Records for people who keep
reptiles seriously.
Feeding, weights, sheds and shed cycles. Racks and cages drawn to scale, so you know where every animal actually is. Pairings, clutches, pedigrees and genetics. Built around the way a collection is really run — not a pet app with a breeding tab bolted on.
Runs in any browser, on a computer or a phone. Nothing to install, no account needed to start — and it offers you a sample collection to look around before you type anything of your own. Unlimited animals. $12 a month adds sync, managed backup and support — see below.
Where the time goes, and how Pipped gives it back.
A spreadsheet import, a morning care round, racks that fill themselves, breeding odds and a sale, start to finish. Captions are on the video, so it works with the sound off.
The program is yours. That is the point.
Pipped is a single file that runs in your browser. It has no licence check, no activation and no expiry date, and it does not contact anyone in order to work. Once it is open, it keeps working if your connection drops, and your records stay on your device. You can also save the file and run it from your own computer: a saved copy starts with an empty collection, so restore your JSON export into it once, and from then on it needs no connection at all.
Ask any cloud tool what happens to your records if they shut down. Then ask us. The answer here is nothing happens: they were never ours. Your collection lives in your browser, exports to plain CSV and JSON any time you like, and the program that reads it is a file you can save and keep.
That is not a promise about our intentions. It is a description of how the software is built.
Built for a collection, not a pet.
The scale of it
Hundreds or thousands of animals, and the screens stay usable. Filter by species, morph, rack, life stage, or what is due today. Tested to 50,000 records.
A care round, on the phone you have in the room
Feeding intervals per animal and life stage. Anything in shed, fasting, gravid or brumating drops out of the round on its own. Log a whole rack at once instead of animal by animal.
Placement that knows the room
Every position knows its own dimensions and its occupant. The app flags animals that have outgrown their space, and will suggest where to move them — measured by the distance you actually walk, around the racks, not through them.
Proof of care, on the record
Every feed, weigh-in and water change is logged with the date and who did it. Filter by date, species or keeper and export exactly what you filtered. And every animal you sell can go home with a printed care card: the buyer scans the QR code — no app, no account — and sees the morph, the sire and dam and all four grandparents, and the date it last ate.
Genetics done properly
Recessive, co-dominant, dominant and sex-linked genes for 39 species, including 228 ball python traits: 1,125 traits in all. Genes that are forms of one gene, like the ball python BEL and Yellow Belly groups, the corn snake Amel and Hypo groups and the crested gecko Sable, Cappuccino and Highway group, are worked out as one gene. Sex-linked genes in birds, rats and mice are worked out for sons and daughters. Line-bred traits and localities are recorded but left out of the odds. Warns about morphs with known welfare problems.
Real pedigrees
Unlimited generations. Record ancestors you never owned so a buyer gets the full lineage, without those animals turning up in your feeding rounds.
Breeding season
Pairings through to clutches: fertility, hatch rate, offspring per female. Hatchlings become records with parentage and inherited genetics already filled in.
Sales and buyers
Deposits, holds and waitlists. Consignment and breeding loans modelled honestly, so an animal that is not yours is not counted as though it were.
Reports that export
Collection, production, growth, sales and health. All of it to CSV, because your records should never be trapped in someone's interface.
Labels and QR
Cage cards, rack labels and show labels on standard sticker stock, sized to the sheet you actually bought.
The sale doesn't stop at the sale.
Most software in this niche records that an animal left. Here the same record keeps going — into the buyer's hand, and into your books — because it is all one collection of facts rather than three programs that have never met.
1 · You close the deal
At a table or at home. Deposit, hold or paid in full, and the buyer recorded against the animal. The animal leaves your feeding rounds the moment it is marked sold, so you are not still being told to feed something you no longer own.
2 · The buyer gets the card
A printed care card goes home with the animal. They scan the QR with any phone, with no app and no account, and see the morph, the sire and dam and all four grandparents, when it last ate and what it ate. The record is inside the code; the phone needs a connection to open the page.
3 · Your books already know
The sale carries into Pipped Books as an invoice against that customer, with the cost basis relieved against it. A consigned animal posts as commission and money owed to the consignor, which is what it actually is.
That last step is the one most tools leave out. Every breeder ends the year with a shoebox and a spreadsheet, reconstructing from memory what sold and what it had cost them. This is the same figures, written down once, at the moment they were true.
Priced by keepers, not by animals.
Most tools in this niche charge you more as your collection grows. That never made sense to us — your four hundredth ball python costs us nothing to store. What costs something is a server, a backup, and somebody answering when you write in.
- Unlimited animals. No tier to outgrow, ever.
- Unlimited devices. Phone in the room, laptop at the desk, tablet on the rack — all one keeper, one login.
- Live sync, so the round you logged on your phone is on your desk before you are. Your care log, animal records, rooms, racks, breeding records, task setup, schedules, care plans, equipment and keepers sync live between devices. Sales, buyers, the waitlist, projects and collection settings travel by backup. Pipped Books travels by backup too.
- Managed backup of the whole collection, in both apps. Push a snapshot when you want one, held by us, restore it on any device.
- Updates — new species, new morphs, fixes.
- Support. You write, a person answers.
Monthly. Cancel any time, from the app or by email — cancelling stops the next charge and you keep access to the end of the month you paid for. Your first month is refundable on request within 30 days.
Subscribe opens Your account in the app. Create an account or sign in, then press Subscribe. Payment is taken on Stripe’s page.
- Every feature on this page
- Unlimited animals
- Full genetics and pedigrees
- Export any time, CSV and JSON
- Keeps working if your connection drops, on one device
No account, no card, no animal limit and no countdown. What a subscription adds is everything a file on your own machine cannot do for you: putting today's feeds and weights on your other devices, keeping a copy of the whole collection somewhere that is not your desk, and getting fixed when something is wrong.
