Features

A whole-homestead app, not another single-purpose tracker.

Homestead Keeper brings animals, garden bed layouts, crops, orchards, bees, equipment, inventory, Food & Pantry, places, reminders, reports, and rural property care into one practical Apple app.

Core workflow

Track what happened, what it cost, and what is coming up next.

Use Homestead Keeper to capture records in the moment, organize them by place or item, and review the history later through calendar views, reports, summaries, and exports.

No Homestead Keeper login is required. Records live on your Apple devices and can sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through iCloud when enabled.

Homestead Keeper Homestead Hub showing the major areas of the app. — The Homestead Hub keeps the mixed work of a homestead organized. Click to expand.

Foundation

Core app areas

These are the building blocks that make the app useful across mixed homestead responsibilities.

Homestead dashboard

See what needs attention today: overdue work, upcoming reminders, field logs, and the records you use most.

Places and items

Name your homestead, add real places, and attach records to the animals, beds, tools, systems, and spaces you manage.

Field Log

Capture egg counts, feed, watering, treatments, inspections, harvests, repairs, inventory changes, and notes while the work is fresh.

Reminders

Create one-time, recurring, and seasonal reminders for chores, animal care, maintenance, planting, and inspection work.

Production tracking

Track eggs, harvests, honey, weights, yields, and other practical outputs over time.

Garden bed layouts

Map garden beds and crop placement by season so you know what is planted where.

Photos and documents

Attach useful reference materials such as photos, receipts, manuals, labels, and notes when supported by your app version.

Reports and exports

Review summaries, logbooks, upcoming seasonal work, inventory reports, production history, and handoff information.

Garden bed layouts

Make the garden visual.

Plan beds and plots, place crops into layouts, and track what was planted in each season. Then connect the plan to planting dates, harvests, reminders, and production history.

Garden bed layout with crops assigned to a grid and a prompt to log the layout as planting. — **Bed layout planning** Plan raised beds and crop placement before planting day. *Click to expand*

Garden timeline showing crops across months with seed start, growing, harvest window, frost date, and today markers. — **Garden timeline** Track seed starts, growing windows, harvest windows, frost dates, and seasonal timing. *Click to expand*

Screenshots

A tour through the real app.

Click any screenshot to open it larger in your browser. These images show layouts, calendar views, animal records, equipment service, inventory, reports, and production tracking.

Homestead Hub showing featured Garden, Animals, Property, Inventory, and More to Manage cards. — **Homestead Hub** Featured areas and the rest of the homestead in one overview. *Click to expand*

Raised bed layout showing crop cells, paths, season controls, and a log planting prompt. — **Garden bed layout** Visual crop placement by raised bed, path, crop, and season. *Click to expand*

Garden timeline showing crop rows across May, June, July, and August with planting and harvest windows. — **Garden timeline** Seed starts, growing windows, harvest windows, frost dates, and today markers. *Click to expand*

Calendar week view with a month grid, week event list, and breeding calendar milestones. — **Calendar week** Calendar views for upcoming chores, care reminders, and milestones. *Click to expand*

Breeding timeline with active windows, completed items, lockdown, weaning, and today marker. — **Breeding timeline** Timeline mode for longer animal workflows and seasonal windows. *Click to expand*

Animal summary Profiles, records, production, photos, care, pedigree, and breeding tabs. Click to expand

Animal production tab showing egg totals, a 14 day chart, and production history. — **Animal production** Egg counts, trends, sales, use, storage, and production history. *Click to expand*

Riding mower equipment screen with a Field Log service form. — **Equipment service** Log service, repairs, inspections, fuel, cost, vendors, and time spent. *Click to expand*

Inventory table with rows for seeds, animal health, soil amendments, and dehydrated food. — **Inventory list** Track item category, quantity, location, status, and expiration dates. *Click to expand*

Homestead Summary report with health score and overview metrics. — **Homestead summary report** Health score, activity by type, total records, reminders, costs, and logbook counts. *Click to expand*

Cost Summary report with metric cards and spending charts. — **Cost report** Income, expenses, repairs, replacement cost, and spending charts. *Click to expand*

Inventory Report showing overview metrics, supply levels chart, low stock, and expiring soon. — **Inventory report** Low stock, expiring supplies, categories, places, value, and supply trends. *Click to expand*

Homestead Production report with totals and trends for eggs, milk, honey, and harvests. — **Production report** Eggs, milk, honey, garden harvest totals, and production trends. *Click to expand*

Maintenance Overview report with health score, metrics, logbook trend, and watchlist. — **Maintenance report** Completed work, overdue reminders, costs, service trends, and watchlists. *Click to expand*

Warranty Countdown report with expired and upcoming warranty items. — **Warranty countdown** Expired, upcoming, and later warranty windows for equipment and supplies. *Click to expand*

Complete overview

What Homestead Keeper is designed to cover

The app is meant to cover the whole mixed homestead, including less-obvious areas like forestry, emergency prep, off-grid systems, projects, and Food & Pantry.

Garden Beds & Crops

Plan beds and plots, map crop placement, track planting dates, pest notes, watering, harvests, and seasonal garden records.

Animals

Care reminders, health notes, egg counts, breeding, pedigree, production, weights, photos, and records for chickens, goats, rabbits, cattle, guardian animals, and more.

Calendar

See overdue work, day/week/month views, harvest windows, animal care, planting dates, service reminders, and seasonal chores in one place.

Equipment & Workshop

Log repairs, maintenance, fuel, parts, manuals, service history, warranty notes, and tool records.

Property, Fences & Water

Keep records for gates, fences, wells, pumps, irrigation, buildings, roads, storm damage, and property repairs.

