A homestead isn't one thing, so it shouldn't take four apps. Homestead Companion keeps your tasks, calendar, budget, garden, weather, and notes in one place — free and complete on its own — then lets you add only what you actually keep: animals, bees, or a worm bin.
The short version, in plain terms.
Tasks, money, garden, and animals stop living in separate notebooks — swipe through a few of the screens.
Not a trial, not a teaser. Everything below is in the app the moment you install it.
Every chore across the whole place — recurring or one-off — with local notifications that fire whether or not you have signal.
Feedings, plantings, vet visits, and bills on a single calendar, with one-tap export to your phone's calendar app.
Income and expenses across animals, garden, and product sales in a single ledger — so you can finally see whether the place pays for itself.
Beds, plantings, and harvest logs with running totals and a simple crop calendar — the piece that makes it homestead-shaped.
The forecast for your place, right on the home screen, so you know whether today is a planting day or a barn day.
A gallery organized into albums and a searchable journal for everything that doesn't fit neatly into a form.
Each module is a single one-time purchase, or pick several at once in a bundle. Yours forever — no subscription, ever.
Flocks and individual birds, coops, egg logs, feed and supplements, hatchery and breeding, and full health records.
$6.99, one timeYour herd, milk logs, kidding records, fiber, feed, and health — dairy, meat, and fiber goats alike.
$6.99, one timeThe rabbitry, breeding and litters, daily care, weights, feed, and health for meat, fiber, and pet rabbits.
$6.99, one timeHorses, donkeys, mules, and drafts: hoof care and deworming cycles, health records and Coggins dates, weight and body condition, feed, and a work log.
$6.99, one timeEvery hive with its queen source and install date, inspections (brood pattern, temperament, stores, frames of bees), treatments with honey-withdrawal dates, and honey and wax harvests.
New · $6.99Worm bins by species and setup, regular checks on feeding and moisture, and harvest logs for castings and worms, so you know which bin is ready and what it's produced.
New · $6.99A bundle lets you choose several modules for less than buying them one at a time. Pick them now or later. The credit is yours until you use it.
Choose any three modules: say poultry, goats, and bees. Redeem them all at once or one at a time as the place grows.
Nearly the whole barn at a bigger discount. Five modules of your choosing, one purchase, no subscription.
Every module folds into the free core — its chores land on your calendar, its costs land in your budget. Buy one, bundle a few, or none at all. Prices are US; the store shows your local price.
Most apps in this space want an account, then quietly build a business on what you put in it. Homestead Companion does the opposite — it's built privacy-first, by one person, because what happens on your place is your business.
There's no sign-up and no server holding your information. The app works fully offline. It only goes online for three optional things: checking a purchase with the app store, a weather forecast if you turn it on (approximate location to Open-Meteo, which doesn't keep it), and voice-to-text if you use it.
Homestead Companion is a private homestead manager for iPhone, iPad and Android. The free app runs the whole place: tasks and reminders, a shared calendar, a budget, the garden, local weather, photos and notes. Optional one-time modules add record-keeping for poultry, goats, rabbits, equine, beekeeping and vermiculture. Everything is stored on your device, and there's no account.
Yes, this is one. The core app is free with no time limit, and every paid part is a one-time purchase: modules are $6.99 each in the US, or $12.99 for any three and $19.99 for any five. There are no monthly or yearly fees anywhere in the app.
The whole homestead core: tasks and reminders, a shared calendar with .ics export, a full budget with reports, the garden with beds, plantings and harvest logs, local weather, a photo gallery, and notes. It's a complete app on its own. You never have to buy anything.
Poultry, goats, rabbits, equine, beekeeping and vermiculture are each a one-time unlock ($6.99 in the US) that adds full record-keeping for that part of the place: the animals, hives or bins, their health and treatments, and production like eggs, milk, honey and castings. Each module's tasks land on your calendar and its costs land in your budget.
Pick Any 3 ($12.99) and Pick Any 5 ($19.99) are one-time purchases that give you credit for that many modules, for less than buying them one at a time. You choose which modules to spend it on, right away or whenever you're ready. Prices are US; the store shows your local price.
Yes, for free. Keep your beds and plantings, log harvests with running totals, and see a simple crop calendar alongside the rest of your chores.
Yes, with the Beekeeping module. Track every hive with its queen source and install date, log inspections (brood pattern, temperament, stores, frames of bees), record treatments with honey-withdrawal dates, and log honey and wax harvests.
Yes, with the Vermiculture module. Track bins by species and setup, log regular checks on feeding and moisture, and record harvests of castings and worms, so you know which bin is ready.
Equine, Flock and Goat Companion are single-animal apps for people who keep one kind of animal seriously. Homestead Companion is for a mixed place, a bit of everything plus a garden, with one calendar and one budget across the lot.
No. There's no sign-up, no email, no password. You open the app and your records live on your device from the first tap.
Entirely on your phone or tablet. There's no Taur Studios server holding your homestead's information, so there's nothing to be breached or sold. To move to a new phone, export a backup and restore it there.
Yes. It only goes online for three optional things: checking a purchase with the app store, a weather forecast if you turn weather on (approximate location to Open-Meteo, which doesn't keep it), and voice-to-text if you use it.
I do. I'm Taur, and Taur Studios is my one-person studio. I built this because homestead records end up scattered across notebooks, spreadsheets and apps that want your data. I also make Equine, Flock and Goat Companion. Questions and ideas go to taurstudios@gmail.com.
Free on iOS and Android. No account, no ads, no subscription — just your homestead.