Falling Fruit vs Color Genie
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 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.
Color Genie
Master color combinations for classic menswear by blending tones from a wide range of garments and accessories. Create the perfect outfit and ensure a good impression with real-time recommendations from style experts.
- Color combination master
- Garment selection (jackets, trousers, shirts)
- Accessory integration
- Wide color palette exploration
- Real-time outfit recommendations
- Style expert guidance
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THE #1 LIFESTLYE APP IN 70+ COUNTRIES. Color Genie helps you master color combinations for classic menswear. Blend tones from a wide range with jackets, trousers, shirts, and much more to ultimately create the perfect outfit - Color Genie ensures you always leave a good impression. CHOOSE YOUR GARMENT Start with a jacket or trouser, and add a shirt before building the perfect outfit with a wide range of accessories. SELECT YOUR COLOR Color Genie doesn't stick to the same old blues and greys - learn to experiment with Burgundy, Sage Green, Cream, and much more. VISUALISE YOUR OUTFIT Our team of style experts take care of the rest - Color Genie recommends the best combinations in real-time to keep you looking sharp and feeling confident.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Color Genie at 75% against Falling Fruit's 27%. Color Genie also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.4) and monetization model (free vs paid). Falling Fruit's advantage is chart position (#18 vs #82). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Falling Fruit costs $0.99 and Color Genie $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Color Genie holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 108 and 41 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Falling Fruit's written reviews are positive against 75% of Color Genie's.
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, Color Genie every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 27, 2026.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | Color Genie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.4 (108 ratings) | 4.3 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 74.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | #82 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | AskOkey Inc |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
Color Genie
User reviews
Falling Fruit
From 108 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💡 Great concept for foraging
- 👍 User-friendly interface (sometimes)
- 🤝 Community collaboration
- 🌳 Useful for discovering edible plants
- 🚀 Works well for some users
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes frequently
- 🐛 App won't load or open
- 🐛 Registration/login issues
- 🐛 Outdated information
- 🐛 Location/GPS problems
Color Genie
From 41 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Works perfectly without bugs
- 🚀 Helps with combinations and figuring out wardrobe
- 💡 Key feature needed for pattern selection
- 👍 Much needed app for color planning suits and outfits
- 👍 Unique application for mastering the art of dressing well
Room to improve
- 💡 Lack of pattern options for suits and trousers
- 💡 Could do with more content, more hues, tones, shades, style context, season, color wheel
- 💡 Needs more flexibility for shirts, ability to factor in shirt color first
- 💡 Limited in colors, missing some no-no's in the askokey universe
- 💡 Slightly disappointed with limited color options and garment variety
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
Color Genie
Reported bugs
1 issue- None mentioned
Requested features
8 requests- Add overcoat/top coat options
- Add option to save outfits
- Ability to select shirt color first and get matching pant/jacket recommendations
- Add more garment variations like double-breasted, tuxedo, smoking jackets
- Add patterns like pinstripes, checks, paisley, stripes
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- Add ability to upload own wardrobe items and get outfit recommendations
- Add zoom-in feature to better see color details
- Add casual garment illustrations and 3D interactive models
In-app purchases
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
Color Genie
No in-app purchases
Questions
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