Falling Fruit vs HOGSCAN
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 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. All proceeds from sales of the app help pay to keep our servers online. We greatly appreciate your support in keeping the project online! Our global map of edibles is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. The imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. This amounts to thousands of different types of edibles (most, but not all, plant species) across thousands of cities around the world. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to the exotic flavors of foreign plants and long-forgotten native plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures. Falling Fruit is not associated with Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit can be found at fallenfruit.org.
HOGSCAN
This app helps H.O.G. Chapter Officers manage event check-ins and allows members to view the calendar, RSVP, and use a virtual membership card. It requires your H.O.G. Chapter to be actively using the platform.
- Event check-ins for officers
- View Chapter calendar
- RSVP to events
- Virtual Membership Card
- Fast event check-ins
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HOG[SCAN] is used by H.O.G.® Chapter Officers to perform check-ins at Chapter events and rides. Chapter Members can use the app to view the Chapter calendar, RSVP to events, or to present their “Virtual Membership Card” for fast and easy checkins at Chapter events. * NOTE: If your H.O.G Chapter is not using HOG[SCAN], you will not be able to access the features of this app. Ask your Chapter Officers to consider using HOG[SCAN] for your Chapter. For more information, please visit https://www.hogscan.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HOGSCAN at 3.1 against Falling Fruit's 2.4. HOGSCAN also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 11 months). Falling Fruit's advantage is ratings volume (114 vs 19) and chart position (#18 vs #114). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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 HOGSCAN $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HOGSCAN holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 114 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 27% of Falling Fruit's written reviews are positive against 25% of HOGSCAN's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, HOGSCAN every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | HOGSCAN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.4 (114 ratings) | 3.1 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 114 — better | 19 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | #114 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 34 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | Brewmium, LLC |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
HOGSCAN
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
HOGSCAN
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
HOGSCAN
No in-app purchases
