If you've ever tried to find a decent homestead tracking app, you know the landscape. There are paid apps that lock the good features behind subscriptions. There are bloated farm-management platforms built for commercial operations. There are abandoned freeware tools that haven't been updated since 2019. And there are dozens of "we'll send you a printable spreadsheet" sites pretending to be apps.
I tried most of them. None worked for the small homesteader — the person with a backyard garden, six laying hens, and maybe a meat-bird batch in the spring. So I built one.
The criteria, in order of importance:
That list eliminated everything I could find. So I started building.
You might be thinking: "Do I really need an app? I can just remember." Same energy I had for years. Then I tried to answer simple questions like:
I couldn't answer any of them. Memory fades fast when there are dozens of small events per week. A simple tracking habit answers all of these and starts compounding into real homestead intelligence.
The app handles three "hobbies" — the categories most small homesteads have:
Per-season tracking of plantings, waterings, harvests, issues, and notes. Each plant entry can include weight harvested, photos, and weather conditions for the day. You can see total lbs harvested by plant variety, year-over-year.
Track flock size, daily egg collection (with a "tap +1 each time you walk to the coop" basket feature), feed costs, infrastructure costs, and bird purchases. The app automatically calculates your real cost-per-dozen and shows how much you saved versus buying pasture-raised eggs at the grocery store.
Per-batch tracking from chicks-arriving to butcher day. Total feed costs, mortality, average weights, lbs in the freezer. Exactly the math people want to see when deciding whether to do another batch next year.
The app uses your USDA hardiness zone (auto-detected from your location) to suggest planting dates for 30+ common crops. Pick "Tomatoes," choose "Start indoors," and it generates the seed-start date, transplant date, and estimated harvest date for you.
At the end of every year, a Spotify-Wrapped-style summary shows your eggs collected, lbs harvested, money saved, and a few fun facts (longest logging streak, most active month, best photos). Worth screenshotting and sharing.
Three reasons:
It is not a replacement for serious farm management software if you're running a commercial operation. It doesn't do payroll, multi-property accounting, or USDA compliance forms. It is built for the gardener-with-six-hens scale, and it is opinionated about staying that way.
It runs in any browser. No app store, no install. Sign in once and your data syncs across devices.
Open Henalytics →If you do try it and have feedback, there's a button right inside the app that emails me directly. I read every one. The reason I'm telling you this is because I built this thing for fellow small homesteaders, and the only way it gets better is if I know what's missing.
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