Microforest vs Terraware
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Microforest
This app provides mobile solutions for outdoor forestry work. Access maps, stand data, and business information from your device, even offline. It supports navigation, data collection, and transaction management for forestry professionals.
- Navigation and GPS tracking
- Map editing with notes and drawings
- Stand register access
- Data collection and assessments
- Operational transactions
- Business reports
- Offline support
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The Microforest app introduces mobility solutions for the outdoor workplace, allowing you to access forestry maps, stand register data and business data on-the-go, anytime. Some of the key features of the secure Microforest App for iPhone and iPad: *Navigation and GPS tracking *Map editing, pins, notes and spatial drawing *Stand register *Data collection and assessments *Operational transactions *Business reports *Offline support for stand register, mapping and in-field transactions. To use the Microforest app with your own forestry resource/business data, you must be using the Microforest Plantation Manager as your back-end system. You can evaluate the app with our demonstration plantation system as back-end, using a guest logon.
Terraware
This app helps forestry professionals collect and manage field data, including seed collection and nursery inventory. It allows for offline data entry and seamless syncing to a central database upon returning to the lab. Monitor plant health, species data, and mortality rates to adapt restoration efforts.
- Offline data collection
- Seed collection tracking
- Nursery inventory management
- Plant monitoring
- Data syncing to database
- Species and mortality tracking
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The Terraware field companion app is your data gathering partner when you're in the field. The app allows anyone with a Terraware account to collect data in the field using a simple interface — no need for an internet connection until you need to sync the data. Using a mobile device, seed collectors can easily keep track of the number and types of seeds they gather. When they return to the lab to drop off their collections, they can upload information to the seed bank database, automating the transfer of specimen data and accompanying records. Nursery staff can quickly make updates to the nursery inventory. Adding inventory, changing batch germination status, transferring and withdrawing seedlings are all possible with an active internet connection. Users can also monitor their plants in the field, keeping track of species data, mortality rates, planting density and more. Terraware is the best way to keep track of your planting site's health and monitor trends over time. Take the app into the field, follow the guidance for collecting detailed plant information, and sync the data when you return. Terraware will do the rest. Better data allows restoration teams to quickly adapt so they are always storing the right kinds of seeds at the right time — which is key to quickly growing the biodiverse forests our climate crisis demands. To setup a Terraware account please go to terraware.io.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Microforest at every 10 days against Terraware's monthly. Terraware's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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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 Microforest against 5.0 for Terraware. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
Microforest ships an update every 10 days, Terraware monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and September 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Microforest | Terraware |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Microforest | Terraformation Inc. |
Customer experience
Microforest
Terraware
In-app purchases
Microforest
No in-app purchases
Terraware
No in-app purchases









