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 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.
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 (116 vs 19) and chart position (#10 vs #61). 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 116 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 October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | HOGSCAN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.4 (116 ratings) | 3.1 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 116 — 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 | #10 — better | #61 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 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
