Getting the app
HARES is a free download for iPhone and iPad.
Download HARES on the App Store →
On your phone you can also open the App Store and search HARES Registry.
An Android version is in the works. Everything below will work the same way when it lands.
Signing in
It's the same account you use on the website. There's nothing separate to set up and nothing to copy over — sign in with your usual email and password and your herd is already there. Anything you change on your phone shows up on your computer, and the other way around.
New to HARES? You can create an account right in the app. You'll land on a Free Breeder account, which is real and permanent — ten active animals, no time limit, nothing expiring.
If you've entered a show through a portal link before but never set a password, use the same email when you sign up — HARES notices and offers to link your past entries to your new login.
Your tabs
You get five tabs — along the bottom on an iPhone, across the top on an iPad. The last one is always More, which holds everything else. The other four are yours to choose.
To change them: More → Choose My Tabs, tick the four you want, and save. Your choices apply right away. You can pick from My Herd, Litters, Shows, Reservations, Sales, Customers, Breeding Calendar, and Notifications.
Nothing is hidden by your choice — everything you don't pick still lives one tap away under More.
Working with no signal
This is the part most people care about. HARES keeps working in a barn with no bars — you can look at your herd and record weights, litters, sales and more, and it all sends itself when you're back in service. There's nothing to turn on.
What's different on a phone
You can print from your phone. Pedigrees, cage cards and show history open full screen right in the app, with two buttons in the corner: Print sends it to any AirPrint printer on your wifi, and Download lets you save it, email it, or AirDrop it to a computer. (The buttons say Download rather than Print in a few places because a web page inside an app can't open a print dialog on its own — the viewer's Print button is the one that does it.)
Photos come from your camera. Anywhere you'd upload a photo, your phone offers Take Photo as well as your library — so you can photograph an animal while you're holding it.
QR codes open the animal. Scanning the QR on a cage card or pedigree with your phone's camera opens that exact animal in the app instead of a browser — its record or its pedigree, whichever you picked in Settings.
Notifications
HARES can send a notification to your phone when something actually needs you:
- Someone offers to transfer an animal to you, or accepts one you sent
- A breeding-calendar event is due today — kits expected, nest box due, weaning due
- A change you made in the barn came back needing your review
Your phone asks permission the first time. If you said no and changed your mind, turn it back on in your phone's Settings → HARES → Notifications.
To choose which kinds you get — or switch them off entirely without losing the in-app bell — go to More → Notification Settings.
Day-of breeding reminders go out mid-morning, and only when you actually have something due that day. A quiet day means nothing's due, not that something broke.
Small things worth knowing
- Weights show in your units. Whatever you picked in Settings — pounds, ounces, or pounds and ounces — is what the app uses, including in Barn Mode.
- Light or dark. More → Appearance lets you follow your phone's setting or force one.
- More than one account? More → Switch Account moves between them, same as the website.
- Some things need signal by design — sending show entries, and anything that changes your account or password. The app will say so plainly rather than pretending to save.
- Plans and billing live on the website. Apple doesn't allow subscriptions to be sold inside apps like this one, so managing your plan happens at haresregistry.com in a browser.
Something not working right?
Tap HELP or SUGGESTION at the top of any page, or email [email protected]. Tell us what phone you have and what you were doing — nearly every fix in the app so far started as somebody's screenshot.