Last updated on January 31st, 2026 at 11:51 am
Howrse – Sports Game Review
Howrse is a Sports/Sports game from Ubisoft, first launched in 20th December 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,200+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Howrse Stand Out
LET LOOSE YOUR PASSION FOR HORSES!
More than 60 million players have already tried Howrse, so what are you waiting for? Join this community of horse lovers today!
- BREED the horse of your dreams
Choose your horse from over 50 breeds (purebred Arabian, Fjord, French Riding Pony, Shetland…) with 17 different coats. You can even choose ponies, donkeys or unicorns.
- TAKE CARE of your new friend
Feed it so they'll be healthy, and make sure their energy level stays high.
Keep an eye on their morale, and don't hesitate to give them treats or stroke them if their morale drops.
- RUN your own equestrian center
Create your own equestrian center, develop your horse boarding business, and organize competitions to increase your prestige (Only available on the web version).
- TRAIN your horses
When your horse is 3 years old, choose a specialty of either classical riding (speed, cross-country, show-jumping, or dressage competitions) or western riding (barrel racing, cutting, reining, western pleasure or trail class competitions), then start training them to enhance their skills.
Select the best tack (saddle, saddle cloth, bridle, etc.) to increase your champion's performance.
Join Grand Prix events and win prestigious trophies.
- CREATE your horse breeding farm
Develop the genetic potential of your future foals by choosing the best stallions for your mare and increase their innate skills.
Analyze the parents' innate skills and BLUP to make the best decisions.
- BECOME the best Breeder
Challenge your friends and the community to reach the top of the leaderboards in the different categories (General ranking, best breeders, best horses, best equestrian centers….).
- PLAY in teams to climb the rankings
Form teams of up to 20 players to improve a breed together and reach the top spots in one of the four available rankings (best genetic potential, number of horses, number of rosettes won, or ranking in the Top 1,000 for Grand Prix competitions).
- CREATE your own illustrations and SHARE them with the community:
Create your own coats and landscapes. Submit them to the community to win prizes.
You can also personalize your horse and landscape with thousands of artworks made by the community.
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SHARE your passion
Join the forums to talk about your techniques to play and breed horses, run your equestrian center or just chat about your passion. Your new horse club awaits with new friends. -
PLAY MANY GREAT GAMES
From maze to blast, enjoy a new game every month to win prizes.
Join the community !
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Howrse/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/howrse_official/
Twitter https://twitter.com/howrse
This Ubisoft game requires a 3G, 4G or Wifi connection.
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FEATURES RECAP:
- Breed horses, ponies, donkeys or unicorns
- Groom and train your horses
- Equip your horses with various equipment
- Win prestigious competitions
- Create your horse breeding farm
- Run your equestrian center
- Challenge your friends to become the best breeder
- Share your passion for horses, ponies, donkeys, unicorns with the community in the forums
- Play monthly games to win prizes
This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Howrse is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
We are constantly optimizing the game's performance to ensure a better and smoother experience for our players!
Download & Availability
Howrse is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
You would do a great job in the future and start shining one day rather than in the darkness. We at least hope that you start shining rather than in the darkness one day.
Ive been unable to use the mobile app in over a month and keep getting errors saying Im under 16 and need parents permission.. However Im 27yo, our birthday is correct on our account, and we do not have these issues issue on browser. Ive even tried updating our email numerous times, if we try on the mobile app nothing happens and it shows that there is no email. We update our password on our browser and it shows our new email in the browser version, however the mobile version still shows no email.
Ive played this game for many years and loved it but since the app updated we cant log in. We can on the website but not the app.
As others have mentioned, after the latest update we can no longer log in to the app. Desktop version still works and we can log in with no problem. Hope this issue is resolved quickly.
This game was great before the update, after we updated it deleted our account and is not very good anymore.
We love the game so much and we didnt know they have u put in ure birthday so they can say happy birthday its so sweet btw yall should read this review its actually 4 star but we put at five so yall would read it the only part we dont like is that its so hard to pay for every its so annoying well thats all.
Says something wrong with server cant lg in hee or howrse.cm.
You would do a great job in the future and start shining one day rather than in the darkness. We temporarily need some storage and so on so we offload it from this device but having you on another device.
We love this game very very much, but we dont think we can do cutting in this game and we do do it in real life and also you cant rename your Horses but its not too much complain. We love this game though.
This is going to and will be fantastic when first tried.
Why is that it is sending us to a website.
Love the game! We had a problem with collecting daily objectives which got resolved quickly and now everything works great.
The game is very fun you get to breed and raise horses and we just love this game just trying to make this review short.
Every time we have played and got to anffxes (idk how you spell it) and we had to do one more thing with the missions it freezes and will not do anything. We have tried logging on and out by deleting the game but it still it doesnt work.so if yall could please fix this problem.
Ive loved this game for years so when we found out there was an app we were really excited. However, if we attempt to open the equestrian portion of the app, which used to work, it completely shuts down and we have to delete and redownload the app. Even achievements which would take us there make the app say page not found, go to classic version and unless we delete and redownload, the app becomes completely useless.
