EC Pro alternative: how Horsepower compares
EC Pro is the most established riding-school platform in the UK — a BHS partner with a Pony Club integration, horse-welfare booking rules, a website included, and online booking, card payments, packages, memberships, show entries and staff scheduling, rated highly by its users. Horsepower now covers the same riding-school ground: lessons booked around each instructor's free hours with horses matched on grade, rider weight and a daily workload cap, card payments into your own Stripe account, waivers, reminders, packages, memberships, show entries with running orders, and a staff rota with time off. The difference is the pricing and the rest of the yard. EC Pro charges a fee on every booking basket on every plan; Horsepower is a flat per-yard price with no booking fees, free for up to three horses. It also runs the day-to-day yard as well: treatments with due-date reminders, feeds, fields and turnout, GPS ride tracking and practitioner logins.
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Feature comparison
| Feature | Horsepower | EC Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Horse records (passport, microchip, breeding) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-animal types (Horse / Dog / Cat / your own) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Vet / farrier / dentist / physio history with file attachments | ✓ | ✓ |
| Treatment frequency & due-date reminders (auto-rolls on add) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shared calendar (month & day views) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Per-horse Calendar tab with colour-coded visit chips | ✓ | – |
| Rider tracking with arena bookings | ✓ | ~ |
| Saved arenas & hacking routes per yard | ✓ | ✗ |
| Feed room inventory & per-horse plans (big & small scoop) | ✓ | – |
| One-tap "Fed" log + recent feeding history per horse | ✓ | ✗ |
| Field map & turnout plan | ✓ | – |
| Per-field resting timer & history | ✓ | ✗ |
| Recurring yard jobs with green / orange / red status & completion log | ✓ | – |
| Illustrated How To guides with searchable steps & images | ✓ | ✗ |
| Important horse notes pinned to the horse profile | ✓ | – |
| Weight tracking over time | ✓ | – |
| Per-horse rug size (3'6" – 7'6", metric or imperial) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Per-horse photo galleries | ✓ | – |
| Document & photo uploads (PDF, .docx, .pages) | ✓ | – |
| Vehicles (lorry / trailer / 4x4) with MOT, insurance & service reminders + per-vehicle log | ✓ | ✗ |
| In-app messaging with smart name disambiguation | ✓ | ~ |
| Versioned member forms (declarations, disclosures) | ✓ | – |
| Multi-type vets / farriers / dentists with their own login | ✓ | – |
| Family groups: switch into a child / partner's account | ✓ | ✗ |
| No-login profiles for children, managed by a family adult | ✓ | ✗ |
| Shareable invite links — no email needed | ✓ | – |
| Loan / livery / transfer between businesses | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multiple yards per business | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multiple businesses on one login | ✓ | – |
| Xero or QuickBooks invoicing — livery & extras sent as invoices, unpaid nudges | ✓ | ✓ |
| Connect to Claude / any MCP-compatible AI for natural-language queries | ✓ | ✗ |
| Import your existing data from other yard apps | ✓ | ✗ |
| Native iOS app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Native Android app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Browser web app | ✓ | ✓ |
| Eight UI languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, NL, PL), metric or imperial units | ✓ | – |
| Free for small yards (up to 3 horses) | ✓ | ~ |
| Free for invited members no matter the yard size | ✓ | – |
| Your records stay readable forever | ✓ | – |
| Modern cloud stack (Microsoft Azure, 2025-grade) | ✓ | – |
| GPS ride tracking with route, speed and stats per ride | ✓ | ✗ |
| Automatic fall detection notifying the yard + family | ✓ | ✗ |
| Horsepower Plus — £2.99/mo or £29.99/yr family-shared add-on | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free public business page (/business/your-yard) with hero, gallery + booking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bookable services — visitors request slots online, owner approves | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lesson booking — clients pick a length and a time from what is actually free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Instructor teaching hours, days off and changeover time, with no double-booking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lessons gated by rider grade, so nobody books above their level | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horse matched on grade and rider weight, with a daily workload cap per horse | ✓ | ✓ |
| AI-generated marketing copy (Claude) for the public business page | ✓ | ✗ |
| 1 GB personal media library shared across the family group | ✓ | ✗ |
| Real-world Mapbox field map with live rider trails + area auto-calc | ✓ | ✗ |
| One-tap satellite imagery on field + ride-tracking maps | ✓ | ✗ |
| Office filing cabinet — every file across the yard grouped by horse / member / treatment / vehicle | ✓ | ✗ |
| Nested file folders scoped per horse, per member or at yard level | ✓ | – |
| PDF first-page thumbnails on every uploaded document | ✓ | – |
| Card payments when clients book — lessons, packages, memberships, entries | ✓ | ✓ |
| No per-booking fee on top of the card processor's own | ✓ | ✗ |
| Online waivers signed before a client's first booking | ✓ | ✓ |
| Automatic lesson reminders by email and app notification | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lesson packages — credits used automatically as lessons are booked | ✓ | ✓ |
| Memberships with a booking discount and renewal reminders | ✓ | ✓ |
| Show, clinic & camp online entries with class limits | ✓ | ✓ |
| Running order & start times sent to every entrant | ✓ | ✓ |
| Staff rota — shifts planned by person and day | ✓ | ✓ |
| Staff time-off requests & approval | ✓ | – |
| Staff report — rostered hours next to the work each person logged | ✓ | ✓ |
Legend: ✓ included · ~ partial · – not listed (check the vendor's site to confirm).
Why people switch to Horsepower
- Reliability — hosted in Microsoft Azure UK on a 2025-grade cloud stack.
- 30 years of app experience — built by Worldweaver, a UK studio that's been shipping web and mobile software since the dawn of the web.
- Independent & organic — funded by paying customers, not private equity. No investor pressure to raise prices, sell to a roll-up, or shut features behind a Pro Plus Plus tier.
- Free for small yards & members — yards with up to 3 horses pay nothing; invited members are free no matter the yard size.
- Native iOS & Android apps plus a browser web app. Same data, same login.
- Your data stays yours — records stay readable if you cancel.
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EC Pro details based on publicly available information at time of writing; verify the current product on the vendor's site.