Five ways to run your animals. Side by side.
This table sits on our own website, so you have every reason to distrust it. That is why it contains only what you can verify, every row with a date. And underneath it is the case in which you should not choose Herdy.
No credit card.
| Criterion | HerdyHerd management | Barto | SmartCow | Identitas TVD app | agate.ch + paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Sheep, goat, cattle, pig (group notification) | Cattle at the centre, sheep and goats limited | Cattle | Cattle | All |
| Files the TVD notification itself | Yes — birth, arrival, departure, death, slaughter, Sömmerung; wherever the interface permits it | Yes, for cattle | Yes, for cattle | Yes, for cattle | Yes — you type it into the portal |
| Treatment journal under TAMV | Yes, Art. 28 and Art. 26 | Yes | No | No | You keep it yourself |
| Outdoor-access journal RAUS / BTS | Yes | Yes | No | No | You keep it yourself |
| Sömmerung as a collective notification | Yes | no public information | No | No | In the portal, one by one |
| Livestock register at the push of a button | Yes | Yes | No | No | You keep it yourself |
| Languages | German, French, Italian, English | German, French | no public information | German, French, Italian | German, French, Italian |
| Price | from CHF 99/year | from CHF 139/yearFrom market research, not from Barto's own price list | free | free | free |
| On your phone | Web, installable straight to the home screen | Web and app | App | App | Web |
| Suisse-Bilanz, field calendar, cantonal data exchange | No | Yes | No | No | Partly, via other portals |
When you should not choose Herdy.
If you run a pure dairy operation, Barto is the better choice. Barto calculates the Suisse-Bilanz, keeps the field calendar and crop rotation, is federally recognised for the nutrient balance and exchanges data directly with several cantons. Herdy has none of that, and we are not building any of it.
If your main concern is milk yield or breeding values, Herdy is not the right program for you today either. Neither is built.
Herdy is the better choice when sheep or goats make up a substantial part of your operation — on their own or alongside cattle. For those animals there is exactly one program that files the notification itself instead of preparing it for you.
Agateway records at the pen. Herdy runs the herd.
Identitas operates the TVD and is our partner, not our opponent. If you work with an Agrident or Allflex reader, you can use it with Herdy directly in HID mode: the device types the ear-tag number into the field as if it were a keyboard. You record at the pen, and the management, the journals and the notifications continue in Herdy.
- Where Agateway is ahead today: recording at the pen without a connection. Herdy cannot do that, and we would rather write it here than have you find out in the barn.
Common questions about the comparison
Yes, and for some operations that is the most sensible arrangement: Barto for the cattle and the arable side, Herdy for sheep and goats. You then pay twice — in return, your small ruminants get what they do not have today.
Check the one row that matters.
Will you still have to log in to Agate afterwards? Seven days free, no credit card — and you can see for yourself.