The drive log built for carriage drivers
Every drive, every gait.
Built for carriage driving.
Fitness apps treat a carriage drive like a bike ride and can't tell a walk from a trot. Turrot tracks every drive over GPS and reads your horse's gait live, sized to your horse by height and breed. From a 30 inch mini to an 18.3hh draft, you see where you walked, trotted and cantered on every drive.
iPhone and Android. Launching November 26, 2026. 15 languages. No account needed.
The problem
A carriage drive is not a bike ride.
Fitness apps miss the horse
They see a phone moving at a speed. They don't know a mini from a Shire or a trot from a canter, and they have nowhere to put your horse, your carriage or your hitch.
So you're left guessing
How long did your pair really trot today? How much work has your mare done this month? A watch and a notebook only get you so far.
Your horse deserves a real record
Runners and cyclists take a full record of every session for granted. Carriage drivers should have the same for every horse they drive.
Walking, cycling and horse riding apps aren't built to track a horse's gaits while the driver is on the box seat. Turrot was created by Mery Bear, a carriage driver, who is its founder and CEO, to do exactly that.
Why Turrot
Built for driving, not riding.
Turrot starts from the box seat. It knows the size of your horse, the vehicle behind them and how many horses are in front of you. It speaks your language: Near and Off, wheeler and leader, halt, walk, trot, canter and gallop.
Every gait reading is sized to the horse in front of you. Turrot scales its speed bands to height at the withers, the same size scaling used in equine gait research, then adjusts for breed, so a Standardbred's road trot reads as trot and not canter.
How it works
Your first drive in about five minutes.
Set up once
The first time you open Turrot, a short setup walks you through your horse, your carriage, your hitch and location access. Breed and height are what size the gait speeds to your horse.
Set a time and drive
Tap Start Drive and put the phone in your pocket. Turrot tracks your route and gait with the screen locked. Set the time you expect to be back and someone at home can know where you are.
Keep the record
Tap End Drive and your route is waiting in History, colored by gait, with distance, time and minutes at each gait credited to every horse in the hitch.
What you get
Everything your horse did, on one map.
Live gait detection
Halt, walk, trot, canter and gallop, read as you drive and scaled to your horse's height and breed. Under trees, Turrot holds your gait through short GPS dropouts instead of calling a false halt.
Route maps colored by gait
See where you walked, where you trotted on and where you came back to a halt, with a gait key under every map.
Horses, carriages and hitches
A record for every horse and vehicle. Each drive remembers who went in the wheel and who led, using the traditional position names, and Turrot remembers your team for next time.
Safety check-in and SOS
Set the time you expect to be back. If you're late, your phone alerts you even if Turrot is closed, and one tap texts your contact where you are. How it works
Voice updates Premium
Hear each gait change, or a summary every 5 minutes, in the voice you choose, so the phone stays in your pocket and your hands stay on the reins.
Goals and conditioning Premium
Weekly or monthly goals by horse, with streaks. The conditioning log shows eight weeks of work and flags a sharp jump in workload.
Notes, footing and photos
Give a drive a title, note the footing, and fix the horse or carriage if you picked the wrong one. Add photos to any drive with Premium.
Year in Review Premium
Your year in drives, distance, days driving, longest drive, busiest month and each horse's work.
Share it, or keep it private
Share a picture of any drive with a privacy zone that hides your barn. Export GPX files for your mapping and training apps with Premium.
Your data, your backup
Save a backup file of all your horses, carriages and drives, and restore it on a new phone. Deleted drives wait 30 days in Recently deleted before they are gone.
Miles or kilometers
Choose miles or kilometers, and pounds or kilograms. Every screen, voice update and share picture follows your choice.
Works under the trees
Fonts and screens are built into the app, and recording never needs a signal. Only the background map needs one, and it fills in when you're back in range.
ADS Hours to Drive log Premium
Turrot counts your hours on the box seat from every drive, season by season. Set an hours goal, see the weekly pace to your next pin, and send the filled-in log sheet by email or print it, ready for the American Driving Society.
Competition planner Premium
Keep each combined driving event in one place: marathon sections with the time allowed and a pace card for the km markers, every obstacle with the routes you walked on the course walk, the cones course and your results.
Safety, free for every driver
Someone at home knows when to expect you.
Set your contact and the time you expect to be back. Turrot keeps an eye on the clock for you, and the safety features are free on every plan.
- You start the drive. Turrot offers to text your contact that you're out and when you'll be back, with a map link to where you're starting. You tap Send.
- On the drive. The Back by time sits on the Drive screen. Running long? Tap +30 min.