So we personally love this game its a game u can play when youre bored but we think you should make it where you get like daily rewards but we like how the horses look realistic and you should make it where you can participate in lien battle racing like you riding the horse and you control it. That would make the game 100% better! But after all we love this game! From: Sachi To: Howrse.
Dear Apple Users, we bid you a lovely day or night. On this spring evening, we began our Howrse journey. It all started with the in-game Black Market and Fertility Wand when our gorgeous mare, Princess, birthed our two foals – Jill Biden and Pete Buttigieg. We thoroughly recommend this venture, if you dare. May your Howrse times be effervescent, Apple User.
The site has tons more but the app lets you feed and compete throughout the day allowing for many horses and not just 10.
Its a great game we find it really fun but sometimes we cant makes our horses go to sleep after Ive taken care of them and now there just stuck we dont think this is on purpose but we just wanna notify anyone who reads this.
Its a really good game, but when buying at auction idk if their bots, but people always outbid us. We look for very unwanted~ish horses, but people still outbid us. If they are bots, could you please change something so they dont pay that much? Thanks for reading.
We love the app and have played it for 2ish years. We have had some problems with it and we also have suggestions that we will put in our review. This is an honest review so we will put our honest opinions. Do not get us wrong, we LOVE this game and will continue to play it for as long as we can. Suggestions: we think the game would be more awesome if it had more coat color options. Some grullas, blue roan and other roans, some rabicano coat variations, more Appaloosa and paint/pinto patterns. There are a lot more coat colors and patterns that could be great additions to the game. We think it would also be cool if we had markings as an extra pattern. Socks, blazes, bald faces, stockings, and more could all be great additions to the game in our opinion. We also would enjoy the game more if there were more breeds or breeds were added on a regular basis, more than just on occasional events. We would personally like to see Irish Sport Horses added as Riding Horses. It would also be cool (but a lot of work for developers) to add two to three breeds mixed as and individual appearance. Like a 50% Quarter Horse X 50% Thoroughbred looked completely different than it does currently. Im not saying make an appearance for every single genetic possibility, but for two different breeds breed together would have a different appearance no matter the percentage. More tack options would be nice. Like more 2 saddle pad/wraps/bonnet colors and patterns. Also, more opportunities to earn 3 saddle pads/wraps/bonnets as well as more options for 3* items.
We love this game but we cant buy anything it says verify our email and we dont know how but Id like to be able to. -SUPERNOVA.
So our email address is right we even tried our email! But it says its invalid pls fix:(.
Personally we give this game a 10/10 we love the professionalism it gives and Ive met one of our best friends in the forums. People saying the name spelling is bad are just wanting to complain about something and probably didnt even play the game to know how awesome it is.
So this is a great game! We love it. But whenever we have a foal and they turn 6 months it wont let us do anything but feed them and eventually it stops letting us do that. We think this is just a problem for us so anyone reading this review this may not happen to you it is still a great game. But when our foals get to 6 months of age (even if we bought them in auction) they dont let us give them water, stroke, groom, or give them a carrot, and then eventually not give them hay. It also wont let us put them to bed to age them. Please help us this is a great game and we love it so much.
We love this game because it is full of fun and you can breed, buy horses (fake money), and so much more!!! We can express how great the game is!! We have played for 2 years.
Howrse is a fun and relaxing game that we thoroughly enjoy. We would wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone older than five years.
We absolutely love this game but we would rather play from a web browser to be able to have all the full features.
AWsOmE horses (coat wise) but we wish it was a wee bit easier to get money and having to do less to be able to breed your horse and aging them up takes a wee bit too long.
This game is great but we have a few problems and or questions, for starters Im glitched on the lady holding up her hand and it has nothing on the screen to get out so we literally cannot do anything on the game. Second we have no idea where to sell items so we have to go on a huge hunt to find where they are for example droppings we have no idea how to get them and no idea where to sell them. Those are our ours problems.
Ive been back and fourth on this game.The graphics are great , but there just isnt much to do.Too many buttons not enough freedom.Keep in mind this is just our opinion.Ive read some other reviews and it is quite glitchy.
If we have VIP, please enable us to use our VIP benefits from mobile. Not being able to use our VIP benefits from our phone or iPad is very taxing being we are limited to how much function we have in our hands some days with our chronic illnesses flaring up. Having to take care of 900+ horses and also blup for teams should be able to be done by phone and be easy to do from any device.
We'd just like to say, this game is but we have encountered what we assume to be a glich. Whenever we try to enter the game it tells us that the page is unlivable and makes us go to the classic version of the game. So far we've adored the game but now we're not able to play anymore. We hope you get a chance to fix it. :,].
Look we love this game even tho it gets us really frustrated from time to time. We dont know if the problem Im having is just us or if others have had the same problem. Anyway we would like to be able to get the golden passes, but we cant add our Email address it just keeps sending us back after we do it.
