What we've added recently. We run AlpacaKeep on a working alpaca farm before opening it up, and we keep this page current as things ship.
The breeding planner now says what fiber the crias of a pairing can expect, keeps a private shortlist you confirm in one go, and knows about studs from other farms. Plus lab reports that fill themselves in, doses by weight, and a tidier herd register.
What fiber the crias can expect. Once five animals of the same type have
a usable fiber test (from nine months of age, with a birth date on file), the
planner shows for every pairing the fineness and the uniformity (how even the
fiber is) the crias are likely to have, worked out from both parents' tests and from any of their
crias that have been tested, and compared with your own herd. The card says
how much evidence sits behind it, from thin to solid, and the animal you are
planning around shows what it passes on to its crias. A dam or sire with no
test counts as average, so one missing test never blocks the estimate. Until
then, cards compare the latest tests.
Uniformity instead of comfort factor. The second fiber measure in the
planner is now how even the fiber is, the CV on your lab report. Comfort
factor follows fineness so closely that it was telling you the same thing
twice.
Goals in plain words. Balanced, Finer fiber or Fresh bloodlines, each
with one line on what it favors. Move a slider yourself and the goal reads
Custom, with every slider showing its share of the total.
A private shortlist, then confirm. Add a pair to My shortlist, which only
you can see, write a note on why you chose it, and confirm the ticked pairs
together, for today or planned for a later date. Planned matings sit on top of
the Pregnancies tab with who planned them, and Details opens the pairing card
again.
Studs from other farms. A male you use from another farm is entered once,
right in the sire picker, and the sire list is grouped: your studs, outside
studs, other males. Breeding history now lists every mating with its status
until it has a result.
Lab reports that fill themselves in. Upload a fiber lab PDF and the
numbers are read for you. CEM, staple length and the share over 30 microns
now show on public sale pages too, next to the ancestors' colors.
Doses by weight. The event drawer works out each animal's dose from its
weight, never saves an empty dose without asking, and keeps the vet's
prescription with the record.
Photos in batches. Upload many photos at once and every one is kept, with
AVIF accepted alongside JPEG and PNG.
A tidier herd register. Enter a missing Mod. 4 where it belongs, keep
holding codes on your contacts, print a register that no longer overlaps, and
store the scanned Mod. 4 once for the whole movement.
UK farms welcome. Farms in the UK can join the private beta, with the legal
pages written for them.
The prices the paid plans will have at public launch, how much room each plan gets for photos and documents, and a plain reminder that nothing is charged during the beta.
The prices we will launch with. Solo costs 59 euro a year or 6 a month,
Farm 119 a year or 12 a month, and Pro 249 a year or 25 a month. These replace
the 49, 99 and 229 a year in our July update. Free stays free, for up to 10
animals.
Room for photos and documents. Free includes 100 MB, Solo 500 MB, Farm
5 GB, and Pro has unlimited storage. Solo and Farm used to include 1 GB and
10 GB. If a farm goes over, nothing is deleted: only new uploads are blocked
until there is room again.
Nothing is charged during the beta. Every beta farm keeps using all the
features for free, and we will never charge you for the beta period. Paid
plans only start at public launch.
Record a birth straight from the pregnancy list, colours that tell you who needs you, a menu that shows where you are, and a lot less wasted space on a phone.
Record a birth without hunting for it. Every dam who is near her due date
now has a Record birth button right there on the pregnancy list. It used to
take four taps to find, which is a big part of why births end up entered late,
or not at all.
The bars now say what is going on. Green while there is still time, amber
once she is in her birthing window, red when she is genuinely late. And if a
pregnancy has run longer than any normal one, the bar goes plain grey and asks
the obvious question: did she give birth? That is almost never a late animal.
It is a birth nobody wrote down, and it should not look like an emergency.
A little (i) explains the whole thing. Tap it above the pregnancy list and
you get the colours, what the dark line on each bar means, and what the two
numbers next to each name are telling you.
Tidier rows. Each pregnancy takes up about half the height it used to, so a
farm with twenty of them is no longer a long scroll. The milestone dots are
gone: once passed they were the loudest thing on the row while telling you the
least.
"Variable" now says what it means. If a dam's own pregnancies have varied a
lot, the app now tells you to watch the whole window rather than leaving you
with one word.
You can see which page you are on. The menu marks the page you are on
clearly on both phone and computer, the More menu is sorted into your farm and
your account instead of one long list, and Help and feedback is now simply
Contact us, sitting with the other pages.
A calmer plan card. The plan box in the sidebar stays out of your way and
speaks up when you are getting close to a limit, rather than showing you
numbers you did not ask for every day.
Locked features explain themselves. When something needs a higher plan, you
now get told what it does and why you might want it, in the right place on the
page, instead of a box dropped somewhere odd. And on the billing page each plan
has a What's included list you can open.
Straight talk about support. Support is on every plan including Free, and
Pro gets priority. We have stopped promising a reply inside a set number of
days, because we would rather not promise it than get it wrong.
