Olympic Wildflowers vs WCUTrees
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Olympic Wildflowers
Identify and discover plants found in Olympic National Park. Provide details like location, flower color, and season to find matching species. The app features over 1,300 plant types, including wildflowers, trees, and mosses.
- Identify 1,342 plant species
- Filter by location, color, and season
- Detailed plant categories
- Discover wildflowers, trees, and mosses
- Olympic National Park focus
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The App includes 1,342 species of plants found in the Olympic National Park. Overall, 654 are "Wildflowers", 103 are shrubs, 37 are broadleaf trees, 16 are conifers, 10 are vines, 126 are grass-like, 41 are fern-like, 180 are moss-like, 102 are seaweed and 112 are lichen. This App helps find and identify plants. When you give the App information about a plant, such as its location, flower color and the time of year, the App will quickly show you which plants match your selections.
WCUTrees
Discover and learn about trees on Western Carolina University's campus. Use the map to locate specific trees or explore those nearby. Access detailed information including common and scientific names, plus interesting facts about each species.
- Tree identification
- Campus map view
- Tree details (common/scientific name, facts)
- Explore on-campus or at home
- Learn about various tree types
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WCUTrees is your guide for learning and identifying any type of tree on Western Carolina University's campus! Explore and learn about many of the trees, on-campus, or at home. Use the map-view to see which trees you are close to, or to find one specifically. View details of each tree - learn their common name, scientific name, and a few facts about each!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Olympic Wildflowers at every 4 months against WCUTrees's every 12 months. Olympic Wildflowers also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). WCUTrees's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Olympic Wildflowers against 5.0 for WCUTrees. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WCUTrees has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Olympic Wildflowers ships an update every 4 months, WCUTrees every 12 months. Both last shipped on November 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Olympic Wildflowers | WCUTrees |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 302 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Wildflower Search | chris ward |
Customer experience
Olympic Wildflowers
WCUTrees
In-app purchases
Olympic Wildflowers
No in-app purchases
WCUTrees
No in-app purchases
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