Comparison

AVID Deer vs Landscape Mobile 4

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

Head to head
About

AVID Deer

Features
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AVID is a project to Assess Vegetation for Impacts from Deer. Plants are monitored each year to evaluate the impact of deer browsing. AVID is a method for volunteers, foresters, landowners and others to measure the effect of deer browse on New York forests. Volunteers are encouraged to use AVID to document this aspect of New York forest health. Participants will learn about forest and woodland ecology, how to identify spring wildflowers and trees, and develop an eye for recognizing signs of deer impacts.

About

Landscape Mobile 4

This app serves as a mobile companion for land conservation efforts, enabling offline data collection for property evaluation, management, and monitoring. It allows users to record site visits, track issues, document species, and map various land features. The app synchronizes all collected data with its web platform for seamless team collaboration.

Highlights
  • Offline data collection
  • Property record management
  • Customizable forms and reports
  • Spatial data mapping
  • Team synchronization
  • Species and resource documentation
Features
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Landscape Mobile The field app for land conservation. Landscape Mobile 4 is the mobile companion to the Landscape web platform, purpose-built for land trusts and conservation organizations. Whether you're evaluating new land for protection, managing trails and controlling invasive species, conducting species research, or tracking annual compliance monitoring, it's all in one app. WORK OFFLINE, ANYWHERE Download any property before you head out — boundaries, attachments, site history, and your choice of basemaps (Standard, Satellite, or Topographic, plus your own custom GIS overlays). Collect data in the field with no connection required, and everything syncs once you're online again. YOUR RECORDS, IN THE FIELD Every property — active protection projects, current holdings, easements — travels with you. Pull up property history, contacts, notes, and attachments right from the map. Reference conservation easements, baseline documentation reports (BDRs), and past monitoring reports without ever leaving the site. BUILT FOR THE FULL RANGE OF FIELD WORK Landscape supports every stage of conservation work. Create work like: Site Visits — record an activity on the land, from annual monitoring to daily field logs Issues — track an observation for follow-up, like a potential encroachment Species Observations — survey flora and fauna Resources — document a natural or cultural resource Human Uses — add a trail, sign, or built feature Tracked Right Activities — log an exercised right against your easement's limits Encumbrances — document a third-party overlay CUSTOM FORMS AND REPORT TEMPLATES Landscape is purpose-built for conservation, but every organization works a little differently. Customize forms, data fields, and report templates to match your organization's existing workflow. When it's time to turn field data into a deliverable, generate monitoring reports and baseline documentation photo sheets automatically from your own templates, in a few clicks. MAP EVERYTHING Visualize past photos, issues, monitoring tracks, trails, and boundaries together on one map. Draw new spatial data in the field, and see your GIS layers — including custom overlays your team has configured — right alongside your property boundaries. FIND WHAT YOU NEED, FAST Search across all your organization's properties, or browse what's nearby your current location. Downloaded properties are available offline any time. STAYS IN SYNC Everything you collect in the field — forms, photos, spatial data, and work — syncs with the Landscape web app, so your whole team stays up to date whether they're in the office or out on the land. Built for land trusts, government agencies, research organizations, and conservation consultants managing conservation easements, fee properties, and stewardship programs. Landscape mobile requires an active Landscape account. Visit landconservationsoftware.com to learn more.

Screenshots

AVID Deer3 screens
Landscape Mobile 44 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Landscape Mobile 4 at every 5 days against AVID Deer's every 4 months. AVID Deer's advantage is iOS requirement (12.4 vs 16.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AVID Deer ships an update every 4 months, Landscape Mobile 4 every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
AVID Deer versus Landscape Mobile 4: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAVID DeerLandscape Mobile 4
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.4 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB80 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUniversity of TennesseeDendroyka Software Cooperative

In-app purchases

None

AVID Deer

No in-app purchases

None

Landscape Mobile 4

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AVID Deer free?
AVID Deer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Landscape Mobile 4 free?
Landscape Mobile 4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AVID Deer or Landscape Mobile 4 have ads?
Neither AVID Deer nor Landscape Mobile 4 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AVID Deer or Landscape Mobile 4?
AVID Deer ships an update every 4 months, and Landscape Mobile 4 every 5 days. Most recently, AVID Deer was updated on October 27, 2026 and Landscape Mobile 4 on November 4, 2026.

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