Best Apps for Crop Monitoring in 2026: 9 Options Compared

FieldView is Bayer's digital farming platform. Its Basic plan is $0 a year and covers support, a data inbox, account sharing and FieldView Cab app connectivity. Plus starts at $649 a year and lists Field Health Imagery, Image Enhanced Scouting, Field Historical Weather, Field Weather Forecast, Yield Analysis and reports.

For monitoring, that Plus list is the one that matters. It lets you spot weak areas from imagery and then scout them with record-based tools. FieldView says it works with more than 60 partners and most equipment types.

The honest catch is fit. If you want satellite pictures of a few fields and nothing else, a lighter tool will cost less. If you already run machines that feed FieldView, the imagery sits next to your yield data.

OneSoil moved its mobile scouting app to a freemium model in May 2026. The free tier covers every field and season in your workspace, with the latest cloud-free field image (NDVI, moisture and satellite views), a virtual weather station, a one-hour rain map and field notes with photos and locations.

Paid mobile plans add week-by-week season history, a four-hour rain forecast, spraying window suggestions and field boundary download. Price depends on your region and the total area of unique fields, in Small, Medium and Large packages. Quarterly plans include a one-week trial and monthly plans do not.

Separately, OneSoil Pro is a web tool for variable rate application maps and productivity zones, and OneSoil sells an AI Agronomist that ranks fields by need for attention. We could not see a fixed price for either, so check the app.

EOSDA offers the deepest analysis of the satellite tools here. Its product page lists crop health monitoring from Sentinel-2 and PlanetScope imagery, 10 vegetation indices, growth stage tracking based on the BBCH scale, risk maps for disease and weather, variable rate maps, a field activity log, weather history and forecasts, and John Deere Operations Center integration.

A free option exists. The product page invites you to monitor your fields at no cost with a sign-up, but we could not confirm its field or area limit. Paid tiers are called Essential (up to 1,000 hectares, about 2,470 acres), Professional (you choose the area and pay per extra hectare) and Enterprise (custom, for farms over 5,000 hectares and advisors).

It suits consultants and growers who want indices beyond a simple green map. The downside is that prices are not listed where we looked.

Bushel Farm (formerly FarmLogs) is more of a farm management tool than a pure monitoring app, but its monitoring pieces are useful. The $75 a year Rainfall plan sends rainfall for the fields you map in the continental US, and the $199 Lite plan adds rain and heat history, a monthly rainfall report and scouting.

Satellite imagery comes with the $599 Essentials plan, together with profit and loss, work orders and machine data connections. A 30-day trial covers all features.

If rainfall and scouting notes are your main need, Bushel is cheaper than most imagery tools. If you want vegetation indices, the satellite-first apps above go further.

Pix4Dfields turns drone photos into maps for plant stand, crop health and variable rate prescriptions. Pix4D's pricing page lists it from $111 a month, with a free 15-day plan that needs no credit card. Subscriptions can renew monthly, yearly or every three years.

It processes on your own machine, even offline in the field. It outputs orthomosaics, zonation maps, measurements and spot-spraying or prescription maps, and a Magic tool identifies weeds for spot spraying. Export to ISOXML and John Deere Operations Center is supported.

You need a drone and a laptop, and there is no phone app listed. Drone imagery is far sharper than satellite images, which matters for plant counts and weed patches.

DroneDeploy splits its farm offer into Aerial for flights and Ground for scouting. Automated flights map fields, and the platform produces NDVI and other plant-health indices, stand counts and drainage models. It exports management zones and variable rate shapefiles.

Ground scouting includes 360 capture, notes and photos on the field map, and works offline before syncing. DroneDeploy lists more than 80 integrations through its app market, including Climate FieldView and Esri.

Pricing is by quote and the page offers a demo rather than a trial. That makes it better for farms and service providers planning regular flights than for one-off checks.

EO Browser is a general-purpose satellite viewer from Sentinel Hub. It is free to open, offers prepared views such as true color, false color, NDVI and EVI, and lets you build custom indices. Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 are the examples it names, and commercial sources like PlanetScope are also listed.

Time-lapse animations require an account, as do high-resolution downloads, saved pins and measurements. The time-lapse tool caps out at 300 images and cloud filtering is at scene level, so some frames will be cloudy.

Use it if you want to see a field's history with no subscription. Do not expect field boundaries, task lists or alerts. It is a viewer, not a farm app.

Agrio focuses on plant protection. Its site says AI warns you about diseases and pests expected in your region and suggests preventive steps. You can also upload a plant photo for diagnosis.

It adds satellite-based remote sensing for vegetation issues, plot-level weather including growing degree days and chill hours, digital scouting reports and pest life-cycle tracking. Teams can share plots, which suits advisors working with several growers.

A free plant health check is offered, but the page does not state what the subscription costs or which crops are covered. Ask before you commit if you grow something unusual.

Plantix is a diagnosis app, not a field monitor. You photograph a sick plant and the app suggests the problem and treatments. Its site calls it the number one free app for crop diagnosis, which is the company's own claim, and says it has answered more than 100 million crop questions.

The app also has an expert community, a disease library and a product marketplace. The Plantix page links to Google Play, and we could not confirm an iPhone version.

Use it as a quick second opinion in the field. It will not draw your field boundaries or track vegetation over a season.