Mycelia: Mushroom Journal

Mycelia has changed its mind about one thing: who decides what a mushroom is. It's you. The app is a notebook, not an expert — and this release makes that true everywhere, not just in the small print. YOU NAME THE FIND • Photograph a mushroom and go straight to your own field note. Nothing guesses at it first. • The green button is now "Pin it" — it opens the camera and pins the spot, and that's all it claims to do. • Home opens on your own foraging map once you've logged a few spots. EDIBILITY IS YOURS TO SET • Every find carries the label you gave it — edible, unsure, toxic, or nothing at all, which is the default. • Mycelia never fills it in and never checks it. • Where we hold reference material, it's shown as "what field guides say", clearly marked as theirs. • Look-alike warnings are unchanged and still lead: they're the part that protects you. AI SUGGESTIONS ARE NOW OFF BY DEFAULT • Turn them on in Settings if you want a second opinion. Left off, no photo ever leaves your phone. • When on, suggestions are offered after you've written up a find — never before. • They return species names to go and check. No edibility verdict, and no confidence percentage dressed up as certainty. SAFETY • The poison-control number now matches your country instead of always showing a US line, and you can set your own. • A one-time acknowledgement at first launch, so nobody meets this app without knowing what it won't do. Mycelia does not identify mushrooms and will never tell you something is safe to eat. Misidentification can be fatal — always confirm with a printed field guide and someone who knows the species where you forage.