Shroomify vs eButterfly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shroomify
Identify mushrooms offline using photos or detailed features. This field guide offers information on nearly 500 species, including edibility and lookalikes, with regional and seasonal relevance. Learn through quizzes and guides, and log your finds.
- Offline mushroom identification
- Photo and feature-based ID
- Nearly 500 species profiles
- Regional and seasonal ranking
- Logbook for saved finds
- Fungi identification quiz
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Identify mushrooms and other fungi offline, even with no phone signal. Shroomify is an independent field guide to fungi, made by a forager in the UK. Take a photo or answer a few simple questions, and Shroomify narrows the list to the species that best match, ranked by what is recorded in your area at this time of year. WAYS TO IDENTIFY • Photo ID: take or choose a photo and Shroomify suggests likely matches and features such as type and cap colour. It works offline on your phone, even deep in the woods. • Identify by features: tap through clear, illustrated choices (cap shape and colour, gills or pores, size, how it grows) and watch the shortlist shrink. An Advanced mode adds finer detail. • Search by name: go straight to any species. WORKS OFFLINE, BUILT FOR THE FIELD • Works fully offline once installed. • Nearly 500 species with over 1,100 photos. • Species accounts covering what to check, lookalikes, habitat and edibility. • Results ranked for your region and the current month. • In English, French, German and Italian. LEARN AS YOU GO • Logbook: save favourite species and record your finds with notes and photos, stored on your device. • Quiz: practise the classic lookalikes, deadly doubles and boletes. • Spore-print and learning guides built in. WEATHER OUTLOOKS With a connection, see when recent and forecast weather may be more or less favourable than usual for a species in supported areas. Coverage varies by area and mushroom, and an outlook is never a promise of finds. SAFETY FIRST Photo suggestions are not a confirmed identification or a judgement of edibility. Shroomify helps you narrow things down, but it is not a guarantee. Check every feature, confirm with an expert or a trusted field guide, and never eat a wild mushroom unless you are completely certain what it is. ONE PRICE, EVERYTHING INCLUDED No adverts, no subscription and no selling of your data. Photos stay on your device unless you choose to contribute one. Your download includes every feature.
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 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, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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 monthly, eButterfly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shroomify | eButterfly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (2.1K ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 104 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
No in-app purchases
eButterfly
No in-app purchases
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