FieldNET vs EarthOptics GroundOwl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FieldNET
This platform offers a unified interface for managing agricultural operations. It provides enhanced mapping, remote monitoring and control of equipment, and intelligent reporting for irrigation and field analytics. Users can track soil moisture, weather, and equipment status to optimize water application.
- Unified platform interface
- Enhanced mapping and visualization
- Remote monitoring and control
- Intelligent reporting and analytics
- Soil moisture and weather tracking
- Equipment status monitoring
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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.
EarthOptics GroundOwl
This app simplifies soil analysis by wirelessly connecting to a sensor suite. It measures soil compaction, texture, carbon content, conductivity, and nutrient properties up to 24 inches deep.
- Measures soil compaction up to 24 inches
- Analyzes soil texture
- Measures soil carbon content
- Measures soil conductivity
- Measures nutrient properties
- Wireless sensor connection
- Simplified data collection
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GroundOwl is EarthOptics' proprietary sensor suite that measures soil compaction to a depth of 24 inches while also measuring changes in soil texture, carbon content, conductivity, and nutrient properties. Now with a new mobile app and external control unit that simplify the collection process and make using GroundOwl technology easier than ever before.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: EarthOptics GroundOwl at 5.0 against FieldNET's 3.0. FieldNET's advantage is ratings volume (50 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
EarthOptics GroundOwl 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, EarthOptics GroundOwl every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FieldNET | EarthOptics GroundOwl |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lindsay Irrigation Solutions LLC | Pattern Ag, Inc. |
Customer experience
FieldNET
EarthOptics GroundOwl
In-app purchases
FieldNET
No in-app purchases
EarthOptics GroundOwl
No in-app purchases
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