Comparison

Materials And Practices vs A3 Atlas Scanner

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

Head to head
About

Materials And Practices

Features
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Materials And Practices is a complete recordkeeping app for small-scale organic farms. Track every grow, amendment, harvest, and work activity in one place β€” built around the records you need for organic certification and FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) compliance. Cultivars from USDA data Browse a curated database of vegetable cultivars with growing seasons, hardy zones, and planting schedules. Grow tracking Manage active and completed grows with timelines, work logs, amendment applications, and harvest records. Organic certification recordkeeping Capture amendment applications, soil tests, lab results, and field history with full traceability for your certifier. FSMA harvest safety Built-in harvest safety checklists based on FDA FSMA requirements. Soil testing Log pH, nutrients, and organic matter, with lab contact management and visual pH spectrum. Lease management Track agricultural lease agreements, payments, and renewals. Worker time tracking Multi-worker time clock with weekly hours, overtime detection, and Monday–Sunday weekly summaries. Built for the farm, not the cloud All data lives on your device. No accounts, no servers, no tracking. Available in English and Spanish.

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A3 Atlas Scanner

Features
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Atlas Scanner turns a site visit into a complete building record β€” on location, with no Internet needed. Scan room by room or floor by floor using your device's LiDAR sensor. The app produces dimensioned 2D floor plans, computes areas, and keeps everything in a per-property record you can reopen months later. **Built for field work** Large buttons, guided steps, no clutter. Every scanned zone is reviewed on screen before you accept it: you see the plan, the dimensions and a quality score before moving on. **Photos that stay tied to the place** Photograph the electrical panel, the main water valve, the water heater, the router, the thermostats. Each photo stays attached to its room and to its point of interest β€” no more camera roll where you can't tell which building you're looking at. **Sensor suggestions** From the surveyed geometry, the app proposes where to place sensors and explains why. Accept, move or decline β€” the decision stays yours. **Multiple floors, honestly linked** Connect two levels through a stairwell and orient both plans in a shared frame. The app states plainly what was measured and what you confirmed by hand β€” it never claims precision it doesn't have. **Export and sharing** A complete ZIP (data, dimensioned PDF plans, photos, installer report) plus a lightweight web page your client opens in a browser without installing anything. You choose what leaves the device: photos, address, location, notes β€” each with its own switch. Location off means location gone, including inside the photo metadata. **Works offline** Surveying, review, plans and ZIP export all work with no network. Online sharing is optional. 3D scanning requires a LiDAR-equipped device (iPhone 12 Pro or later, iPad Pro 2020 or later). On other devices you can still create properties, take photos, import a project and export β€” but not produce a 3D scan.

Screenshots

Materials And Practices4 screens
A3 Atlas Scanner4 screens

Verdict

The call

Materials And Practices and A3 Atlas Scanner are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Materials And Practices versus A3 Atlas Scanner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaterials And PracticesA3 Atlas Scanner
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Every 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.617.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size79 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerriver.io llcAlexandre Bouchard

In-app purchases

None

Materials And Practices

No in-app purchases

None

A3 Atlas Scanner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Materials And Practices free?
Materials And Practices is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is A3 Atlas Scanner free?
A3 Atlas Scanner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Materials And Practices or A3 Atlas Scanner have ads?
Neither Materials And Practices nor A3 Atlas Scanner shows ads.

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