as a pain.008 file with mandate management, dunning and a DATEV batch export for the tax office are all documented, with invoice status visible per invoice in the boarder portal. What I miss as an adviser: we found no public information on VAT rates configurable per service type or on credit notes, and the vendor's own terms state the software is not certified specialist software for GoBD-compliant bookkeeping.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
Feeding, group management and paddock status are documented functions and horse assignment sits in the base package, so the feeding side of the horse file is covered. 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 health documentation a vet or inspector would ask for is not evidenced.
horsemanager+
Per horse there are master data with Equidenpass and life number, pedigree, vaccinations, worming, farrier and vet with lead-time deadlines, a medication plan, and rations per meal including batch numbers — with every change logged and an export of horses, documents and figures as CSV, Excel or PDF. On dose and administering person in the medication log, and on medication documentation for food-producing equines, we found no public information, and the terms themselves classify the software as not certified for legally binding documentation duties.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
Modules for stable tasks, rider tasks and work duties are priced individually, and the service documentation shows completed services — a shared task list with work ticked off in the app. We found no public information on time recording for employees, holiday and absence planning or boarder duty rotas, so the working-time paperwork I would insist on is not documented.
horsemanager+
Duty plan, task and shift management and a time clock via PIN are documented, and the privacy policy names shifts, time recording and task assignment as processed employee data — a start for minimum-wage records. We found no public information on holiday planning, boarder duty rotas, completion history per task, or any claim that the time records meet the working-time documentation duties; offline operation is expressly not provided. Permissions per person down to the temporary helper are clearly regulated.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
Riders use the app free of charge, the digital notice board reaches the whole yard with push messages and read-rate tracking, and boarders book the arena or solarium themselves from home — a genuine owner app. We found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services billed to them, and although accounts are stated as non-public and not indexable, keeping one boarder's data out of another's view is not documented.
horsemanager+
The boarder portal, access by invitation only, shows the owner's own horse with feed and health notes, marked due vaccinations, the next three weeks of appointments with own arena bookings, and all their own invoices with status, while other customers' figures stay hidden; notices can be delivered with read receipts. Access and deletion requests and data export are handled through the GDPR module. We found no public information on push notifications to owners or separate scoping for co-owners and ride shares.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar lets boarders book the hall and solarium themselves with riding-school times, clinics and farrier visits blocked in advance, lesson scheduling is included in the base package, an events module is priced, and utilisation is included. Equipment use linked to billing or credit, lesson cards and school-horse workload are not documented, so it stays in the middle of the scale.
horsemanager+
Arena, outdoor, horse walker and solarium can be booked along with courses and riding lessons, and ten-session cards, student records, school-horse use and public booking pages are documented, with bookings flowing into billing via the recorded entries. We found no public information on capacity limits and booking rules per user group, per-facility closures, or device integration; facility use billed as an extra service is plausible but not individually evidenced.
European sovereignty
horse+
A German contracting entity is proven — KADACON GmbH, registered at Amtsgericht München, seat in Schongau, German law — with a privacy policy covering the app and a subprocessor list naming providers and locations. The captured pages name hosting both with Google Cloud in Frankfurt and Upsun in Cologne and with AWS in Seattle and Microsoft in Redmond under standard contractual clauses, and we found no public information on a data processing agreement offered to the stable, so the picture is a mixed EU/non-EU chain.
horsemanager+
The contracting entity is meinhofkind GmbH, registered in Kempten, hosting runs on named infrastructure (Supabase, EU region, servers in Germany per the homepage), a standard data processing agreement is accepted on conclusion, and export, deletion deadlines, backups and encryption are documented. The AI functions run through OpenAI Ireland and Google Ireland — Irish subsidiaries of US parent companies — with third-country transfers safeguarded by standard contractual clauses or the Data Privacy Framework; for email provider, CDN and map services no locations are given, and we found no public information on a security certification.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module carries a public monthly price — invoices at "5 € / Monat", billing at "25 € / Monat", stable services at "40 € / Monat", tasks at "10 € / Monat" — plus a base package at "30 € netto monatlich", prices explicitly exclusive of VAT, no per-user or per-horse fees, and sample bundles for a box stable at "85 € / Monat zzgl. Mwst." and a riding school at "40 € / Monat zzgl. Mwst.". Minimum term (none), monthly renewal with three months' notice to month end, and deletion of account data on termination with the user responsible for backup are all published; we found no public information on setup or support costs, which is the one line item keeping the annual total from being fully computable.
horsemanager+
The pricing page states it itself: no public price list, but a written individual offer per stable — so an annual cost cannot be computed from public pages. To the vendor's credit, billing period (monthly or yearly), auto-renewal with one month's notice, payment in advance within 14 days, prices plus statutory VAT, a free trial, and 30 days of data export after termination are published, and setup, updates and consultation are stated as free of charge.
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.