Straight answers.

None yet — you'd be among the first. The app is built and working end to end, but it's new, and we'd rather say that here than let you find out later. What it means practically: the free plan costs nothing and takes no card, so trying it risks nothing but an evening; your export is available from day one, so nothing you enter is trapped here; and what you tell us shapes what gets built next, because there isn't a queue of other people's requests in front of yours.

It's a finished, working app rather than a prototype — every module on this site does what the page says it does, and every screenshot is the real thing. But it's young, it hasn't had years of other people's operations shaking the bugs out of it, and you will find rough edges. Email [email protected] when you do; it reaches the person who can fix it, which is the compensation for using something small.

You take them with you. Settings then Export writes CSV, PDF, and a full ZIP archive of the whole ranch, on any plan including the free one, without asking anyone — so the answer doesn't depend on us being around to give it.

There is a permanent free plan, Homestead is $10 a month, and Ranch is $29. Larger organizations can contact us about Operation. Annual billing for self-serve paid plans works out to ten months for twelve. The pricing page lays out every plan.

Not on the free plan — no card, nothing to charge, no way to be billed by surprise. The other door at signup is a 14-day free trial of Ranch, which does take a card up front and converts to a paid subscription on day 15 unless you cancel; that's said plainly before you choose it.

All recordkeeping tools are available on every plan, spreadsheet import included. Free and Homestead have practical record caps; Ranch raises those caps, supports three properties, and adds Farm Hand, the AI assistant, plus AI help matching spreadsheet columns for spreadsheets that aren't in our shape.

Yes — not a trial that lapses. If a small place only ever needs 25 head, three pastures and the daily log, that stays free.

Per ranch. The owner subscribes and everyone they invite is covered up to the plan's seat count — 1 on Free, 2 on Homestead, 10 on Ranch, and a custom allowance on Operation.

Yes, on every plan. Download one of our templates — it already has the right columns, with your ranch's own pastures and groups as dropdowns — fill it in, and upload it back; that path uses no AI and costs nothing. If you'd rather send the workbook exactly as it is, Ranch adds AI help matching spreadsheet columns, which reads a sheet whatever its columns are called, turns a dam or sire column into real links between animals, and lets you talk the mapping through in a chat. Either way you review the whole plan before a single row is written.

Yes, from Settings → Export, if you're an owner or manager. A single record as a PDF document, one module at a time as CSV, or the whole ranch as a ZIP archive — and the list screens each have an Export control for whatever subset you're looking at.

The people you invite to your ranch, and nobody else's account. On our side, a small number of third-party services are involved in running the product — analytics, weather lookup, and the AI provider behind Farm Hand. The privacy page names each one and says exactly what reaches it.

Your records stay in your account until you say otherwise. When you do want them gone, you can delete your account yourself — Settings then Account on the web, or the Account screen in the mobile app. That removes your account, the ranches where you were the last member, and everything attached. Exactly what's deleted and what's kept →

29 species are included, each with its own breeds, sex classifications and gestation or incubation length — cattle, horses, goats, sheep, pigs, chickens, rabbits, poultry and waterfowl of every kind, camelids, bees, and the guardian dogs and barn cats that work the place. The full list → If something you keep still isn't there, add the species yourself.

Yes, and from the breed rather than a rounded figure for the species — Angus 281 days, Hereford 285, Charolais 287, where "cattle" on its own would say 283. Goats run 150, sheep 147, horses 340, pigs 114, and chickens incubate for 21. Three numbers can answer the question — one you've set yourself for the species, the breed's, and the species default — and they're tried in that order, with the app naming which one it used.

No. Seven modules switch off from Settings then Modules, and most of them leave the sidebar when they do — a homestead with chickens and a garden never has to look at an equipment maintenance log. Pastures is the exception: switching it off takes the Grazing view off the Land page rather than the page itself.

Yes, with owner, manager and worker roles. Enter their email address and Land & Herd sends the invite; they accept from the link in the message, on the web or in the mobile app. If it never lands, the invite card also carries a link you can copy and send yourself. Free is a one-person plan, so crew starts at Homestead.

Yes. Multiple ranches sit under a single account with a switcher in the sidebar.

It tells you. Seven things raise an alert on their own — a task due or overdue, a medication withdrawal ending, a breeding due date, a pasture coming ready, maintenance due, and stock under its reorder point — each with its own lead time. They collect under the bell in the app and reach your inbox as a digest, daily or weekly, whichever you pick in Settings → Notifications. A withdrawal ending is the one exception: it's emailed immediately, because hearing about it late means an animal already sold. Every switch is per person, and it's on every plan. How alerts work →

No. Set a ZIP code or a lat/long and the dashboard shows your local conditions and the day's high and low. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to paste in.

The web app is fully responsive, so it works on a phone or tablet today with nothing to install — pin it to your home screen and it opens like an app. For native iOS and Android availability, supported tools and offline access in the current build, see phone access or contact us.

The web app needs an internet connection to view and save records. For offline access in the available native build, contact us about mobile access.

No. Land & Herd is a hosted product at app.landandherd.com. There is no self-hosted distribution.

Credits are counted in whole actions rather than in tokens, which is a unit nobody outside software thinks in. One reply from Farm Hand costs 1 credit, however much work it did to get there — a question that takes it eight steps to answer still costs one. An AI spreadsheet mapping costs 10 credits to start, plus 1 for each message if you correct the mapping by chat, so one that maps cleanly costs ten and one you argue with for six messages costs sixteen. Importing from one of our own templates costs nothing, on any plan — the columns are already ours, so there is nothing for a model to work out. A reply that errors out or that you stop halfway costs nothing.

The rest of Land & Herd keeps working exactly as it did. Farm Hand is the only thing that pauses, and it comes back when the pool refills. It's one pool per ranch, shared between Farm Hand's replies and its spreadsheet mapping, and it refills on your billing date rather than on the first of the month.

No. Anything that writes to your records is proposed first and waits for you to confirm it. You see exactly what would be written — which animal, which field, which value — before it happens. Reads are free; writes need a human.

Yes, with one toggle in Settings then Modules. It leaves the sidebar like any other optional module, and nothing else in the app depends on it being on.

No. The model is configured server-side, so bring-your-own-key isn't something we offer today.

A couple of minutes to create the ranch itself. Getting your existing records in depends on what you're bringing — the spreadsheet import does most of the lifting if you're coming from a workbook.

After a medication, the number of days before that animal's milk or meat can legally be sold. Land & Herd tracks it per animal and alerts you before it ends.

How long a pregnancy runs. Cattle about 283 days, goats and sheep about 150. The app uses the breed's own figure to work out a due date from a breeding.

A breeding female is open when she hasn't been bred yet or didn't settle, bred once a breeding is recorded, and due soon when her due date is close.

Mother and father. Recording them on an animal lets the app link ancestry across the herd.

A heifer is a young female that hasn't had a calf yet; a steer is a castrated male raised for beef; a cow-calf pair is a cow with her calf still at her side.

To remove an animal from the herd — sold, or otherwise not kept. The records help you decide which ones, but the app never decides for you.

The recurring window when a female can be bred. Logging heats helps time a breeding and spot one that didn't take.

A goat-and-sheep check for barber pole worm: compare the colour of the inside lower eyelid to a five-point card. The app stores the score per animal over time.

Electronic identification — the RFID ear tag number, alongside the visual tag.

A fenced section of grazing. Rotational grazing moves animals between paddocks so each one gets rest days to regrow.