Comparison

Falling Fruit vs MyTreeSweets Grower

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

MyTreeSweets Grower

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Your fruit tree collection deserves more than a spreadsheet. MyTreeSweets Grower is a collection management app built for fruit tree growers, collectors, and enthusiasts who want to organize their trees, document their progress, and make better decisions about their collection. Whether you have a backyard orchard, a growing collection of rare cultivars, or hundreds of trees to manage, MyTreeSweets keeps your records, photos, tasks, observations, labels, and growing history together in one place. BUILD YOUR TREE COLLECTION Create detailed records for your fruit trees, including species, cultivar, rootstock, growing location, container information, acquisition details, photos, notes, and more. DOCUMENT THE STORY OF EVERY TREE Add photos and updates over time to build a living history of each tree. Record growth, flowering, fruiting, harvests, weather events, care changes, and other important observations. STAY AHEAD OF ORCHARD WORK Create recurring tasks and use suggested actions to identify records that need attention. Keep pruning, fertilizing, protection, documentation, and other collection work organized. PREPARE FOR COLD WEATHER Track cold sensitivity and protection thresholds to help prioritize which trees may need attention when temperatures fall. TURN RECORDS INTO USEFUL INSIGHTS MyTreeSweets Intelligence combines your own tree records with available reference information to help surface collection signals, identify missing information, and provide useful insights for managing your trees. CREATE QR TREE LABELS Generate QR labels for your collection and create printable or shareable label sheets. Keep physical trees connected to their digital records. EXPLORE THE GROWER COMMUNITY Discover public tree collections, follow what other growers are growing, share updates, and explore plants offered through the community marketplace. BUILT FOR SERIOUS COLLECTORS MyTreeSweets goes beyond identifying plants. It is designed to help you manage the trees you already own—from acquisition through years of growth, care, observation, propagation, and harvest. Start with a Pro Preview and discover a better way to manage your fruit tree collection. Some features and collection limits require a MyTreeSweets Pro subscription. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://mytreesweets.com/privacy-policy/

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
MyTreeSweets Grower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: MyTreeSweets Grower at Free against Falling Fruit's $0.99. MyTreeSweets Grower also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 11 months). Falling Fruit's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#18 vs unranked). On ads, 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

MyTreeSweets Grower is free to download; Falling Fruit costs $0.99 up front. MyTreeSweets Grower sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Falling Fruit asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, MyTreeSweets Grower every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Falling Fruit versus MyTreeSweets Grower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitMyTreeSweets Grower
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (108 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings108 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#18 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB41 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperFalling FruitRoy Castillo-Martinez

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

MyTreeSweets Grower

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

MyTreeSweets Grower

Subscriptions4
  • Collector Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Grower Pro Monthly$11.991 Month
  • Collector Pro Annual$59.991 Year
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  • Grower Pro Annual$89.991 Year

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyTreeSweets Grower free?
MyTreeSweets Grower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Falling Fruit or MyTreeSweets Grower have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor MyTreeSweets Grower shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Falling Fruit or MyTreeSweets Grower?
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, and MyTreeSweets Grower every 4 days. Most recently, Falling Fruit was updated on October 27, 2026 and MyTreeSweets Grower on October 8, 2026.

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