The guide
Start with your account, then choose what you want to do. This guide works on phones, tablets and computers; in-app Help covers each section in detail.
On iPhone, iPad, Android or in a browser, use the same account and access the same data.
Where to begin
You can start without a yard and complete your profile later. Keep one account for your horses, riding life and professional activity.
First step
In your phone or desktop browser, choose “Create an account” and enter your email address and a password.
After creating your account, follow the instructions to confirm your address if needed. If you are waiting for an email, check your spam folder too and wait for the stated interval before requesting another email.
The first time you open the app, it asks one question: do you ride at a yard, run one or look after horses at home? Answer, or choose “I'll look around first”. You will not be asked again, and you can change your answer in “My account”.
A short getting-started checklist then appears. It ticks itself off by checking what you have actually done, without asking you to repeat completed steps. Dismiss any step that does not apply, and restore it if you change your mind. Once there is nothing left to do, the list disappears.
Find your establishment in My yards. Depending on its settings, joining is immediate or requires approval. Check your request status; avoid creating a duplicate listing for the same yard.
Your yard can also invite you directly . The invitation will be waiting when you open the app. You can accept or decline it; it never joins you automatically.
You can still get started. Your horses, equipment, exercises, friends and tack marketplace work without a yard, and you can register a horse as living at home. A yard is needed for shared activities in a place: lesson schedules, facility bookings and the yard feed.
In “My account”, tick the roles that apply: student, horse sharer, owner or parent of a child who rides. The relevant screens become available straight away. You can have several roles, and untick any that no longer apply.
On Android, it is on Google Play : a fully installed app where the account you just created works as it is.
On iPhone and iPad, download Paddoco from the App Store. Sign in with your existing account to find your horses, your yard and your conversations.
Take a look around
The screenshots below use sample data with fictional names and horses. In your account, you will see your own yard.
Home brings together Your day, upcoming activities and relevant requests. Open an activity to view its details. Check the selected yard: its weather and activities depend on that context.
Try this: hide a card you do not use. Home should reflect your life, not ours.
The Square brings together accessible posts. All opens the overview; filters narrow the view. Before posting, choose your audience: yard, friends, group or public, from the available options.
Reactions let you respond to a post. They do not replace a booking or commitment such as I’m coming. For photos and videos, wait for upload completion and check the media status.
Try this: start a poll (“Who's around on Sunday?”) and watch the conversation turn into a ride.
Choose List or Agenda, then the period. Open a lesson to check places and conditions, book or request a club mount. Regular slots can combine an annual list with open places. Personal and team tasks also belong in Planning.
Try this: book your actual lesson for the week and check that everything looks right.
Each horse opens on their overview : photo, age, where they live and who looks after them. This is what everyone sees. Behind it are tabs for the journal, care, sessions, feed, equipment, competition record, pedigree and location.
Hoof trimming, veterinary care, vaccinations and dental care each have their own record, with photos and visibility adjustable section by section. You decide what the yard can see about your horse and what stays private.
In Feeding, choose the exact product, quantity and unit. A manufacturer’s sheet or manual entry documents its composition. The overview shows known intake and identifies missing information; crude protein is not digestible protein expressed as MADC.
A nickname helps you find a horse by its everyday name. Photos can be cropped, genealogy links parents and offspring, and each section keeps its own permissions.
The Location tab shows the yard map and your horse's paddock, with touch zoom.
Try this: add the next farrier visit. The reminder repeats at the interval you choose.
Exercises, sequences, equipment layouts, courses and favourites help prepare sessions. The arena editor lets you draw a layout and instructions for the arena’s dimensions. Check distances and adapt the setup to the horse and rider.
Explore accessible content, add favourites and copy an exercise to adapt it. Your copy does not rewrite the author’s work.
Try this: draw the exercise from your last lesson and share it with your yard.
See who is out, with which horse, since when and when they expect to return. When you follow a route, the topographic map stays centred on you, with remaining distance, distance off route, distance travelled and a direction arrow. If you leave the route, the screen tells you.
Before leaving, choose route following or recording and check location permissions. If preparing an offline map, wait for confirmation. A browser can stop tracking when the screen locks; the installed app also depends on phone settings.
Try this: add your next ride, save the map offline and mark yourself “Back safely” when you return.
Find the ride in History: a route coloured by pace, duration, distance, elevation and memories. Average speed includes stops. You can record a ride retrospectively. If the film option is offered, prepare a preview and choose an export available on your device.
