Grow Smart® Live vs Fly PHX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grow Smart® Live
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Grow Smart® Live connects you with timely agronomic updates from your BASF Innovation Specialist and Technical Development staff. Contact your local BASF Innovation Specialist today to receive exclusive access!
Fly PHX
This application enables pilots to easily operate a drone for capturing high-resolution aerial imagery. It facilitates pre-flight planning, real-time flight control, and communication with onboard sensors. The captured data can be used for detailed analysis and reporting on crop health.
- Real-time sensor communication
- Pre-flight planning tools
- Survey area visualization
- Sentera PHX flight control
- Data for FieldAgent platform
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Fly PHX helps pilots fly the Sentera PHX with ease to capture high-resolution imagery to generate real-time insights and analytics. What’s great about Fly PHX? -Communicate with the installed sensor, like the Double 4K from Sentera, and display readiness status, GPS fix type, photo count, and file storage information -Conduct pre-flight planning activities to ensure you are adhering to safety best practices -View survey area and control the Sentera PHX when in the air Data captured from the Sentera PHX flight is then available for use in Sentera’s FieldAgent platform, which provides data visualization and reporting to dig deeper into analysis to understand crop health performance throughout the season, from emergence to harvest and every stage in between.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fly PHX at 5.0 against Grow Smart® Live's 4.3. Fly PHX also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.1). Grow Smart® Live's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) 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.
Fly PHX holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 4 respectively.
Grow Smart® Live ships an update every 2 months, Fly PHX every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grow Smart® Live | Fly PHX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rizwan Ali | Sentera, Inc. |
Customer experience
Grow Smart® Live
Fly PHX
In-app purchases
Grow Smart® Live
No in-app purchases
Fly PHX
No in-app purchases
Questions
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