As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates LIVERYLive 2.5/5 and Stable Secretary 2.5/5 in Stable & Equestrian Management. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick LIVERYLive and 0 pick Stable Secretary. LIVERYLive scores higher on 4 of 7 criteria (Facilities, lessons & events, European sovereignty, Board contracts, extra services & billing, plus 1 more). Stable Secretary scores higher on 3 of 7 criteria (Horse records, feeding & health, Boarder portal & communication and Pricing transparency). Provenance — LIVERYLive: UK / wider Europe; Stable Secretary: Rest of world. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
The benches split by criterion, and that split is the answer. LIVERYLive leads boarding and billing 7.0 to 6.0 (five lean, one tie), facilities and lessons 6.3 to 3.2 (six lean), staff and operations 4.7 to 4.0 (four lean, two ties) and sovereignty 3.5 to 0.7 (six lean). Stable Secretary leads horse care records 6.2 to 4.0 (six lean) and sits ahead on boarder portal 6.0 to 5.7 (two lean, four ties) and pricing transparency 6.0 to 5.8 (one lean, five ties). Each of the five judges with a listed weighted total puts LIVERYLive ahead, 5.0 to 5.6 against 4.2 to 4.9; no total is listed for the pension-owner judge. Sovereignty as recorded: LIVERYLive, legal entity jurisdiction GB and data residency unknown; Stable Secretary, legal entity jurisdiction unknown and data residency US default; both list US CLOUD Act subprocessor exposure. No overall winner — the leans differ by criterion.
Choose LIVERYLive if
You bill monthly livery packages and want automated recurring fees, one-click month-end invoicing, and billing data pushed to Xero or QuickBooks (boarding and billing: 7.0 vs 6.0, five judges lean LIVERYLive).
You rent arenas or other facilities and need booking built in (facilities and lessons: 6.3 vs 3.2, six lean).
You need a supplier whose recorded legal entity jurisdiction is GB.
Your team weighs staff and operations tooling (4.7 vs 4.0, four lean) above horse care record depth.
You run a riding school and rely on lesson and facility scheduling; the riding-school lead's weighted total is 5.6 vs 4.8.
Choose Stable Secretary if
You need identification, health, farrier, breeding and service records with reminders, plus feed and supplement tracking (horse care records: 6.2 vs 4.0, six lean).
You want your boarders paying invoices and booking timeslots themselves through a client portal (boarder portal: 6.0 vs 5.7, two lean, four ties).
You want four publicly priced tiers with "Starting at" prices from $1.99 to $12.00 per month plus a 30-day free trial (pricing transparency: 6.0 vs 5.8, one lean, five ties).
You invite vets or farriers to add health records at no extra subscription.
Your requirements suit a supplier whose recorded data residency is US default.
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Boarder
Pays five hundred euros a month for her mare and works full time. Wants to see what the farrier did, why the bill has three extra wraps, and whether her turnout instruction was read — and does not want the other boarders, or an analytics company, seeing her horse's file.
LIVERYLive
This judge's pick
Stable Secretary
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
LIVERYLive
The billing story is close to what I want as the payer: an extra service requested in the app becomes a to-do item, the charge lands on that horse's tab the moment staff mark it done, monthly livery packages with fixed recurring fees are automated, month-end invoices for the whole yard are one click, payment status is visible, and the month's data is sent to Xero or QuickBooks to trigger the official invoice. I found no public information on VAT treatment per service type, credit notes, or how costs would be split between co-owners of one horse.
Stable Secretary
Invoicing with payment tracking sits at the Professional level: service events convert into billable records, invoices go out individually or in batches, clients pay through a client invoice portal, an optional configurable online payment processing fee can offset Stripe costs, and payments, balances and credits are tracked with a QuickBooks Online export for the accountant — so I could see what the farrier's work cost me on the bill. I found no public information on board contracts per box and horse, prepaid credit, SEPA direct debit, dunning or VAT treatment per service type, so the money side only partly runs inside the system.
Horse records, feeding & health
LIVERYLive
The pages promise transferable horse profiles covering 'Health care, feeding, medical' records, unlimited on Pro, and a profile I could carry between yards — a genuine plus if I ever move my mare. Beyond those words I found no public information on vaccination or farrier dates with reminders, a medication log with dose and who administered it, or turnout and blanket instructions visible to whoever does the round, so I cannot check from work what the farrier actually did.
Stable Secretary
Each horse carries identification, health, farrier, breeding and service records, with shoeing, vaccinations, worming and dentistry tracked, reminders for farrier and vet appointments, and feed and supplement plans visible to staff, owners and invited health providers who log in with their own credentials and can add health records — meaning I could actually see what was done to my mare. Health, due-date and temperature reports, filterable by the primary vet or farrier, add to that. I found no public information on a medication log showing dose and who administered it, blanket or turnout instructions, passport data, or a documented export of the complete file when the horse leaves.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
LIVERYLive
Rotas, to-do lists, permission management and real-time notifications for the yard team are documented, and the to-do item tied to a service feeds the charge when it is marked done on the phone. I found no public information on time recording for employees, holiday and absence planning, boarder duty rotas, or a completion history showing who handled which task.
