Records for people who keep
reptiles seriously.
Feeding, weights, sheds and shed cycles. Racks and cages drawn to scale, so you know where every animal actually is. Pairings, clutches, pedigrees and genetics. Built around the way a collection is really run — not a pet app with a breeding tab bolted on.
Runs in any browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install, no account needed to start — and it offers you a sample collection to look around before you type anything of your own. Unlimited animals. $12 a month adds sync, managed backup and support — see below.
The program is yours. That is the point.
Pipped is a single file that runs in your browser. It has no licence check, no activation and no expiry date, and it does not contact anyone in order to work. Save it to your desktop and it keeps working — offline, on a plane, in ten years, whether or not this company still exists.
Ask any cloud tool what happens to your records if they shut down. Then ask us. The answer here is nothing happens — they were never ours. Your collection lives in your browser, exports to plain CSV and JSON any time you like, and the program that reads it is already on your machine.
That is not a promise about our intentions. It is a description of how the software is built, and you can verify it by turning off your wifi.
Built for a collection, not a pet.
The scale of it
Hundreds or thousands of animals, and the screens stay usable. Filter by species, morph, rack, life stage, or what is due today. Tested to 50,000 records.
A care round, on the phone you have in the room
Feeding intervals per animal and life stage. Anything in shed, fasting, gravid or brumating drops out of the round on its own. Log a whole rack at once instead of animal by animal.
Placement that knows the room
Every position knows its own dimensions and its occupant. The app flags animals that have outgrown their space, and will suggest where to move them — measured by the distance you actually walk, around the racks, not through them.
Proof of care, in the buyer's hand
Every animal you sell can go home with a printed care card. The buyer scans the QR code with their phone — no app, no account — and sees the morph, the sire and dam and all four grandparents, and the date it last ate.
Genetics done properly
Recessive, co-dominant and dominant loci across 40 species, with allelic complexes modelled as complexes rather than fudged. Warns about super forms with known welfare problems.
Real pedigrees
Unlimited generations. Record ancestors you never owned so a buyer gets the full lineage, without those animals turning up in your feeding rounds.
Breeding season
Pairings through to clutches: fertility, hatch rate, offspring per female. Hatchlings become records with parentage and inherited genetics already filled in.
Sales and buyers
Deposits, holds and waitlists. Consignment and breeding loans modelled honestly, so an animal that is not yours is not counted as though it were.
Reports that export
Collection, production, growth, sales and health. All of it to CSV, because your records should never be trapped in someone's interface.
Labels and QR
Cage cards, rack labels and show labels on standard sticker stock, sized to the sheet you actually bought.
The sale doesn't stop at the sale.
Most software in this niche records that an animal left. Here the same record keeps going — into the buyer's hand, and into your books — because it is all one collection of facts rather than three programs that have never met.
1 · You close the deal
At a table or at home. Deposit, hold or paid in full, and the buyer recorded against the animal. The animal leaves your feeding rounds the moment it is marked sold, so you are not still being told to feed something you no longer own.
2 · The buyer gets the card
A printed care card goes home with the animal. They scan the QR with any phone — no app, no account, no signal needed — and see the morph, the sire and dam and all four grandparents, when it last ate and what it ate.
3 · Your books already know
The sale carries into Pipped Books as an invoice against that customer, with the cost basis relieved against it. A consigned animal posts as commission and money owed to the consignor, which is what it actually is.
That last step is the one nobody else does. Every breeder ends the year with a shoebox and a spreadsheet, reconstructing from memory what sold and what it had cost them. This is the same figures, written down once, at the moment they were true.
Priced by keepers, not by animals.
Every other tool in this niche charges you more as your collection grows. That never made sense to us — your four hundredth ball python costs us nothing to store. What costs something is a server, a backup, and somebody answering when you write in.
- Unlimited animals. No tier to outgrow, ever.
- Unlimited devices. Phone in the room, laptop at the desk, tablet on the rack — all one keeper, one login.
- Live sync of the care log and animal records, so the round you logged on your phone is on your desk before you are. Racks, pairings, sales and the books stay on the device you entered them on.
- Managed backup of the whole collection, in both apps. Push a snapshot when you want one, held by us, restore it on any device.
- Updates — new species, new morphs, fixes.
- Support. You write, a person answers.
Monthly. Cancel any time, from the app or by email — cancelling stops the next charge and you keep access to the end of the month you paid for.
- Every feature on this page
- Unlimited animals
- Full genetics and pedigrees
- Export any time, CSV and JSON
- Works offline, on one device
No account, no card, no animal limit and no countdown. What a subscription adds is everything a file on your own machine cannot do for you: putting today's feeds and weights on your other devices, keeping a copy of the whole collection somewhere that is not your desk, and getting fixed when something is wrong.
Side by side
| Pipped | Husbandry.Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Animal limit | None, on any plan | Tiered — 200 / 500 / more |
| Works with no internet | Yes, it is a file on your machine | No, it is a website |
| If you stop paying | The program keeps working | Access ends |
| Double-entry accounting | Included — real books, Schedule C | No |
| Racks drawn to real scale | Yes, with walk-route planning | No |
| Export your records | CSV and JSON, any time | Varies by plan |
| Monthly cost | ||
| 60 animals, one keeper | $12 | $9 (capped at 200) |
| 350 animals, one keeper | $12 | $18 (capped at 500) |
| 800 animals, one keeper | $12 | $39 |
| 800 animals, three keepers | $24 | $39 |
| 2,000 animals, three keepers | $24 | $39 |
Husbandry.Pro list prices, USD per month, checked 28 August 2026. Their free tier is five animals and carries advertising. Comparison offered because it is the honest one — they are the serious competitor here, and for a small collection on one login they are cheaper than we are.