Ive been playing for years. We enjoy it on and off. Its fun time filler. The mobile app has definitely been improving. We used to only play on the computer, but now we find Im using the app more than the computer. You do need to watch if you have young kids about spending money. Certain items do seem a bit like gambling. The game does want you to purchase stuff, etc. We just play for fun, and it your patient, you can get a lot without spending a cent. You also learn the art of bartering and how to optimize your cash flows while creating a fun collection of horses.
First of all, Id like to say how this game is. We love almost everything about it. A few changes could include reducing the in life game time that we have to wait for our horses to age. Its not that easy to get aging points! And second, the events are but sometimes the explanation of the event doesnt entirely get through. Like the Hephaestus event that happened recently, how did we get three free horses? How do we get more? Lastly, why do we have to be 16 to watch an advertising video for items? Any age should be free to watch a video for a couple equus or something. Just a few things that we think everyone could enjoy. Thanks! -A Howrse lover Newly Added- One problem we have found lately is that whenever we try to open our breeders objectives it says we must complete the tutorial and go to the classic version! Im not sure why this is happening, the same happens when we try to open our equestrian center! We might have accidentally glitched it or something please tell us how we might be able to fix this.
Wow we love this game! Ive been playing for a few months now and we must say we dont think Ive had a bad experience yet! The only reason we gave the game 4 stars is because whenever we put tack on one of our horses, for example earlier we got some x-mas polo wraps and one of our horses already had polo wraps on but we wanted the Christmas ones on instead so when we put them on the horse we checked to see if the others ones were still in our inventory and they werent! We know you guys work hard at the game but we were wondering if maybe you could do it to where the tack your replacing goes back to you inventory! Thank you.
This game is amazing but it would be cool if you added a feature where you pay 1,000 equus per day to get a stable hand and the stable hand will take care of ALL your horses and put them to bed.
This is the third time we have bought a horse from the market, and Won the bid, but we dont get the horse?? We refresh, and we restart, but we still lose our money and do NOT get the horse. Other than that we really like this game, very VERY nice, not many glitches on our end other than that, so we rated it a 4 star.
Love that they have the app. But the riders store always glitches and closes down so or keeps on loading page. Love the nostalgia of playing and all. Appreciate winning items and being able to make money. Please fix and optimize we really appreciate it.
There is a page after you get your main horse where youre stuck in a page with your two new fold that you named and another wild horse.
Its an amazing game! Its just confusing sometimes, like we dont know what the help section is and its hard to guess because we looked it up and it didnt know what it was either.
We enjoy this game but it keeps telling us e-mail is not available everytime we try to add one. We are unable to use some of the game features because of this. Super aggravating.
We absolutely love this game 10/10 recommend. But we have an issue, when Im at the part to crest an affix, we hit crest affix then when you go to that it takes you to another page where there is a plus button at the bottom. Our pluss button is behind the trophy button so every time we try to hit the plus it hits the trophy button and takes us back to a page that says please complete your training on this page we hit the page and tried it again, but its not working. Is this because we have an iPad? Thank you.
This game is good and is kind of addictive for us but we would recommend the addition of Carts and more specific training like training for specially 1 sport at a time such as practice Barrel Racing or Practice jumping maybe even practice Halter show (if that was to be added as it is a popular thing in the equestrian group) that doesnt take up as much energy that way you can train before actually participating in the competitions please add new and exiting things to your games like characters to keep older players hooked and new players coming in.
Game is still glitching. Keeps saying the page isn't allowed to go to Website game.. App needs to be fixed because game is interesting we just wish we would quit glitching out. We can't access centers or our achievements that we've completed. The classic version online won't let us log in either.
We played this game religiously when we were a kid and just started playing again. Was happy to see there was a phone app now! However, the navigation is so clunky and its very slow. We constantly have to force exit the app to make two purchases. Additionally, while training, it wouldnt let us navigate to any other page but sometimes the links youd need to press wouldnt be there and so we were stuck in training. We had to use our computer to complete it. We also miss the old Howrse, where there were ways, like jobs, to earn coins and passes without real money. Otherwise Im still really enjoying the game and have been logging on everyday. Definitely a blast from the past. We played this when we were 13/14 and we are 28 now lol.
We would smack give this a 5 star but we're tired of these glitches. It won't let us put our mare to sleep so we can't age her unborn foal which is to a really good Marwari stallion! And some times when we play our screen random freezes. It's really annoying and we really hope you guys fix this. Thank You.
We love this game so much but every time we try to get direct sale it sticks us on one page the reason we never gave up is cause we love this game.( we downloaded it 4 times).
Dont get us wrong we love the game but then when we were getting ready for bed we went to check on something and it wouldnt let us in so we thought it might be a glitch or maybe it doesnt let you in at night but then the next day we woke up and went on the game and it wouldnt let us in so we didnt play it for 3-5 hours then after we went on the game it still wouldnt let us in so we had to delete the game and reinstall it but it kept not letting us in and got really annoying having to reinstall it everyday please fix the it might just be our device or we dont know.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.0.2
- Size: 169.16 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Ubisoft
Last updated: 9th October 2025 | Genre: Sports, Sports | Developer: Ubisoft