# Creatures

> Creatures (creatures.com) is a platform for pet and livestock husbandry. It combines animal profiles with health, breeding, and ownership records, an animal marketplace, a breeder directory, a species and breed encyclopedia, free tools, and care articles. Product documentation lives at help.creatures.com.

## About Creatures

- [About](https://creatures.com/about): The founder's story and why Creatures was built
- [How it works](https://creatures.com/how-it-works): An introduction to animal profiles, records, the community, and the marketplace
- [Pricing](https://creatures.com/pricing): Current free and paid options and marketplace fees

## Main sections

- [Species and breed encyclopedia](https://creatures.com/species): Species and breed pages with related care guides
- [Marketplace](https://creatures.com/marketplace): Public animal listings and sale events
- [Breeder directory](https://creatures.com/directory/breeders): Breeders browsable by species, breed, and location
- [Tools](https://creatures.com/tools): Animal and business name generators, coat color calculators, and other animal tools
- [Learn](https://creatures.com/learn): Articles on animal care, costs, and husbandry
- [For registries](https://creatures.com/for-registries): Herdbook and registry software for breed associations
- [For show organizers](https://creatures.com/for-show-organizers): Show management tools for organizers
- [Websites](https://creatures.com/websites): Websites for breeders and animal businesses, built from their Creatures records
- [Finance](https://creatures.com/finance): Bookkeeping tools for animal businesses
- [Genetics storage](https://creatures.com/genetic-storage): Inventory and sales software for genetics storage facilities

## For developers and AI assistants

- [Creatures in Claude and ChatGPT](https://creatures.com/ai-assistants): Connect the Creatures connector and what it can do
- [Creatures API](https://creatures.com/developers): Public read-only REST API reference
- [OpenAPI document](https://creatures.com/api/v1/openapi.json): Machine-readable API description

## Help

- [Help Center](https://help.creatures.com): How-to guides and product documentation for Creatures
- [XML sitemap](https://creatures.com/sitemap.xml): Index of public page URLs submitted for discovery