Falling Fruit vs MakeSoil
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- Find local composting sites
- Become a Soil Maker
- Receive food scraps
- Global terraforming initiative
- Carbon capture
- Nutrient restoration
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | MakeSoil |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (114 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #11 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | MakeSoil |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
MakeSoil
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
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
MakeSoil
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Falling Fruit free?
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