Falling Fruit vs Ourcana
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.
Ourcana
Manage your collection of original characters and personalities with this system tracker. Log journals, design rich profiles, and track relationships between members. The app features a unique theme inspired by tarot and alchemy, with customizable terminology.
- Character and member tracking
- Fronting status management
- Markdown journaling
- Rich profile design
- Relationship tracking
- Customizable terminology
- Import from SimplyPlural/PluralKit
- Offline data management
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Ourcana ("Our Arcana") is a Plural System tracker app for managing a collection of members (which can be alters, original characters, personalities, etc). Track your system members, which of them are fronting (if any, or even all of them!), and use markdown to log journals, design rich profiles (with formatting, style elements, and inline media) and track relationships and interactions between all your system's members. Import from SimplyPlural, import and sync data (or active members) with PluralKit, or manage all your data entirely offline with exported copies of your whole "deck"! Ourcana has been tested with up to 20 thousand members. Ourcana's design and UX allude to classic card decks, fantasy fortune-telling, and medieval alchemy and magic with the "Tarot" and its "Major Arcana" cards as a for-fun, lighthearted theme to manage character, system, member, and group data. One can change all the terms inside the app however they'd like in settings such as "deck, "member", "system", "fronting", etc. Color highlights, accents, light and dark mode, and more are all customizable in-app with a rich UI. PluralKit and SimplyPlural color settings transfer automatically! Import from SimplyPlural, import and sync data (or active members) with PluralKit, or manage all your data entirely offline with exported copies of your whole "deck"! PluralKit synchronization is a first-class feature, with sufficient functionality to completely replace the PK dashboard down the line. Deeper PluralKit-specific integration features will launch with our 1.0.0 online update, so stay tuned! This application is made with accessibility and ergonomics in mind. I've developed it for my own online community first and many others adjacent to it all over the net known as the "plural" community. As a journal and personal tracking app, Ourcana keeps all your data private, personal, and offline-first by design. Journals are only stored on the device itself, and the sync settings allow one to choose which other data (if any) to share with PluralKit. Ourcana is priced at $1 USD (or regional) to support the development team, but can be found for free, forever through our community resources. You can try the web app at https://ourcana.space/ before getting the app! Transfer data between devices with the import/export feature. Our End-User License Agreement for Ourcana Online is the same as Apple's default and can be found at the link below. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Ourcana at 71% against Falling Fruit's 27%. Ourcana also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 11 months). Falling Fruit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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 Ourcana $0.99 up front. Ourcana sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Falling Fruit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ourcana 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 71% of Ourcana's.
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, Ourcana weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | Ourcana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.4 (108 ratings) | 4.3 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 71.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 41 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #14 — better | #15 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | Isaac Aronson |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
Ourcana
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
Ourcana
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
Ourcana
- Ourcana Online!$3.991 Month
- Apple Watch Companion$9.99









