Falling Fruit vs Widget Pet
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.
Widget Pet
Transform your dog into a personalized home screen icon. Upload a photo, apply fun skins, and add it directly to your device's display for a unique touch.
- Home screen icon creation
- Photo upload
- Fun skin application
- Personalized phone customization
- Direct home screen addition
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Turn your dog into a home screen icon! 1) Upload a photo of your dog 2) Apply fun skins 3) Add it directly to your Home Screen Customize your pet with different looks and make your phone feel personal. Simple. Fun. Yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Widget Pet at 100% against Falling Fruit's 27%. Widget Pet also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.4). Falling Fruit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ratings volume (108 vs 1). On ads 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
Widget Pet is free to download; Falling Fruit costs $0.99 up front. Widget Pet sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Falling Fruit asks for nothing beyond the download.
Widget Pet holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 108 ratings behind it against 1, 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 Widget Pet's.
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, Widget Pet every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | Widget Pet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.4 (108 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 108 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #12 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | Pedro Brescia |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
Widget Pet
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
Widget Pet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
Widget Pet
- 2 Skin Bundle for your 4th dog$7.99
- 3 Skin Bundle for your 3rd dog$9.99
- 3 Skin Bundle for your 4th dog$9.99
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- 4 Skin Bundle for your 3rd dog$12.99
- 4 Skin Bundle for your 4th dog$12.99
- 5 Skin Bundle for 1st dog onboarded$14.99
- 5 Skin Bundle for your 3rd dog$14.99
- 5 Skin Bundle for your 4th dog$14.99
- 6 Skin Bundle for your 3rd dog$19.99
- 6 Skin Bundle for your 4th dog$19.99
