Saddle user guide

Welcome to Saddle — the app that brings your barn, your horses, and your rides together in one place. These guides cover everything you can do in the app, from your first sign-in to hosting a live group trail ride.

New here? The Quick start gets you from download to your first recorded ride in one page.

Start here

• Quick start — account, barn, horse, first ride, and ride safety in seven short steps.
• Getting started — create an account, sign in, find your way around the four tabs, and join with an invite.
• Account and profile — your profile, themes, units, permissions, the Pro plan, signing out, and deleting your account.
• Offline use and sync — how Saddle works with no signal, and how your changes upload on their own.

Your barn

• Barns — create or join a barn, invites and discovery, members and roles, and what barn owners can do.
• Posts and the barn gallery — share photos with your barn and browse the barn's gallery.
• Documents — file your horse's paperwork privately and share barn documents with everyone.
• Events — the barn calendar, RSVPs, invites, and live group trail rides with replays.
• Weather — current conditions and forecasts for your barn's location.

Your horses

• Horses — horse profiles, photos, moving horses between barns, and who can see them.
• Blankets — build each horse's blanket wardrobe and get tonight's recommendation from the forecast.

Your riding

• Rides — record rides with GPS, pocket lock, gait breakdowns, trimming, and your private ride log.
• Trails — turn rides into reusable routes, share them with your barn, follow them, and keep them offline.
• Ride safety — build a safety group and share your location while you ride.
• Notifications — what Saddle tells you about, and how to manage it.

A few things worth knowing

• Your rides are private. Nothing you record is shared unless you deliberately share it — as a trail, or by posting a ride to an event.
• Saddle works offline. Record, edit, and post with no signal; everything uploads automatically when you're back in coverage.
• Invites are pass cards. Barns, events, and safety groups all spread by QR pass or link — and joining a barn always needs the owner's approval.