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 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.
LIVERYLive
This judge's pick
Stable Secretary
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
LIVERYLive
Monthly livery packages run as automated fixed recurring fees, extra services land on the horse's tab the moment staff mark the task done on the phone, and month-end invoices for the whole yard go out with one click into a dashboard showing who has paid and what is outstanding. The month's billing pushes straight to Xero or QuickBooks to trigger the official invoice, with card payment on booking through Stripe. We found no public information on VAT rates per service type, direct-debit mandates, credit notes or dunning.
Stable Secretary
Service events convert into billable records, invoices go out individually or in batches and are tracked as paid or unpaid, clients can pay through Stripe, overpayments turn into credits, and there is an export to QuickBooks for the accountant. That is a working money loop; we found no public information on board contracts per box and horse, VAT treatment, credit notes or dunning.
Horse records, feeding & health
LIVERYLive
Horse profiles with health care, feeding and medical records are named, unlimited on the Pro plan, and a profile can transfer with the horse between yards — that last part I like when a horse moves on. We found no public information on feeding plans laid out by feeding round, vaccination, worming or farrier dates with reminders, or a medication log with dose and who administered it, which is what I need when the vet rings.
Stable Secretary
Each horse carries identification, health, farrier, breeding and service records, with shoeing, vaccinations, worming and dentistry tracked, reminders set, and due-date reports with past-due filters; the feed and supplement plan is readable on the phone by staff and owners on the team, and outside vets or farriers can be invited to add health records themselves. We found no public information on a medication log with dose, date and who administered it, or on a documented export of the horse's full file when it leaves.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
LIVERYLive
Rotas, to-do lists and task permissions for the team are there, and an owner's service request drops onto the day's digital to-do list for staff to mark done with real-time notifications for the yard team — the shape of the day is right. We found no public information on time recording for employees or mini-jobbers, holiday planning, boarder duty rotas, or an audit of who did what when; the app may request geolocation but we found no public information on its purpose.
Stable Secretary
There is a schedule of tasks, appointments and due dates on desktop and mobile, shareable mobile checklists, filtering by horse, contact or resource, reminders, and team members invited in roles that can be edited. We found no public information on shift or holiday planning, time recording for employees and mini-jobbers, boarder duty rotas, completion history per task, or offline use in the barn.
Boarder portal & communication
LIVERYLive
Owners get their own Solo account with their horse's records and profile transfer, can request extra services and pre-pay for ad-hoc services or arena slots through the app, and the privacy notice gives them data subject rights and account deletion on request. We found no public information on separate scoping for co-owners or ride shares, whether owners see their full invoice list in the app, or acknowledgement by the staff member who reads an instruction.
Stable Secretary
Owners log in as team members with their own email and a role the stable assigns, see their horse's information including what it is fed, pay invoices through the Client Invoice Portal, book timeslots, and manage push notifications category by category. We found no public information on instructions being acknowledged by the staff member who reads them, co-owners scoped separately from one another, or owner data being exported or deleted on request.
Facilities, lessons & events
LIVERYLive
Arena hire is the strong suit: booking types with who may book — liveries, external riders, staff or a mix — slots with capacity, booking windows, pay in advance by card through Stripe, second-horse add-ons and peak rates, and the yard listed on a public marketplace with its own terms riders tick at booking. We found no public information on lessons, school horses, courses or clinics, or device integration such as gates, walker or solarium controllers.
Stable Secretary
Clients can book timeslots through the Client Booking Portal and the schedule can be filtered by resource, which amounts to a shared booking calendar. We found no public information on lessons or courses scheduled with riders and horses, capacity or booking rules per user group, or equipment use flowing into billing or credit.
European sovereignty
LIVERYLive
A privacy policy covers the app, the contracting company is Stablemate Live Ltd in the United Kingdom, and the terms state the services are hosted in the United Kingdom, so no EU contracting entity or EU hosting is shown. Payments run through Stripe and GoCardless, information may be shared with Google Analytics and Google Maps, and the Facebook app takes basic account information by default; a data processing agreement is referenced in the privacy notice, and no hosting or support subprocessor beyond the payment providers is named in the captured pages.
Stable Secretary
The vendor is a New Hampshire company, the terms run under New Hampshire law, servers are stated to be located in the United States with the applications hosted by unnamed third-party cloud providers, and Stripe handles the in-product payments. We found no public information pointing to a European entity, European hosting, or a listed subprocessor chain with locations.
Pricing transparency
LIVERYLive
Pro is published at £2 per month per horse with a free six-week trial and no card details taken, Arena is free with no subscription or set-up fee, and each plan's inclusions are listed; cancellation is self-service at the end of the paid term, purchases are non-refundable and the subscription auto-renews. The Solo plan's price is not shown in the captures, the tax line is generic, and we found no public information on minimum term or what happens to the data on cancellation.
Stable Secretary
Every tier is priced publicly with its main inclusions and a 30-day free trial — 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 — payable monthly or annually with change-or-cancel-anytime, a 30-day cancellation notice and named discount groups. The figures are 'starting at' prices with no public scaling rule, and optional paid services such as extra training, on-site support or data entry are named but not priced, so a full annual cost is not computable from public pages; the terms state data is kept at least 6 months after termination and users are strongly advised to keep their own backups.
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.