Comparison

VandWater vs FARMCON

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

Head to head
About

VandWater

This app offers a secure and straightforward solution for tracking, managing, and reporting water activity. It combines science and technology to help users understand water management challenges, stay compliant with regulations, and maximize water efficiency. The platform provides tools for monitoring well activity and water rights history.

Highlights
  • Water activity tracking
  • Compliance reporting
  • Water efficiency maximization
  • Well activity logs
  • Water rights history
  • Sustainable water management tools
Features
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Simple and secure software that combines science and technology for tracking, managing, and reporting water activity through a proven and simple software program and mobile app, all in one place. The VandWater app was created to better understand the array of challenges in tracking and monitoring water management to stay within compliance regulations while also maximizing water efficiency. This program provides a sophisticated full use software platform that is highly flexible and scalable to ease monitoring and reporting, thereby assisting with compliance, as well as saving operators time, money, and frustration with critical current well activity logs producing full water right history – all in the palm of your hand. This program was created by farmers for farmers. The VandWater app will provide all the tools required for sustainable water management.

About

FARMCON

Connect with agricultural leaders and innovators for learning, collaboration, and business growth. This event offers hands-on workshops designed to push creativity and potential, fostering a network dedicated to rural America's future. Gain tools to build a thriving modern business.

Highlights
  • Connect with ag sector leaders
  • Hands-on workshops
  • Business development tools
  • Rural America network
  • Creativity and potential enhancement
Features
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FARMCON is an opportunity for you to connect with like-minded movers and shakers in the ag sector. These are people who have felt the ground crumbling beneath their feet and lived to tell the tale. It’s is an event for learning, working, and some play too. It’s not for everyone though – we’re looking for those ready and willing to take themselves and their businesses to the next level. It’s a series of hands-on workshops that will encourage you to push the limits of your creativity, discipline, and potential for success. Most importantly, FARMCON doesn’t end when the conference is over. We are working to build a network of creative-minded people that love rural America and what it stands for, and people that are willing to fight to keep it alive. We aim to give you something you can take home to your team, to help arm you with the tools to needed to create a growing and thriving modern business. Together we can make a difference! This conference is brought to you by Farm Direction!

Screenshots

VandWater4 screens
FARMCON3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FARMCON at 5.0 against VandWater's 4.0. VandWater's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). 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

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

FARMCON holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VandWater has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VandWater ships an update every 5 weeks, FARMCON every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
VandWater versus FARMCON: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVandWaterFARMCON
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB63 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperVandWater, Inc.Farm Direction, LLC

Customer experience

VandWater

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

FARMCON

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

In-app purchases

None

VandWater

No in-app purchases

None

FARMCON

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VandWater free?
VandWater is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FARMCON free?
FARMCON is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, VandWater or FARMCON?
FARMCON is rated higher. VandWater averages 4.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while FARMCON averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do VandWater or FARMCON have ads?
Neither VandWater nor FARMCON shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VandWater or FARMCON?
VandWater ships an update every 5 weeks, and FARMCON every 5 months. Most recently, VandWater was updated on October 24, 2026 and FARMCON on October 30, 2026.

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