Inventory

Track feed, medicine, seeds, fuel, filters, bedding, pantry goods, canning supplies, spare parts, and emergency supplies.

Food & Pantry

Track canned goods, freezer food, dehydrated food, fermented batches, pantry items, root cellar storage, and stored harvests.

Orchard

Track fruit trees, berries, vines, pruning, sprays, harvests, seasonal timing, and long-term perennial care.

Bees & Hives

Record hive inspections, queen notes, feeding, treatments, splits, swarms, honey harvests, and equipment.

Off-grid Systems

Track solar, batteries, generators, propane, water storage, backup power, filters, and seasonal checks.

Forestry

Track tree work, fire mitigation, wood lots, brush clearing, storm cleanup, and property access tasks.

Emergency Prep

Track stored water, food, first aid, generator readiness, batteries, documents, and expiration dates.

Projects

Keep repair projects, garden builds, coop upgrades, fencing jobs, and seasonal improvements organized.

Farm Business

Keep practical business-adjacent records without turning the app into enterprise farm ERP or accounting software.

Places

Organize work by coops, barns, gardens, sheds, pastures, apiaries, pump houses, pantries, and other real locations.

Reports & Exports

Review homestead summaries, cost summaries, logbooks, animal care, production, inventory, maintenance, and handoff reports.

Calendar and timelines

Plan around seasons, chores, and animal milestones.

Calendar and timeline views make future work easier to see: breeding milestones, garden timing, harvest windows, frost dates, and recurring chores.

Calendar week view showing breeding calendar events and a month grid. — **Week calendar** Day, week, and month views for chores, milestones, and care. *Click to expand*

Breeding calendar timeline showing active windows, completed items, birth or hatch, weaning, lockdown, and today markers. — **Timeline view** Milestone timelines help make longer seasonal and animal workflows easier to read. *Click to expand*

Animals, equipment, and inventory

Records stay attached to the things you manage.

Each animal, piece of equipment, and supply can carry its own history, production, care, status, and Field Log entries.

Animal detail screen for laying hens with summary, records, production, photos, care, pedigree, and breeding tabs. — **Animal records** Profiles, records, production, care, photos, pedigree, and breeding in one place. *Click to expand*

Animal production tab showing egg totals, a 14 day bar chart, and production history rows. — **Production history** Track eggs and other production with totals, trends, uses, sales, and history. *Click to expand*

Equipment detail screen for a riding mower with Field Log service entry fields. — **Equipment records** Keep service, repair, inspection, fuel, cost, and photo records with each item. *Click to expand*

Inventory list table showing item, category, quantity, location, status, and expiration columns. — **Inventory table** Track feed, seeds, soil amendments, medicine, fuel, pantry supplies, status, and expirations. *Click to expand*

Reports

See the story your records are telling.

Homestead Keeper turns routine logs into summaries for health, costs, maintenance, warranties, inventory, and production.

Homestead Summary report showing health score, overview metrics, and activity by type. — **Homestead summary** A top-level view of records, logbook activity, reminders, costs, and homestead health. *Click to expand*

Cost Summary report showing total income, expenses, net, repairs, tracked item value, replacement cost, and charts. — **Cost summary** Track income, expenses, repairs, replacement costs, spending trends, and cost breakdowns. *Click to expand*

Homestead Production report showing totals and charts for eggs, honey, milk, and garden harvests. — **Production report** Compare eggs, milk, honey, and harvests across days and seasons. *Click to expand*

Maintenance Overview report showing health score, overview metrics, trend chart, upcoming care, and watchlist. — **Maintenance overview** Review completed work, overdue reminders, service costs, vendors, trends, and watchlists. *Click to expand*

Warranty Countdown report showing expired warranties, 90 day warranties, and later warranty items. — **Warranty countdown** See expired, upcoming, and later warranty deadlines for equipment and supplies. *Click to expand*

Detailed feature map

Records by area

A practical view of the records and workflows represented in the product direction.

Garden beds, crops, and seeds

Visual bed and plot layouts
Seasonal crop placement
Crops and varieties
Seed starts and planting dates
Harvest logs and yields
Planting schedules and seasonal timing

Animals

Animal profiles and groups
Care reminders
Health notes
Breeding and pedigree
Production records
Weights, photos, and documents

Calendar and reminders

Day, week, and month views
Overdue work
Recurring chores
Seasonal tasks
Animal care follow-ups
Maintenance and harvest windows

Equipment and maintenance

Repairs
Service reminders
Parts and filters
Fuel notes
Manuals and warranties
Maintenance history

Property systems

Places
Fences and gates
Wells and pumps
Irrigation and water systems
Buildings and storage
Storm damage and repairs

Food & Pantry

Canned goods
Frozen food
Dehydrated food
Fermented batches
Pantry items
Root cellar storage

Inventory

Feed and hay
Medicine and vaccines
Seeds and soil inputs
Fuel and filters
Pantry and preservation supplies
Thresholds and expiration dates

Orchard

Fruit trees and berries
Pruning and spray notes
Fertilizing reminders
Harvest history
Seasonal care
Long-term perennial records

Bees

Hive inspections
Queen notes
Feeding and treatments
Splits and swarms
Honey harvests
Hive equipment records

Off-grid systems

Solar and batteries
Generators
Propane
Water storage
Backup power
Seasonal checks

Reports and exports

Homestead summary
Cost summary
Logbook
Animal care history
Inventory report
Property handoff report

Apple device support

iPhone
iPad
Mac
No Homestead Keeper login
iCloud sync across Apple devices
Offline-friendly workflows

Homestead Keeper

Want the simple version?

Start with Home, Places, Garden, Animals, Inventory, Calendar, and Reports — then grow into the deeper areas as your homestead records mature.

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