Equilab vs Trotley: ride tracking or horse records?

What Equilab is built to do

Equilab: Horse Riding Tracker from Equestrian Insights AB is about the ride. Its listing says it tracks distance, speed, gaits and turns using your phone or Apple Watch, and that you can review the data over time. It also describes challenges, a rider community and integration with Apple Health.

It adds safety features for riding alone: safety contacts can see your location, and they get an alert if you stop moving for five minutes or more. The listing marks live location sharing as a Premium feature.

As listed on October 1, 2026, Equilab is free to download with a 4.8 rating from 5,156 ratings. Premium is listed at $12.99 for one month, $59.99 for six months or $99.99 for one year in the US, with a one-week free trial for first-time users. The listing says Premium adds safety tracking, advanced training details, weather history for your rides and a customized equestrian calendar.

What Trotley is built to do

Trotley is a care record for horses on iPhone. Each horse has a profile with photos and identity, and you log vaccinations, veterinary visits, dental work, farrier visits, medication, injuries, feed and exercise. Reminders are rebuilt from those records, so you can see what is due soon.

A stable-wide calendar shows all horses together and can be filtered by horse, event or status. Weight history is charted for each horse, and passports, papers and photos are stored with the horse. PDF reports and a CSV export are there for the vet or a new owner.

It works offline, with optional private iCloud sync. It suits one horse as well as a small stable, with roles and assignments when more than one person helps.

Two different jobs

A ride tracker answers what you and your horse did today. A care record answers what the horse needs next and what happened last time. Those questions come up at different moments, one at the mounting block and one at the barn office or in the vet's driveway.

Equilab's listing does mention routines and shared calendars for coordinating trainers, vets and co-riders, so it can hold plans. It does not say it keeps vaccination, farrier, dental or medication records, or weight history or documents, so for those the table says Not stated.

Where Equilab is stronger

Anything about the ride itself. Gait analysis, distance, speed, an Apple Watch option, challenges and a large community are all in its listing, and Trotley's description lists none of them. The safety contacts feature addresses riding alone or on trails, and Trotley lists nothing like it.

If you ride often and want to see progress over weeks, Equilab is the tool described for it. Trotley lists exercise as an event type, not ride tracking.

Where Trotley is stronger

Trotley is stronger on the records that sit behind a horse's health. Vaccinations, veterinary visits, dental work, farrier visits and medication all have their own event type, and reminders come from those records, so the next booster or trim shows up as due. Weight history is charted over time, and passports and papers are stored with the horse.

It is also written for sharing the work. A stable calendar shows every horse in one place, and roles and assignments let owners, riders and helpers each see their part. A PDF report or CSV export gives the vet or a new owner the history without a phone call.

How to choose

Pick Equilab if the question is how your riding is going, or whether someone will know where you are. Pick Trotley if the question is which horse is due for a booster, when the farrier last came, or where the passport is. Many owners may use both, since the two listings describe different jobs.

For health decisions such as vaccination timing and medication, rely on your veterinarian. Trotley keeps the record and the reminders, and it does not replace that advice.

A simple test is to picture the question you will ask next week. If it is how far you rode, choose Equilab. If it is when the farrier last came, choose Trotley. If both come up, install both and let each do its own job.