FIELDLOCATE vs Pocket Field Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FIELDLOCATE
This mobile field service management system streamlines operations for home and commercial service industries. It offers location-based dispatch, integrated accounting, and a centralized customer database. Go paperless with digital service orders and gain insights with comprehensive reporting tools.
- Location-based dispatch board
- Accounting system integration
- Centralized customer database
- Paperless digital service orders
- Cloud-based data storage
- Comprehensive reporting functions
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FIELDLOCATE is an efficient, cutting-edge mobile field service management system designed for the home and commercial service industries. FIELDLOCATE gives you the flexibility to manage your business from anywhere. Dispatch The dispatch board makes location based dispatch possible by showing customers and tech locations and makes appointment setting quick and easy. The map view takes the guess work out of reducing drive time because you can see the shortest route for all of your techs at one time. Accounting FIELDLOCATE helps you cut costs by only entering in information ONCE. We reduce double data entry by integrating with common accounting systems such as QuickBooks, QuickBooks Online, Timberline, Sage Simply Accounting, and Peachtree. Customer Database FIELDLOCATE keeps all of your customer information in one easily accessible and organized place. Keeping track of your customers has never been so easy. Using our features allows your business to have a consistent presence to your customers without having to repeat information. Mobile FIELDLOCATE Mobile Apps create a work environment where all team members have the same information at their fingertips, cutting down on unnecessary phone calls or frustration with missing information. Paperless Don’t deal with messy desks and cluttered disorganization ever again! FIELDLOCATE helps your company go completely paperless by keeping all of your information in the cloud. Digital service orders create seamless records between the field and your office, eliminating double entry. Reporting FIELDLOCATE features several reporting functions that allow you to measure your company’s success with ease. Reports on your part inventory, payroll, lead sources and job costing are just a few examples of how the FIELDLOCATE software allows you to tap into all of the data your company keeps. Please note that use of GPS in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.
Pocket Field Notes
Capture and organize field notes with automatic geo-tagging and time stamps. Add photos to your notes and easily share them via email or by viewing their location on a map. Create project folders for efficient management of your field data.
- Automatic geo-tagging
- Time and date stamping
- Add photos to notes
- Create project folders
- Email notes with attachments
- View location on map
- Includes compass
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Pocket Field Notes allows you to quickly take notes while in the field. Notes are automatically geo-tagged (location services required) and stamped with time and date. You can add pictures to notes with your device's camera (device camera required). Notes can be emailed (email client on device required) with the pictures as attachments. You can easily share with others or send to yourself, so you can cut-and-paste info into another application. You can create project folders and then add notes to it for easy management. View the geo-tagged location on a map, in a web browser (device web browser required). This app is ideal for geologists, wildlife biologists, surveyors, rangers, architects, agriculturalists, engineers, hunters, contractors, maintenance personnel, real estate agents, urban planners, landscapers, naturalists and many others out in the field. + Quick And Easy To Use + Create Project Folders + Add Notes To Project Folders + GEO-Tags Each Note (location services required) + Take Pictures And Add To Notes (device camera required) + Notes Are Time And Date Stamped + Email A Note (email client on device required) + View Location On Map In A Browser (device web browser required) + Great For Anyone Needing To Take Notes In The Field + Compass (heading services required)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: FIELDLOCATE at Free against Pocket Field Notes's $1.99. FIELDLOCATE also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Pocket Field Notes's advantage is rating (3.0 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (33% vs 0%). On ratings volume, 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
FIELDLOCATE is free to download; Pocket Field Notes costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocket Field Notes holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of FIELDLOCATE's written reviews are positive against 33% of Pocket Field Notes's.
FIELDLOCATE ships an update monthly, Pocket Field Notes every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FIELDLOCATE | Pocket Field Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 2.3 (10 ratings) | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | skeds.com | Mike Hempfling |
Customer experience
FIELDLOCATE
Pocket Field Notes
In-app purchases
FIELDLOCATE
No in-app purchases
Pocket Field Notes
No in-app purchases
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