NextGenRodeo

Review by eFreeware

Anyone who has entered a rodeo knows the paperwork side rarely matches the excitement of the arena. Entries get chased down through phone calls and messages, draw sheets circulate late, and results trickle out after everyone has packed up. NextGenRodeo, from Livestock Technology Services, LLC, is built around that gap: it puts entries, updates and event administration into a single app rather than spreading them across phone calls and paper.

The app sits in the Sports category and is free to download, with in-app purchases available. It has been on Google Play since March 2019 and was updated in August 2026, and it carries a 2.2 average from 23 ratings. Those numbers say less about what the app does than about how particular its audience is, so it is worth looking at the two jobs it is designed to handle before judging it.

Entries and updates for contestants

For a contestant, the appeal is the entry side. The developer describes entering an event through the app rather than working through the usual back-and-forth, which matters most when you are juggling several rodeos in a season and need to commit to one before the next closes. Anything that shortens that loop is useful when entry deadlines bunch up.

The second half of that promise is information. NextGenRodeo is meant to give competitors real-time access to stats and updates, so the picture of where you stand and what is happening at the event arrives in the app rather than secondhand. I would expect that to matter most at multi-day events, where positions shift between performances and you want to know how a run has changed your standing before the next go-round.

The developer pitches the app as offering unprecedented access to your next rodeo, which is marketing language rather than a specification. What is concrete is the combination: entry plus updates in one place, for people who are already competing rather than watching from the stands.

Automating the event side

The other audience is the organization running the rodeo. NextGenRodeo is described as handling event management from beginning to end, automating the administrative work that otherwise falls on a small committee. That covers the unglamorous parts of putting on a rodeo: taking entries, keeping the running order straight and getting information out to the people who need it.

Stock contractors get a mention too, which makes sense given how much of a rodeo's logistics sits with whoever supplies the livestock. The developer's framing is that the app streamlines the competitor and contractor experience while giving organizations software to do the heavy lifting, so the same system is meant to serve both sides of an event rather than forcing one group to work around the other.

Whether that holds up depends on how an organization's existing process is structured, and the app is clearly built for events that want to run through it rather than alongside it. For a committee already comfortable with its own paperwork, the value is in consolidation; for one drowning in it, the value is in not doing it by hand.

What you need before you start

The app is built for competitors, contractors and organizations. The most recent update added support for a direct app link for memberships, which suggests membership handling is part of how you get connected to an organization's events through the app.

Entries, stats and event management all assume an event and an organization on the other end, so the app is a tool for participants and organizers rather than a general rodeo resource.

On cost, the app is free with in-app purchases available and no ads.

Who gets the most from it

The clearest fit is a contestant who enters a handful of rodeos a season and wants entries and results in one place instead of scattered across calls and messages. The second is an organization that wants its entry process, running order and updates handled by software rather than by whoever happens to be at the desk that week. Stock contractors fall into the same group as the first, since the app is explicitly built with them in mind.

The 2.2 average from 23 ratings is worth weighing honestly. A small number of ratings on a niche app can swing hard in either direction, and it tells you more about how few people have bothered to rate it than about how well it works for the events that use it.

I would treat NextGenRodeo as infrastructure rather than entertainment. It is the kind of app you install because your event uses it, and it justifies itself by removing steps from a process that has traditionally been manual.

A tool for people already in the chute

NextGenRodeo is worth installing if you compete, contract stock or organize rodeos and want entries, updates and event administration in one place. The free download makes trying it a low-risk decision for anyone whose events are already on the system. The in-app purchases are there, so they are not a reason to hold off.

The app has been around since 2019 and was still being updated in 2026, which suggests the developer is continuing to work on it. For a contestant tired of chasing entry confirmations, or an organization that wants the paperwork to run itself, that combination of entry, live stats and end-to-end event management is the whole argument. Spectators and anyone outside the circuit will find little here, and the modest rating average is a reminder that this is a narrow tool serving a specific community.

What's new in version 2.17.2

Support for direct app link for memberships.