Room to breathe on a phone. Page headings, descriptions and buttons all
line up now and use the full width of the screen instead of a quarter of it
being empty. The dashboard also stopped telling you a dam was due today when
she was two months past her date.
Show results on the animal, sign in with Google, a Help Center in three languages, a big phone and tablet pass, and a plain account of what changed on prices and plans.
Pro now costs 229 euro a year. It was 199, or 23 a month instead of 20.
Free, Solo and Farm are unchanged at 0, 49 and 99 a year, and Free stays free.
The free trial opens everything up. Try everything free for 30 days:
public sale pages, fibre analytics, the full financial reports, and no limit on
how many animals you keep. No card needed, and after 30 days you go back to
your current plan automatically with everything you entered still there. One
free trial per farm.
Some of the money features now need the Farm plan. Writing down income and
expenses stays free on every plan, and so does downloading it all as a
spreadsheet. What now needs Farm or above: the financial reports, so income,
expenses and net at a glance with a breakdown per category; attaching a receipt
to an entry; linking a contact to an entry; making your own categories; and
splitting one cost across several animals. Entries you already built keep their
receipts, contacts and splits, and categories you already made stay usable. The
Free plan also grew from 8 animals to 10.
Sign in with Google. There is now a Continue with Google button on the
sign-in and sign-up pages, next to the usual email and password. One less
password to keep track of.
Show results on the animal. Every animal now has a Records tab where you
log a show result: the show, the date, the class, where the animal placed and
out of how many, the judge, and any championship from Color Champion up to
Supreme Champion. The section sums up the champion and reserve wins at the top,
and you can print a show card for the animal. Show records are free on every
plan.
A Help Center, in three languages. There are now 55 short how-to articles
covering the everyday jobs in the app, with a search box and shortcuts to each
category. All of them read in English, Italian and German, and 28 of them show
you the actual screen you are on. Inside the app, Help and feedback in the menu
lets you tell us something is broken, ask for help, or send an idea.
Public profile has moved. Your farm logo, cover image, about text, social
links and the details buyers see are no longer in Settings. They live under
Marketplace, then Public profile, next to your listings, with a readiness list
so you can see what is still missing and a preview of how your card looks to a
buyer.
Search for what you can see. On Animals, the search box now matches the
name the way it is written on screen, plus the tag, the chip, the registration
number, the show name and the colour. You can type two or three words and it
narrows down on all of them.
Built for the phone and the tablet. Every page in the app went through a
pass for smaller screens: bigger buttons you can hit with a work glove on, rows
that fit, and tabs, filters and toggles that are actually readable instead of
white on near-white.
Tasks are for planning, Events are for recording. The two pages now say so,
and they join up. A task tells you which event it will log when you tick it off,
the event tells you which task it came from, and the task calendar shows how
many events you logged on each day, so you can jump straight to them. Put a
future date on an event and it points you at Tasks instead of just refusing.
A dashboard that looks ahead. The birth card now shows a watch window
around each due date rather than one exact day. The shearing card only turns up
when it is your shearing season, and offers to start or carry on a shearing day.
And a New inquiries count tells you when a buyer has been in touch.
Reference animals fill out. Reference animals are the off-farm ones you
keep for pedigree only, like a rented stud or an ancestor you never owned. You
can now record their sire and dam, see a card listing everywhere an animal is
used before you delete it, and the app stops you deleting one that is still a
parent. Empty spots in the pedigree tree became Add links, so you can fill a
gap where you find it.
Reports and printouts. The Reports page opens with a row of counts you can
tap to jump straight to the list that needs you, the clear-to-sell list starts
on the animals still waiting rather than the whole herd, and the expiring
medicines card links into your medicine cabinet. Animals that have left the farm
no longer clutter the watch lists. On paper, the pedigree sheet now reads left
to right across the page instead of down it, and herd rosters print sideways so
more rows fit.
The fibre page follows your current herd. Animals you have sold, lost or
moved on no longer count towards the herd figures and the overdue-for-testing
list. Animals out on loan still do, since they are still yours. The Reports tab
keeps the full history, past animals and all. Numbers on the fibre pages, animal
profiles and sale pages now use the decimal comma in Italian and German.
Smaller touches. You can change your own email address from your account
page, confirming from both inboxes. You can hide the built-in medications,
event types, document types and finance categories you never use, and bring them
back later from the Hidden section. The birth form now offers the proper colour
list and carries the bloodline and fibre type across from the dam. And when you
add an animal, Origin now simply asks whether it was bred on your farm or
acquired from another one.
New guides and free templates. Four new reads on keeping records: what to
keep, whether you need to register your animals, medication records and
withdrawal periods, and the same ground for llamas. There are also four record
templates you can download as spreadsheets, no account needed, and new overview
pages that tie the guides together by subject.
