No client installs for anyone. freispace is 100% browser-based. Planners, operators, freelancers and management all get the full feature set in any browser, with no application to install or update.
Intuitive interface, fast to adopt. Home Post Production went from kickoff on 1 October 2025 to full cloud operations by the end of the month, with no dual-running phase. As Olly Strous, Chief Technology Officer of Zinc Media Group, puts it: “The key thing for me is that you don’t need a PhD in the software. It needs to be intuitive from the outset, so people can log in and get up to speed very quickly.”
Real-time visibility. Moving a booking used to mean phone calls, emails, and tab-by-tab updates. With freispace, schedule changes propagate to everyone instantly, in real time.
No per-user fees. Every plan includes unlimited users, projects and resources, so that administrators, planners, employees and freelancers can all gain access without additional charges. Our pricing page is public and transparent.
freispace dashboard on a mobile phone, freispace planner on a laptop, both in dark mode
freispace vs farmerswife at a glance
Last update: 20 August 2026.
Capability
farmerswife
freispace
Deployment
Server-client architecture; vendor-hosted or self-hosted
The full-feature power-user application is a native Mac, Windows or Linux install; a browser Web Client and mobile web client are available for end users. Vendor hosting runs on AWS (source, retrieved 20 August 2026).
Native cloud, browser-based
Hosted on servers in Germany, no VPN, no installation, no server hardware to buy or maintain. Your scheduling data stays in the EU. See our sub-processor list.
Licensing
Per-user pricing
The subscription is ‘calculated based on the number of users’; a one-off perpetual licence for on-premise deployment is also offered (source, retrieved 20 August 2026)
Facility-based pricing, not per user
One subscription per facility, with optional modules and site or entity upgrades priced separately, see pricing page.
Public & transparent pricing
No published price list
farmerswife.com/pricing describes the licence model but publishes no prices, inviting you to ‘get in touch for a tailored quote’ (source, retrieved 20 August 2026)
Team collaboration e.g. comments with @mentions, file sharing
Via Cirkus, a separately priced add-on
Comments, file sharing and team communication are Cirkus features; farmerswife.com/pricing lists ‘Collaboration with Cirkus’ as an Optional Add-On module (retrieved 20 August 2026)
Yes, included
Upload, share and query files with AI across any project or resource. Threaded comments with @mentions on bookings, projects, quotes, invoices and all resource types.
Hallway screens
Not available
No hallway-screen, room-display, signage or kiosk capability appears in farmerswife’s knowledge base, integrations page or release notes as at 20 August 2026; the nearest feature, Web Dashboards (7.3), is a permissioned reporting view behind a login that must be enabled on your licence
Yes
Advanced personnel management e.g. labour and union rules, holidays
Yes, as an add-on
Advanced Personnel Management is a separately priced add-on module (source, retrieved 20 August 2026)
Yes, included
Absence and leave management, working times and time recording are included in every tier (time tracking for 10 users on Focus, unlimited from Frame upwards). Frame and above add absence inquiries and approval workflows. For details, see pricing page.
Equipment Tracking
Yes, as an add-on
Coming soon
Media Library
Yes, as an add-on
Yes, as an add-on
Storage Server Tracking
Not available
No server tracking capability appears in farmerswife’s knowledge base, integrations page or release notes as at 20 August 2026
Yes
CO2e tracking
Announced July 2024 as in development
farmerswife announced at IBC2024 that it “is developing features to enable clients to monitor their carbon emissions impact” (blog.farmerswife.com, 16 July 2024). As at 20 August 2026 the feature appears in no farmerswife release note through 7.4, no knowledge-base article and no product page, and is not mentioned in the IBC2025 or IBC2026 announcements.
"The fw REST API is a licensed feature" and "API support is not part of the normal farmerswife support agreement" (source, 20.08.2026)
Yes, included from Frame upwards
100 API calls and 100 webhooks per month on Frame, 500 of each on Flagship; the Make Connector draws on the same quota. Support is included and the API is fully documented.
MCP Server for AI integration
Available in Cirkus, sold separately
the MCP connector is a Cirkus feature (endpoint cirkus.com/mcp, documented in the Cirkus knowledge base); farmerswife.com/pricing lists ‘Collaboration with Cirkus’ as an Optional Add-On module (retrieved 20 August 2026)
Yes, included in Flagship
our client is public and open source under an MIT licence since 8 November 2025; the server is in beta and Flagship customers request an API key from support
What customers actually say
Bumblebee, the post-production arm of Zinc Media Group, replaced a legacy on-premise scheduling application and a parallel set of Excel sheets with freispace — consolidating London and Glasgow operations under one cloud platform.
“The key thing for me is that you don’t need a PhD in the software. It needs to be intuitive from the outset, so people can log in and get up to speed very quickly. That’s where freispace stood out.”
“Before, if you wanted to move things, there was a latency in answers. Now, those decisions can be made in seconds.”
12
internal businesses served from one platform
250+
staff, suites & resources managed
~60
concurrent projects across sites
Case study
Zinc Media Group unifies operations with freispace
Read the full story of how Bumblebee moved from a legacy on-premise application and Excel sheets to a single cloud-native scheduling platform across London and Glasgow.
Yes. freispace is a fully browser-based, multi-tenant cloud platform. There is no on-premise server to maintain and no VPN required to use it from home, on the road, or across multiple facilities. Teams log in from any device and see the same real-time schedule.
Can freispace handle multi-site post-production?
Yes. freispace is built for multi-site operations. Zinc Media Group’s Bumblebee uses freispace to unify London and Glasgow facilities in a single view, with location filters, permissions-based access, and real-time conflict detection across sites.
How quickly can a facility migrate to freispace?
It depends on how much history you bring across and how many sites you run. Home Post Production replaced its previous scheduling system across the whole business in 30 days. Bumblebee took a different route: a clean “fresh start” — setting a go-live date and rebuilding resources, rooms and kits inside freispace rather than running a two-system data migration. If you are moving off farmerswife, we will scope your data export with you before you commit to a date.
Do freelancers need their own paid licence in freispace?
No per-user licence walls. freispace is priced for the whole facility, so freelancers, edit assistants and external collaborators can be granted permissioned access without buying additional seats. Unlimited users applies to every tier; time tracking is included for 10 users on Focus and for unlimited users from Frame upwards.
Does freispace replace the spreadsheet workarounds running alongside our scheduling system?
Yes. If you still rely on Excel for staff planning, long-form projects or remote sites, freispace consolidates these into a single source of truth, removing the manual cross-referencing between application and spreadsheets that creates double-bookings.
What about reporting and utilisation analytics?
Reporting is built in. Schedulers and management see utilisation across people, rooms, and kit in real time, and Bumblebee uses freispace utilisation data directly in internal reporting.