Stable Secretary
A schedule with tasks, appointments and due dates, filterable by horse, contact or resource, mobile checklists to create and share, reminders, and team members invited under assignable, editable roles cover the day's organisation. I found no public information on recurring feeding rounds assigned to people with completion ticked, a duty or shift plan, holiday planning or time recording, so the evidence shows a shared task system rather than daily operations being run and evidenced in the system.
Boarder portal & communication
LIVERYLive
There is a real owner side: I could hold my mare's records in one place, book and pay for an extra service the moment I request it, and receive real-time notifications. I found no public information on whether owners see their invoices in the app, whether instructions to the yard are acknowledged by the person who reads them, or how the system keeps one boarder's horse and data out of another boarder's view — which is my top privacy question.
Stable Secretary
Owners log in as team members with access to horse information, schedules and feed records under permissions the stable controls, can pay their invoices through the client invoice portal, book timeslots, message the yard, and receive push notifications with per-person settings. But the ownership report in the mobile app opens with all horses by default, and I found no public information showing that one boarder is kept out of another boarder's horses' files by design, that my instructions are acknowledged by whoever reads them, or that my data is exportable and deletable on request — and the vendor reserves the right to display advertisements in the site and the applications.
Facilities, lessons & events
LIVERYLive
Arena hire is the heart of it: booking types each with their own rules, control over who may book (liveries, external riders, staff, or a mix), capacity per slot, card prepayment, terms riders must tick before a booking is confirmed, several arenas under one account, and a public listing that attracts outside riders. I found no public information on lessons, courses or clinics, school horses, or equipment beyond arenas such as horse walkers, treadmills or solariums.
Stable Secretary
The only booking evidence is a client booking portal for timeslots and a schedule that can be filtered by resource. I found no public information on arena or equipment booking with time-slot rules, lessons or courses with riders and horses, school horses, events with registration and payment, or any device integration.
European sovereignty
LIVERYLive
The contracting company is identified by name, address and company number, and the service is stated to be hosted in the United Kingdom, with a privacy policy covering the app that grants access, deletion and portability rights and caps retention at six months after termination; the named subprocessors are the payment providers Stripe and GoCardless. Two things keep me uneasy: the entity and hosting are UK rather than EU, and the privacy notice says my information may be shared with Google Analytics and Google Maps — an analytics provider in the chain of my horse's data is exactly what I do not want.
Stable Secretary
The contracting entity is Ragged Mountain Equine Ventures, LLC of New London, New Hampshire, the terms are governed by New Hampshire law with three-arbitrator JAMS arbitration there, data is stated to sit on servers in the United States hosted by unnamed third-party cloud providers, and Stripe is the only named subprocessor. A privacy policy exists, but it was last modified in April 2018, warns that emails to the vendor are not encrypted, and its hosting statement names the websites rather than the barn-management application itself. For a European boarder this is the opposite of sovereign: my mare's file would live in the US, reachable under US law, with no non-US hosting option shown anywhere.
Pricing transparency
LIVERYLive
The Pro plan is published at '£2 Per Month Per Horse' with a six-week free trial and no card details taken at the start, the Arena account is free, a comparison table across Solo, Pro and Arena is public, and cancellation with effect at the end of the paid term is stated. I found no public information on the Solo price, setup fees for the full yard system, or a minimum term.
Stable Secretary
All four tiers are priced publicly — Go! starting at $1.99 per month, Essentials starting at $12.00 per month, Performance starting at $7.00 per month, Professional starting at $8.00 per month — with monthly or annual payment, a 30-day free trial, the main inclusions per tier, 30-day cancellation notice with the unused annual balance refunded, data kept at least six months after termination, and users strongly advised to keep their own backups. What blocks a full cost calculation is that the starting-at prices come without any scaling rule per box, horse or user, and the optional paid services such as extra training, on-site support and data entry are named but not priced on the captured pages.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
LIVERYLive
Stable Secretary
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
US by default
Subprocessors
US CLOUD Act reach
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.
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates both 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 6 of the 6 judges pick LIVERYLive and 0 pick Stable Secretary. 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 LIVERYLive or Stable Secretary European?
LIVERYLive is European (UK / wider Europe). Stable Secretary is not European by provenance (Rest of world). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do LIVERYLive and Stable Secretary store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — LIVERYLive: its pages as captured do not say. Stable Secretary: In the US by default; pages mention United States.