What is different here.
Three things that are about how the software is built, not what it costs.
- Your collection is never a pricing tier.
- Nothing here counts your animals, because nothing here charges for them. No cap to hit mid-season, no upgrade prompt at 201, no decision about whether this year's hatchlings are worth the next bracket. You will never think about it again after today, which is the point.
- The program is a file you own, not a login you rent.
- Save the file to your computer, restore your JSON export into it once, and it runs there with no connection and no account, whether or not this company is still here. Cancelling a subscription costs you sync, backup and support, and costs you no access to anything.
- Real double-entry accounting, built for this trade.
- Not a sales log — actual books. Debits and credits, a balance sheet that balances, cost of goods relieved when an animal sells, breeding stock capitalised and depreciated, consignment treated as agency rather than revenue, and Schedule C mapping at the end of it. A sales log is a list of what happened. This is the difference between records your accountant reads and records your accountant re-does.
Your spreadsheet already works.
The reason people never switch is not the software — it is the evening spent retyping four hundred animals. So don't retype them. Point the importer at whatever you keep now: a spreadsheet, a CSV out of another app, an export from a tool you are leaving.
It reads a real file, not a template
Your headers, in your order, wherever they start. Title rows, blank rows and a legend above the table are all normal in a working spreadsheet, and it finds the actual header row underneath them.
Morphs the way you already write them
One genetics column, in breeder shorthand — Pastel Enchi het Clown — parsed into real loci. No mapping screen, no one column per gene.
You see it before it happens
A preview of the first rows exactly as they will be stored, with the counts: how many animals, how many species, how many morph names it could not place, how many rows it will skip. Nothing is written until you press go, and there is a one-click undo after.
Nothing is dropped quietly
Every rejected row and unrecognised value is listed, and downloadable as a CSV of just the problems — fix those and run it again. Re-importing updates your animals rather than creating a second copy of each.
Racks and schedules too
Two more optional sheets bring your facility layout and your feeding schedules across, so the room map and the care rounds are populated the day you arrive.
Tested at 8,000 rows through the ordinary file picker — which is how three faults got
found and fixed, including one that was silently discarding every rack location in the file.
Takes .csv and .tsv; from Excel, save as CSV first.
Import into the sample collection first if you want to watch it land before it touches anything of yours.
Where your records actually live.
- By default, only on your device.
- Open the app and start typing and nothing is transmitted anywhere. There is no account, we hold no copy, and we do not know you exist. (The optional Ask Pipped assistant sends only the question you type, and only when you press Send. It never sees your records.)
- With a subscription, also on our server.
- Turning sync on is a deliberate act. From then on the records you sync are stored on infrastructure we run, and every device you log in on sees the same records within seconds. Your care log, animal records, rooms, racks, breeding records, task setup, schedules, care plans, equipment and keepers sync live between devices. Sales, buyers, the waitlist, projects and collection settings travel by backup. Pipped Books travels by backup too. The managed backup is a snapshot of the whole collection that you push when you choose and can restore anywhere.
- Yours either way.
- Export to CSV and JSON whenever you like — before, during, and after any subscription. Export is never conditional on your account being in good standing, because holding records hostage is not a business model, it is a hostage situation.
- No trackers.
- No analytics, no advertising, no third-party scripts, and therefore no cookie banner. There is nothing to consent to.
Sync is the newest part of the product, and worth one honest sentence. The app itself has been in daily use and heavily tested; sync across devices works, and it has been tested by far fewer people on far fewer devices. Keep your own export as well for now — the button is in Settings → Data, and it takes two seconds.
The ones worth asking.
- Can I try it before paying?
- You can use it without paying at all. Open it, load the sample collection or your own, and see whether it fits how you work. The subscription is for sync, backup and support — buy it when you want those, not to unlock features.
- Who is behind this?
- Pipped, LLC — a North Carolina company, formed August 2026. One person builds it, and it runs his own collection every day: the feeding rounds, the pairings, the sales, the books. Nothing here is a feature somebody specced in a meeting. That is also why support is a real answer from a real person, and why the roadmap moves when a breeder says something sensible.
- What happens if you stop running this?
- Your collection is in your browser and the program is a file. Save a copy of the file and keep your JSON export. A saved copy starts with an empty collection, because your browser keeps each copy’s records apart, so restore the export into it once. After that it runs on your own computer with no connection. Sync and backup would stop; the software would not.
- Is there a limit on animals?
- No. Not on the subscription and not without one. Tested to 50,000 records on a normal laptop.
- Is a second device a second keeper?
- No. You on a phone, a laptop and a tablet is one keeper, and having the round you logged on one of them show up on the others is the whole point. Your care log, animal records, rooms, racks, breeding records, task setup, schedules, care plans, equipment and keepers sync live between devices. Sales, buyers, the waitlist, projects and collection settings travel by backup. A second keeper means a second person with their own login.
- Do you have an app in the App Store?
- No, and that is deliberate. It runs in the browser on any phone, and adds to your home screen like an app. It needs a connection to open; once it is open it keeps working if the signal drops, and your records stay on the phone. Nothing to install, nothing to update, and no store between you and your records.
- What about my accounting?
- There is a second program, Pipped Books — real double-entry accounting built for a breeding operation, with Schedule C mapping. Sales made in Pipped carry across as invoices, with the cost basis relieved against them.
- Can I bring my collection over from somewhere else?
- Yes, from any spreadsheet or CSV — see above. It reads your own headers rather than making you fill in a template, and you can import into the sample collection first to watch it land before it touches anything of yours.
Open it and see.
Nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Load the sample collection to look around, or start entering your own — it is the same program either way.
Want to see more first? Watch the two-minute tour, or the full walkthroughs on YouTube.