dairybook.app

What It Is

DairyBook is a mobile dairy farm ERP launched by DairyBook KE Limited, designed for smallholders, commercial dairy farms, cooperatives, milk collection centers, and agricultural extension workers. Its core positioning is “offline-first”: animal, milking, health, breeding, feed, and financial records can all be entered locally without an internet connection, then automatically synced once connectivity is restored.

Core Features

The product covers the main workflows of dairy operations. Animal profiles support ear tags, breeds, pedigree, and status history. The milk production module records milking batches, production curves, quality, and variances, and supports automatic milk weight capture via Bluetooth scales. The breeding module covers heat detection, insemination, pregnancy checks, calving, and semen inventory. The health module includes vaccinations, treatments, deworming, hoof care, medicine inventory, and safe tracking of milk withdrawal periods. The feed module manages inventory, suppliers, feeding, and costs. The finance module tracks income, expenses, budgets, and customer ledgers, and supports M-Pesa payments as well as automated reconciliation of cooperative deductions.

Collaboration, Security, and Deployment

DairyBook explicitly supports multi-farm management, cooperative member farms, shared payments, deductions, and farm-level data isolation, making it suitable for milk collection centers that need to manage member data centrally. On the security side, the site mentions local SQLite storage, per-device Ed25519 key signatures, and tamper-evident audit trails, which help strengthen record credibility. Deployment is primarily via Android and iOS apps, with support for multi-device sync, incremental sync, priority queues, and conflict handling. However, the website does not provide details on its cloud architecture, self-hosting options, APIs, or developer capabilities.

Pricing and Trial

The official website does not disclose plans, pricing, a free tier, or a formal trial policy. It only shows an option to apply for the testing program by submitting a name, phone number, county, and herd size, then waiting to be contacted. As a result, its commercial maturity, after-sales SLA, and long-term cost still need further confirmation.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

Its strengths are a focused use case, strong offline capability, comprehensive workflow coverage, and deep alignment with Kenya’s M-Pesa payments and cooperative operations. Its weaknesses are the lack of information around pricing, APIs, permissions, compliance certifications, and third-party integrations. It is best suited to dairy farms, cooperatives, and extension workers in areas with unreliable connectivity. For use in China, website accessibility, payment methods, and local support are unclear; alternatives may include local Chinese smart ranching systems, livestock ERP products, or agriculture and animal husbandry digital platforms.