Looking for a My Block Hand alternative?
This page is for the person with a few acres and a mix of animals who has found My Block Hand — a New Zealand app for small farms and lifestyle properties — and wants to know how it compares. It is the closest thing to us that exists, and in a couple of places it does more. Here is what's the same, what's different, and who each one is for.
What’s the same
- A lifetime record for every animal: treatments, weights, condition, and the withholding period after a treatment.[1]
- Sheep, cattle, goats, pigs, horses, alpacas and poultry in the one app, not a separate app per species.[1]
- Paddocks on a map, and jobs and reminders in one place.[1]
- Works in the browser and on the phone, and a log made with no reception is held and sent when you're back in range.[1]
- Built by someone who lives on the kind of place it's for.[1]
What’s different
| My Block Hand | Acreage Guardian | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it starts from | New Zealand. Their page says it works elsewhere too, and that "NAIT and NLIS only appear for New Zealand and Australia".[1] | Australia first — state fire-danger ratings, state toxic-plant lists, Queensland and New South Wales title boundaries from an address — and the United States second, with pages that say plainly where a data slot is thin. |
| NAIT and NLIS | Tag deadlines, movement records and compliance deadlines are part of the product.[1] | We don't handle NAIT or NLIS. Our guides tell you to ask your state department of agriculture, because the rules change by state and year. |
| Who writes the list | You do — jobs, seasonal reminders and paddock-rest alerts you set up, and a weekly newsletter of seasonal reminders.[2] | The week is generated: your animals' care cycles, the season for your hemisphere, and this week's weather, each job on a day. Plus an advisor you can ask in plain English, any hour. |
| Weather and fire | Not mentioned on their pages.[1] | Weather drives the week — heat moves the trough check, rain moves the fence job. The official fire-danger rating is checked before any burn is suggested. |
| Poison plants | Not mentioned on their pages.[1] | The plants in your state that hurt your animals, by species, each with an official source and a photo to compare against. |
| Eggs and money | Daily egg counts, feed cost per dozen, expenses, sales and income. A real strength.[1] | Not ours. No egg counter and no ledger. |
| Price | Free to use today. Paid plans are planned, at what their page calls "about the cost of a coffee a month", with three months free for early joiners.[1] | One plan. US$39 a month, or US$349 a year with three months free. 30 days free with a card up front, and a 90-day money-back guarantee. Ours costs more, and this page isn't going to pretend otherwise. |
Who My Block Hand suits better
Who Acreage Guardian suits better
- You'd rather be told what this week needs than build the reminder list yourself.
- The weather, the fire season and the poison plants are the bits you don't know yet — and they're the bits that cost an animal.
- You want the vet-ready record and the place itself in one app, and you'll pay for the version that speaks first.
Try it on your own place
One plan: US$39 a month, or US$349 a year with three months free. 30 days free — card up front, cancel any time before it ends. 90-day money-back guarantee: if it hasn't paid for itself in your first quarter, email us for a full refund.
Sources
Everything said about My Block Handabove comes from these pages, read on the date shown. Their product changes; if a line here is out of date, their site is right and we’ll fix ours.
- https://myblockhand.com/ — read 2026-09-14. Home page. Animal records (treatments, weights, condition checks, breeding, NAIT); paddock rest tracking; egg counts and feed cost; jobs, reminders, withholding periods, compliance deadlines; finances; farm map; offline logging with sync; browser plus App Store and Google Play; "NAIT and NLIS only appear for New Zealand and Australia"; free to use, paid plans planned at about a coffee a month; built by a Northland owner. No weather, fire, toxic-plant or advisor features mentioned.
- https://myblockhand.com/support.html — read 2026-09-14. Support page. Offers a free weekly newsletter with practical tips and seasonal New Zealand reminders. Nothing about weather, advice or an assistant.
My Block Hand is a trademark of its owner. We're not affiliated; this comparison is ours, from their public pages on the date shown.