Free plan
Save one horse, three measurement sets and two rides. Delete or replace a saved ride to make room for another. Fitness and PDF exports require Premium after the preview.
TrueHands complete guide
Your guide to TrueHands.
Choose a topic below for step-by-step help with measurements, rides, fitness goals, Apple Watch, Social, and everyday horse care.
Getting startedPlans, Premium, and private sync
Premium
Unlock unlimited horses, measurement sets and saved rides, full fitness tracking and all PDF export features.
Trial and access
Enjoy 14 days of Premium automatically, with no payment signup or automatic charge. Then continue free or subscribe. Restore an existing Apple purchase from Settings.
Automatic iCloud sync: Profiles, photos, measurements, diets, events, rides, appointments, documents, and finance records sync through your private iCloud. If iCloud is temporarily unavailable, TrueHands keeps a secure on-device copy and resumes syncing when possible.
Horse profilesBuild the horse’s home record
Add a horse
From Home, choose Add Horse. Enter identity, registration number, purchase date, ownership notes, veterinarian, farrier, and other details.
Add photos safely
Choose a recognizable profile photo and add gallery images. The existing profile photo remains assigned unless you actually select and save a replacement.
Record feed and contacts
Use Edit beside Current Feed / Diet to update the ration directly from the profile. Keep care contacts and horse-specific notes readily available. Diet changes remain in history and a previous diet can be restored.
Use Actions
Open Actions for measurements, documents, events, feeding instructions, player cards, exports, and the horse’s other tools.
Delete carefully
Deleting a horse removes its associated records from the app. Read the confirmation, verify the horse’s name, and export anything you need first.
Planning and historyCalendar, appointments, and events
Week or month
Open Calendar from Home to see care across the barn. A horse’s profile always shows a Farrier card and shows Dentist when scheduled. Cards show the time until care is due and turn red when overdue.
Appointments
Create appointments from the Calendar or a horse’s profile. Choose farrier, dentist, vet, vaccine, medication or another category, select one or more horses, and set a date and optional reminder. Repeat every number of days, weeks or months. Moving an upcoming recurring appointment makes its new date the basis for later appointments.
Timeline events
Record measurements, rides, races, competitions, feed changes, veterinary care, farrier visits, injuries, or custom events.
Attachments
Add a photo, video, scanned veterinary document, or file to an event, then edit, delete, inspect, or export it as a PDF.
Filters
Filter a horse’s timeline to focus on the category or period you need.
Automation
In Settings, control whether care events and rides create calendar appointments. Measurements remain in Events and the timeline.
GPS Ride TrackerRecord and share a ride
Choose a horse and start
Open the Ride tab or choose Track a ride from Home. Select a horse, allow location access, and choose Start Ride when you are ready. A goal is optional: leave No goal set, select a preset, or choose Create new goal.
Track the route
Wait for GPS to settle before heading out; distance and speed recording begin once it is ready. TrueHands records route, distance, riding time and speed, with estimated gait and elevation information. Keep Location Services on and leave TrueHands running. Tracking can continue while the screen is locked.
Pause or finish
Pause and resume as needed, then finish to save. Free users can keep two rides at a time after the preview; delete or replace a saved ride, upgrade, or cancel saving when at the limit. Use Discard if the session should not remain in the horse’s history.
Share the result
Open the saved ride to review its map, statistics and notes. Use Share to feed to post a summary to Social, or share a branded ride image. Share PDF requires Premium. Change horse can correct the assigned horse without changing previously shared feed posts.
Battery and safety: GPS and background location can increase battery use. Secure the phone, stay aware of the horse and surroundings, and do not operate the app while it is unsafe to do so.
Fitness and Apple WatchSet goals and follow progress
Horse fitness goals
Open Fitness and choose a horse. If no goal is set, tap Create goal beside the empty meter. Give the goal a name and choose weekly, monthly or yearly targets for ride count, riding hours or distance. You can keep several goals for a horse and follow their progress. Switch Week, Month or Year to review the matching summary and charts.
Ride goals
On iPhone, create a named preset or a new goal for time, distance or performance. Performance goals can include separate walking, trotting, cantering and galloping targets. Follow each selected gait’s progress during the ride.
Use a past ride
Open a saved ride and choose Use this ride to create a goal. Select the statistics you want to target and give the goal a name.
From your wrist
Use the Apple Watch companion to select a horse and an existing preset goal, or No goal set. Create and edit presets on iPhone. Start a ride on either your Watch or iPhone, not both. A Watch ride can record without your phone nearby and sync afterward. Reopen the iPhone Ride page and use Sync watch if needed. Check goal progress on the Watch; iPhone rides also show a Lock Screen activity.
See all metrics: Review distance, riding and moving time, gait time and distance, average and maximum filtered GPS speed, personal best speed, elevation gain/loss, turns, direction changes and route laps. Ride intensity needs earlier GPS rides for comparison. Estimated left/right time describes route curves, not the actual rein or canter lead. Missing GPS time is unclassified.
Full Fitness access and PDF reports require Premium after the automatic preview. Gait, elevation, turning and other derived metrics are estimates. Use your horse’s gait calibration when available, and check the underlying ride before relying on a result.
MeasurementsManual entry and guided LiDAR capture
Camera measurement requires an iPhone 12 Pro or newer Pro model with a depth sensor. Other iPhones can still use manual measurement entry.
Manual measurement
Enter trusted values directly. Height can be saved alone; weight requires both heart girth and body length.
