Flockstar

Listen. I don’t leave reviews. But in this case, Brian, with Flockstar absolutely deserves one! I’ve been using this app to track our backyard chickens eggs for 2+ years. We started out with 9 chickens, as normal people do, and that quickly escalated to having 30 at one point… I absolutely love collecting eggs and logging them in the Flockstar app every night. Yes, I do know what each of my chicken’s eggs look like 99% of the time, lol. The App shows who is laying regularly, who has slacked off and may need some extra TLC, I can tell which breeds are heavy layers vs. not, etc. So it does exactly what it claims to do and I’m happy to pay the yearly fee. But HERE is why I’m leaving a review: I had to upgrade my iPhone and when I went to log my eggs, the app prompted me to sign in. So I followed the steps and when I got logged in ALL OF MY DATA WAS GONE. Y’all. I’ve logged about 4,500 eggs for 30 something chickens. I like to go back and compare patterns to see things like how Loretta started slowing down this time last year, too, and there was nothing to be concerned about - it was just too dang hot out. You get the gyst. So it’s Friday night, I’m feeling some very deep sorrow, so I shoot an SOS email via the “contact Flockstar” link asking if they can help me retrieve my data. Brian emailed me back within MINUTES and told me exactly what steps to take to fix my problem and VOILA: there were my 5 flocks again with their beautiful egg number graphs. That is incredible customer service. Thank you, Brian!!

I love this app, I wish I’d know about it when I first got chickens. Between getting almost an entirely new flock and rebuilding and expanding my run I was curious what my new cost per egg was going to look like and what the new chickens laying patterns would be. I’m able to see that very easily now. The leaderboard is hysterical. My family is placing bets on who each months leader will be. It’s very simple and intuitive to use. I like that I can backdate expenses and egg, tracking, etc. There are two things I wish this app could do. 1) I wish I could track a double yolk, egg the same way you can track a broken egg. 2) I wish I could track medication dispensing, like putting corrid in their water tank or something like that. I still gave a five star review because this does everything and more that I set out to track initially when I went onto the App Store library to search for an app.

I have been using this app for about 4 1/2 months now. I recently experienced a crashed and thought I had lost all of my information. I reached out to customer service, not expecting to hear back really. Within TEN minutes, I had a response from Brian. Long story short, he was able to trouble shoot the issue and even went above and beyond to help me with an issue that I had inadvertently created when moving from the Lite version to the Premium version. I was hesitant to spend $20 on an app, but I can say that excellent customer service makes ALL the difference! I cannot thank Brian enough for his help! If you are a flock keeper, this app is wonderful! It has helped me log and keep track of egg production, egg sales, and costs for feed/medicine, etc. Thanks again, Brian, for a great tool and superior customer service!