Comparison

Falling Fruit vs Rec League

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 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

Rec League

Discover and share recommendations for anything, from products to places. Organize your favorite finds into curated collections and follow users with similar tastes. Monetize your expertise through paid memberships.

Highlights
  • Recommend anything
  • Organize into collections
  • Follow users
  • Earn money via memberships
  • Share favorite things
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Rec League is where real people exchange real recommendations. How it works: - Recommend anything - from ski boots to playlists to where to eat in Rome. - Organize your recommendations into collections. - Follow people whose taste you admire. - Earn money through paid memberships.

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
Rec League4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rec League at 94% against Falling Fruit's 27%. Rec League also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (4.9 vs 2.4). Falling Fruit's advantage is chart position (#34 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

Rec League 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

Rec League holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 116 and 467 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Falling Fruit's written reviews are positive against 94% of Rec League's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, Rec League weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Falling Fruit versus Rec League: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitRec League
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (116 ratings)4.9 (467 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews93.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings116467 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#34 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFalling FruitLyric Technologies, Inc.

Customer experience

Falling Fruit

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

Rec League

All ratings467 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive93.5%
Neutral3.2%
Negative3.2%

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

Rec League

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

None

Rec League

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rec League free?
Rec League is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Falling Fruit or Rec League?
Rec League is rated higher. Falling Fruit averages 2.4 out of 5 from 116 ratings, while Rec League averages 4.9 from 467 ratings.
Do Falling Fruit or Rec League have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor Rec League shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Falling Fruit or Rec League?
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, and Rec League weekly. Most recently, Falling Fruit was updated on October 20, 2026 and Rec League on October 19, 2026.

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