Height capture
Use a landscape side capture. Place the ground marker at the bottom of the front hoof where it meets the ground, in line with the withers. Then place the withers marker just below the highest point of the withers.
Full Body & Weight · Beta
Complete a landscape side capture followed immediately by a straight-on portrait front capture.
Side capture
Prepare the horse and ground
Use flat, visible ground. Ask the horse to stand square and keep the entire horse, all hooves, and the ground below the withers visible.
Stand about 10–12.5 feet away
Hold the iPhone at chest height, square to the barrel, level or only slightly downward. Keep the hooves above the gold safety line and fit the horse inside the silhouette.
Check depth coverage
At least 60% is required; aim for 80% or better. Avoid glare, strong backlighting, clutter, people, posts, and other horses behind the outline.
Capture, align, and hold
Start the capture, gently steer the moving crosshair onto the fixed alignment crosshair, and hold steadily until progress completes.
Place side landmarks
For height, place the ground marker where the bottom of the front hoof meets the ground, in line with the withers. Place the withers marker just below the highest point of the withers. Full Body also uses point of shoulder, point of buttock, top of back over the heart-girth line, and bottom of chest behind the elbow. After placing each marker, hold and drag it for more precise placement, or tap to place the next marker. You can adjust any marker before Review.
Review before continuing
Height-only capture can now save. For Full Body, check height, length, and chest depth, then continue without moving the horse.
Straight-on front capture
Rotate to portrait
Move directly in front at chest height. Center the breastbone, keep both shoulders visible, and aim only slightly downward.
Place both shoulder markers
Mark the outer left and right shoulder edges slightly inside the body outline and keep the two points level. Hold and drag a placed marker to adjust it before continuing.
Review and save
Review the estimated heart girth and weight. If a tape measurement is available, correct the girth before saving. Use the Save control near the top to create the measurement record and reset the flow.
Important: Full Body & Weight is a Beta estimate. Retake visibly unreasonable results and use a calibrated scale or qualified professional when exact weight matters.
Care and recordsKeep documents and history useful
Documents
Store notes, scanned paper records, photos, and PDFs under Coggins, veterinarian records, owner contacts, or custom categories.
Organize categories
Pin and reorder the categories you use. Hide an unused category without deleting the information already inside it.
Open and share
View PDFs full-screen, zoom in, then use the iPhone share sheet to save, print, or send the file.
Feed history
Record ration changes, review prior diets, restore an earlier plan, and prepare clear feeding instructions.
Event detail
Open an event to review notes and attachments, edit the record, or create a PDF when available.
Measurement photos
Capture photos remain attached to their measurements and sync through iCloud. Settings can also duplicate them to Photos.
Sharing and transfersSend the right record in the right format
Feeding instructions
Preview one or several horses from Home and, with Premium, share a polished feeding-instructions PDF.
Player cards
Create portrait or landscape cards with selected profile fields and notes, then save or share the finished image.
Reports
Premium is required for all PDF exports, including measurement histories, feeding instructions, events, rides, fitness summaries and finance statements. Use the relevant detail page’s share or export control.
Transfer a horse
Create one TrueHands transfer file containing the profile, photos, measurements, timeline, documents, appointments, rides, and finances. Import the file from Settings on another device.
Share the app
Use Share App at the bottom of Home to send the current TrueHands App Store link.
Finances and settingsCosts, units, calibration, and preferences
Costs and income
Add horse-specific or general expenses and income, then review monthly and yearly totals.
Prize winnings
A race or competition event can create linked Winnings income. Updating the event updates the linked transaction.
Statements
Filter Cost Tracker by horse, category or income/expense, and choose a month or year. Premium can export a statement for that period. Review the records and keep original receipts for your bookkeeping.
Units
Choose imperial or metric display throughout the app.
Paper calibration
Use a sheet of US letter paper when prompted to check camera measurement scale.
Photos and iCloud
Control measurement-photo duplication and review private iCloud sync information in Settings.
SocialConnect with your riding circle
Create your profile
Create a Social account and verify your email. Choose a display name, unique username, photo and privacy setting. Private horse records remain separate unless you choose to share them.
Find friends
Search by display name or username, check the matching profile, and send a request. Display names may have several matches, so check the username and photo before choosing Invite. Sent requests shows pending friend requests; group invitations also show when an invite has already been sent.
Messages and groups
Open Friends & riding groups, choose Create riding group, and invite friends. The group owner can use Change group photo to set the image members see at the top. Use Group feed & chat to send messages or Share a photo or update. Only group members can access the group feed. Schedule ride lets you share plans and members can respond Going, Maybe or Can’t go.
Share and stay safe
Create posts, share ride summaries and choose the intended audience. Use the three-dot menu to report inappropriate content and profile controls to block unwanted contact. Read the community terms before sharing.
Clear notification history
In Friends & riding groups, scroll to Notifications. Swipe left on an item and choose Delete, or choose Clear history and confirm. This removes your notification history only; friend and group invitations, messages and posts are kept.
Notifications
Tap Enable Social notifications to open the app’s notification settings, or go to Home → Settings → Notifications. Choose messages, friend requests, group requests and appointment reminders. Use Open iPhone notification settings to allow banners, sounds and badges. If alerts do not arrive, try Refresh notification connection. A verified Social account and internet connection are needed for Social alerts; Focus and device settings can affect delivery.
Account and privacy
Use My Profile to manage your Social identity. Social account deletion is available in the app. Review the Privacy Policy for cloud storage, sharing and deletion details.