The best goat record-keeping apps, honestly compared.

There isn’t one winner — the right app depends on whether you keep only goats or a whole homestead. Here’s the honest field, what to look for, and where each one fits.

Short answer

If goats are your whole operation and you register or show, a goat-only tool like EasyKeeper is purpose-built. Want something simple and free? My Goat Manager or FarmingGoat will do. But if your goats are one corner of a whole homestead — chickens, a garden, a pantry — and you’d rather one app that also thinks with you, that’s what we built Homestead Paradise for.

What to look for

Six things separate a goat app you’ll actually keep using from one you’ll abandon by kidding season.

Breeding & kidding

Pairings, due dates, and kid records — the reason most people start keeping records at all.

The health you’ll forget

CDT boosters, deworming and FAMACHA scores, hoof trims — reminders beat a notebook.

Milk, if you milk

Per-doe daily weights and days-in-milk, DHIR-style, so you know who’s earning her hay.

On your phone, in the barn

If it only really works at a desktop, you won’t log the thing you noticed at feeding time.

The rest of your place

Goat-only, or will it also hold your chickens, garden and pantry? Depends how mixed your homestead is.

Does it think, or just store?

A logbook remembers what you type. An advisor reads it back and tells you what needs attention.

The honest shortlist

Fair one-liners on the apps goat keepers actually use — and who each is really for.

Homestead ParadiseOur pick for mixed homesteads

Best for: goats + the whole place

For the keeper whose goats share the place with chickens, a garden and a pantry — one app for all of it, in any browser or installed on your phone. And Harold, your Smart Advisor, actually reads your records: he’ll flag the doe that’s past due, the milker whose yield slipped, the CDT booster coming up. Full money side too — budgets, cost-to-produce, Schedule F.

Web + phone (home-screen install) · Free plan · Pro from $7/mo

EasyKeeper Herd Manager

Best for: registered & dairy breeders

A web-based, goat-only herd manager with deep breeding, DHIR-style milk records, and registry-grade pedigrees. If goats are your whole operation and you show or register, it’s purpose-built and well-liked for exactly that.

Web · Paid (free trial) · Goat-only

My Goat Manager

Best for: a simple goat app on your phone

Android, iOS and web, with breeding, health, milk and weight tracking for dairy or meat goats. Free for up to 25 goats, which covers a lot of backyard herds before you ever pay.

Android · iOS · Web · Free ≤25 goats, then ~$9.99/mo · Goat-only

FarmingGoat

Best for: a free goat & sheep logbook

A no-cost goat-and-sheep record app for straightforward logging. If you just want the basics written down and don’t need reminders or a money side, it’s an easy free start.

Free · Goat & sheep

FarmKeep

Best for: multi-species keepers who live in their phone

A polished native mobile app with 1,200+ species, pedigrees, and breeding reminders. Great if you keep several kinds of animals and want a slick phone experience — the web version is still on the way.

iOS · Android · Multi-species · Full comparison →

Farmbrite

Best for: commercial farms

Serious farm-management with mapping, RFID scanning, e-commerce and team features. Built for headcounts, payroll and volume — more (and pricier) than most backyard goat keepers need.

Web + mobile · From ~$29/mo · Full comparison →

Where Homestead Paradise fits

Goats are rarely the whole story

Most homesteads aren’t just goats — they’re a couple of does, a flock of hens, a garden, and a pantry that all need keeping up with. The goat-only apps do goats well; Homestead Paradise holds the whole place in one spot, on any device, and Harold — your Smart Advisor — reads it all back to you and points out what needs attention before you’d catch it. Start free, log this week, and see what he says.

Start free →

Free plan, no card. Export to CSV anytime; we don’t train any model on your records.

Before you pick — two free things

Free goat record templatesHerd, kidding, health & milk sheets — print or Excel, no signup.Goat gestation calculatorExact kidding dates from a breeding date, in seconds.

Common questions

What’s the best free goat record-keeping app?

For a free goat-only app, FarmingGoat or My Goat Manager’s free tier (up to 25 goats) both work. If you also keep other animals or a garden, Homestead Paradise has a free plan that covers the whole homestead — and free printable goat templates you can grab without any signup.

Do I really need goat-specific software?

Only if goats are your whole operation and you register or show — then a dedicated tool like EasyKeeper earns its keep on pedigrees and DHIR records. If your goats are part of a mixed homestead, a whole-place app usually serves you better than juggling one app per species.

Is there one app for goats, chickens and a garden?

Yes — that is exactly what Homestead Paradise is built for: livestock of any species, the garden, and the pantry in one place, with a Smart Advisor reading across all of it. Most goat apps do only goats.

What records should I keep for goats?

A herd inventory, a breeding and kidding log, a health and vaccination record (CDT, deworming, FAMACHA, hoof trims), and — if you milk — a production log. Homestead Paradise has free printable templates, one of each, if you want to start on paper.