--- title: Ranch Manager Open Reviews meta_title: 'Ranch Manager Open Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Ranch Manager Open works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 4 scale: '5' date_modified: '2025-10-31' parent_category: name: Agriculture url: https://www.g2.com/categories/agriculture --- # Ranch Manager Open Reviews **Vendor:** White Mountain Livestock Company **Category:** [Livestock Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/livestock-management) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 4 ## About Ranch Manager Open Ranch Manager is Livestock Software designed for the modern livestock business. Keep detailed livestock records. Manage ID, pedigree and breeding. Record multiple actions including treatments, sales and animal locations. Track animal & herd performance including basic accounting capabilities for managing Expenses, Profit & Loss. Keep a ranch calendar and add unlimited notes to keep you organized. Record animal-specific records all in one customized livestock program. Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Horses, Donkeys, Deer, Elk, Alpaca, Llama and Dogs– handle any combination by activating the modules that you need. ## Ranch Manager Open Reviews ### 1. REALLY easy to use!!! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Ranching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Ranch Manager Open?** Easy to negotiate the menus, and can easily change things if a mistake is made (kind of like Quicken). I can analyze the information, and print just the information that I want to. **What do you dislike about Ranch Manager Open?** Some of the icons are not self-descriptive, but once you know them, they are simple to remember. **What problems is Ranch Manager Open solving and how is that benefiting you?** As it is easy to use, I don't procrastinate updating the records when an event happens. I can quickly print information on the various stock, and can then take it to the veterinarian if necessary. ### 2. Putting the pieces together! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Laurie M. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Ranch Manager Open?** I like that I can scroll through my herd if I'm looking for background, and it's all right there. So easy to find, and the iPhone apps make our world that much easier when sharing information. **What do you dislike about Ranch Manager Open?** There was some syncing issues between our devices (smartphones) and the desktop app, but that seems to be handled. **Recommendations to others considering Ranch Manager Open:** Give it a try. Talk to people that are using it. I was pleasantly surprised. **What problems is Ranch Manager Open solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't have to pack my "horse bibles" around when looking for information/pedigrees now. My data is easily accessible in one place and it travels with me. Plus, there is a whole host of information I can mark down for each animal. ### 3. Pick me **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brandon G. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Ranch Manager Open?** The offline use that can be synced with a desktop. Also that I can export to excel **What do you dislike about Ranch Manager Open?** Lack of maneuvering for data while in rm. Not having the indexes that we use for performance. Cumbersome to use the pasture side of the app. I’ve had a number of problems syncing with the master of the years. Extra cost to have other devices synced with my account. Performance by weight (I don’t use the financial side) for cows as a running total or even the performance of current calves isn’t available. **Recommendations to others considering Ranch Manager Open:** Don’t try to enter all past pedigrees **What problems is Ranch Manager Open solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creates a working list of the cattle that we mange and allows me to keep it up to date while away from service. Let’s me generate lists for chute side through excel ### 4. very long history with ranch manager **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Ranching | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Ranch Manager Open?** Relatively inexpensive, does most of what is needed to keep records and is easy to use. Exporting to an excel file for paper work is easy and can be manipulated to suite needs. The transferring of data to the cloud and then to handheld devices is easy. Remote access is easy and mostly accurate. **What do you dislike about Ranch Manager Open?** there are a few quirks that are difficult to resolve like deleting an animal. Seems to be a little bit unstable in that weird bugs appear from time to time. Customer service is difficult to access however, once someone is on the hook to help, the problem gets resolved. Sometimes, when generating working lists, weird reference numbers appear in the list and not helpful. **Recommendations to others considering Ranch Manager Open:** good program, be patient, dont expect too much **What problems is Ranch Manager Open solving and how is that benefiting you?** needing concise and accurate record keeping and RM does that well. 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