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 Comparison Table of the Best 7 Free and Open Source Farm Management Software

ERPNExt, Granular, FarmBrite are irrelevant to us because they are only cloud-hosted. We are unable to modify it. EDIT: ERPNExt can be self-hosted!

farmOS

  • active development
  • Good User Documentation
  • Good Tech Documentation Link

farmOS

  • current stable: 7.x-1.7
  • newest: 2.0.0-alpha1 (April 2021)
  • web-based application for farm management, planning, and record keeping
  • aims to provide a standard platform to build upon
  • Tech Stack:
    • Drupal (PHP)
    • RESTAPI
  • Mapping
  • Event Logging
  • Asset Management:
    • Platings
    • Sensors
    • Compost
  • Inventory Tracking
  • Multiple Users

farmOS-client

  • lightweight application for connecting to a farmOS server ram any mobile device
  • hybrid-app (browser + native (iOS/Android))
  • day-to-day and in-the-field record-keeping that stores data locally for offline use, and syncs back to a farmOS server when internet access is available
  • Tech Stack:
    • Vue
    • Cordova

farmOS.js

  • JavaScript Library for fetching data from farmOS Server
  • currently unstable (intended for FarmOS-client)
  • Tech Stack:
    • JS
    • Axios
  • in development
  • also available for python Repo

Tania

  • No active development on the latest version (last commit 17 Oct 2020)
  • Currently v2.0 in development
  • Tech Stack:
    • Go
    • MySQL
    • NodeJS
    • Vue
    • Bootstrap
  • User Documentation
  • No Tech Documentation
  • Good IoT integration
  • Tasks
  • Production
  • Inventories
  • Crop Tracking

AgroSense

  • AgroSense (TLS-Cert expired)
  • Less crop managment
  • More health / soil management
  • Repo somewhere on BitBucket but I could not access it (maybe new account needed)
  • Bad website near to no information

LiteFarm

  • Tech-Stack:
    • Postgres
    • React
    • Node
    • Express
    • Docker
  • No real documentation (some (very few) inline comments)
  • Mobile Optimized
  • Tasks + Notfications
  • simple + “map-based” interface
  • operations, inventory, and payroll
  • audits and verifications easy by inviting verification
    • I´m currently not sure if everyone can be invited or just some specific ones
    • The website just mentioned the organic certification
    • Is this an international standard? I don't know.
  • The website has not that much information on it
  • Seems modern and simple
  • Will need some time to get it modified because of the missing documentation

ERPNext

  • Made for many different working areas
  • Agriculture one of them
  • Active development
  • Tech Stack:
    • Python
    • MariaDB
    • JavaScript
    • Docker
    • Traefik
    • NGINX
  • Some documentation for customizing
    • Most customization over the GUI
  • 70+ Analysis Criteria (Get analytics for crops, plants, soil, water, and weather. ERPNext helps record not only your crops and fertilizers but also orders and invoices.)
  • Crop Cycle
  • Location / Mapping
  • Multilingual
  • No out of the box sensor integration
    • Python
    • JS
    • REST API
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