- You're past your time. Your phone alerts you at your return time, again 10 minutes later and again at 20, even if Turrot has been closed. Turrot also asks out loud, "Are you OK?", every 2 minutes while it's open. Answer "I'm OK" for 30 more minutes, or text your contact where you are.
- You're home. End the drive and Turrot offers to let your contact know you're back safe.
SOS, one tap from every screen
The SOS button sits in the corner of the header at all times. It reminds you to call your local emergency number first, then lets you call your contact or text them a map link to where you are. If the location is a few minutes old, the text says what time it was taken.
What it can't do
Phones don't let an app send a text by itself, so Turrot writes the message and you tap Send. Turrot doesn't call emergency services for you, and texts need a phone signal.
How the gait reading works
A mini's trot is not a Shire's trot.
A gait timer that flickers is worse than none. Here is what Turrot does to keep the numbers honest, and where it draws the line between gaits for a few common horses.
Set for each horse
Gait speeds grow with height at the withers, then adjust for breed. A Standardbred's road trot reads as trot, and a running walk or tölt reads as trot too.
One bad reading can't drag the number
Speed comes from the ground covered over the last 4 seconds and takes the middle of the last 5 readings, so a single jump in the signal is thrown out.
No flicker at the edge of a gait
Turrot waits until the horse is clearly into the next gait before it switches, so your trot minutes aren't chopped into pieces.
Weak GPS readings are dropped
Positions less accurate than 15 meters are ignored and impossible jumps are thrown out. Drives under heavy tree cover are flagged afterwards.
Teams read as a team
On a multi-horse hitch the gait lines are averaged across the horses you name.
Where Turrot draws the line, in mph
| Horse | Walk to | Trot to | Canter to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miniature, 30 inch | 3.5 | 7.5 | 13.0 |
| Miniature, 38 inch | 3.9 | 8.4 | 14.6 |
| Shetland, 42 inch | 3.9 | 8.2 | 13.8 |
| Welsh Pony, 12.2hh | 4.5 | 9.7 | 17.1 |
| Morgan, 15hh | 5.0 | 11.1 | 18.7 |
| Standardbred, 15.2hh | 5.0 | 19.9 | 28.0 |
| Friesian, 16hh | 5.0 | 9.8 | 16.3 |
| Clydesdale, 17.2hh | 5.0 | 10.3 | 17.4 |
| Shire, 18.3hh | 5.2 | 10.4 | 17.6 |
Faster than the canter speed reads as gallop. Enter your horse's true height and breed: a wrong height is the most common cause of a wrong gait.
Hitches
Single to Twenty-Mule Team.
All 18 hitches with their traditional positions: Near and Off, wheeler, swing and leader. Every drive records which horse held which position. Singles, pairs and tandems are free; unicorn, four-in-hand and every larger team come with Premium.
For ADS members and the show season
From your hours log to the course walk.
Turrot already keeps every drive. With Premium it also keeps the records the driving year asks for.
Your Hours to Drive log, kept for you
- Every drive counts toward your hours, by the ADS season from October 16 to October 15.
- Leave a drive out, or add hours for a drive the phone missed.
- Add the hours you logged on paper before Turrot, and see how far you are from your next pin.
- Set a goal for the season and see the hours a week it takes to get there.
- Make the log sheet, with the same fields as the ADS form, and email or print it.
You send the log yourself. Turrot is not affiliated with the American Driving Society.
Plan the event before you drive it
- Marathon sections A, Walk and B with the time allowed for your division, and a pace card for every km marker.
- On the course walk, walk each obstacle with your phone and tap the gates A, B, C as you pass them. Turrot draws your line on the map.
- Walk the fast line and the safe line, add photos and notes.
- Walk the cones course the same way, then keep your dressage, marathon and cones penalties when the results are posted.
Turrot doesn't time or score a competition. Rated events don't allow phones on the carriage in dressage or cones, so check your event's rules.
Pricing
Premium for the whole barn.
Try Premium free for 7 days. Premium gives you room for more horses and bigger teams, your full history, the tools for building a horse up, and the records for ADS members and the show season.
| What you get | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Drives with GPS and live gait detection | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Horses | 2 | Unlimited |
| Carriages | 1 | Unlimited |
| Hitches | Single, Pair, Tandem | All 18 |
| History | Last 30 days | Every drive, plus Year in Review |
| Safety check-in, return-time alerts and SOS | Included | Included |
| Route maps, notes, footing and share pictures | Included | Included |
| Backup and restore | Included | Included |
| Voice updates, in the voice you choose | No | Included |
| Goals, streaks and conditioning log | No | Included |
| Drive photos and GPX export | No | Included |
| ADS Hours to Drive log, goals and log sheet | No | Included |
| Competition planner: marathon, obstacles, cones and results | No | Included |
Drives older than 30 days stay saved on your phone on the free plan and open again with Premium.
