User guide
Your data
Saddle keeps what you do on your phone first and shares nothing by default. This page says what that means in practice: what works without signal, what uploads, who can see what, and the few things that need a connection.
On this page
It works without signal
Almost everything saves to your phone the moment you do it and uploads on its own the next time you are connected: in the background while the app is open, when the phone finds a network, and whenever you come back to the app. You never press a sync button.
Without signal you can still record a ride, add or edit horses and blankets, post to the gallery or bulletin, add events, upload documents, and open any document you have opened before. Anything waiting shows a small mark until it has gone up.
What needs a connection
- Signing in on a new phone. After that, the app opens with what it has.
- Joining a barn, and sending an invite.
- The weather, and so a fresh blanket pick. The last pick stays on the page.
- Opening a document for the first time, and the map itself, unless you have downloaded it with Offline maps.
- Snapping a route to paths, buying Saddle Pro, changing your password, and deleting your account.
When one of these is tried offline the app says so and nothing breaks. Try again in coverage.
Who sees what
| Who can see it | |
|---|---|
| Your rides, routes and numbers | Only you, unless you post a ride to an event |
| A horse with no barn | Only you |
| A horse at a barn | That barn's members: its name, photo, facts and today's blanket pick |
| A horse's chart, profile and documents | Only you |
| Photos, posts, events and shared documents | The barn you put them in |
| Your location on a live event map | People who joined that ride, while you ride with your position shown |
| Your location on a Ride Safety ride | Your safety group, while the ride runs |
Nobody sees your email address. Barn members see your name, photo and the horses you keep at that barn.
Backup
A finished ride uploads to your account in pieces as it is backed up, and the record says Backed up when it is all there. Sign in on another phone and your rides, horses, barns and documents come down to it. Documents come down when you open them.
Research sharing
Share for research, in Preferences, lets the motion data from your rides help improve how rides are measured. It is off until you turn it on, it is a switch you can turn off again, and your own ride backup is the same either way.
Deleting
Delete account, at the end of Edit profile, removes everything of yours 30 days later: horses, rides, photos, documents, posts. What you shared with a barn goes with you. A barn you own passes to its longest-standing member, or closes if you were alone in it. Signing in during the 30 days lets you restore the account; you can also ask from the website.