A redesigned dashboard, animal profiles and fibre hub, clearer breeding due dates, and a steadier importer for bringing a herd across.
Move an animal to another farm. When you sell or pass an animal to
another farm, you can record the move in one step. The animal's history and
pedigree stay intact, and when both farms use the app the record links up on
both sides. The buyer can note what they paid so it shows in their accounts.
Breeding, all on one page. The breeding page now lets you log a mating,
record a spit-off test, and confirm a pregnancy without changing screens. And
where the planner used to rank males for a chosen female, you can now pick a
male and see which of your females suit him, scored the same way.
Quick log. A new slide-out lets you record one thing, a jab, a weight or
a note, against one animal or a whole group in a few taps, straight from the
events list or a keyboard shortcut. The full session form is still there for
bigger jobs.
A medicine cabinet. Keep a list of the medicines you have on hand, with
batch numbers and expiry dates, and the app flags the ones going out of date.
When you log a dose it works out when the animal is clear to sell again, and a
report shows you who is clear today.
Save a treatment recipe. If you give the same treatment the same way each
time, save it as a protocol and apply it in one click. You can also set the
follow-up or booster dose at the moment you log the first one.
Your own routines. Alongside the built-in task templates, you can now save
your own recurring routines and reuse them.
Tasks and events, tidied up. The Tasks and Events pages have a cleaner
layout that works better on a phone, with bulk select and an undo on the
events list. "Today" and "overdue" now follow your farm's own timezone, which
you set in Settings.
Body condition in one place. Weight and body-condition score now sit in a
single card on the animal's health tab, so you can record both at once.
A calmer, clearer dashboard. We rebuilt the home screen so the numbers and
updates that matter most are easier to take in at a glance.
A fresh look for animal profiles. Each animal's profile now uses the full
width of the screen, with a tidier actions menu so it is easier to see what you
can do from one place.
The fibre hub is easier to read. A new chart shows where each animal sits
against the rest of the herd, you can filter straight to the ones overdue for
testing, and the grade bands now match each species. Tap an animal to open its
full fibre detail in a pop-up without losing your place.
Clearer due dates and a breeding history. Gestation now counts from the
actual mating date, and the progress bar is shaded by stage so you can see how
far along each dam is, with milestone notes you can tap along the way. A new
season-by-season history lets you look back over past matings, and the mating
suggestions load faster.
Note an animal's eye colour. A simple optional field, handy for buyer
disclosure on blue-eyed white animals.
Undo a spreadsheet import in one click. If a bulk import did not go the way
you wanted, one button rolls the whole batch back.
The whole app in German. German was already on the website and the guides.
Now the app itself reads in German too.
Bringing a herd across. If you are moving from another system, the
spreadsheet importer is steadier and handles more of the quirks in exported
files.
Smaller touches. Pages load quicker with placeholders while they fill in,
Settings and list pages got a cleaner look, animal records gained a bloodline
field and progeny photos, contacts gained website and herd-code fields,
you can choose how registered names are shown, animal ages now read naturally
in each language, and the Projected Births and Animal Summary report sheets
are more compact.
New guides. Two more in-depth reads went up, one on pedigree and
inbreeding, one on fibre grades, plus accuracy fixes to the shearing and cost
guides.
A breeding planner with inbreeding scores, whole-herd fibre tracking, and printable reports.
Breeding planner. Pick a female and the planner ranks the males you could
put her to, scored on fleece fineness, density, fertility and colour. It also
works out the inbreeding figure for each pairing, so you can tell when two
animals are too closely related before you go ahead.
Whole-herd fibre tracking. Every histogram and shearing date sits on the
animal's own record, and the herd page flags the ones that are due for
testing. No more digging through a separate fleece spreadsheet.
Printable reports. Pull a PDF for a single animal, a sales sheet with a QR
code that points back to the listing, or a fibre report for the whole herd.
A second free tool. There's now a Body Condition Score calculator
alongside the gestation one. Score an animal in under a minute, no account
needed.
German. The site and the guides now read in German as well as English and
Italian. Two new guides went up too: one on coat colour genetics and lethal
crosses, one on picking a first breed.
This page. There's now a changelog, in English, Italian and German, so you
can see what changed each month.
Guides link to each other. Where a guide mentions something another guide
covers, it now links straight there, and each guide ends with a short list of
related reads. Easier to follow a thread without going back to search.
A few guides after you subscribe. When you sign up for updates, the
confirmation now points you to a few more guides worth reading, instead of
just a thank-you.
AlpacaKeep goes public with a free gestation calculator and a growing guides library.
AlpacaKeep is live on the web. The project has a public home, a clear
story, and a name. We are building it on a working alpaca farm before we open
it to everyone else.
A free gestation calculator. Enter a mating date, get the due window and
the watch dates that matter. No account required.
A guides library. Practical, breeder-written articles on shearing timing,
cria growth, body condition, deworming, and more, with a free calculator
built into the ones that need one.
AlpacaKeep