Comparison

Falling Fruit vs MakeSoil

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

Head to head
About

Falling Fruit

Discover a global map of edible plants, featuring over 1,200 types and nearly a million locations. This app helps foragers, foresters, and freegans find and share knowledge about wild and cultivated edible plants, connecting users to local and global food resources.

Highlights
  • Global map of edible plants
  • Over 1,200 edible plant types
  • Nearly one million locations
  • User-contributed locations
  • Internet data aggregation
  • Information on native and exotic plants
Features
Currently charting
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Falling Fruit is a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. All proceeds from sales of the app help pay to keep our servers online. We greatly appreciate your support in keeping the project online! Our global map of edibles is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. The imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. This amounts to thousands of different types of edibles (most, but not all, plant species) across thousands of cities around the world. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and long-forgotten native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures. Falling Fruit is not associated with Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit can be found at fallenfruit.org.

About

MakeSoil

Connect with others to compost food scraps and create valuable soil. Find local composting sites or become a "Soil Maker" to receive scraps. Join a global movement to restore nutrients, capture carbon, and build community resilience.

Highlights
  • Find local composting sites
  • Become a Soil Maker
  • Receive food scraps
  • Global terraforming initiative
  • Carbon capture
  • Nutrient restoration
Features
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Want to keep your food scraps out of the landfill? Use MakeSoil to find a soil site near you. Love composting in your own backyard and want to share the experience? Join as a Soil Maker and receive food scraps from others. MakeSoil is helping people around the world to capture carbon, save precious nutrients from the landfill, and grow food in cities — all through the transformative act of making soil together.

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
MakeSoil3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: MakeSoil at 100% against Falling Fruit's 27%. MakeSoil also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.9 vs 2.4). Falling Fruit's advantage is chart position (#11 vs unranked) and ratings volume (114 vs 14). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

MakeSoil is free to download; Falling Fruit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MakeSoil holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 114 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Falling Fruit's written reviews are positive against 100% of MakeSoil's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, MakeSoil every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Falling Fruit versus MakeSoil: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitMakeSoil
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (114 ratings)4.9 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings114 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#11 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB19 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFalling FruitMakeSoil

Customer experience

Falling Fruit

All ratings114 ratings
Positive31.6%
Neutral3.5%
Negative64.9%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive26.9%
Neutral3.7%
Negative69.4%

MakeSoil

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Falling Fruit

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App crashes before login or when trying to load
  • Login and registration emails not received
  • App resets to Boulder, CO location
  • GPS and network signal errors despite good connection
  • Keyboard not appearing in text fields
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  • Take photo button is dead
  • Map not displaying or loading
  • In-app notifications steal focus
  • List view doesn't show markers on map
  • App not working on older devices (iPhone 6s)
  • Login screen glitches
  • Cannot retype password after a mistake
  • Confirmation link not working
  • App freezes or is unresponsive
  • Random in-app notifications steal focus

Requested features

10 requests
  • More filter options (e.g., exclude dumpster posts, filter by plant family)
  • Coordinates or better location identification for posts
  • Ability to save favorite trees/locations
  • Filter out non-edible trees
  • Add photos from camera roll
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  • Improve map loading and responsiveness
  • Add a falling nuts site
  • Option to load directions to a location via Google Maps
  • Ability to edit/delete location pins
  • Dark mode option

MakeSoil

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

None

MakeSoil

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MakeSoil free?
MakeSoil is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Falling Fruit or MakeSoil?
MakeSoil is rated higher. Falling Fruit averages 2.4 out of 5 from 114 ratings, while MakeSoil averages 4.9 from 14 ratings.
Do Falling Fruit or MakeSoil have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor MakeSoil shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Falling Fruit or MakeSoil?
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, and MakeSoil every 4 months. Most recently, Falling Fruit was updated on September 24, 2026 and MakeSoil on September 20, 2026.

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