Comparison

eSample Zone vs Libra Harvest

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

Head to head
About

eSample Zone

Streamline soil sampling for zone-managed fields. This tool helps soil samplers and agronomists save time in the field and office, making zone-based soil sampling as efficient as possible.

Highlights
  • Zone-managed field soil sampling
  • Fast and accurate soil sampling
  • Time-saving for samplers and agronomists
  • Integration with FarmCommand platform
  • Efficient field and office workflow
Features
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eSample Zone provides FarmCommand users with a fast and accurate tool to soil sampling zone managed fields. This tool is designed to save the soil sampler and agronomist time in the field and office, to enable soil sampling by zone to be done as efficiently as possible. eSample Zone app is designed to work with the FarmCommand platform to complete soil sampling jobs for zone managed fields.

About

Libra Harvest

This app provides a comprehensive system for managing grain cart scales and harvest data. It automatically detects and records every unload, offering real-time insights into weight transactions, field tracking, and inventory management. Data can be viewed, shared, and exported for efficient farm operations.

Highlights
  • Automatic unload detection
  • Offline data collection
  • Field, truck, and destination tracking
  • Inventory management
  • Combine yield monitor calibration
  • Flexible unit display
  • Cloud data backup
Features
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Libra Harvest is a full-featured grain cart scale and harvest management system. The Libra Cart hardware connects to your grain cart's load cells and wirelessly communicates with the Libra Harvest app through Bluetooth®. It automatically detects and records every unload from your grain cart without additional sensors, providing accurate, real-time harvest data on your tablet or smartphone — no need to press any buttons or write anything down. The Libra Harvest app provides these features and more: 1. Automatic Unload Detection: Automatically saves the date, time, GPS location, and weight of every unload. 2. Record Offline: Collects and saves harvest data into the app whether or not your mobile device is connected to the Internet. 3. Track Fields, Trucks, Destinations: View totals and weight transactions for every field, truck, and destination (bins, bags, elevators, contracts). 4. Manage Inventory: Transfer amounts from one destination to another to track what has been moved or sold. 5. Calibrate the Combine’s Yield Monitor: View live weights and individually tare within Bluetooth® range to keep an eye on things or easily calibrate the yield monitor in the combine. 6. Flexible Unit Display: Display weights and totals in pounds, kilograms or bushels, and choose between light or dark mode. 7. Flexible Field Management: Create and edit field, truck, destination names and weight transactions on the fly. 8. Share and Export Data: Automatically backup your harvest data to the cloud and view it on a desktop computer. Upgrade to Harvest Pro: Unlock advanced features including multi-device syncing, team collaboration, desktop web editing, advanced reporting, farm management software integrations, and field boundary imports. Collaboration features, available with 3 or more Pro licenses, allow you to view all of your live cart weights from anywhere in the world, and manage each grain cart's settings remotely from the combine or the office. EULA: https://cloud.agrimatics.com/eula/harvest

Screenshots

Libra Harvest4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: eSample Zone at none against Libra Harvest's 3. Libra Harvest's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Libra Harvest sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $129.00 per year. eSample Zone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for eSample Zone against 5.0 for Libra Harvest. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
eSample Zone versus Libra Harvest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametereSample ZoneLibra Harvest
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.4 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFarmers Edge Inc.Bitstrata Systems Inc.

Customer experience

eSample Zone

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Libra Harvest

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

eSample Zone

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Libra Harvest

Subscriptions3
  • Plant & Harvest Pro x1$129.001 Year
  • Plant & Harvest Pro x2$259.001 Year
  • Plant & Harvest Pro x3$389.001 Year

Questions

Is eSample Zone free?
eSample Zone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Libra Harvest free?
Libra Harvest is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, eSample Zone or Libra Harvest?
eSample Zone and Libra Harvest are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do eSample Zone or Libra Harvest have ads?
Neither eSample Zone nor Libra Harvest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, eSample Zone or Libra Harvest?
eSample Zone ships an update every 3 weeks, and Libra Harvest every 3 weeks. Most recently, eSample Zone was updated on October 5, 2026 and Libra Harvest on September 30, 2026.

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