How EquiAware works, for riders and horse owners — and for boarders whose barn runs on EquiPortal. The same help is inside the app under Settings, for when there's no signal.
Profile → gear → scroll to the bottom of Settings. It reads "Version 1.12" followed by a build number.
| Version | What it added |
|---|---|
| 1.12 (43 and later) | Notifications from your barn and for shared horses. Leaving a barn from Settings. Help inside the app. The barn page scrolls to its end on every phone. |
| 1.12 (40) | Buying and requesting barn extras. Editing and cancelling a request. Horse people and turnout on a horse's card. |
If something described here is missing on your phone, you're on an older build. Update from the App Store, or from TestFlight if you test early builds.
Open the app and choose Sign in with Apple or Create Account with an email and password. Accept the terms, then the app walks you through the setup that matters most: your profile, your emergency contacts, and location access for ride tracking.
Your account is shared with EquiPortal. If a barn invites you as staff, or gives you a boarder code, the same email and password work everywhere.
Every new account gets fourteen days of Premium. When it ends the app stays fully usable on the free tier; Premium features show a prompt when you tap them and you can subscribe from there, monthly or yearly, through the App Store.
Profile → Add horse. Name, breed, age, a photo, and anything else you want on the card. Everything you record about a horse — rides, care, notes — hangs off this card.
Open the horse and choose Share. Enter the other person's email. They get an email with a link and, if they already use EquiAware, a notification on their phone. Once they accept, they see the horse and its records and can add care notes of their own. You remain the owner and can remove them at any time from the same screen.
If someone has shared a horse with you, it appears under Pending invites — tap the notification, or open the link from the email. You can accept even if you signed up with a different email address than the one they used.
Rides → Start ride, pick the horse, and go. The app records your route, distance, speed and time, with the screen off and the phone in a pocket. Pause and resume as you like. When you stop, name the ride and save it; the route is drawn on a map with colour for speed.
Your ride keeps recording if the app is interrupted. If the phone restarts or the app is closed mid-ride, it picks up where it left off the next time you open it.
Start a ride from the watch and it lands on your phone automatically, saved as a workout in Apple Fitness too. The watch also runs fall detection while you ride.
With a ride running, a hard fall triggers an alarm on the watch and the phone with a countdown. If you don't cancel it, your emergency contacts are texted your location. Add contacts under Settings → Emergency contacts: name, mobile number, and priority order. A contact can set quiet hours; your first contact is always reached regardless.
The alarm sensitivity is yours to tune in Settings. There is also a test button so a contact can see what the message looks like before it ever matters. Once you're up, tap I'm OK and your contacts are told the alert is cleared.
EquiAware texts the people you choose. It does not call emergency services — that is for your contacts, or for you, to do.
On a ride, tap Share live to get a link. Anyone with the link sees your position on a map in their browser while you ride, no app needed. It stops when you stop the ride, or when you tap stop sharing.
Rides → Find trails shows bridleways and riding trails around you from public map data.
Schedule lists what each horse is due for: farrier, dentist, vaccinations, worming and so on. Set how often each one recurs per horse, log it when it's done, and the next due date rolls forward. Anything overdue shows as an alert on the dashboard.
Appointments with a vet, farrier or trainer go in the same tab and can be mirrored to your Apple Calendar. The app reminds you a day and an hour before, if you allow notifications. Care notes let you write down what happened at each visit; they sync with anyone the horse is shared with.
For boarders at a barn that uses EquiPortal. If your barn doesn't, none of this appears, and the app is complete without it.
Your barn gives you a connect code, by email or text. Go to Profile → gear → Your Barn → Connect to Your Barn and enter it. A barn section appears on your dashboard. You can connect to more than one barn; a switcher appears at the top of the barn page when you do.
Profile → gear → Your Barn lists each connected barn with a Leave button. Leaving closes your view of that barn; it does not settle anything owed, and the app tells you the balance if there is one. To rejoin you'll need a fresh code from the barn.
The app asks once, after setup. If you allow, you'll be told when:
If you said no and change your mind: iPhone Settings → Notifications → EquiAware → Allow Notifications. The app picks it up the next time it opens.
Settings → Account shows your email and lets you change your password, sign out, or delete the account. Deleting removes your data from our servers; it cannot be undone. Signing out clears the phone so another person can sign in without seeing your horses.
Units (miles or kilometres), the colour theme, and ride accuracy are under Settings too. Manage or cancel Premium in your Apple subscriptions.
Email support@equiaware.com from the address on your account. Tell us which screen and what you expected to happen — a screenshot helps enormously. Barn managers and staff will find their own guide at portal.equiportal.app/guide.