FarmSimple vs eShepherd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FarmSimple
Record, monitor, and track all farm activities, including jobs, spray logs, planting, harvesting, and inventory. Manage timesheets and farm assets with a complete history. Offers offline and online synchronization for seamless data access.
- Job assignment and tracking
- Detailed spray log recording
- Activity logging (planting, harvest, etc.)
- Inventory management (grain, fuel, chemicals)
- Timesheet management with approval
- Offline and online synchronization
- Asset history tracking
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FarmSimple is the easy way to record, monitor and track all of your farm activities. Current features include: • Jobs - Assign jobs to users; allocate to equipment, paddock, livestock. • Spray Logs - Record all relevant details for spraying. Includes a load calculator and remote lookup of weather stations. • Planting, Spreading, Harvest, Paddock Maintenance, Irrigation, Grazing, Vet Treatments - Record details of these activities. Includes remote lookup of weather stations. • Inventory Management - Track ingoing and outgoing Grain, Fuel, Chemicals, Fertilisers and Water. Enter grain contract details to track fulfilment. Assign fuel to an activity. • Timesheets - Manage timesheets for all of your operators - with full submit and approval capabilities. Note: Only access to the Jobs feature is provided without a subscription. To access all features, you must subscribe. Users • Up to 10 users per account. Contact us to add more. • Three levels of user access - owner, administrator, and standard users. General • Fast access to emergency contacts and farm summary information - including a live farm activity feed. • Manage all of your farm assets - each have a complete history available to you 24/7. • Export a PDF of any task to email or an AirPrint® compatible printer. • FarmSimple can be used in both offline and online environments, and automatically synchronises when online so that you always have the latest farm data available on all devices. More features to be rolled-out as we evolve FarmSimple into the complete farm management package! Try FarmSimple free for 1 month - if you find FarmSimple useful, do nothing and your membership will automatically continue for as long as you are subscribed. Terms of use: http://www.croppaco.com/farm-simple-terms-of-use Privacy policy: http://www.croppaco.com/farm-simple-privacy-policy
eShepherd
This app allows farmers to view their farm map, including animal locations, paddocks, and watering points. It enables scanning animals and neckbands to create associations and upload session data. Receive critical alerts like "Animal is still/down" or "Animal outside VP" via push notifications.
- Farm map with asset visualization
- Real-time animal location tracking
- Virtual and physical paddock management
- Animal scanning and association
- Session data upload
- Critical event push notifications
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View assets on your farm map: • Your current location • Animals shown with mob colour • Active and inactive virtual paddocks • Physical paddocks & watering points Perform key jobs out in the paddock: • Connect your scanning device and scan animals and neckbands to create associations within a session • Upload sessions to populate your account with tracked animals • Turn on/off virtual paddocks Receive Push Notifications so that you are informed of critical events, such as: • “Animal is still/down” - possibly a sick animal • “Animal outside VP” - escapees!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: eShepherd at 5.0 against FarmSimple's 1.0. eShepherd also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. FarmSimple sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. eShepherd asks for nothing beyond the download.
eShepherd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: eShepherd has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of FarmSimple's written reviews are positive against 100% of eShepherd's.
FarmSimple ships an update every 11 days, eShepherd every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FarmSimple | eShepherd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 124 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CroppaCo Pty Limited | Gallagher eShepherd Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
FarmSimple
eShepherd
In-app purchases
FarmSimple
- Cropping Subscription1 Month trial$14.991 Month
- Standard Subscription1 Month trial$89.991 Month
eShepherd
No in-app purchases








