Add the horse
From Home, select Add Horse and enter the horse’s basic information.
TrueHands field guide
Clear steps for dependable captures.
Set up the horse, camera, and landmarks carefully. A few good habits make the measurements easier to repeat and compare.
Start here
Create the horse profile
Choose a recognizable photo
A clear side-profile photo makes the horse easy to identify. The current profile photo stays assigned until you select and save a replacement.
Open Actions
Use the horse profile to measure, add timeline events, export history, or manage a Coggins document.
Height capture
Measure height in hands
Use flat, visible ground
Stand the horse on a level surface and keep the ground beneath the withers visible until the app confirms the ground is locked.
Use a true side profile
Rotate the phone to landscape. Keep the entire horse visible and the camera square to the horse—not ahead of the shoulder or behind the hindquarter.
Begin about 10 to 12.5 feet away
Stay far enough back to include the feet and withers. Moving closer will not help if the body becomes cropped.
Capture, align, and hold
Start the capture, then gently steer the moving alignment crosshair onto the fixed crosshair. Hold steadily until the progress completes.
Mark ground and withers
Place the ground point directly beneath the withers and the withers point at the highest point of the shoulder ridge. Press and hold near a marker for a magnified placement view.
Full Body & Weight · Beta
Complete both captures together
Important: Complete the side and angled captures one after the other without moving the horse. Weight cannot be estimated until both captures are saved.
Prepare the side view
Keep the horse square, the full body and all four feet visible, and the camera level. Avoid another horse, person, rail, post, or bright doorway directly behind the outline.
Place all six side landmarks
Mark ground, withers, point of shoulder, point of buttock, the top of the back over the heart-girth line, and the bottom of the chest just behind the elbow.
Review the side measurements
Check height, body length, and chest depth before continuing. Retake the capture if a landmark or reading is clearly wrong.
Move to the angled view
Keep the horse in place. Move to a front three-quarter angle so both sides of the chest are visible, then match the angled silhouette and alignment crosshairs.
Place both chest-edge markers
Mark the left and right outside edges of the chest. Keep the head lifted and centered when possible so the neck and shoulder do not block the chest.
Review and save
Confirm height, length, depth, width, calculated heart girth, and approximate weight. Saving creates the measurement record and resets the capture flow for next time.
Best results
Capture checklist
Even light
Choose open shade or even indoor light. Avoid strong backlighting and glare.
Clear background
Use visual separation between the horse and walls, rails, people, or other horses.
Square stance
Ask the horse to stand quietly with weight distributed naturally and legs visible.
Level phone
Hold the phone near the horse’s mid-body height without aiming sharply upward or downward.
Correct landmarks
Use the labeled anatomy guide if you are unsure of the shoulder, buttock, or withers.
Review first
Retake any capture that produces a visibly unreasonable measurement.
Records and sharing
Keep the useful details together
Add measurements and events
Manual entries, LiDAR captures, diet changes, health notes, and training events build the horse’s timeline.
Keep a Coggins PDF
Open Coggins under Actions to import a PDF or scan the paper document with the camera.
Share when needed
Measurement reports and Coggins documents can be shared, saved to Files, or printed from the iPhone share sheet.