TurfPro Mobile vs Bad Elf Flex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TurfPro Mobile
Transform your device into a turf condition monitoring system. Track soil moisture, salinity, and temperature in real-time, receive critical alerts, and upload data for in-depth analysis. Collaborate with others for standardized measurements across properties.
- Real-time turf condition display
- Soil moisture, salinity, temperature logging
- Critical condition alerts
- Data upload to cloud
- Shared data and configurations
- Multi-user property management
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POGO TurfPro Mobile turns your smartphone or tablet into a data acquisition and logging system that collects, displays and logs turf conditions measured by the a Bluetooth-connected POGO Pro+, Pro, Mini or Lite. • The app displays real-time analytics and assessments of turf/soil moisture, salinity and temperature. This allows for timely reaction to conditions that could lead to costly problems. • Critical alerts advise you of conditions measured that require immediate attention while you are on the course. • Easily upload data to POGO TurfPro Cloud and unleash unprecedented insight and analysis • Data and configurations are shared with all other users, allowing a property to be split between multiple people, yet ensuring standardized measurement.
Bad Elf Flex
This utility app enhances the functionality of Bad Elf Flex and Flex Mini GNSS receivers. It allows users to monitor hardware health, adjust settings, and update firmware. For the Flex model, it also enables the purchase and application of tokens for advanced features and correction sources like SBAS and RTK.
- Monitor GNSS receiver health
- Change hardware settings
- Perform firmware updates
- Purchase and load Flex Tokens
- Enable hardware-based features
- Access correction sources
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This is the free companion utility app for the flexible, intuitive, and affordable Bad Elf Flex and Flex Mini GNSS receivers. Designed for GIS and survey professionals, the Bad Elf Flex and Flex Mini connect to your iPhone or iPad via Bluetooth and provide high-accuracy location data to ANY and ALL field data collection apps in your workflow. This app allows you to view the health of the Flex and Flex Mini hardware, change settings, and perform firmware updates. For the Bad Elf Flex, the app also supports purchasing and loading Flex Tokens into the hardware for enabling hardware-based features and correction sources. Several correction sources are supported including SBAS, RTK via NTRIP, and Atlas (L-band) satellite corrections. Visit https://bad-elf.com/ to learn more about the Bad Elf Flex and Flex Mini GNSS receivers. NOTES: * This app requires a Bad Elf Flex or Flex Mini to operate. * Our "Bad Elf GPS" companion app supports our legacy mapping-grade receivers: Bad Elf GPS Pro, GPS Pro+, Surveyor, and GPS for Lightning dongle. * Continued use of the GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TurfPro Mobile at 5.0 against Bad Elf Flex's 3.6. TurfPro Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). Bad Elf Flex's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 0%) and ratings volume (14 vs 4). 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.
TurfPro Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of TurfPro Mobile's written reviews are positive against 40% of Bad Elf Flex's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | TurfPro Mobile | Bad Elf Flex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stevens Water Monitoring Systems, Inc. | Bad Elf, LLC. |
Customer experience
TurfPro Mobile
Bad Elf Flex
In-app purchases
TurfPro Mobile
No in-app purchases
Bad Elf Flex
No in-app purchases
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