KennelBoss vs Breedera
The best free plan in the category, from a company solving a different problem.
$449/year billed yearly. Marketplace listings, buyer video calls and the $500 reservation deposit are included.
£99.99/year billed yearly. The Complete plan is £9.99/month or £99.99/year. Breedera is a UK company and bills in pounds; a US breeder pays whatever the card rate is that day. Large kennels and charities are quoted individually.
Breedera is a UK app for the weeks around a whelp: heat cycles, whelp date countdowns, weights, growth charts, treatments and feeds. It is unusually good at that and it gives most of it away. It does not take payments, it does not list puppies, and it does not pretend to — selling the litter happens somewhere else entirely.
What each one does, feature by feature.
| Capability | KennelBossfrom $49.99 | Breederafrom £0.00 |
|---|---|---|
| Litters, pedigrees and health records | KennelBoss: yes, Litters, pedigrees and health records | Breedera: yes, Litters, pedigrees and health records |
| Heat cycles and whelp date forecasting | KennelBoss: yes, Heat cycles and whelp date forecasting | Breedera: yes, Heat cycles and whelp date forecasting |
| Applications and waitlist | KennelBoss: yes, Applications and waitlist | Breedera: yes, Applications and waitlist |
| Contracts with e-signature | KennelBoss: yes, Contracts with e-signature | Breedera: not publicly listedNot publicly listed |
| Breeder website | KennelBoss: yes, Breeder website | Breedera: not publicly listedNot publicly listed |
| Phone app | KennelBoss: yes, Phone app | Breedera: yes, Phone app |
| Take card payments online | KennelBoss: yes, Take card payments online | Breedera: no |
| Reservation deposit taken for you | KennelBoss: yes, Reservation deposit taken for you | Breedera: no |
| Buyers find your puppies in a marketplace | KennelBoss: yes, Buyers find your puppies in a marketplace | Breedera: no |
| Stud dog advertising directory | KennelBoss: yes, Stud dog advertising directory | Breedera: not publicly listedNot publicly listed |
| Scheduled buyer video calls | KennelBoss: yes, Scheduled buyer video calls | Breedera: no |
| Balance held until hand-off is confirmed | KennelBoss: yes, Balance held until hand-off is confirmed | Breedera: no |
| Instalments offered to the buyer | KennelBoss: partly — Klarna instalments, switched on per kennel. Credee financing is not live yet.Klarna instalments, switched on per kennel. Credee financing is not live yet. | Breedera: no |
| Transport arranged in the app | KennelBoss: yes, Transport arranged in the app | Breedera: no |
How this was checked. Every price and capability above was read from the vendor’s own pricing and features pages on 15 September 2026. Where a vendor does not publish an answer we say so rather than guess. Software changes — if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Sources: Breedera pricing and features, Breedera features.
KennelBoss publishes this comparison and sells one of the products in it. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners and are used here to identify the products being compared.
Credit where it is due.
- A genuinely useful free tier — unlimited dog and litter profiles, heat prediction and whelp forecasting at £0.00.
- You can move down to Free after the puppies leave without losing your records, which is honest design.
- Growth charts that compare a puppy against its own littermates are the best implementation of that idea in this group.
- Strong on the whelping weeks specifically: weights, temperatures, treatments, feed routines.
The gaps that cost you a sale.
- No payments of any kind, so deposits and balances happen off-platform.
- No marketplace and no listings — buyers do not arrive through Breedera.
- Priced in pounds, which means a moving number on a US card statement.
- Contracts are not described on its public pages.
Pick Breedera when this is your problem.
A breeder with one or two litters a year who already has buyers and wants the pregnancy and puppy-rearing weeks tracked properly, for free. On that job Breedera is excellent and costs nothing.
Pick KennelBoss when this is your problem.
These products barely overlap. Breedera handles the weeks before the puppies leave; KennelBoss handles the part where strangers pay you for them. Plenty of breeders could reasonably run Breedera's free plan for whelping and KennelBoss Per Puppy at $9.99 a listing for selling, and that is a sensible combination rather than a compromise.
The short version: KennelBoss exists to market your litters, book the video chat, and collect the $500 reservation deposit that takes the puppy off the market. You handle the remaining balance at pickup, and it is held until you confirm the hand-off. That is the job — see litter marketing, buyer video calls and payment protection.
Is Breedera really free?+
Yes, and it is not a stunt. The Free plan carries unlimited dog and litter profiles, heat cycle prediction, whelp date forecasting, waitlist and contacts, at £0.00 as of 15 September 2026. The Complete plan at £9.99 a month adds the health and growth tracking tools.
Can I take a deposit in Breedera?+
No. Nothing on Breedera's public pages describes payment processing, deposits or a checkout, as of 15 September 2026. Money is handled off-platform, which for most breeders means a bank transfer and a spreadsheet.
Can I use Breedera and KennelBoss together?+
You can, and for a small breeder it is a reasonable setup: Breedera free for the whelping weeks, KennelBoss Per Puppy at $9.99 a listing when it is time to sell. Nothing stops you, and $9.99 a puppy is a low price to add a marketplace to a free app.
Why is Breedera priced in pounds?+
It is a UK company. That is not a criticism — it is a thing to know before you subscribe from the US, because £9.99 is a different number on your statement every month.
Software is cheap. An empty spot in a litter is not.
List the litter where buyers are looking, meet them on video, and take the deposit that holds the puppy.