Comparison

Falling Fruit vs Power NW

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
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Falling Fruit is a community-driven platform for sharing locations of edible plants and other sources of free food. You can discover what others have been harvesting in your area and contribute your own observations. We aspire to provide the world's most comprehensive and open foraging and freegan map. Since our launch in 2013, we have been collecting locations from app users, as well as from hundreds of community, university, and municipal datasets. Today, the map hosts millions of locations in thousands of cities covering thousands of edible types (fruit trees, berries, nuts, herbs, vegetables, mushrooms, dumpsters, and more). Our mobile app offers the same core functionality as our free website, with refinements and native interfaces designed specifically for phones. A small price for the app helps cover the project's costs, and all proceeds go to Falling Fruit, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. Falling Fruit is not associated with Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit can be found at fallenfruit.org.

About

Power NW

Track the progress of your ongoing projects and monitor the status of your systems once they are operational. Stay informed about your installations from build to active use.

Highlights
  • Project progress tracking
  • System status monitoring
  • Real-time updates
  • Installation oversight
Features
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As we’re building your project you’ll be able to see the progress. Once your system is up and running you’ll be able to monitor the status of your system.

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
Power NW3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Power NW at Free against Falling Fruit's $0.99. Power NW also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.4). Falling Fruit's advantage is ratings volume (116 vs 1) and chart position (#7 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Power NW 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

Power NW holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 116 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Falling Fruit versus Power NW: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitPower NW
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (116 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings116 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#7 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFalling FruitPOWER NORTHWEST INCORPORATED

Customer experience

Falling Fruit

All ratings116 ratings
Positive31.9%
Neutral3.4%
Negative64.7%
Written reviews108 reviews
Positive26.9%
Neutral3.7%
Negative69.4%

Power NW

All ratings1 ratings
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

Power NW

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

None

Power NW

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Power NW free?
Power NW is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Falling Fruit or Power NW?
Power NW is rated higher. Falling Fruit averages 2.4 out of 5 from 116 ratings, while Power NW averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Falling Fruit or Power NW have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor Power NW shows ads.

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