Horse Vaccination Record Apps: Where to Keep Shots, Coggins, and Vet History (2026)
Looking for a horse vaccination record app? An honest comparison of the ways to keep your horse's shot records, Coggins, and vet history — horse-specific apps, compliance tools, and free pet trackers — from the folks who make one of them.
By Brian Bickell. I build HorseBook, one of the apps below, for people like my wife — who runs our paint and quarter horse operation and used to run her vet records out of a binder and a truck console.
Somebody asks this question in a horse group about once a week: "is there an app where I can keep my horse's vaccination records and vet history?" The answers are always the same scattered handful — a horse app someone half-remembers, a dog-and-cat app that sort of works, and somebody's spreadsheet.
The honest answer is that there are several real options, and the right one depends on whether you're an owner keeping your own horses straight, a farm dealing with compliance, or a competitor whose paperwork gets checked at the in-gate. Full disclosure: we make HorseBook, so I'll tell you exactly where it fits and where it doesn't.
Based on each product's public information as of July 2026. Features and pricing change — confirm on each vendor's site before you commit.
The short version
| App | Best for | Platforms | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| HorseBook | Owners & breeders — photograph it, it's filed | iPhone + web (Android via web) | $4.99/mo (3 horses, 5 scans) · $9.99/mo (unlimited, 200 scans) |
| EquiTrace | Farms/vets needing microchip-linked compliance | iOS + Android | Per-horse + scanner hardware |
| My Cheval | Free basic health records & reminders | iPhone + Android | Free + paid tiers |
| Stable Secretary | Barns run as a business — records plus billing | Web + iPhone + Android | Tiered plans (check site) |
| Barncat | A simple health timeline with photos | iPhone only | Free + ~$19.99/mo |
| FEI HorseApp | FEI-registered competition horses (required) | iOS + Android | Free with FEI registration |
| Horse Tracker | Browser-based vet/farrier/deworming logs | Web | Check their site |
| VetDex | General animal records that include horses | Web-based (beta) | Check their site |
| Vet Record | Dog and cat health records | iOS + Android | Free to start |
What "tracking vet records" actually means
Before the app list: the records worth keeping are the ones someone else will ask you for. That's the Coggins at every haul and show, the vaccination history when a new vet or boarding barn asks, and the treatment history when something goes wrong at 9 PM on a Sunday. If an app can't hand those back to you fast, it's a diary, not a record system. (We wrote a full guide to what's worth tracking and why.)
What belongs in a horse vaccination record
Not much, honestly — which is why it's a shame how often it's missing. For each horse:
- The date the shot was given, and what it was for — the core-vaccine names your vet writes on the invoice or the certificate.
- The product and lot number, if you have them. You usually only get these off a certificate or the vet's paperwork, and you'll want them if there's ever a reaction to report.
- Who gave it — your vet, or you, if you're pulling your own out of the fridge.
- A current Coggins, which isn't a vaccination but travels with the same stack of paper.
- When the next one is due, which falls out of the date if you're keeping the record at all.
That's the whole list. Any app on this page can hold it. The difference is how much work it is to get it in there, and how fast it comes back out at a show gate.
HorseBook — for owners and breeders who'd rather not type it all in
The core idea: every horse gets one profile that holds its whole story — vet visits, vaccinations, Coggins, dental, farrier, registration papers, expenses, and breeding records if you're that kind of operation.
The part that's different: you photograph the paperwork. Take a picture of the vaccination certificate or the Coggins and HorseBook reads the dates, the treatments, and which horse, files the record, and the next-due follows from there. Take a picture of the vet bill instead and you get the other half — the cost, the line items, and which horse, filed as an expense. That split is on purpose: a line-item bill is a billing document, so that's what it becomes; the shot record comes off the certificate the vet hands you, not off the invoice. Same with registration papers. The other apps here store documents you upload; as best I can tell from their public materials, none of them read the document and fill in the record for you. (More on how that works: scanning and organizing horse papers.)
Reminders come off the records themselves — vaccinations due, Coggins expiring, farrier cycles — delivered as one morning digest instead of a phone full of pings.
Platforms: the iPhone app, or install the web app on your Android home screen — camera capture and morning reminders included, and here's how to set it up.
Where it's not the answer: you bill boarding or training clients and want the payments running through the software (we never process funds — the Breeder tier does give stallion owners breeding fee schedules, your own payment links, and shareable invoices, but the money moves through your processor, not us), or you need FEI compliance tracking (that's the FEI's own app, below).
Price: $4.99/mo for up to 3 horses and 5 scans a month, $9.99/mo or $99.99/yr for unlimited horses and 200 scans a month, and $39.99/mo or $399.99/yr for the Breeder tier if you stand a stallion and need fee schedules and invoices. The 14-day trial includes 20 scans, no card up front. (Full pricing.)
EquiTrace — when compliance is the job
EquiTrace ties records to the horse's microchip — scan the chip, pull the horse's identity and vaccination status. (Health-certificate verification for shows lives in EventPass, its companion app, rather than the core product.) It's built for farms, vets, and events that need to prove status, with per-horse pricing and optional scanner hardware. If your problem is "forty head and an inspector," it's the serious tool. If your problem is "where's Dolly's rabies date," it's more infrastructure than you need. (Longer comparison: HorseBook vs EquiTrace.)
My Cheval — the free starting point
My Cheval's free tier covers basic health records, reminders, and horse profiles, with paid tiers above it. It's a genuinely good general horse app, mobile-first, and the one most often recommended when someone asks for free. The records side is manual entry, and deeper record-keeping (documents, breeding) lives behind the paid tiers or outside its focus. (Longer comparison: HorseBook vs My Cheval.)
