CM Sensor vs Soil Color Pro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CM Sensor
This utility app connects users with their insurance provider. It offers features for setting up smart bases and sensors to enhance communication and monitoring.
- Insurance company contact
- Smart Base setup
- Sensor configuration
- Enhanced communication
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CM Sensor app keeps you in contact with your insurance company and provides features to set up Smart Base and Sensors.
Soil Color Pro
Estimate soil color from your device's camera. Analyze photos or use live previews to identify soil hues. Features like auto-reference calibration and GPS tagging enhance field accuracy for documentation and analysis.
- Live camera soil color estimation
- Photo analysis for documented readings
- Automatic white-balance reference detection
- GPS pins and field notes
- CSV, Excel, and KMZ export
- Mid-tone sampling for accuracy
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Soil Color Pro estimates soil color from an iPhone or iPad camera. Open Live and keep soil inside the fixed center target. The target always matches the pixels being averaged, and the closest color name and swatch appear beside it. With Pro, Auto Reference can recognize a neutral gray card, white paper, or yellow note elsewhere in the frame, mark the detected patch, and use it to correct the live reading. Capture or choose a photo with Pro when you want a documented reading. Soil Color Pro averages the circular target, rejects clipped highlights and deep shadows, trims luminance extremes, and reduces color outliers. Move the target anywhere in the photo to update the averaged swatch, color name, field notation, confidence, and nearby named colors. Designed for real field work: • A fixed, visible center target that matches the sampled pixels • Pro automatic white-balance reference detection with an on-screen marker • Clear color swatches and names • Robust mid-tone sampling instead of one center pixel • Pro gray card, white paper, or yellow note calibration • GPS pins and copied field notes • CSV, Excel, and Google Earth KMZ export with captured photos Your first Live preview session is free for up to five minutes. The preview ends when you leave Live or put the app in the background. Continued Live scanning, automatic reference calibration, Capture, photo analysis, nearby swatches, pins, and exports require Pro Monthly, Pro Yearly, or Lifetime Access. Eligible new yearly subscribers receive a 7-day free trial, followed by an auto-renewing subscription at the price displayed before purchase. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ This is a camera estimate, not an official printed soil color chart and not a laboratory instrument. Lighting, surface condition, and the phone camera all shift color. When a specification requires an official chart reading, verify against the physical charts. Not affiliated with or endorsed by X-Rite, Pantone, Munsell Color, USDA, or NRCS. MUNSELL®, Munsell Color, and Munsell Soil Color Charts are trademarks of X-Rite, Incorporated.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Soil Color Pro at 5.0 against CM Sensor's 2.8. Soil Color Pro also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). CM Sensor's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (17 vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. Soil Color Pro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. CM Sensor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Soil Color Pro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CM Sensor has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CM Sensor ships an update every 3 months, Soil Color Pro every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CM Sensor | Soil Color Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I. | MICHAEL MURREY |
Customer experience
CM Sensor
Soil Color Pro
In-app purchases
CM Sensor
No in-app purchases
Soil Color Pro
- Soil Color Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Soil Color Pro Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Soil Color Pro Lifetime$34.99
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