Tank Toad vs WaterRoutes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tank Toad
Streamline device setup and monitoring with this intuitive tool. It offers a centralized platform for managing your smart devices efficiently.
- Smart device setup
- Device monitoring
- Centralized management
- Efficient tool
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TankToad App — smart device setup and monitoring tool
WaterRoutes
This app streamlines canal water management for irrigation districts, canal companies, and farmers. It facilitates coordination of water delivery, management of change orders, and logging of field readings. Users can map infrastructure, monitor water usage, and communicate with stakeholders.
- Manage change orders
- Review running orders
- Send scheduled reports
- Log field readings
- Communicate with users
- Map infrastructure
- Monitor water usage
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WaterRoutes is an operating system for canal water management. Built for irrigation districts, canal companies, water masters, ditch riders, and farmers, WaterRoutes helps coordinate water delivery from the office to the field. Use WaterRoutes to manage change orders, review running order, send scheduled reports, log field readings, communicate with users, map infrastructure, monitor water usage, and track account activity. WaterRoutes supports configurable workflows for: - Change orders and AM/PM ordering - Running order views and report delivery - Email and PDF reports for daily operations - Farms, headgates, laterals, and rides - Daily logs for meters, pumps, and field assets - Interactive maps for canal infrastructure - Water delivery and account balance reports - Transactions, allotments, adjustments, and leases - Broadcasts, notifications, and user communication - Tenant landing pages and organization settings Available features depend on your organization’s WaterRoutes configuration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tank Toad at weekly against WaterRoutes's every 3 weeks. Tank Toad also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tank Toad against 5.0 for WaterRoutes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Tank Toad ships an update weekly, WaterRoutes every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tank Toad | WaterRoutes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Meadowlark Solutions, LLC | MurTech LLC |
Customer experience
Tank Toad
WaterRoutes
In-app purchases
Tank Toad
No in-app purchases
WaterRoutes
No in-app purchases
