Comparison

FieldNET vs Zimmatic Maintenance

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FieldNET

This platform offers advanced tools for agricultural operations, providing remote monitoring, control, and detailed analytics for irrigation equipment. It features enhanced mapping, intelligent reporting, and real-time data visualization to optimize water management and identify potential issues.

Highlights
  • Intuitive platform interface
  • Enhanced mapping and visualization
  • Intelligent reporting and analytics
  • Remote monitoring and control
  • Field-specific data visualization
  • Real-time equipment status
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FieldNET™ by Lindsay® is pleased to announce the next evolution of our platform: FieldNET NextGen! Key Benefits: • Intuitive, responsive, and unified platform interface and experience • Enhanced mapping and visualization • Intelligent reporting and analytics • Remote monitoring and control Enhanced Mapping and Visualization: • View the entire operation instantly. • Tap or click equipment to pan to the device and operate the controls at your fingertips. • Easily filter for equipment names, groups, and type. Expanded List View: • Quickly scan through the status of all equipment in an organization by expanding the list view. Field View: • Review all FieldNET Advisor™ Fields in an operation. • Soil moisture status and weather in each field summarized in the list view. • Tap each field to view a wealth of data: current weather, pivot status, soil moisture, and recent imagery! • View current satellite imagery across an operation from Sentinel-2. Swipe across all images captured over the season to track trends and issues. Remote Monitoring and Control: • See all the equipment displayed in a map-centric view to easily control irrigation application and identify issues. • Pan across an operation and adjust equipment with a few taps. Intelligent Reporting and Analytics: • Analyze water pressure maps to find fields that need irrigation or identify potential areas with issues. • Create irrigation overview reports to track water application at the field, group, and organization levels. • Generate PDFs and export CSVs for FieldNET Advisor™, as-applied irrigation and more! Alerts and Alert History: • Notifications work in the same way that users have come to rely on within the FieldNET app! • Tapping an alert will navigate a user to the equipment dashboard.

About

Zimmatic Maintenance

Features
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This tool is to assist users in servicing pivots on-site. A user can start a service report using the machine serial number and owner information. Machine and owner information will populate in the report and allow users to enter service information and take pictures while on-site. When a report is complete, the user can generate a report of that data which can then be emailed out to the grower.

Screenshots

FieldNET4 screens
Zimmatic Maintenance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: FieldNET at fortnightly against Zimmatic Maintenance's every 11 months. Zimmatic Maintenance's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FieldNET ships an update fortnightly, Zimmatic Maintenance every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FieldNET versus Zimmatic Maintenance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFieldNETZimmatic Maintenance
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (50 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 11 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLindsay Irrigation Solutions LLCLindsay Corporation

In-app purchases

None

FieldNET

No in-app purchases

None

Zimmatic Maintenance

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FieldNET free?
FieldNET is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Zimmatic Maintenance free?
Zimmatic Maintenance is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FieldNET or Zimmatic Maintenance have ads?
Neither FieldNET nor Zimmatic Maintenance shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FieldNET or Zimmatic Maintenance?
FieldNET ships an update fortnightly, and Zimmatic Maintenance every 11 months. Most recently, FieldNET was updated on October 16, 2026 and Zimmatic Maintenance on October 1, 2026.

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