CDL Mobile vs Sap Spy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CDL Mobile
This application provides remote management for maple syrup businesses. It allows users to monitor and control various aspects of their operations in real-time, including leaks, tank levels, pump status, and temperature. The goal is to save time, manpower, and maximize equipment efficiency.
- Remote management
- Leak detection
- Tank level monitoring
- Pump control
- Vacuum level monitoring
- Surveillance camera integration
- Temperature monitoring
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CDL Monitoring System Mobile Application Description With the CDL monitoring system mobile application, taking control of your business has never been easier! A simple and easy to use application that will allow you to better manage your maple business and increase your profitability. The CDL Monitoring System and its mobile application not only saves you time and manpower through remote management, but it also helps you to get the most out of your equipment. Application Functionality: At CDL, we know that during the sugar season, every minute, every drop counts ... Save time and money with remote management using the CDL Monitoring System mobile application. The CDL Monitoring System application allows you to manage, control and visualize in real time: - Leaks - Tank levels - Starting and stopping the pumps - Vacuum levels in the probes - Surveillance cameras - Temperatures in the station and in the forest - Intelligent RO - etc., Entirely free, the CDL Monitoring System Mobile Application is the technological solution for your maple syrup business. Download it now!
Sap Spy
Manage your maple sugaring operation with tools for mapping your woods, logging sap loads and syrup barrels, and performing essential calculations. Monitor vacuum and tank levels in real-time with optional hardware. Access a knowledge base for producer questions.
- Map woods with LiDAR terrain and slope shading
- Log sap loads and syrup barrels with details
- Perform 20+ maple syrup production calculations
- Real-time monitoring of vacuum and tank levels
- Knowledge base with producer FAQs and videos
- Offline functionality for calculators and logging
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Sap Spy is your sugaring operation in your pocket: the map of your woods, the sums you do at the pan, a log of every load of sap and every barrel of syrup, and, if you run Sap Spy monitoring, your vacuum and tanks in real time. MAP MY WOODS Walk or draw your mainlines on LiDAR terrain with slope shading and contours. See every line's length, drop and grade, and which way the sap will run. Pin pump houses, tanks, gateways, nodes and sensors, measure elevation, distance and acreage with an estimated tap count, get a bill of materials, and share a map with a QR code. Sign in and your maps sync to the desktop planner at sapspyapp.com. SUGARHOUSE LOG Every load of sap in and every barrel of syrup out. Log a load in seconds: who it came from, the gallons and the Brix, valued at that supplier's rate as you type. Give each supplier a receipt by text or email and their own page with their loads, the running total and what has been paid. Pack a barrel with its grade, color, density and weight, print a 4 x 6 label with its lot code, and track where every barrel went. Season totals, trends, gallons per tap and what you owe add themselves up, and it keeps working with no signal at the sugarhouse. On the desktop, import past seasons from Excel. CALCULATORS, DONE PROPERLY Twenty calculators built from the North American Maple Syrup Producers Manual, each citing its page. Sap to syrup with the revised Jones rule (87 at 66.0 Brix, 88.1 at 66.9), hydrometer correction, today's draw-off temperature from the barometer where you stand, thinning heavy syrup, RO concentrate and membrane health, tank and pipe volume, mainline sizing with Table 6.3, pump CFM, line tightness, lifts, payback, and what sap is worth. US or metric. Works offline. SUGARBUSH MONITORING For producers with Sap Spy hardware: live vacuum, tank levels and temperatures by site, a timeline you drag through the season, and push alerts you choose. Take a test drive of a real sugarbush without signing in. KNOWLEDGE BASE Real answers to the questions producers ask us, with short how-to videos you can watch right in the app. The calculators, the maps and the Knowledge Base need no account; the Sugarhouse Log and your synced maps need a free one. No ads, ever. Built by Maple IoT Solutions in Wisconsin with feedback from producers across the maple belt. Ask for a change from inside the app and it goes straight onto the roadmap.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sap Spy at 5.0 against CDL Mobile's 2.2. CDL Mobile's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sap Spy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CDL Mobile has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | CDL Mobile | Sap Spy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Les Equipements d Erabliere CDL inc | Maple IoT Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
CDL Mobile
Sap Spy
In-app purchases
CDL Mobile
No in-app purchases
Sap Spy
No in-app purchases





