Frequently asked questions

It has been submitted to Apple and is in App Review now. Review usually takes a few days, and no date is promised here because the timing is Apple’s rather than mine.

There is a box on the pricing page to leave an email address. It gets one message, on the day the listing goes live, and is not used for anything else.

Yes. Records are kept in a database on the phone itself, so logging a weight at the scale house works with no bars and no wi-fi.

The only thing that needs a connection is refreshing the published show list, and a failed refresh is never destructive — you keep the copy you synced last time.

Yes, and the app was built for it. Every screen accepts a past date: weights, feed purchases, expenses, income, work sessions and shows all backfill.

No screen assumes it is being filled in live, because most people adopt a record-keeping app part-way through a project year rather than on the first day.

On your device, and nobody. There is no account, no server holding your records, no cloud sync, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind.

The app makes exactly one outbound request: it downloads a public list of livestock shows so you can add one without typing it out. That request asks for the list and nothing else.

No. The app supplies the structure and prompts your county’s template asks for, and it lays out a business letter properly — date, addresses, salutation, closing, block layout. Every sentence of the body is typed by the exhibitor.

Anything a judge grades on the student’s own thought or writing stays the student’s. That is the rule the whole app is designed around, and it is not a setting that can be turned off.

Henry County, Tennessee is modelled exactly, and it was the first format built. CSV and spreadsheet export work for every record regardless of county.

Other counties are added as template files rather than as new versions of the app, because six real record books were compared during design and they disagree with each other on eligibility, expense categories and how reflection is graded.

Records held only on a lost device are lost with it. Keep your own backup of anything you cannot afford to lose — exporting a record book or a CSV periodically is the simplest way to do that.

This is the honest trade-off of a local-only app: nobody else has your records, and that includes us.

Not yet. iPhone and iPad first, with Android planned. This page will say so plainly the day that changes.

No. One purchase covers every animal and every season. There is nothing that renews and nothing that expires.

If cloud sync across several phones is built later, it will be its own optional tier — and it will never be required to keep using what you already bought.

Yes. The app is built around a household rather than a single child: several exhibitors can be set up, each with their own animals, records and exports.

Version one has no accounts and no logins at all, so switching between them is just a tap.

Two ways, deliberately. Lifetime average daily gain runs from the first weigh-in to the most recent, and it is the official figure that goes in the record book.

Recent trend looks at the last two or three weigh-ins only. It is noisier, which is exactly why it is useful — it moves first when something changes.

Because a wrong number is worse than an empty one. Guaranteed analysis changes between formulations and regions, and a figure baked into an app would go stale, get copied into a record book, and be wrong with no way for a student to tell.

The tag on the bag is the source, reading it is part of the project, and once you enter it the value is saved against that product so it is a one-time job.

Because there is not enough time behind it to mean anything. Two hours logged on day one extrapolates to “seven hours a week”, which is arithmetically true and a lie about the student’s actual work.

When a figure is withheld the app says why, rather than showing a dash and leaving you guessing.

No. It keeps the records you enter and does the arithmetic on them. It gives no veterinary, medical, dosing, nutrition, legal, tax or programme advice.

Weight warnings state the arithmetic and the gap in plain numbers. What to change about a feeding programme is a decision for the exhibitor with their parent, leader or vet.

No. It was shaped alongside youth exhibitors, and it suits anyone keeping production records — a family raising a market animal, or a working operation watching gain against feed cost.

Clear all local data in Settings erases every record on the device, and deleting the app does the same. Neither can be undone.

Because nothing is ever collected or transmitted, there is nothing held anywhere else for anyone to delete.