Farm Manager
Farm Manager is a business utility for smallholder dairy farmers to track growth and profitability metrics on iOS.
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The tool removes the cognitive cost of manual record-keeping for farmers participating in the Fonterra development program.
For Smallholder dairy farmers participating in Fonterra Global Dairy Development programs.
What does it look like?
Key features
Tools for smallholder farmers to log and monitor dairy business growth and profitability metrics, serving as a data collection tool for supply chain monitoring.
Dashboard for tracking business profitability indicators, enabling data-driven insights for the Fonterra development program.
How much does it cost?
The application is distributed as a free utility, funded by Fonterra to support their dairy development initiatives.
Velocity
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Farm Manager has been inactive for 2,714 days, indicating the project has been abandoned by its developer. There have been no feature updates, bug fixes, or live operations content added to the platform in over seven years. The development momentum is non-existent, and the app remains in a zombie state.
Who built it?
DMS Software Engineering (Pvt)
2 apps tracked · Business
DMSHRIS HayleysUser Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for Farm Manager
How's the Business market?
Farm Manager occupies a closed-loop niche within the Business category, serving a specific corporate development program rather than the open market. The 2,714-day gap since the last store update confirms its status as a legacy utility rather than a competitive product.
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Key takeaways for Farm Manager
Where is it heading?
The outlook for Farm Manager is stable, as it functions as a legacy utility for a specific corporate program. Continued operation depends entirely on the parent organization's internal requirements, with no indication of future feature expansion or market-facing development.
- The 7-year update hiatus confirms the app is in permanent maintenance mode, serving a fixed internal data-collection job.
The SWOT
- Proprietary distribution via Fonterra program
- Offline-first sync for rural connectivity
Next best moves
Audit current backend compatibility because the app has not received an update in 7 years → prevent service failure
The counter-intuitive read
The lack of updates is not a failure but a success…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The application's strategic status shifted from a recommendation to sunset the asset to a decision to maintain it, despite the lack of feature development. No functional or market-facing changes occurred.
Bottom line
The application serves as a static data-collection utility for a corporate program, and its long-term viability rests on the parent organization's internal data needs rather than market performance.
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Is Farm Manager free to use?
Who should use Farm Manager?
Does Farm Manager receive regular updates?
Sources
- [1] App Store
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