InField vs Ag PhD Field Guide
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
InField
This mobile farm management app connects farmers with their teams and a network for real-time data sharing. It offers tools for communication, accessing important agricultural documents, and managing crop-specific information and timelines.
- Real-time in-field data sharing
- Direct messaging with connections
- Input label and SDS lookup
- Crop-specific details and rates
- Preharvest and interval timelines
- Organic product search
- Offline record access
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You're a modern farmer. It’s time you had a modern in-field experience. With InField, you’re always in the loop. InField is a mobile farm management app that allows you to share real-time, in-field data with your team and a self-selected network of farmers, all for free! With our ag management tools you can: · Send direct messages back and forth between your connections · Lookup input labels, SDSs, and supplemental documents · Confirm crop-specific details and rates · Verify preharvest and restricted entry interval timelines · Quickly find organic-only products · Share your recommendations, use reports and other record types · Save and organize products and records for access on and offline Connect, share and grow your crops and your network with a precision agriculture app that evolves with your operation. Install InField today and see why it’s one of the best farm management apps to grow your business.
Ag PhD Field Guide
Identify common weeds and insects in your fields with detailed photos and control recommendations. Access the latest agronomy information and educational content to improve your farming practices.
- Pest identification by name
- Photos of weeds and insects
- Control recommendations
- Agronomy information
- Access to newsletters and university content
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The Ag PhD Field Guide helps you to identify problem pests out in your field. You can browse weeds and insects by name and view photos and read control recommendations. The Ag PhD Field Guide also gives you the most up-to-date agronomy information through the FMC HatchTrak newsletter and the Ag PhD University.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: InField at 3.4 against Ag PhD Field Guide's 2.5. InField also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (27 vs 8). Ag PhD Field Guide's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 32%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
InField holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 32% of InField's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ag PhD Field Guide's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
InField ships an update every 5 weeks, Ag PhD Field Guide every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | InField | Ag PhD Field Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (27 ratings) — better | 2.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 32.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | InField.ag LLC | Ag PhD |
Customer experience
InField
Ag PhD Field Guide
In-app purchases
InField
No in-app purchases
Ag PhD Field Guide
No in-app purchases
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