What this does that the others don't.
The table above is about price. These three are about kind, and they are the reasons to move rather than the reasons to save nine dollars.
- Your collection is never a pricing tier.
- Nothing here counts your animals, because nothing here charges for them. No cap to hit mid-season, no upgrade prompt at 201, no decision about whether this year's hatchlings are worth the next bracket. You will never think about it again after today, which is the point.
- The program is a file you own, not a login you rent.
- Save it to your desktop and it runs — offline, with your wifi off, with this company gone. Every competitor on this list is a website: cancel and you have an export at best. Here cancelling costs you sync, backup and support, and costs you no access to anything.
- Real double-entry accounting, built for this trade.
- Not a sales log — actual books. Debits and credits, a balance sheet that balances, cost of goods relieved when an animal sells, breeding stock capitalised and depreciated, consignment treated as agency rather than revenue, and Schedule C mapping at the end of it. The others give you a sales log, which is a list of what happened. This is the difference between records your accountant reads and records your accountant re-does.
Your spreadsheet already works.
The reason people never switch is not the software — it is the evening spent retyping four hundred animals. So don't retype them. Point the importer at whatever you keep now: a spreadsheet, a CSV out of another app, an export from a tool you are leaving.
It reads a real file, not a template
Your headers, in your order, wherever they start. Title rows, blank rows and a legend above the table are all normal in a working spreadsheet, and it finds the actual header row underneath them.
Morphs the way you already write them
One genetics column, in breeder shorthand — Pastel Enchi het Clown — parsed into real loci. No mapping screen, no one column per gene.
You see it before it happens
A preview of the first rows exactly as they will be stored, with the counts: how many animals, how many species, how many morph names it could not place, how many rows it will skip. Nothing is written until you press go, and there is a one-click undo after.
Nothing is dropped quietly
Every rejected row and unrecognised value is listed, and downloadable as a CSV of just the problems — fix those and run it again. Re-importing updates your animals rather than creating a second copy of each.
Racks and schedules too
Two more optional sheets bring your facility layout and your feeding schedules across, so the room map and the care rounds are populated the day you arrive.
Tested at 8,000 rows through the ordinary file picker — which is how three faults got
found and fixed, including one that was silently discarding every rack location in the file.
Takes .csv and .tsv; from Excel, save as CSV first.
Import into the sample collection first if you want to watch it land before it touches anything of yours.
Where your records actually live.
- By default, only on your device.
- Open the app and start typing and nothing is transmitted anywhere. There is no account, we hold no copy, and we do not know you exist. (The optional Ask Pipped assistant sends only the question you type, and only when you press Send. It never sees your records.)
- With a subscription, also on our server.
- Turning sync on is a deliberate act. From then on your care log and animal records are stored on infrastructure we run and every device you log in on sees the same feeds, weights and sheds within seconds. Everything else — racks, pairings, sales, the books — stays on the device it was entered on, and reaches the others through the managed backup: a snapshot of the whole collection that you push when you choose and can restore anywhere.
- Yours either way.
- Export to CSV and JSON whenever you like — before, during, and after any subscription. Export is never conditional on your account being in good standing, because holding records hostage is not a business model, it is a hostage situation.
- No trackers.
- No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, and therefore no cookie banner. There is nothing to consent to.
Sync is the newest part of the product, and worth one honest sentence. The app itself has been in daily use and heavily tested; sync across devices works, and it has been tested by far fewer people on far fewer devices. Keep your own export as well for now — the button is in Settings → Data, and it takes two seconds.
The ones worth asking.
- Can I try it before paying?
- You can use it without paying at all. Open it, load the sample collection or your own, and see whether it fits how you work. The subscription is for sync, backup and support — buy it when you want those, not to unlock features.
- Who is behind this?
- Pipped, LLC — a North Carolina company, formed August 2026. One person builds it, and it runs his own collection every day: the feeding rounds, the pairings, the sales, the books. Nothing here is a feature somebody specced in a meeting. That is also why support is a real answer from a real person, and why the roadmap moves when a breeder says something sensible.
- What happens if you stop running this?
- Your collection is in your browser and the program is a file. Save the file, keep your export, and nothing changes for you. Sync and backup would stop; the software would not.
- Is there a limit on animals?
- No. Not on the subscription and not without one. Tested to 50,000 records on a normal laptop.
- Is a second device a second keeper?
- No. You on a phone, a laptop and a tablet is one keeper, and having the round you logged on one of them show up on the others is the whole point. Today that is the care log and the animal records; the rest of the collection travels between devices by backup and restore. A second keeper means a second person with their own login.
- Do you have an app in the App Store?
- No, and that is deliberate. It runs in the browser on any phone, and adds to your home screen like an app. Nothing to install, nothing to update, and no store between you and your records.
- What about my accounting?
- There is a second program, Pipped Books — real double-entry accounting built for a breeding operation, with Schedule C mapping. Sales made in Ledger carry across as invoices, with the cost basis relieved against them.
- Can I bring my collection over from somewhere else?
- Yes, from any spreadsheet or CSV — see above. It reads your own headers rather than making you fill in a template, and you can import into the sample collection first to watch it land before it touches anything of yours.
Open it and see.
Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Load the sample collection to look around, or start entering your own — it is the same program either way.