Barncat — a clean timeline, iPhone only
Barncat keeps a visual timeline per horse — health events, hoof photos, notes. If you think in photos and want to flip back through a horse's history like a feed, it's pleasant to use. Vet records are entries you type; there's no document extraction, and it's iPhone-only. (Longer comparison: HorseBook vs Barncat.)
Stable Secretary — when the barn is a business
Stable Secretary keeps health, farrier, and breeding records with document and photo upload, plus the scheduling and reminders that go with them — vet visits, shots, farrier dates. All of it sits inside barn-management software: client billing and invoicing, staff and client permission tiers, at barn-management pricing. If you board or train other people's horses, the record-keeping arrives bundled with the invoicing you also need, which is a fair trade. If you just keep your own horses straight, you're paying for the business half you'll never open. (Longer comparison: HorseBook vs Stable Secretary.)
FEI HorseApp — not optional if you compete FEI
If your horse is FEI-registered, you're using this app whether you like it or not — it's how the FEI handles horse identity and health monitoring, and it's mandatory for equine influenza vaccination records for horses presented at FEI Events, with sanctions phased in from July 2026. It is a compliance tool for that world, not a general record keeper. Keep your day-to-day records elsewhere and treat the FEI app as the passport it is.
Horse Tracker, EQStable, and the pet apps
Horse Tracker (from Horse Education Online) is a browser-based tracker for vet visits, vaccinations, deworming, and farrier dates — simple, no app install, works if what you want is an organized log. EQStable by Zoetis has been recommended for years as a free vaccination logger; it's an older app, so check that it's still maintained before building your system on it.
Then there are the general pet apps, and they're not all the same. Vet Record is built for dogs and cats — the Play Store listing says so right in the name — so a horse is a large pet named Dolly and nothing more. VetDex is fairer than I expected: it's a general animal-records tool, currently a web app in beta, and it does cover horses alongside dogs, cats, and livestock — its own example profile is a Quarter Horse, Coggins and all. What it doesn't carry is the rest of a horse's paperwork life: registration and breed-registry papers, breeding and foaling records, the packet you hand a buyer. Fine for shots and reminders; still the wrong shape if the paperwork is the problem.
Free horse vaccination record apps
There are real free options, and I'd rather tell you about them than pretend otherwise. My Cheval's free tier holds basic health records and reminders. Horse Tracker runs in a browser with nothing to install. HorseBook is a 14-day free trial rather than a free tier — 20 scans, no card — so it belongs on the list honestly, but as a trial.
What free usually leaves out is the paperwork, not the shot dates. Free tiers are typed-in tiers: manual entry, thin or no document storage, no reading the certificate for you, and not much help the day you need everything back out at once for a sale, an insurance claim, or a boarding barn's file. If all you want is somewhere to write down "spring shots, April 12," free is genuinely enough. If the pile of paper in the truck console is the actual problem, free is where you'll stall out.
How to choose
- You own or breed horses and the paperwork is the pain → HorseBook. Photograph the certificate and it's a record; photograph the bill and it's the expense.
- You want free and simple → My Cheval, or Horse Tracker in a browser.
- You need to prove compliance to somebody → EquiTrace (farms/vets) or the FEI HorseApp (if it's FEI, you have no choice anyway).
- You run the barn as a business → Stable Secretary, where the records come with the billing.
- You like a photo timeline → Barncat, if you're on iPhone.
If you want the whole field and not just the health side — riding logs, barn software, breeding tools — that's our wider roundup of horse record-keeping apps.
Whichever you pick, the system only works if the records actually make it in. That's the whole reason we built HorseBook around the camera — the vet bill in the truck console is the record; the app's job is to read it. If that sounds like your problem, the trial is 14 days and 20 scans, no card.
Common Questions
What is the best app to track horse vet records and vaccinations? It depends on what you need. For owners and breeders who want vet records, vaccinations, and Coggins in one place — entered by photographing the paperwork — HorseBook. For microchip-linked compliance at farms and clinics, EquiTrace. For FEI competition horses, the FEI HorseApp is required anyway. For a barn run as a business, Stable Secretary. For a free, simple option, My Cheval covers basic health records.
Is there a free app for tracking horse vaccinations? My Cheval has a free tier that includes basic health records and reminders, and Horse Tracker is a browser-based log. Vet Record is free-to-start but built for dogs and cats — its Play Store listing says so in the name. VetDex is a general animal-records tool that does cover horses alongside dogs, cats, and livestock, but it doesn't carry the rest of a horse's paperwork life. Most horse-specific apps (including HorseBook) use a free trial rather than a free tier.
Can an app remind me when my horse's vaccinations are due? Yes — reminders are standard in most of these apps. In HorseBook the reminder comes off the record: photograph the vaccination certificate or the Coggins and the dates and treatments are read off the document, and the next-due follows from there. (Photograph the vet bill instead and you get the cost, the line items, and which horse, filed as an expense — a line-item bill is a billing document, so that is deliberately what it becomes.) My Cheval, Barncat, and Stable Secretary support care reminders, and EquiTrace tracks vaccination compliance windows per horse.
How do I keep track of my horse's Coggins test? A current Coggins is the document you'll be asked for most — hauling, shows, sales, boarding. Apps handle it differently: HorseBook stores the Coggins document itself on the horse's profile and reads the test date from a photo of it; compliance tools like EquiTrace tie it to the horse's microchip identity. A phone camera roll works until you need to find it in a hurry at a show gate.