Comparison

Falling Fruit vs Past Lives Makerspace

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

Past Lives Makerspace

Features
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Past Lives Makerspace is a community workshop in Portland, Oregon, where members share tools, studios, and skills across woodworking, ceramics, metalworking, textiles, and more. This app is your home base as a member. Sign in to: - Book studio and equipment time: reserve the woodshop, ceramics studio, and shared gear around your schedule. - See what's on: browse the class and event calendar, and RSVP to workshops and guild meetups. - Join a guild: connect with the ceramics, woodshop, metals, and textiles crews and keep up with their projects. - Manage your membership: check your status, update your details, and handle billing in one place. - Stay in the loop: get reminders for events you've signed up for and votes that need your voice. Whether you're firing a kiln, milling a board, or planning your next visit, everything you need to make the most of your membership is here. Past Lives is a member-run makerspace. An active membership is required to sign in and use the app.

Screenshots

Falling Fruit4 screens
Past Lives Makerspace4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Past Lives Makerspace at Free against Falling Fruit's $0.99. Falling Fruit's advantage is chart position (#16 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

Past Lives Makerspace is free to download; Falling Fruit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Falling Fruit versus Past Lives Makerspace: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFalling FruitPast Lives Makerspace
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating2.4 (116 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings116 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#16 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFalling FruitJosue Plaza

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

Past Lives Makerspace

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Falling Fruit

No in-app purchases

None

Past Lives Makerspace

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Falling Fruit free?
Falling Fruit costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Past Lives Makerspace free?
Past Lives Makerspace is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Falling Fruit or Past Lives Makerspace have ads?
Neither Falling Fruit nor Past Lives Makerspace shows ads.

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