Horse health records with no internet
Short answer: keep one record per horse on a laptop, not in a notebook and not on a website. Then it works in the barn with no signal, and the same records are on your computer at home. If they must be on your phone with no signal, read where this is honest first.
On HorseAdvice.com a horse owner asked what to keep track of “other than the obvious, worming, trimming, vacinations”. The replies were binders, spiral notebooks and a calendar in the feed room. Then the owner said why they had moved to a small binder that stays at the barn: the old notebook was “either damaged at the barn or forgotten at home.” (The thread ran 12 to 15 September 2007, read 3 November 2026.)
That is the whole problem. The records are needed in two places, and paper can only be in one.
How the lists fit together
| List | What one row is | Points at |
|---|---|---|
| Horses | One horse: name, breed, age, markings, owner, a photo | Nothing |
| Care | One worming, shot, trim or shoeing on a date, who did it, and when the next one is due | A horse |
| Vet visits | One visit: what was wrong, what was given, the bill, the discharge papers | A horse |
| Papers | A Coggins, a passport, a registration certificate, as a file | A horse |
Opening a horse shows every worming, every trim and every vet visit for that horse. Sort the Care list by its next-due date and whatever is due first is at the top, so the farrier week is easy to see. A scan or a phone photo of a Coggins goes on the horse's own record.
Records that live on the laptop
Bionic Forms builds a small app from a spreadsheet or a sentence, such as “health records for my horses: worming, vaccinations, farrier and vet visits”. Our desktop app for Windows, macOS or Linux keeps a full, encrypted copy on the computer. With no connection at all you can:
- Log a worming, a trim or a vet visit with the date, the product and a note.
- Attach a file, like a Coggins or a vet's bill, to the horse it belongs to.
- Search and sort: every horse due for shots, every trim by one farrier.
- Add a field you track and nobody else does, like a supplement or a fly-spray brand.
When the laptop finds a connection again, the changes go up by themselves. A computer at home, or a phone browser with a signal, sees the same records. Nothing is left at the barn.
Selling a horse
One reply said they hand the notebook to the new owner. You can print a horse's page, or export the records as a spreadsheet to send with the horse.
Getting a spreadsheet in
If you already keep a spreadsheet, drop it on our home page. A workbook with a sheet for horses and a sheet for care asks which one to start with; when the first is in, the others are offered as buttons. When the care sheet has a Horse Name column, each row is linked to the horse it names. Free covers unlimited apps and 10,000 entries per app.
Where this is honest
- No offline phone app yet. Offline is the desktop app only. On a phone, ours runs in the browser and needs a signal. If the records must be in your pocket in a barn with no signal, an offline phone app made for horses will suit you better today.
- No formulas. “Next due” is not worked out for you from the last date. Type it in.
- Set it up while you have a connection. The AI that builds the app runs on our server. Using it afterwards does not need one.
- We are small and pre-launch. We say plainly which parts are not finished, and your data can always be exported again.
Build it now. The box already says what this page is about. Change it if you like.
About 25 seconds. No signup to see the result.
Already keep a spreadsheet? Drop it on the home page instead.
Or open the live demo first. No email.
Rather not do it yourself? Tell us what you track and we will build a working version and show you. No fee.
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