Then $69.99 a year. Only when you join before January 1, 2027.
$5.83 a month, billed once a year. Save 27%.
Billed monthly. Cancel anytime.
Every Premium plan starts with a 7-day free trial. We remind you 2 days before it ends and again on the last day. Cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends and you won't be charged; otherwise the Premium plan you chose starts and renews automatically, monthly or yearly, until you cancel in your App Store or Google Play subscriptions. You can also use the free version without a trial. Prices in US dollars; the stores show your local price.
Our promise to you
Your drives stay yours.
No account, no sign-in
Open the app and drive. There is nothing to register.
Kept on your phone
Horses and drives live on your phone, in its own backup, and in any backup file you choose to save. We don't sell your data or show it to advertisers.
Your barn stays private
When you share, a privacy zone of up to half a mile hides the route around where you start and finish.
A dead battery won't lose a drive
Turrot saves every 20 seconds, keeps recording with the screen locked, and offers to save an unfinished drive when you open it again.
Questions
What drivers ask us.
I don't want my phone out while I'm driving.
You don't need it out. Start the drive before you put to, put the phone in your pocket, and end it when you're home. It records with the screen locked, and Premium voice updates tell you your gait without looking. Not carrying a phone on the box is a fair choice too.
My logbook works fine.
Keep it. Turrot does the counting your logbook can't: route, distance and minutes at each gait, with the whole history there when the vet asks how much work your horse has done.
What does it cost?
Start with a 7-day free trial of Premium. After the trial, Premium is $7.99 a month or $69.99 a year, and if you join before January 1, 2027 your first year is $49.99. We remind you 2 days before the trial ends and again on the last day. You can also drive on the free version without starting a trial.
Are the safety features free?
Yes. The safety check-in, return-time alerts and SOS work the same on every plan, and they always will.
Does the late alert work if Turrot is closed?
Yes. Turrot hands your return time to the phone, so the alerts come at your return time and 10 and 20 minutes later even if the app was closed. On Android, allow Turrot's alarms and notifications when it asks. An iPhone in a Focus mode may hold the alert until you look.
What if my battery dies mid-drive?
A drive in progress is saved every 20 seconds. When you open Turrot again, it offers to save the unfinished drive to your history.
Do I need to make an account?
No. There's no account and no sign-up. A Premium subscription goes through your App Store or Google Play account.
Will it work for my miniature, or my draft team?
Yes. Gait speeds are set by each horse's breed and height, from 24 inches to 20 hands, and teams are read across every horse you name.
Does Turrot fill in my ADS Hours to Drive log?
With Premium, yes. Turrot counts your hours from every drive by the ADS season, October 16 to October 15. You can leave a drive out, add hours by hand and set a goal for the season. When you're ready, Turrot makes a log sheet with the same fields as the ADS form, and you email it to the ADS or print and mail it. Turrot is not affiliated with the American Driving Society, and the ADS decides what it accepts.
Can I use Turrot at a combined driving event?
For planning, yes. Enter the marathon sections from the course map for your time allowed and a pace card, and walk your routes through each obstacle and the cones course with your phone during the course walk. Turrot doesn't time or score a competition: official times and penalties come from the officials. Rated events don't allow phones on the carriage in dressage or cones, so check your event's rules before carrying one.
Where are my drives kept, and can I move them to a new phone?
On your phone and in its iCloud or Google backup. You can also save a backup file of everything from the You tab and restore it on another phone. Your drives aren't sent to us, sold, or shown to advertisers.
Who makes Turrot?
Turrot was created by Mery Bear, a carriage driver, who is its founder and CEO. Walking, cycling and horse riding apps aren't built to track a horse's gaits while the driver is on the box seat, so Mery built Turrot to do exactly that.
What Turrot doesn't do yet
- No live sync between two phones. Move your records with a backup file.
- No shared barn or club accounts. Each phone keeps its own records.
- Time, distance and route can't be changed after a drive. Titles, notes, footing, carriage and team can.
- No watch app or heart rate monitor connection.
- The safety features help you reach your contact. They don't contact emergency services, and Turrot doesn't replace a vet or trainer.
- No official timing or scoring at events. Your times and penalties come from the officials.
- The ADS log is sent by you, from your own email or by mail. Turrot doesn't send it to the ADS for you.
Drive in your own language
English, Deutsch, Nederlands, Français, Español, Italiano, Português, Polski, Čeština, Magyar, Svenska, Dansk, Norsk, Suomi, 日本語
Your next drive, mapped by gait.
Turrot launches on the App Store and Google Play on November 26, 2026. Get a confirmation now and one email on launch day, and lock in the $49.99 founding year.