Libra Cart Classic vs Scale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Libra Cart Classic
This app wirelessly connects to grain cart hardware to automatically track and record harvest data in real-time. It manages unload details, field information, truck assignments, and inventory, with offline capabilities and cloud backup.
- Automatic unload detection
- Offline data collection
- Track fields, trucks, and destinations
- Inventory management
- Combine yield monitor calibration
- Flexible unit display
- Share and export data
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Get the new Libra Harvest app instead, available for download here: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/libra-harvest/id6502125511 Libra Cart is a full-featured grain cart scale and harvest management system. The Libra Cart hardware connects to your grain cart's load cells and wirelessly communicates with the Libra Cart Classic app through Bluetooth®. It automatically detects and records every unload from your grain cart without additional sensors, providing accurate, real-time harvest data on your tablet or smartphone — no need to press any buttons or write anything down. The Libra Cart Classic app provides these features and more: 1. Automatic Unload Detection: Automatically saves the date, time, GPS location, and weight of every unload. 2. Record Offline: Collects and saves harvest data into the app whether or not your mobile device is connected to the Internet. 3. Track Fields, Trucks, Destinations: View totals and weight transactions for every field, truck, and destination (bins, bags, elevators, contracts). 4. Manage Inventory: Transfer amounts from one destination to another to track what has been moved or sold. 5. Calibrate the Combine's Yield Monitor: View live weights and individually tare within Bluetooth® range to keep an eye on things or easily calibrate the yield monitor in the combine. 6. Flexible Unit Display: Display weights and totals in pounds, kilograms or bushels. 7. Flexible Field Management: Create and edit field, truck, destination names and weight transactions on the fly. 8. Share and Export Data: Automatically backup your harvest data to the cloud.
Scale
This app helps farmers track harvest data directly from the field. It allows users to view yield totals, manage inventory, monitor truck loads, and track storage capacity using Bluetooth connectivity. Integrates with scale indicators and offers remote scale management.
- Record infinite yield totals
- Manage truck inventory and loads
- Track storage capacity
- View load location coordinates
- Multiple grain cart support
- Automatic data sync to web portal
- Remote scale management
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REAP helps farmers track harvest information directly from the field. REAP pairs with the POINT® scale indicator to view yield totals, manage inventory, track truck loads and monitor storage capacity. Long range Bluetooth® wireless technology allows multiple users to receive live weight readings directly from the grain cart up to 1000 feet away. Features: -Record an infinite number of yield totals from the field. -Know the current inventory of your trucks - reconcile your truck loads and never overload or underload a truck again. -Track storage totals and current capacities. -View location coordinates of loads and unloads (requires GPS accessory) -Conversion to dry bushel through moisture integrations. -Multiple grain cart support to stay connected with all activities in the field. -Operator names let you know who is operating a grain cart and who made the record. -Loads collected in the REAP app are synced automatically with the REAP web portal to manage and generate the reports you need back at the office. -Change the selected Grain Cart, Field, Truck, and Destination from the seat of the combine. -Remotely see and tare the scale on the grain cart up to 1000 feet away. -Edit a load record directly from the field or from the web portal. -Pairs with your POINT scale indicator via Bluetooth® wireless technology. -Add the PROX™ harvest sensor to automate load transfer recognition and data recording. -Supports integrations with the John Deere Operations Center.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Libra Cart Classic at 75% against Scale's 0%. Libra Cart Classic also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16). Scale's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.9). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Scale holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 10 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Libra Cart Classic's written reviews are positive against 0% of Scale's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Libra Cart Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, Scale every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Libra Cart Classic | Scale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (11 ratings) | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bitstrata Systems Inc. | Scale-Tec |
Customer experience
Libra Cart Classic
Scale
In-app purchases
Libra Cart Classic
No in-app purchases
Scale
No in-app purchases
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