Forest Metrix 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Forest Metrix

4.4

(14)

Pricing

Starting at $800.00 per year

About Forest Metrix

Forest Metrix Pro is a forest inventory application that is compatible with iOS mobile and tablet devices. This solution is suitable for timber cruisers, foresters, and other forest sample data collectors and can be hosted on the cloud or on hardware. Additionally, the Urban Forest Metrix app is designed for arborists, cities, and tree care professionals. Both apps offer tools for inventory management, data collection, workflow management, detailed reporting, plus more. The solution's proprietary mapping system is designed to work with Google Earth, ArcGIS, camera, and email applications.

Forest Metrix Pro allows professionals to collect tree data while working in the field. Custom merch specs allow for product specifications to be set by species. Detailed reports can be shared with others or printed directly from the Forest Metrix Pro app. Other features include tree appraisals, maps, risk assessments, plus other customized tools.

Pricing information is provided by Forest Metrix. Support is available via phone, email, and other online measures.

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Forest Metrix Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $800.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Pro License

$800.00

flat rate, per year

Plan includes:

Better Field Info
Customer Views Considered
Custom Merch Specs
Easy Touchscreen
Hardware Support
Pro Reports

Pro Plus License

$1,200.00

flat rate, per year

Plan includes:

Better Field Info
Customer Views Considered
Custom Merch Specs
Easy Touchscreen
Hardware Support
Pro Plus Reports
Pro Reports

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Forest Metrix Features

Popular features found in Forestry
Cost Accounting
Financial Management
For Forest Industry
Harvest Management
Inventory Management
Order Processing
Production Tracking
Reporting & Statistics
Transportation Management
More features of Forest Metrix
Billing & Invoicing
CRM
Customizable Fields
Customizable Reports
Customizable Templates
Data Collection
Geographic Maps
GPS
Inventory Tracking
Photos/Images
Pricing Management
Quotes/Estimates
Remote Access/Control
Reporting/Analytics
Routing
Search/Filter
Vegetation Mapping
Weight Calculations
Workflow Management

Forest Metrix Integrations

Google Workspace

Forest Metrix User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

57%

29%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.8

Functionality

4.5

Dana D.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

very intuitive software. I really like the fact that it is used on an iphone app!

Saves time with data processing

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great product for a reasonable price. The fact that it is an app on the iphone means I don't have to purchase an additional hand held data collector.

Cons:

I wish I could save templates for common reports that I write. I have to paste data into excel spreadsheets every time I prepare reports

Andy N.

Verified reviewer

Environmental Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2023

Forest Metrix

I’ve had a great experience with Tig and the rest of the staff at Forest Metrix. They’re very responsive when any issues have come up. I’d highly recommend both them and the FM system to anybody!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The FM system and customer support is excellent.

Cons:

Nothing! I’ve had a great experience with them.

Aaron E.

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2017

Promising from the beginning but has not improved in areas that present challenges for me...

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Great charts and tables A lot of options if you know how to use them If you are technically savvy, then this is the way to go!

Cons:

Keeping up with FileMaker and program updates that change the page layout and some of the formatting is a minor inconvenience.

Verified

Reviewer

Environmental Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Best option for WYSIWYG

WYSIWYG coding is really tricky, and I think they still have plenty of bugs to work out. Overall though, it's a good option for small nonprofits. I wouldn't use it if I had any budget to hire a real designer unless they knew how to go in there and code things so I could just use the user-friendly interface.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

You can make really attractive, professional-looking websites without much design experience. They have some really good templates.

Cons:

It's hard to make any changes to the templates, and it can be hard to figure out how the templates work and finagling them to make your site look as good as the demo. You can't change things like header photo size, which I want control over. And as you're making changes to your site with a new template, it publishes all of those changes to the current live site even though it says it won't.

Jacob T.

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Great features, easy to use, great quality, and customer support is excellent.

It has helped save time in the office. I can calculate everything right in the field with the tap of a finger. Even estimated values of the timber.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

So many features and functions, and after playing with it, to get to know the software, very easy to use. And you can use it on your ipad, which is great with mapping apps and built in gps.

Cons:

It takes a few trial runs to get to know the software, which it does with any new piece of equipment. Some of the excel reports might scare you at first, but they can be customized to fit your needs.

Patrick H.

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

This software has saved me a lot of time from woods to office. It has everything that I need.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It has everything you need in a forestry software and the fact that you can use it on a device like and iPad of iPhone that you can use outside of forestry makes it that much more useful. It is very simple to use and accomplish all of my goals and it is a very good program to use. Very nice user interface on a big screen.

Cons:

The only downside is the gps capability. It is by no means bad, but I find I need to use another gps to accomplish everything I would need a gps to do. The gps functionality is limited to the inventory. I have had no issues getting gps data off of the software.

Charles C.

Environmental Services

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

I've used Forest Metrix as. Consulting Forester for 4 years. I consider it an excellent investment.

Able to keep all timber cruising services in house. No need to farm out this service...regardless of size of land base. 10 acres and up. Everything I need to setup a cruise is on my tablet (Ipad) no need to plan a cruise entirely in the office..can setup. software and cruise on the fly.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use for inclusion of graphs and tables into forest management plans. Excellent customer service. On the fly stats tell me when I've collected enough cruise points to satisfy requirements landowner or governing entities.

Cons:

Any issues have been easilly rectified with customer service. Makes it hard when out in the field and experience an issue.

Darton D.

Verified reviewer

Environmental Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed April 2018

Works Well On Apple Devices

Increased productivity.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

I like its easy to use interface and display layout. The reports it is able to produce are also really useful and easy.

Cons:

I don't like its lack of functionality outside of iPhones and iPads. It is fairly costly, but it does do what it purports to well.

Alex B.

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

I use Forest Metrix for a range of work- from sampling for forest management plans to tallying trees

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple, logical, straightforward interface. You can take pictures associated with plots. Moving plots between stands is easy.

Cons:

It is currently difficult to collate non-tree data from sample points. Exporting photos is difficult and they aren't tagged by plot.

Bruce W.

Environmental Services

Self-Employed

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed February 2018

Consulting forester working with smaller parcels

Works very well with the way I like to do things.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use in the field and customization for my own methodology. Very wide choice of features. The power of using an iPad and all of its compatibility.

Cons:

Excel spreadsheet requires considerable knowledge of the software. Had a fairly steep learning curve, and it still takes more time in the office than I expected.

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