Comparison

Falling Fruit vs Foraging with Friends

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

Foraging with Friends

Log wild finds, map secret spots, and share discoveries in a pixel art RPG adventure. Discover new species, track your progress, and explore the outdoors.

Highlights
  • Log wild finds with photos and notes
  • Map secret spots with GPS pins
  • Discover over 100 species
  • Track explored territory
  • Earn XP and unlock achievements
  • Create shareable find cards
  • Privacy-focused with no accounts or tracking
Features
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Foraging with Friends Your pocket field journal meets RPG adventure. Log wild finds, map secret spots, and share your discoveries — all wrapped in handcrafted pixel art. Discover & Map Drop GPS pins on your finds and watch them appear on satellite maps. Our "Haze of Foraging" reveals explored territory as you venture out — like a video game, but the forest is real. Journal Your Finds 100+ species of mushrooms, berries, herbs, nuts, roots, and oddities. Snap photos, log conditions, add notes. Filter by season or check "This Time Last Year" to know what's ripe. Share the Bounty Create beautiful parchment-style share cards of your finds. Show off that perfect chanterelle or let friends know the blackberries are ready on your favorite social apps. Level Up Earn XP. Unlock 40+ achievements. Choose from 12 character classes. Your foraging skills have never looked this good. Privacy by Design No accounts. No tracking. No ads. Your data lives on your device — export anytime as CSV. Crafted with Love 200+ hand-drawn pixel art icons bring warmth to every screen. Built by foragers, for foragers.

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
Foraging with Friends4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Foraging with Friends at 100% against Falling Fruit's 27%. Foraging with Friends also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5). Falling Fruit's advantage is ratings volume (117 vs 3) and chart position (#43 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

Falling Fruit costs $0.99 and Foraging with Friends $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Foraging with Friends holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 117 ratings behind it against 3, 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 Foraging with Friends's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Falling Fruit versus Foraging with Friends: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitForaging with Friends
Price$0.99 — better$2.99
Rating2.5 (117 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings117 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#43 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFalling FruitDAMON ELI DEWAIDE

Customer experience

Falling Fruit

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

Foraging with Friends

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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

Foraging with Friends

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

None

Foraging with Friends

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Foraging with Friends free?
Foraging with Friends costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Falling Fruit or Foraging with Friends?
Foraging with Friends is rated higher. Falling Fruit averages 2.5 out of 5 from 117 ratings, while Foraging with Friends averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Falling Fruit or Foraging with Friends have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor Foraging with Friends shows ads.

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