Comparison

PlantScope vs Pomarium AGER

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

Head to head
About

PlantScope

Features
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PlantScope is an easy-to-use application that calculates and analyzes a numerical value called the “Vegetation Index” which represents the health of crops, forests, green spaces, and other plants, based on images of fields and other locations, and displays it as an image.

About

Pomarium AGER

Features
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Stand in your block. Trace it with your finger. See how the canopy is doing. AGER reads your field from the most recent cloud-free Sentinel-2 satellite pass — the same imagery professional agronomists work from — and shows it to you in about five seconds, on the phone in your pocket. WHAT IT DOES • Find yourself. GPS puts you on the map with an accuracy circle, so you can start from where you are standing rather than hunting for the field. • Draw the block. Trace the boundary with a finger and drag a corner to adjust it. • Read it. AGER fetches the latest clear satellite image and paints NDVI — canopy vigour — straight onto your field, and tells you the date it was taken and how much of the block was cloud-free. • Look back. Swipe today's canopy against the same field 2, 4 or 8 weeks ago — or a whole year ago. Seeing this August against last August is the comparison growers actually ask for. • Track the season. A 90-day curve of canopy vigour, so a dip shows up as a change and not just a number. • Ask the AI. One tap gives a short read of the field in plain words: how even it is, where to walk first, and how the picture fits the season, your crop and the last three months of weather. Pick the crop from orchards, field crops or natural vegetation for a sharper read. • Four years at a glance. A button under the graph draws the monthly canopy of the last four years with each year's peak, so this season sits against the three before it. FREE, AND GENUINELY FREE No account. No sign-up. Nothing is saved — leave the app and the field is gone. There are no ads and nothing is sold on. The satellite data is free on our website too; we are not metering it. FOR GROWERS, NOT ANALYSTS Built for someone outdoors, one-handed, in bright sun, on patchy signal. Big targets, short sentences, and every screen says what to do next. Field size up to about 150 hectares. In English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. AGER SAVED — OPTIONAL SUBSCRIPTION If you want the app to remember your blocks instead of redrawing them each visit, AGER Saved is $6.99/month or $69.99/year and keeps up to 20 fields. It also adds four more indices — red-edge stress (NDRE), enhanced vigour (EVI), canopy chlorophyll (CCCI) and bare soil (BSI) — on both the graphs and the map, plus temperature, rainfall, reference ET and crop water use for each field. You pay so it remembers; you never pay for the data. The subscription renews automatically each month or year at the price shown until you cancel. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase, and you can manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current period. PART OF POMARIUM GAIA AGER is the field companion to GAIA, Pomarium's orchard platform, which banks years of satellite and weather history per block and adds bloom timing, irrigation scheduling and yield forecasting. If you already have a GAIA account, sign in and AGER comes with it at no extra cost. Imagery: Copernicus Sentinel-2 (ESA), processed through Google Earth Engine. Basemap: Esri World Imagery. Weather: Open-Meteo. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pomarium.ag/privacy Support: https://pomarium.ag/support Pomarium LLC · pomarium.ag

Screenshots

PlantScope3 screens
Pomarium AGER3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PlantScope at none against Pomarium AGER's 2. Pomarium AGER's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 12 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Pomarium AGER sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. PlantScope asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PlantScope ships an update every 12 months, Pomarium AGER every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
PlantScope versus Pomarium AGER: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlantScopePomarium AGER
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakatsuya Giken Co.,Ltd.Pomarium LLC

In-app purchases

None

PlantScope

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pomarium AGER

Subscriptions2
  • AGER Saved Monthly$6.991 Month
  • AGER Saved Annual$69.991 Year

Questions

Is PlantScope free?
PlantScope is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pomarium AGER free?
Pomarium AGER is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PlantScope or Pomarium AGER have ads?
Neither PlantScope nor Pomarium AGER shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PlantScope or Pomarium AGER?
PlantScope ships an update every 12 months, and Pomarium AGER every 4 days. Most recently, PlantScope was updated on November 8, 2026 and Pomarium AGER on November 8, 2026.

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