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Pin Drop vs fieldmargin
fieldmargin is a well-made, map-first farm management app for planning fields, jobs and records in one place. Pin Drop is not a farm record system. It is the map for teams whose work is spread across many sites and client locations, where the question is where everything is and who covers it.
Territories drawn by hand.
Draw patches on the map with named owners, so coverage and overlap across clients and regions are visible at a glance.
Automatic check-in and check-out.
Notes and photos land against the pin the moment a visit starts or ends, building a location history across every site you attend.
Traffic-aware multi-stop routes.
String a day of calls across several holdings or client sites together and hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
Open, portable data.
Export to CSV, GeoJSON, KML or SHP behind an open API, so the map plugs into whatever else the business runs, including fieldmargin.
One farm, or a patch of them.
fieldmargin is a genuinely good piece of farm software, and it is map-first in a way most farm management tools are not. Fields are drawn as real boundaries rather than rows in a table, and everything hangs off them: jobs and task assignment, input and spray records, herd and grazing tracking, and satellite field health imagery from Sentinel-2 to show where a crop is struggling before anyone walks it.
It works offline on the phone, which matters on a farm with patchy signal, and it is priced around the farm rather than the headcount, so bringing a contractor or an agronomist into the map is not a licensing decision. It is UK-based and independently owned. For running a farm, it earns its place, and Pin Drop does not try to match that agronomy depth.
The difference is what the map is organised around. fieldmargin is organised around a farm. Pin Drop is organised around places, whatever those places happen to be, which is a different shape of problem.
That shows up as soon as the work stops being one holding. Land services and agricultural contracting run across dozens of client sites in a season. Rural surveyors, ecologists and environmental consultants record findings at points scattered across a county. Agricultural sales cover a territory rather than a farm. Estate and land teams track gates, culverts, water troughs, tree work and placed signage across parcels that were never one field boundary.
For that work, the unit is the location, not the crop. Every place becomes a pin holding its own visit history, notes and photos. Territories drawn by hand give each person a named patch so coverage and overlap are visible across a region. Multi-stop routes plan a day of calls across sites with traffic in mind, and offline capture on iPhone and Android keeps that working from a truck with no bars, which is the same condition fieldmargin is built for.
None of this replaces the field records fieldmargin holds. If you farm, keep it. Run Pin Drop alongside it for the wider set of places and assets across the operation, or as the map-first layer for a business whose ground is spread across many owners rather than one.
Side by side
How Pin Drop compares with fieldmargin
The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.
Capability
Pin Drop
fieldmargin
How it works
From job list to one live map of the work.
01
Import what you already have
Bring jobs, sites and assets across from a spreadsheet, CSV or export. However many, they map instantly.
02
Shape it around your work
Tag, group and add the custom fields your operation runs on, by job type, site or engineer.
03
Put it in the engineers' hands
Everyone works from the same live map on the phone they carry. A visit logged on site shows up in the office without an update being sent.
Why field teams switch
Less chasing, less overlap, less admin.
One shared truth
Every job, site and visit on one map, so office and field are never out of sync.
Clear ownership
Know who covers what and where, without a spreadsheet to keep current.
No duplicated visits
Everyone sees what has already been done, so two people don't attend the same site.
Less admin
No double entry and no status meeting to find out where things stand.
Add Pin Drop alongside fieldmargin.
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Sectors represented
Amazon
Nike
Adobe
Oracle
Pfizer
Nestlé
PepsiCo
Mars
Walmart
Whole Foods
M&S
Mastercard
Capital One
Barclays
AT&T
Toyota
Volvo
Bosch
Bayer
BASF
Philips
UPS
Kuehne+Nagel
BT Group
NHS
Abbott
ADP
Cargill
Veolia
Paramount
Made to fit
Built around your operation.
Shaped to your team
Route a van between sites, record what happened at each, or see the whole region at a glance. The pieces are the same, how you assemble them is yours.
No big bang
Import what you have, invite who needs it and work from the phone in their pocket. No migration project, no training week, nothing to switch off first.
FAQS
Questions you might have
How is Pin Drop different from fieldmargin?
fieldmargin is farm management software organised around a farm: field boundaries, jobs, input and spray records, grazing and satellite field health. Pin Drop is organised around places, wherever they are. It is the map for work spread across many sites, client locations and land parcels, shared with your team by role, on mobile and desktop.
Can I use Pin Drop alongside fieldmargin?
Yes, and for most farms that is the sensible setup. Keep fields, jobs and crop records in fieldmargin. Use Pin Drop for the wider set of places and assets across the operation, and for work that crosses several holdings or client sites. Both keep notes and photos against each location.
Can I import my locations into Pin Drop?
Yes. Bring your locations in from spreadsheets, Google Maps or a GIS export, organise them into shared maps and add notes, photos and visits against each pin. Export to CSV, GeoJSON, KML or SHP whenever you want them back out.
Is Pin Drop a good fieldmargin alternative?
It depends what you need. If the job is running a farm's fields, inputs and crop records, fieldmargin goes deeper and Pin Drop does not try to match it. If the job is a shared map of sites, assets and territories across many locations or clients, Pin Drop is built for that and is a strong fit.
How much does Pin Drop cost?
Pin Drop has a free plan and paid plans billed per seat. See the pricing page for current plans. Support is not a paid upgrade: every plan gets a response from the team within one business day. fieldmargin pricing is separate and changes over time, so check their site.
