FieldNET vs Valley ROI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Valley ROI
This app helps users calculate the return on investment for irrigation projects. It considers loan amounts, operational expenses, inflation, and crop yield to determine financial viability over various loan terms.
- Calculate ROI on investment
- Consider operational expenses and inflation
- Estimate crop yield
- Analyze payback period
- Project cumulative balance over time
- Scenario planning by crop type
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Calculate your ROI on the amount invested, operational expenses considering estimated inflation, and crop yield over the period of the loan. Features include: - Average annual payment - Average cost per irrigated acre - Scenario by crop type - Break even yield - Payback period - Cumulative balance over 5,10, 20 and 30 years
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Valley ROI at 5.0 against FieldNET's 3.0. FieldNET's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (50 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.
Valley ROI holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FieldNET has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FieldNET ships an update fortnightly, Valley ROI every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FieldNET | Valley ROI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (50 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lindsay Irrigation Solutions LLC | Valmont Industries, Inc. |
Customer experience
FieldNET
Valley ROI
In-app purchases
FieldNET
No in-app purchases
Valley ROI
No in-app purchases
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