Choose who sees it: your yard, friends or everyone in “Discover”. A public route is shared in full, including its start and finish, and the screen reminds you when you select that option. Your heart rate stays private.
Try this: share a route with a friend at another yard so they can follow it.
Items members sell or give away, within your yard or across the platform, with a distance filter. No payments are made here: you arrange the details between yourselves, using messaging to get in touch without sharing your phone number.
There is also equipment lending: who borrowed what, and when.
Choose a starting point, open a chapter or search with several words. Each tutorial explains the steps. Shared links open the article directly; Report a problem lets you request a correction.
Find places that welcome riders, horses and trailers. Plan your days, reuse routes, share your trip and revisit recorded rides. Contact through Paddoco becomes available when the place’s manager is verified.
Do you welcome travelling riders? Claim your existing listing or list your place, then personalise its cover photo, logo and gallery. The enhanced showcase is free during launch.
View the Tourism guide and populated preview
Everyday actions
A label such as mineral supplement does not identify a composition. For Oligovit and other ranges, choose the actual product you feed and compare its sheet with the packaging.
At pasture, grass intake is not known automatically. Displayed values may therefore not cover the whole day's intake.
Leave unknown values blank. Zero means that the content is genuinely zero. Do not convert a crude protein percentage into MADC: these are different measurements.
This sheet is for your horse; it does not replace the shared manufacturer's sheet for other users.
A free-text instruction such as “one scoop” can help with daily feeding but cannot support a calculation if the scoop's weight is unknown. A course outside its dates or without usable data should not be interpreted as zero intake.
Follow the manufacturer's and your horse's professional adviser's instructions. The app does not invent a dose suited to its health.
The overview compares recorded intake with your horse's estimated needs. This calculation system expresses energy in UFC and digestible protein in MADC.
Crude protein and MADC are not interchangeable. The protein percentage on a bag alone cannot determine digestible protein. Missing MADC must not be invented.
A partial total is neither zero nor evidence of a deficiency. Some forage or grass may be missing from the calculation. Use this overview with the professional who looks after your horse; it does not replace their advice.
A full lesson may offer a waiting list. Always check the displayed status after submitting your request.
Authorised people can add dependants without accounts. An annual booking and confirmed attendance are different records.
For recurring lessons, use the slot or series actions. Deleting one session and stopping a series are different actions: read the displayed scope before confirming.
In an installed app, tracking also depends on phone permissions and settings. In a browser, tracking can stop when the screen locks or the app moves into the background.
The safety board helps follow a ride; it is not an emergency service. If sending fails, keep the ride and use the retry offered.
A public route may reveal its start and end points. Review it before making it public. Film-sharing options depend on the installed version and the apps on your phone.
Want to offer your horse? Use the offer action available with your permissions and explain the terms. A listing does not automatically grant access to the horse's data.
In the app, open Help and search for a word such as supplement, protein, mount or horse share. Articles can be shared using their address.
And more
In Competitions, view the published programme and results. The organiser can prepare the programme, then choose Print / PDF to share it or display it at the yard.
Being open about it
You will find out anyway. Better here than at the wrong moment.
They are encrypted in transit to our servers, and the database refuses access to anyone without permission. But we prefer to be clear: for a confidence that must be inaccessible to any third party, a Paddoco message is not the right place.
Payment tracking shows who has paid through three stages, with a record of every change. It does not issue invoices or replace the yard's accounting software. This is a deliberate choice: no bank details pass through the app, so none can leak from it.
Screens change from week to week, and that is the point: what you report often appears in the next version. If something is missing or gets in your way, the section below explains how to tell us.
A problem or an idea
A blocked process, unclear information or an idea: tell us the context so we can help.
In Help, choose Report a problem. Give the screen, your action and what happened. This sends feedback to the team without publishing it on the feed.
For anything private or that needs a screenshot.
If we meet at a competition or a yard. This works too, but feel free to remind us: something mentioned between two stables is easily forgotten.
What helps most, in three lines: what you were doing, what you expected and what happened instead. Include the screen name if you know it.
Next step
Paddoco is available on Google Play for Android and on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Sign in with your existing account: your data is already there.
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You can also use app.paddoco.com in your browser, with the same account.
Your data
See the details in the privacy policy, written to be understood, and on the page Delete my account.
Guide checked on 23 September 2026. Available actions depend on your permissions and installed version.