Comparison

Equipment Mobile vs FieldGrade

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

Head to head
About

Equipment Mobile

Manage and maintain your John Deere equipment with this app. Access operator manuals, find parts, and connect to the Operations Center for insights to improve productivity and keep equipment running smoothly.

Highlights
  • Manage John Deere equipment
  • Access Operator's Manuals
  • Find parts by model/serial number
  • Connect to Operations Center
  • View machine information
  • Add equipment via serial number scan
Features
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The John Deere Equipment Mobile app allows you to manage, maintain and keep your equipment running. With it, you can prepare equipment for work, access key information from the Operator’s Manual, and find the parts you need. The app also connects with John Deere Operations Center using JDLink™ Connect, providing an easy, reliable connection between you and your equipment. Equipment Mobile is your solution to access insights that help you proactively manage day-to-day operations and improve productivity. Features include: - View John Deere Operations Center equipment in one place - View connected devices - Explore Operators Manuals for Deere equipment - Find parts using equipment model or serial number - Access work optimization guides and tools - Add equipment to your organization by scanning the serial number - Contact your preferred Dealer - Access machine information – serial number, model year, and software version - Connected equipment capabilities such as fuel and hours

About

FieldGrade

Visualize your position on construction grade plans in real-time. This app displays your location and heading on various plan formats, allowing you to tap for design grades and access detailed information about pipes and other features. It also includes tools for marking areas and measuring distances.

Highlights
  • Live GPS position on grade plans
  • Supports Topcon, Trimble, Civil 3D, DXF, KML
  • Tap for design grade and pipe data
  • Create and navigate to markers
  • Measure distances
  • Offline plan and marker support
Features
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See exactly where you're standing on the grade plan, live, from your phone or iPad. FieldGrade opens the plans your crew already has (Topcon jobs, Trimble and Civil 3D LandXML, DXF, KML) and puts your position on them with a heading arrow. Tap anywhere for the design grade. Built for foremen, grade checkers, pipe crews and ground crew who aren't sitting in a machine-controlled dozer but still need to know where they are on the plan. WORKS WITH YOUR PLANS, IN ANY STATE • Topcon machine-control jobs: one .tp3 file, or .ln3 linework and .tn3 design surfaces • Trimble Business Center, Civil 3D and Carlson LandXML: surfaces, alignments, points and pipe networks • DXF (including blocks like manholes and inlets), KML/KMZ and GeoJSON • State plane coordinates from any US state, in meters or feet. FieldGrade picks the zone for you, so there's nothing to set up • Open from Mail, Files, AirDrop or Messages, or link a shared Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or iCloud folder so new plans show up on their own • Only have paper? Photograph the plan sheet, match a few spots to the map, and it lays over the satellite view KNOW WHERE YOU ARE • Live position arrow that points the way you're facing, with your elevation always on screen • North-up, or heading-up so the map turns with you like the screen in a machine • Tap anywhere for the design grade from the plan's surfaces • Tap a pipe, drain, culvert or inlet for its length, inverts, slope, size and material • Accuracy badge, so you know when to trust the dot FIELD TOOLS • Level: lay it flat, stand it up, or mount it in the cab for side-to-side and front-to-back slope in percent and degrees. Zero it on level ground, or keep a level box on the map • Drop markers with notes like "soft spot" or "busted pipe", and navigate back to them • Outline areas for grade changes, cut, fill or keep-out zones • Measure distances in feet or meters • Satellite maps, or your own drone imagery (GeoTIFF or MBTiles) • Plans, markers and drone maps work with no signal FOR CREWS: COMPANY PLANS Companies can set FieldGrade up for their whole crew. Employees just enter the company's code. Company plans add: • Office plans: the office uploads a plan once, and it lands on every crew phone, revisions included. No more texting PDFs or grading to an old plan • Crew sharing: markers and area notes from anyone show up on everyone's phone, with who dropped them • A company dashboard for the office to manage devices and plans FOR YOURSELF: FIELDGRADE BASIC • Free download, and your first week is free • Then $79.99 a year (save 33%) or $9.99 a month. Cancel any time in Settings • Bought the one-time unlock before? You keep everything. Nothing to do PRIVACY No account, no ads, no tracking. On your own, your plans, location and markers stay on your device. On a company plan, only the markers and notes you create are shared with your crew. Your live location is never sent. GOOD TO KNOW FieldGrade uses your device's built-in GPS, typically within 10–16 feet in open sky. It's for finding your place on the plan and marking it up, not for staking, machine guidance or checking grade. Wi-Fi-only iPads have no GPS chip, so use an iPhone or a cellular iPad on site. State plane covers every US state except southeast Alaska (zone 1). Questions? faneufsoftware@gmail.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fieldgrade.netlify.app/privacy

Screenshots

Equipment Mobile4 screens
FieldGrade3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FieldGrade at 5.0 against Equipment Mobile's 2.5. FieldGrade also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Equipment Mobile's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (44 vs 1). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FieldGrade holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Equipment Mobile has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Equipment Mobile ships an update every 2 months, FieldGrade every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Equipment Mobile versus FieldGrade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEquipment MobileFieldGrade
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.5 (44 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings44 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size423 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn DeereTimmy Faneuf

Customer experience

Equipment Mobile

All ratings44 ratings
Positive36.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative63.6%
Written reviews29 reviews
Positive20.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative79.3%

FieldGrade

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Equipment Mobile

No in-app purchases

None

FieldGrade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Equipment Mobile free?
Equipment Mobile is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FieldGrade free?
FieldGrade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Equipment Mobile or FieldGrade?
FieldGrade is rated higher. Equipment Mobile averages 2.5 out of 5 from 44 ratings, while FieldGrade averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Equipment Mobile or FieldGrade have ads?
Neither Equipment Mobile nor FieldGrade shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Equipment Mobile or FieldGrade?
Equipment Mobile ships an update every 2 months, and FieldGrade every 2 days. Most recently, Equipment Mobile was updated on October 22, 2026 and FieldGrade on October 19, 2026.

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