Goat Record Keeping Apps Compared: Herd Records, Milk, Pedigrees and Sales

Choose a goat record keeping app around the job you repeat: milking, breeding, kidding, registrations or sales. Creatures is our platform, and this comparison includes it alongside other goat and farm tools so you can match the workflow to your herd. You can see our breeder record features while comparing the options.

What to test before you move a goat herd

Take one doe you know well, rather than a blank demonstration animal. Enter her farm ID, tattoo or tag, registry number, sire and dam. Add a breeding and check whether the program keeps a known service date distinct from an exposure period. Then record the kidding outcome and see how you would keep the kids connected to that dam. Our goat record keeping guide is a useful checklist for the source records to gather first.

For a dairy herd, try entering the milk records you actually keep. You might enter every milking, a daily total, or occasional measurements. Check dates, units, animal selection and correction of a mistaken entry. A private production log and an official milk-testing program are different jobs; our dairy goat milk test guide explains the distinction.

Do the same with a pedigree. Check the registered names against the papers, not just the shape of the chart. The goat pedigree guide explains what to read, and the free goat pedigree chart maker lets you work through a chart before you choose a larger system.

Comparison table

Checked November 12, 2026. Dollar amounts are the vendor’s advertised dollar prices unless another currency is stated. Annual billing and animal limits matter. A free trial is not the same as an ongoing free plan. “Not confirmed” means we could not establish that detail from the pages checked; it does not mean the product lacks it.

EasyKeeper’s pricing page and FAQ displayed different prices when checked. The table uses the pricing page; confirm the charge before subscribing. HerdBoss also had a price-change notice without a completed effective date, so its table entry uses the current pricing page.

Which situation fits each option?

EasyKeeper

Best for: Goat keepers choosing Performance for milk, weight and body-condition records. Essentials is $19/month or $209/year and covers health, breeding, kidding and pedigree records. Performance is $27/month or $297/year; milk production, weight tracking, body condition scoring and batch entry are Performance features. Its FAQ describes importing animals from EasyKeeper Community data using DHIR herd IDs; file import was not established in the checked pages. Try your own doe and kidding history during the trial.

FarmKeep

Best for: Mixed farms that want animal records and farm tasks together. FarmKeep has a Basic plan and paid Premium plan, and describes pedigree and lineage tracking. Check which plan holds the records you intend to keep before choosing on the monthly figure alone.

Farmbrite

Best for: Farms that also need accounting, pasture and inventory workflows. Livestock Essentials is $29/month or $290/year for up to 300 active animals, sets or flocks and five team members. It includes genealogy and data import/export; e-commerce is on livestock Premium. The vendor lists web, iOS and Android apps and offline record keeping in all plans. Test the offline entries and later sync you need during the trial.

Livestocked

Best for: Mixed herds that want desktop and phone apps with online or offline access. Its own site describes several livestock species across Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. Use your trial to check a record entered without a connection and its later sync.

HerdBoss

Best for: Keepers of several livestock species who want one record system. Its pricing page lists pedigree trees, uploading existing records and web/mobile access. Confirm the subscription price because the vendor’s separate change notice was incomplete at this check.

My Goat Manager

Best for: Goat keepers who prefer mobile field entry. The vendor describes Android and iPhone access, offline features that sync later, a free tier for up to 25 goat records and Premium web access. It keeps lineage details with breeding records; a pedigree chart was not confirmed. Test the phone entry flow where you normally record the job.

A spreadsheet

Best for: Keepers with a stable, simple record layout they maintain themselves. A sheet can preserve your naming and numbering system, but you design the parent links, reminders and buyer handoff. The price and device access depend on the spreadsheet product you choose.

Creatures

Best for: Keepers joining herd records with a public website and sale workflow. Free animal profiles hold identifiers, registrations, health records and pedigrees, alongside breeding and milk records. Creatures is used in a browser on a phone or computer. It has no app-store app, and we are not promising an offline workflow.

How to choose for your herd

One goat breed or several species: A goat-specific program may fit the language you use every day. A mixed-farm program may save you from maintaining separate animal lists. Check that it can keep your different registry numbers distinct. Our goat registries comparison helps when one animal has papers from more than one organization.

A public website or regular kid sales: Decide whether you need an animal record book, a public farm site, or both. Check how a change to an animal’s availability reaches the public page, and what goes to a buyer. Deposits, applications and ownership transfers are separate parts of that workflow, as the selling goat kids guide describes.

Work without a signal: Farmbrite, Livestocked and My Goat Manager each describe offline use. Check the precise features and plan, then try entering, correcting and retrieving a record where the connection drops. Reconnect and inspect the result; a mobile app icon alone does not establish which jobs work offline.

Try a small Creatures herd before a full move

Add a few existing goats and keep their original identifiers. Add the registry numbers from the papers, connect known parents, and attach the source document where useful. Enter one breeding and review the projected due date against your own notes; the public goat gestation calculator is available while planning. Keep the recorded service date as evidence rather than replacing it with an estimate.

For an existing HerdBoss account, Creatures reads the original whole-account ZIP export, up to 500 animal profiles per ZIP. Parents missing from the animal list count toward that limit. Photos and attachments stay in HerdBoss. Creatures also accepts spreadsheets, PDFs and photos of paperwork for review. Sign in with a free account before opening Import; the import guide lists file types and limits. Review the proposed animals and records before saving. Keep the original export and compare a few identities, parent links and records; the import does not create a continuing connection to HerdBoss.

Profiles and records are free and unlimited, and a free farm website can be built from them. The pricing page lists a 5% buyer fee plus 5% seller fee on a completed marketplace sale. The first ownership transfer is free; later transfers are $19.95 without Pro. Optional Pro is $499/year, or $49.95/month on a 12-month plan. Pro removes the seller service fee and ownership-transfer fee; the buyer fee remains.

Questions goat keepers ask

Do I need to move every historical record at once?

No. Choose a small set that proves the workflow, check it, and keep your original files. A successful roster import does not establish that every milk entry, attachment or pedigree relationship moved correctly.

Is the cheapest subscription the lowest total cost?

Compare the plan that includes your required features, the active-animal limit, your time entering records and any sales or transfer charges. An annual figure divided by twelve is still an annual billing commitment.

For a wider view, see the all-species livestock software comparison and the goat species guides.

Do this next on Creatures

Start with one goat and its current breeding record, then check the result before moving the rest of your records.

• Add a goat profile. Start with its existing ID, then follow the adding an animal guide.
• Add the next record. The form opens for visitors; a free account is needed to save. The record guide explains the process.
• Create your farm or breeder profile. This has a guest signup path. Read how the breeder directory listing works.
• Save a goat listing alert if you want an email when matching animals are listed.
• Browse current goat listings. Availability changes; this is not a promise of a particular animal.
• Browse the breeder directory when you need to contact another breeder.