Comparison

Forage vs Tiny Roast Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Forage

Identify edible wild plants using your phone's camera and a powerful search engine. Discover local free food sources, learn about their identification, habitat, and uses, and save their locations for future foraging trips.

Highlights
  • Photo-based plant identification
  • Machine learning search engine
  • Detailed plant information (description, habitat, uses, warnings)
  • Location saving on map
  • User notes for general and specific locations
  • UK wild food database
Features
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Version 3 has a new Search facility that uses Machine Learning to generate possible results. You take a photo of a plant you are trying to identify. You submit it to the the Search Engine and it provides possible foods it could be. Much easier to use than the older search facility. You can take multiple photos and see all results provided to aid your assessment of what the food is. How many times have you been out and about in the countryside looked at a plant and wondered was it edible or not? Well, if you are into the idea of free food then probably quite a lot. But how many times have you had the foraging guidebook on you? The answer, if you are me, is never when you see something interesting that you think you know what it is but are not sure. But, how many times have you had your mobile phone on you? Probably every time. And finally after finding that special spot where the item grows how many times have you then been unable to find it again? Probably quite a lot. It could be in the middle of a wood or large wasteground. So what is the solution? This App that's what. The App combines a list of the most common wild foods available in the UK (many of these plants grow outside of the UK as well), images of those foods and information about the food such as leaf, flower and stem identification information, habitat, season, uses and most importantly any warnings about the plant. You can also record the locations of the foods found on the Maps so that you can find them again. Each food has the following information: Description, Habitat, Season, Uses and Warnings; a minimum of two images to aid in identification; notes to record your information about the food; a set of user specified locations shown on the Map. Each Food can be identified using the images and the description. Once identified you can also record the location of the food found. Location use the inbuilt GPS or WiFi to locate you on the Map. Obviously, the GPS can work anywhere whereas WiFi location is less accurate and not always available (especially in the middle of a wood). Maps require an internet connection and a working data plan. You can record you own notes about a food in general and you can also record notes about individual saved food locations. There's also a Search facility to help you identify a food. You may be looking at a plant with white flowers or a toothed leaf or both. You can use the Search to look for those foods with white flowers or toothed leaves or white flowers and toothed leaves. The list of foods changes when you search to show only those that satisfy the search. Using the right combination of search terms could reveal an exact match.

About

Tiny Roast Timer

This app helps you perfectly time your roasts by calculating cooking durations based on meat type and weight. You can set a desired finish time and receive notifications for key cooking stages.

Highlights
  • Select meat type (chicken, turkey, lamb, beef, pork)
  • Input roast weight for accurate timing
  • Calculate cooking duration
  • Set desired finish time
  • Receive cooking stage notifications
Features
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A tiny little timer for timing your turkey.... and other roasts too. Set the meat you're cooking (chicken, turkey, lamb, beef or pork) and the weight and Tiny Turkey Timer tells you how long it's going to take. Set the time you'd like to finish and it'll notify you when things need doing. Thanks to Marshal Mallow for the app icon (@MarshalMallow6 on twitter).

Screenshots

Forage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny Roast Timer at none against Forage's 4. Tiny Roast Timer also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 27%). Forage's advantage is chart position (#118 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

Forage costs $0.99 and Tiny Roast Timer $0.99 up front. Forage sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Tiny Roast Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Forage ships an update every 11 months, Tiny Roast Timer every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Forage versus Tiny Roast Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterForageTiny Roast Timer
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating2.3 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews50.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 7 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#118 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS12.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size240 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEssence ComputingIAN CLARK

Customer experience

Forage

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive26.9%
Neutral7.7%
Negative65.4%

Tiny Roast Timer

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Forage

One-time4
  • Purchase Foods - Pack 1$0.99
  • Food Pack 2$0.99
  • Purchase New Food 4$0.99
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  • Purchase Foods 3$0.99
None

Tiny Roast Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Forage free?
Forage costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Tiny Roast Timer free?
Tiny Roast Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Forage or Tiny Roast Timer have ads?
Neither Forage nor Tiny Roast Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Forage or Tiny Roast Timer?
Forage ships an update every 11 months, and Tiny Roast Timer every 7 months. Most recently, Forage was updated on October 26, 2026 and Tiny Roast Timer on October 25, 2026.

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