# Forage - Wild Free Food — user reviews > 26 indexed App Store user reviews of Forage by Essence Computing, rated 2.30/5 from 3 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forage-wild-free-food/id429622587/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/forage-wild-free-food/id429622587.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 2 ## Newest reviews (6 of 26) ### 2/5 — Limited *2016-08-31* Disappointingly limited list before they want you to buy expansions in-app. Buy a good herbal book instead. ### 1/5 — Poor *2015-06-15* This app is useless. You could fit the information in it on A5 flyer. ### 1/5 — What jokes *2012-04-26, version 1.2* This app is terrible there's hardly any plants and they try and milk you for more money buy adding 10 more plants. If u pay! Wish I had not wasted my money on something with so little material AVOID! ### 2/5 — Not much in this app *2012-02-13* I don't know if I had lofty expectations for $1.99, but for a paid app, I think I would get a little more content. Pros- The app is simple and the pictures are nice and would be helpful in identifying plants when out and about. Cons- The map feature appears to be useless. There was absolutely no content on it. I could not add my own markers on the map or anything. Also, a picture browser was missing. Maybe I don't know the name of a plant in my yard, but want to check if it is edible? I have to read every plants description individually. Lame. I would suggest the developers allow users to plot found edibles on the map, and also contribute to the content ala Wikipedia . This could be a cool app, but it let me down a little. This is the first review I have ever felt compelled to write ### 1/5 — Not good at the moment *2011-06-21* Downloaded this app and was very disappointed. The map function did not work and all the data I had put in was lost. I hope things will improve as I think on the whole it will be a good useful app. ### 2/5 — Mushrooms? *2011-05-18* Beautiful photos. They thought to include both leaf and flower. Only has about 30 plants and missing what I forage for most - mushrooms. There is a search but terms don't seem to match what I'm looking for and not enough plants to be helpful. Needs "not to be confused with" info because many plants look like others that are not edible. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What in the actual F?! *2024-10-19* This is a complete piece of crap app. Do not waste your $0.99 on it. Worthless. Not even basic functionality. -10 stars ### 1/5 — Useless *2021-09-05* Don’t waste your money! ### 1/5 — Rip off!!! *2020-07-18* It couldn’t even identify bitter melon! The app also wants to charge you for extra “packs” of 10 plant id’s, each pack is an additional $.99 each!!! I should have listened to the original reviewer who said it was thin. Don’t waste your money. This app is very unintuitive and inflexible. Uninstalled immediately. **Developer response:** Thanks for telling me it does not identify a plant that does not even grow properly in the country I am from and that I do not consider a wild food. I am trying to provide an App that identifies plants that are generally considered weeds and not usually cultivated. Bitter lemon is cultivated and so in my humble opinion does not belong in my App. ### 1/5 — Deception *2020-05-09* Very poor, hardly any plants covered and you have to pay another subscription for very 10 plants or so ............ **Developer response:** I have to charge for all new plants added or I cannot afford to continually update the App. ### 1/5 — Forage *2019-09-05* Garbage. Gives about 40 plants and if you want more it’s extra cost. Wish I had never bothered and deleting it from my phone. **Developer response:** Sorry to hear you do not like the App and think 40 plants is not enough. I need to charge for additional plants or else I cannot afford to update the App. It takes considerable time and effort to collate the information for each plant. ### 1/5 — Very thin info *2019-06-27* I don’t feel good paying for this. There isn’t much here. **Developer response:** I don't believe the information provided is thin. I have included enough information to identify plants when you are out and about. I could have included reams of information that would have just confused the identification of the plants. ### 1/5 — Not good *2019-05-20* Good idea but overall very disappointing app. Not impressed , would like a refund. ### 1/5 — This is very poor *2017-09-24* For a ### 1/5 — Possibly the worst app I have. *2016-08-14* Looking for an app to go foraging with and thought this would do the trick, how wrong was I? It needs a serious rebuild to let users see what foods are available near them as opposed to locating a particular food from a long list. ### 1/5 — DON'T BUY!! *2015-07-29* I can't believe I paid money for this. It's so bad I'm not even going to go through everything but it's so inaccurate or simply doesn't find your answer... Then asks if you want to purchase info on what it could be. AVOID COMPLETELY!! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I don’t know why so much hate *2024-10-18* I don’t understand why there’s so much hate for this app, it’s simple, provides enough information for my brain to digest for the wilderness and lets me know what I can eat. Perfect for me at-least. ### 5/5 — Great Foraging App *2024-03-18* Ideal as a quick reference when out and about, photos are clear, descriptions or how to prepare or leave alone. I particularly like the Red Banner which contains the words of caution. ### 5/5 — Jay toms *2013-06-09* Watch out when you buy this app they make you pay for more plant species it not a comprehensive list. ### 5/5 — Handy app *2011-12-23* I haven't really been foraging since I was a kid so this is a really handy app for a 'novice'. I particularly like the search facility where you can define certain characteristics using a checklist to identify your find. Nice, simple & clean app. ### 4/5 — Needs more plants *2019-06-06* Quite good but really needs a lot more plants ! We get more info from YouTube! **Developer response:** Youtube is good if you know what the plant already is but this app aims to identify plants you don't know. ### 4/5 — Brilliant *2011-11-12* Hey no joke I purchased this on the pretence it was going to be another rubbish app, but to my surprise it beat loads of my other books on foraging. The photographs are super clear and it's obvious this producer of this app knows his stuff. The gripe I have with it at the moment is there needs to be more items but I hope they will come later in an update. Trust me I have been studying a fair few hardback books and still had trouble identifying certain things. Also you are going to get the moaners about the layout and as such but I'm sure this producer will act on his reviews and sort it out. This as far as I'm concerned is the bees knees in identification.......thank you sir or madam for making this app. Ps please do more items. Thank you. ### 4/5 — This is a neat app with potential. *2011-04-12* The only improvements I can think of, besides adding more plants, would be implementing a way to search by region, or by plant features (leaf shape, number of flower petals, etc). I will definitely be sharing this with my foraging friends! ### 3/5 — Could be better *2017-09-07* The information u get is good but it's very limited. Costs to get more plants then possibly costs again and again. Who knows? ### 3/5 — Good but.... *2011-09-03* The map function will be handy. There is more detailed description of the plants than a lot of apps I've found. Such as leaf structure etc Also the ability to search by leaf shape, flowers etc is really handy!! Easy to use and you can zoom in on pictures. What's stopping this app get 5 stars is it's incredibly limited on the amount of wild food there is!! There's what? Two dozen food on the app?! Really needs a lot more added!!! ### 2/5 — Not good *2017-12-05* Doesn’t allow you to add your own location, without selecting from a limited list first. Does point towards a money making exercise --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*