Falling Fruit vs Fruit Map
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.
Fruit Map
Discover and map fruit trees in public spaces. Identify unknown fruits with AI, contribute to a community-driven encyclopedia, and explore seasonal map styles. Connect with others and track your contributions.
- Community fruit tree mapping
- AI-powered fruit identification
- Search and filter by fruit type and season
- Map styles for different biomes
- Collaborative fruit encyclopedia
- User profiles and leaderboards
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There is fruit growing near you, and most people walk right past it. Fruit Map is a community map of fruit trees in public places: parks, plazas, sidewalks and trails. More than 20,000 trees have been mapped by the community, in Brazil and beyond. FIND FRUIT NEAR YOU • See the fruit trees around you on the map • Search and filter by fruit, harvest season, access difficulty and property type • Know before you go whether a tree is public or private SNAP A PHOTO, AI IDENTIFIES IT • Not sure what tree it is? Photograph the fruit, leaf or flower and AI suggests the species • Confirm it or pick another option before saving PIN IT AND CONTRIBUTE • Found a fruit tree? Take a photo, set access and property type, and it's on the map • Edit and manage all your markers in one place COMMUNITY • A global feed with featured, recent and nearby discoveries • A mapper leaderboard by state, country and worldwide • Add friends and explore together COLLECTIONS AND FAVORITES • Save your favorite trees • Build collections, like a native tree trail, and invite friends to add to them A MAP FOR EVERY BIOME • Map styles inspired by the Cerrado, Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Pantanal and Pampa, plus a night mode • Every style comes in spring, summer, autumn and winter versions FRUITPEDIA • A collaborative fruit encyclopedia with common names, scientific names and families YOUR PROFILE • See what you map: your markers by fruit, species count and leaderboard rank • Find out whether the trees you mapped are native, exotic, naturalized, invasive or threatened Available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Mandarin and Arabic, with light and dark themes. Respect nature: only pick from public places, leave fruit for others, and never eat a fruit you can't identify with certainty.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fruit Map at Free against Falling Fruit's $0.99. Fruit Map also leads on review sentiment (67% vs 27%) and rating (3.0 vs 2.5). Falling Fruit's advantage is ratings volume (118 vs 3) and chart position (#23 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
Fruit Map is free to download; Falling Fruit costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Fruit Map holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Falling Fruit has 118 ratings behind it against 3, 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 67% of Fruit Map's.
Falling Fruit ships an update every 11 months, Fruit Map every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Falling Fruit | Fruit Map |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.5 (118 ratings) | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.9% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 118 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #23 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Falling Fruit | Adarley Grando |
Customer experience
Falling Fruit
Fruit Map
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
Fruit Map
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Falling Fruit
No in-app purchases
Fruit Map
No in-app purchases









