Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 05:16 am
Pocket Stables – Sports Game Review
Pocket Stables is a Sports/Simulation/Entertainment game from Kairosoft Co.,Ltd, first launched in 19th November 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 73+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pocket Stables Stand Out
Manage your very own ranch while training your racehorses to win big in exciting races!
Build training facilities like dirt courses and pools amidst the beautiful natural surroundings of your ranch. Increase your ranch's fame and entice visitors to spend some dough at your ranch's amenities, like ice cream stands and gift shops.
Find horses with the right combination of stamina and speed and intensity and train them to race. Keep winning races to earn bigger and better prizes, as well as the ability to compete in even bigger and more exciting races on an international scale.
Send once-great racehorses out to stud. Find effective pedigree combinations and breed a new generation of talented colts.
Can you train a Triple Crown winner and bring fame and glory to your ranch?
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This Sports game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pocket Stables is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st May 2024
Recent improvements include:
Fixed minor issues.
Download & Availability
Pocket Stables is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
This game is so fun and addictive. We started playing it years ago and rediscovered it when we went to factory reset an old smartphone. We forgot how fun the game is! It keeps you engaged, requires strategy and a little luck, and best of all – NO ADS OR IN-APP PURCHASES. You can fully enjoy the game without interruption, which is well worth the base price. 10/10 recommend.
We dont know why more people dont like this game, but its our absolute favorite. We love he difficulty and how you have to plan ahead. We love the horses. We love it all. We just wish they had more like this.
This is one of our favorite games. We go back and restart it all the time to try and beat our last run through. Though theres a bit of a learning curve at the beginning, its so much fun once you get the hang of it. Will always have on our phone.
We only download in this game probably about five hours ago but we have been playing nonstop. We cant put it down. Its fairly easy to get from the beginning pretty self-explanatory. And the race is where you come from very last end when your neck exhilarating. Always keeping us on our toes. The only thing is we cant figure out how to tell which sex the horses is and we cant breed it because we dont have two matching pairs which we dont understand what that means. We wish that they would explain that a little bit more. But other than that love the game, keep it up.
We need a pocket stables 2 please!!! We love this game and would love a sequel.
Ive played this game for about 6 years and its never gotten boring. The diversity of horses and races makes the game addicting. Everything about it is detailed even though its pixelated in older graphics. Either way this game is legendary.
We dont even like horse racing and this app is amazing, just on the managing side. To the guy who said there are no mares, there are. This game is fun regardless of if you like horses.
By far, the best horse racing game out there. Been playing for years, and we keep coming back to it! Great game.
We literally downloaded this game today and have been playing it for 3-4 hours straight! No doubt this is the best game ever! We like that it makes you feel like an actual ranch and race horse owner! We also like the fact that you can hire the jockeys and breed and raise the horses. Could you make getting stables easier too? Klover stables (our ranch named after the pony we used to ride and yes it's spelled with a K in the beginning) needs new horses. Our horses are just too old now so they can't compete in the special race that requires the horse to be at a G1 level by age 3 or 4. Could you also add chestnuts, golden colored horses (that we think called bays) and horses with patterns like appaloosas, paints, and knabstruppers? Also could you add Seabiscuit to the game? Like you could by him for 10,000 gold or something? We LOVED watching Seabiscuit and it would be great to have him in the game! Please consider! – Pyropony (we are 11 years old and take riding lessons at Perfecta farm).
This game is brilliant! Thank you.
Played this game for the longest, would love another version of it.. Like jumpers.
We live this game its adobe but we its so hard to get a triple crown winner Ive been playing for two years now and still cant get a triple crown winner.
We love this game its so cute the horses.
We've been playing this game for about three years now and always wondered why there's no mares. We think mares would be an interesting thing to add to the game because it would allow you to breed your own horses together, hence it would be easier to get better horses and have a better game experience.
We've played some of the other horse games and they have nothing on this. Yeah sure you have to buy it up front but then there's no micro transactions and it's just a great game. There's no waiting aspect that you need to pay to go through. It's just a fantastic game. We've played it for hours and hours. We can't recommend it enough.
If you like horses this game is perfect for you! It is so fun and addicting! We recommend it to anyone who likes horses.
If you do your research and scour the internet (or the App Store Page) for reviews on this game, youll see that most of the reviews label the game as hard. Thats a complete lie. This game isnt hard… Its slow. None of the Kairosoft games are hard. You cant lose in these games. You just earn far less than you spend in this one. Structures cost upwards of a hundred dollars and you only earn 100 or 200 IF you win a race… And sometimes you wont. The given allowance is spent quickly on new horses and training structures. Its not reliable unless youre content with saving a lot (of money). Maintenance costs about 100+ early game and its a constant cycle, so if you dont win at least once before the next cycle, youll be in the negatives. In addition, items cost upwards of 100 as well. Prices rise the more items you buy. And of course theres the obvious concern: horse lifespans. A horse is done by year four. Their stats decrease so theyll lose the race and if you dont make first place, you get less than $100. Races cant be scheduled rapidly either. So you dont get paid rapidly only in $100 chunks once per month. People coming to your ranch spend about $10-20 and only come when youve won if you lose your streak, you lose your only source of constant income. Selling a horse gives you about $1000. But then you spend that $1000 on another horse. Therefore, in order to progress, you must manage your funds carefully meaning months or even years without spending anything on any major progression. The secondary currency, coins, cant be spent often since you have to discover an upgrade before buying it. Races are fun but become mediocre after hours of them. Even when you win. Since horses are temporary and you dont unlock breeding until late game, you have to level up your horse faster than the previous one or youll just be stuck. Youll have hit a wall. The three stars we rate here are basically fueled by our love of horses and the sales price of $0.99, which were barely enough to keep us interested. No wonder the $0.99 sale has stayed past December (winter sales). We were drawn in by that sale. But dont be fooled unless you like progressing at a crawl or you love horses enough to be okay with many, many races before you progress.
