Shroomify vs eButterfly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shroomify
This offline guide helps users identify mushrooms by selecting their characteristics. It provides detailed information on over 400 species, including edibility and seasonal insights, without requiring a photo or internet connection.
- Offline identification
- Characteristic-based matching
- Edibility information
- Seasonal insights
- Country-specific rankings
- Over 400 species
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Explore mushrooms, even with no signal. Shroomify is an independent mushroom field guide. Use a photo or illustrated questions to narrow down possible matches, then compare the details for yourself. IN YOUR LANGUAGE Species descriptions and Shroomify research content are available in English, French, German and Italian. Local common names are shown where available, alongside scientific names. IDENTIFY YOUR WAY • Photo assistance suggests a mushroom's type, cap color and other visible traits for you to check. Analysis runs on your device, without an internet connection. • Characteristic ID uses illustrated choices to narrow your shortlist, with an optional Advanced mode for finer details. • Search by common or scientific name to go straight to a species. BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Identification, the field guide and your logbook work offline once installed. • Browse 400+ species with 1,000+ photographs and regional datasets. • Typical seasonal records help order results for your selected area and month. • Expanded field guide notes and linked similar-species cards help you compare important features. • Save favorites and record finds in your personal, on-device logbook. WEATHER OUTLOOKS A free early preview combines recent and forecast weather with research into fungal records to show when conditions may be more or less favorable than usual for a species in a supported area. These outlooks need an internet connection. Coverage depends on the available evidence and current data, so not every area or mushroom has an outlook. Comparisons are with that area's usual conditions for the time of year, not a promise of how many mushrooms you will find or a ranking of one area's habitat against another. Share feedback from within the feature to help improve it. INDEPENDENT AND PRIVATE No ads or cross-app tracking. Premium features are included on iOS, with no separate in-app purchase or subscription required in this release. Photos stay on your device unless you choose to contribute one. Photo contributions and forecast feedback are optional. Shroomify is a guide, not a guarantee. Always confirm a mushroom's identity and never eat a wild mushroom unless you are completely certain of what it is.
eButterfly
Record and share your butterfly sightings for scientific research and conservation. This free app uses AI to help identify butterflies and contributes your observations to a global database.
- AI-powered butterfly identification
- Record and share sightings
- Contribute to scientific research
- Global biodiversity database
- Track life lists
- Multilingual support
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Discover, record, and share your butterfly sightings for science and conservation. eButterfly is an ever-growing global online database of butterfly records from thousands of butterfly eButterfly (new description 5/2/24) Discover, record, and share your butterfly sightings for science and conservation. eButterfly is an ever-growing global online database of butterfly records from thousands of butterfly watchers around the world like you. This free resource allows you to easily keep track of the butterflies you see, while making your observations openly available for science, education, and conservation. eButterfly Mobile is the only mobile app that allows you to collect your sightings and store them in your eButterfly web account. Create an account to share your butterfly observations. eButterfly is free for anyone to use, thanks to the generous support of sponsoring non-profit organizations and individuals. Features 1. Snap a photo of any butterfly you encounter, and our advanced computer vision AI will help you identify it. 2. Contribute to scientific research by using our checklist survey and count methods that provide vital information for conservation action. 3. Add butterfly observations from anywhere around the world. Keep track of your life list of all the butterflies and places you've seen and access it via our web platform. 4. Use eButterfly Mobile while butterflying for incremental list keeping, counting, and aiding with identification. 5. Hundreds of thousands of observations created and identified by the eButterfly community are shared with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) where they are used to advance scientific understanding of biodiversity through open data and open science. 6. eButterfly is available in English, French, and Spanish, with other translations planned soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: eButterfly at Free against Shroomify's $5.99. eButterfly also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.0). Shroomify's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (2.1K vs 4). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
eButterfly is free to download; Shroomify costs $5.99 up front. Shroomify sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. eButterfly asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shroomify holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shroomify has 2.1K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Shroomify's written reviews are positive against 60% of eButterfly's.
Shroomify ships an update every 2 weeks, eButterfly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shroomify | eButterfly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #44 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Grogan | THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES, INC. |
Customer experience
Shroomify
eButterfly
Bugs and requests
Shroomify
Reported bugs
2 issues- Identification feature not working (blank page)
- Location settings stuck on UK despite being in US
Requested features
5 requests- Add photo identification feature
- Expand mushroom species database
- Allow users to upload and share photos
- Add regional/location-based filtering options
- Implement a 'what mushroom is this?' search
eButterfly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shroomify
- Shroomify Premium$3.99
eButterfly
No in-app purchases
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