Valley® BaseStation3™ vs Cropwise Sustainability
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Valley® BaseStation3™
Manage your farm's irrigation system remotely with this comprehensive solution. Gain unprecedented control over your operation through an intuitive interface, receiving instant status updates and alerts. Features include enhanced end gun control for precise management.
- Remote irrigation control
- Intuitive user interface
- Instant status updates
- Alarm and alert management
- Enhanced end gun control
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Take control of your farm with BaseStation3™ from Valley® Irrigation. BaseStation3 is the most comprehensive, flexible, state-of-the-art irrigation management solution available, giving you unprecedented control over your operation. Features include: • Remote control and management of your irrigation operation. • Intuitive, easy-to-use interface • Instant, at-a-glance status updates • Alarm and alert management • Enhanced end gun control
Cropwise Sustainability
Assess your farm's sustainability performance with this app. Benchmark your operations against global standards and partners, and get greenhouse gas estimates. Generate reports to share with value chain partners.
- Sustainability performance assessment
- Global benchmarking
- Greenhouse gas estimation
- Value chain comparison
- Sustainability reports
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Understand your sustainability performance across your agriculture operation in a snap in Cropwise Sustainability. Conduct your reporting against a globally-benchmarked standard with ease through the mobile app. Use the default framework to self-assess your performance, or unlock your value chain or other partner to see how your operation benchmarks against others. Get a rapid greenhouse gas estimate via an integration with Cool Farm tool, reducing data entry. Get a comprehensive view of your opportunities to improve across your operation, and access to sustainability reports to share with buyers and other value chain partners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cropwise Sustainability at 100% against Valley® BaseStation3™'s 33%. Cropwise Sustainability also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.6). Valley® BaseStation3™'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Cropwise Sustainability holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Valley® BaseStation3™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Cropwise Sustainability's.
Valley® BaseStation3™ ships an update every 2 months, Cropwise Sustainability every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Valley® BaseStation3™ | Cropwise Sustainability |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (11 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Valmont Industries, Inc. | Syngenta Digital LTDA |
Customer experience
Valley® BaseStation3™
Cropwise Sustainability
In-app purchases
Valley® BaseStation3™
No in-app purchases
Cropwise Sustainability
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Valley® BaseStation3™ free?
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