One of the worst game made by this company, give us back our money please. You can tell this game is only 180MB only, Im still an big fan of you but this game was definitely one of the worst game they made so far.
We love Kairosoft, and have maybe eight of their other games, and this one doesnt really even compare to the others its so bad. Its extremely simplistic and moves very slowly, after a few hours Im ready to give up on it. Seriously its like they gave this project to an intern to manage.
We absolutely love this game, it's one of two we have on our phone. Just a suggestion, personally something we would love to see and play, if you made a dog sled racing version. It would be so cute we think. We have played a number of the Kairosoft games since they first started coming out and enjoy them immensely. Thank you and keep up the great work.
Make a pet shop game. Where you breed dogs and stuff.
Make a game of a pet shop kairosoft game.
They literally have been making more games but not including the American market anymore we know your making more games.
We usually download games, play them for a a few hours maybe days and never come back to them. Pocket Stables made us start all over again once we finished it. Great game for sim lovers. An amazing one for horse racing lovers.
Love all their games. While most of their popular games are charming, we feel like they don't have as much replayablility. As soon as we finish the game, we delete it. However, this particular one has been on our phone the longest. Out of all of the other Kariosoft games, this one has the highest replayablility and still remains fun. Really enjoy this one. Good job.
Please keep bringing more games to the iPhone! We love every single Kairosoft game.
We love this game so much but there's one thing we want to include. We want to be able to move and edit your facilities. Like when we were into far to the game we didn't know we were gonna need new training facilities. We bought too many, they covered the land and then later in the game we had to get more facilities to move onto the game, but we had no space. We had no choice but to delete it. PLEASE DO THIS.
Love this game but for some reason it is crashing when we're trying to buy the land deal @ $7500.
Very fun but we would like to fix it to where you can own mares and that you could use money on the game to buy pedigree papers with game money other wise is a very fun game.
We're in love but we wish we could name our horses… Please make this an option when updating… Thankd.
This is such a good game and it is so amazing that we could play it all day, and we won't get tired of it. This is our most favorite game by far and it is worth every penny! Such a fun and an amazing game.
Kairosoft has never failed to please us. Even with topics we don't usually enjoy to spend our time on, like malls and shopping and in this case- horses this game is nothing short of perfect. It's highly satisfying, and no matter who you are or what you like, you will fall in love with this game. Rating: Stars x10000000 WORTH THE TIME, AND MONEY.
Please make a baseball game to were you can like buy new bats and make bats and make gloves and upgrade bats.
THIS GAME IS SO AMAZING!!! WORTH IT.
This game is amazing you can race grass and dirt , you can even win the triple crown ! We love to train the horse , you see it improve every month , that's the only thing we don't like about the game the time goes by so fast . On our horse you can't breed you buy horse , pocket stables you can breed different horse . It's all about racing for the money, you can also buy training things like dirt tracks and grass tracks,training pools spa, paddocks, stables, ect.
This is one of the best horse games we've ever played! This game is definitely worth the money.
This game is really awesome! One of the best we've ever gotten. But, it does need a wider variety of breeds and coats to buy and breed. And it needs mares too. Otherwise totally great game.
It's like derby days in that you own a horse ranch where you breed and race horses but it is better because you are more on the management side of it and it isn't a tap game. It doesn't have as wide of a selection of horse breeds as we'd appreciate.
Not a bad game. A huge kairosoft fan and have been for years.
We've been playing this game for several hours and we've got to say that for a horse game, its very well made and Finn if you're into this kind of genre. However, we feel as if it is missing some key components to make it an even better game. The breeding is lacking in some areas. There are only a few breeds to choose from number one. Number two: you can't tell what sort of stats the mares have when you go to look for a breeding partner. This is rather frustrating when breeding for a better horse. Moving on, everything else is very thought through. We're glad you can continue playing after the initial story as we rather like games like this. Overall, we feel like this game was worth the money we payed. We've certainly gotten our hours worth out of it! We're giving it 4/5 stars because the breeding could be better because it is a rather sizable portion of the game.
We LOVE this game but we won a race and they promised us new land but it didn't explain how to get the land and we just got a new facility for training and we really need but we don't have the space:(.
We like lots of kairosoft's games and this one is no exception. We love horses too, so kairosoft + horses is great for us . Hey, kairosoft, you guys should try making a zoo game.
We're a big fan of kairo, and every game meets our expectation except this one. For some odd reason, we feel this game is a bit different than the other ones because winning the triple crown seemed a bit too easy, which we thought was the ultimate goal of the game.
We love this game! But our phone restarted today and now our 32 year Ranch is gone! Our saved game is gone :(. Can you help us please.
We love this game!! We bought it and even got our sister to buy it. We both love it and play this game almost 24/7. No joke. But we think you should be able to race against other players. That's all we would add.
We are absolutely addicted to this app! It's so much fun- we can play it for hours.
Really hope they put the soccer game on here too.
We loved this game, but now when we open it up the menu button doesn't work. When we turn our screen, we get a black bar and no menu options. We're hoping for a bug fix.
IT is so fun we have some real horses at our house and we have some racehorses this game is just like racing a real racehorse.
But you know what would make it more awesome?…DIFFERENT COLORED HORSES like you could spray paint them or something.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.26
- Size: 65.61 MB
- iOS: 11.0 or later
- Languages: EN, JA, KO, ZH, TH, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Last updated: 21st May 2024 | Genre: Sports, Simulation | Developer: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd