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 Boarding-Stable Owner
Runs a forty-box Pensionsstall and loses a few hundred euros a month to blanket changes and leg wraps nobody wrote down. Wants extra services logged where they happen and billed without retyping, direct debit that collects on time, and one system instead of a spreadsheet and three WhatsApp groups.
LIVERYLive
This judge's pick
Stable Secretary
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
LIVERYLive
Monthly livery packages with automatic recurring fees, extra services that drop onto the day's to-do list and are charged to the horse's tab the moment staff mark them done, one-click month-end invoicing for the whole yard, and a billing overview showing who has paid — that is the flow I lose money without today. The month's billing goes straight to Xero or QuickBooks, which triggers the official invoice; we found no public information on SEPA direct debit mandates, VAT settings per service type, credit notes or dunning.
Stable Secretary
Service events turn into billable records, invoices go out singly or in batches with paid/unpaid status, clients can pay through a Client Invoice Portal with Stripe, and a configurable online payment fee plus a QuickBooks export round it out — invoicing sits at the top subscription tier only. We found no public information on SEPA direct debit, recurring board contracts per box, or VAT treatment per service type, so the pieces a forty-box yard needs to bill without retyping are not in evidence.
Horse records, feeding & health
LIVERYLive
Horse profiles carry health care, feeding and medical records, are unlimited on the Pro plan, and transfer with the horse between yards — more than a name on a whiteboard. We found no public information on vaccination, worming or farrier reminders, a medication log with dose and who administered it, or a documented export format a vet or inspector could rely on.
Stable Secretary
Each horse carries identification, health, farrier, breeding and service records with reminders, due-date reports filterable by primary vet or farrier, and feed and supplement records visible to staff and owners as team members; outside vets and farriers can even be invited to add health records at no extra subscription. We found no public information on a medication log with dose and who administered it, feeding plans shown per round, or a documented export of the full file when a horse leaves.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
LIVERYLive
Rotas, to-do lists and task completion in the app, staff accounts with variable access permissions, and real-time notifications for the yard team are all documented. We found no public information on time recording for employees and mini-jobbers, holiday and absence planning, boarder duty rotas, or an audit trail showing who fed or turned out which horse when.
Stable Secretary
There is a schedule with tasks, appointments and due dates, shareable mobile checklists, reminders, push notifications set per team member, and roles that can be assigned and edited afterwards. We found no public information on recurring rounds assigned to people with completion history, shift or holiday planning, or time recording for employees and mini-jobbers — the day-to-day of a staffed yard.
Boarder portal & communication
LIVERYLive
Owners request extra services in the app and can pre-pay ad-hoc services and arena slots at booking, the charge lands on their horse's tab automatically, and liveries get real-time notifications; the privacy policy covering the app names owners' data rights. We found no public information on separate scoping for co-owners or riding shares, push alerts for due charges, or per-boarder data separation by design.
Stable Secretary
Owners join as team members with customizable permissions, pay their invoices through a client invoice portal, book timeslots, and communicate via an email tool and message board, with push notifications available. We found no public information showing that one boarder's data is kept out of another's view by design, or that instructions are acknowledged by the staff member who reads them.
Facilities, lessons & events
LIVERYLive
Arena booking is well developed: booking types with rules per user group (liveries, external riders, staff), capacity per slot, prices such as a one-hour slot at £20 with a £10 second-horse add-on, card payment in advance, terms riders confirm at booking, and a free listing with postcode search. We found no public information on lessons or courses, school horses, horse walker or solarium use, or events with participant management.
Stable Secretary
A client booking portal lets clients book timeslots and the schedule can be filtered by horse, contact or resource — that is a shared booking calendar. We found no public information on booking rules per user group, lessons or courses scheduled with riders and horses, school-horse workload, or events with participant management and payment.
European sovereignty
LIVERYLive
The captured pages show a United Kingdom company, Stablemate Live Ltd. of Milton Keynes, and hosting in the United Kingdom, with a privacy policy that covers the app and names payment processing by Stripe and GoCardless plus Google Analytics and Google Maps. An EU contracting entity and EU hosting are not shown, and no hosting or support subprocessor is named; account deletion on request and retention of no more than six months after termination are stated.
Stable Secretary
The vendor is a US limited-liability company under New Hampshire law, disputes go to three-arbitrator JAMS arbitration in New Hampshire, and hosting sits on servers in the United States operated by unnamed third-party cloud providers, with Stripe the only named outside service. A privacy policy exists, but it was last modified in April 2018 and states that emails sent to the vendor are not encrypted, so boarder, staff and horse data leave Europe with no European entity, hosting or subprocessor chain shown.
Pricing transparency
LIVERYLive
The Pro plan is £2 Per Month Per Horse with a free trial and the Arena plan is free, each with its main inclusions listed, prices in GBP with sales tax added as required, self-service cancellation effective at the end of the paid term, and auto-renewal stated. We found no public information on the Solo plan's price, setup fees or a minimum term, and the captured pages give different figures for the trial length — six weeks on the pricing page and 42 days in the terms.
Stable Secretary
All four tiers carry public prices — "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, inclusions per tier, a 30-day free trial, cancellation on 30 days' written notice, a refund of the unused annual remainder, and data kept at least six months after termination. The "Starting at" prices come without a per-box or per-user scaling rule and the optional training, on-site support and data-entry services carry no public prices, so I cannot compute the real annual cost for a forty-box yard.
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.