Comparison

Mobile Flora vs BWP

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mobile Flora

A comprehensive plant identification guide featuring detailed descriptions, photos, and illustrations of over 400 wild flowers. Discover their uses, folklore, and create your personal digital herbarium by mapping your observations.

Highlights
  • Detailed plant descriptions
  • Extensive photo and illustration library
  • Plant uses (food, medicine, schnapps)
  • Folklore and stories section
  • Personal herbarium creation
  • Advanced plant search filters
Features
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Mobile Flora is a modern guide to plants. It has several easy ways of finding the plants that you want to know more about. The app presents each plant with many details like Latin name, size, habitat, flowering period, and characteristics. You can also see which plants are suited for spiced schnapps, food, and medicine. Superstition and stories surrounding many of the plants can be found in the Folklore section of the app. You can create your own herbarium by adding flower observations to the map in the app. The app contains: - 400 descriptions of plants - More than 2,600 photos - More than 350 descriptive illustrations - Lists of plants ordered by families, species, biotopes, and many more - Advanced plant search by colours, petal count, and season - Herbarium for your own observations

About

BWP

This comprehensive reference app provides detailed information on birds of the Western Palearctic. It features extensive data on species, including field characters, habitat, breeding, and behavior, enhanced with illustrations, songs, videos, and maps.

Highlights
  • 1,056 species covered
  • 5,473 illustrations
  • 1,066 songs and calls
  • 916 videos
  • 643 distribution maps
  • Updated taxonomy and new species
Features
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Birds of the Western Palearctic – BWP – is the definitive reference for everyone with a serious interest in birding and ornithology. Fifteen years ago we published all 11 printed volumes on DVD-ROM. Now we have fully overhauled this renowned BWPi for iOS and macOS. We have refreshed the design, breathed new life into the plates, added a comprehensive video library, integrated unique breeding birds content and updated taxonomy with new species and splits. Comprehensive coverage of every species that regularly occurs in the region, with sections on Field Characters, Habitat, Breeding, Distribution, Population, Movements, Social Pattern and Behaviour, Voice, Food, Plumages, Moults, Measurements and Geographical Variation. The app covers every species known to have occurred within the region, and we will be updating the app as new species occur (latest is Horned Puffin!). BWP integrates with Collins Bird Guide app so that you can switch between the two seamlessly. • 1,056 species covered • 5,473 illustrations • 1,066 songs and calls • 916 videos • 643 distribution maps • 10,176 photos of breeding stages • 1,557 line drawings showing behaviour • 288 life cycle diagrams • 2,446 tables • 37,690 references • 5,250,000 words of text! • Species names are translated into 25 languages The distribution and population data have not been updated since BWP was originally published, and some species have changed significantly since then. Compare species is available on iPad only.

Screenshots

Mobile Flora4 screens
BWP4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: BWP at 64% against Mobile Flora's 0%. Mobile Flora's advantage is price ($4.99 vs $35.99) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.5). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mobile Flora costs $4.99 and BWP $35.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mobile Flora ships an update every 5 weeks, BWP every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mobile Flora versus BWP: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMobile FloraBWP
Price$4.99 — better$35.99
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews64.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size229 MB3.3 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLET Software ApSNatureGuides Ltd.

Customer experience

Mobile Flora

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

BWP

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive64.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative28.0%

In-app purchases

None

Mobile Flora

No in-app purchases

None

BWP

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mobile Flora free?
Mobile Flora costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is BWP free?
BWP costs $35.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mobile Flora or BWP have ads?
Neither Mobile Flora nor BWP shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mobile Flora or BWP?
Mobile Flora ships an update every 5 weeks, and BWP every 2 months. Most recently, Mobile Flora was updated on November 2, 2026 and BWP on November 2, 2026.

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