Shepherd CMMS vs Ply Inventory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shepherd CMMS
Manage field service operations, maintenance schedules, and health and safety protocols directly within NetSuite. This business application streamlines workflows for efficient asset management and compliance.
- Field service management
- Maintenance scheduling
- Health and safety compliance
- Native NetSuite integration
- Asset management
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Field Service, Maintenance Management, and Healthy & Safety native to the NetSuite platform. Contact our system administrator for authentication
Ply Inventory
Manage your business inventory with automated supplier pricing and streamlined kit requests. This app offers improved performance and stability for a smoother user experience.
- Automated supplier pricing for POs
- Request whole kits for field requests
- Faster performance
- Fewer crashes
- Simplified inventory tracking
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**Your Suppliers, Auto-Loaded** Creating POs? We'll now grab pricing from your go-to suppliers automatically. It's like having a really efficient personal assistant. **Kits in Field Requests** Because requesting one item at a time is so 2024. Add whole kits to your field requests now. **The Boring (But Important) Stuff** Faster performance, fewer crashes, and generally making your life easier.
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Verdict
Shepherd CMMS and Ply Inventory both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Ply Inventory's written reviews are positive against 33% of Shepherd CMMS's. Ply Inventory also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shepherd CMMS against 5.0 for Ply Inventory. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ply Inventory has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 33% of Shepherd CMMS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ply Inventory's.
Shepherd CMMS ships an update every 2 weeks, Ply Inventory weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Shepherd CMMS | Ply Inventory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shepherd OÜ | Ply Financial, Inc |
Customer experience
Shepherd CMMS
Ply Inventory
In-app purchases
Shepherd CMMS
No in-app purchases
Ply Inventory
No in-app purchases
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