Foraging with the "Wildman" vs ResyOS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Foraging with the "Wildman"
Discover and identify over 250 edible plants in your local environment. This comprehensive guide offers detailed identification with multiple images, cultivation tips to ensure sustainability, and preparation suggestions.
- Identify over 250 edible plants
- Up to 8 images per plant for identification
- Filter plants by attributes
- Cultivation information for sustainability
- West coast specific plant contributions
- Preparation suggestions
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Explore free edible plants in your backyard The ultimate foraging guide : identify, cultivate, and prepare over 250 plants! Created in collaboration between "Wildman" Steve Brill, Becky Lerner, and Christopher Nyerges. • Identify using up to 8 images per plant (over 1,000 images in total!) * Filter by plant attributes • West coast specific plants from Becky Lerner and Christopher Nyerges • New cultivation information helps wild plants stay forageable year after year In addition to hundreds of plants from nationally renowned forager “Wildman” Steve Brill, we are very excited to announce contributions from west coast foragers Rebecca Lerner and Christopher Nyerges. Wild Edibles is a massive compendium of foraging knowledge suitable for beginners and experts alike. Use this app at home as a quick reference, or in the field as a replacement for cumbersome field guides. Providing the subject's most comprehensive resource in a compact digital form, this app takes wild edible plants to a whole new level of accessibility.
ResyOS
This platform helps restaurant teams manage reservations, walk-ins, and waitlists. It offers tools for optimizing shifts, messaging guests, and filling cancellations in real-time. It also provides insights into daily operations and performance metrics.
- Reservation management
- Walk-in and waitlist tracking
- Guest messaging
- Shift optimization tools
- Floor plan management
- Real-time cancellations filling
- Performance insights
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ResyOS is the all-in-one restaurant management platform that helps teams deliver smoother service, drive covers, and stay on top of every shift with powerful tools to manage reservations, walk-ins, waitlists, guest messaging, and shift flow. • Get discovered through the Resy Demand Network and potentially grow your guestbook • Manage reservations and power service with streamlined guest insights • Help optimize every shift with pacing controls, floor plans, and table turn tools • Connect with guests through 2-way messaging and personalized profiles • Better fill cancellations in real time with tools like Resy Notify and Waitlists • Uncover insights with daily cover reports, performance metrics, and live floor status Note: This app is for restaurants and requires a valid ResyOS account. If you're a diner looking to book a reservation, please download the Resy app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ResyOS at Free against Foraging with the "Wildman"'s $9.99. ResyOS also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (159 vs 23). Foraging with the "Wildman"'s advantage is rating (4.0 vs 2.7) and review sentiment (43% vs 13%). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
ResyOS is free to download; Foraging with the "Wildman" costs $9.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Foraging with the "Wildman" holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ResyOS has 159 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Foraging with the "Wildman"'s written reviews are positive against 13% of ResyOS's.
Foraging with the "Wildman" ships an update every 3 months, ResyOS fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Foraging with the "Wildman" | ResyOS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.0 (23 ratings) — better | 2.7 (159 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.4% of reviews — better | 13.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 159 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #52 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 134 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +12 |
| Developer | Steve Brill | Resy |
Customer experience
Foraging with the "Wildman"
ResyOS
User reviews
Foraging with the "Wildman"
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 📚 Comprehensive plant database with 250+ species
- 📸 High-quality detailed photos and illustrations
- 👨🌾 Expert knowledge from experienced forager Steve Brill
- 🍳 Extensive recipes and culinary uses included
- ⚠️ Clear warnings about poisonous lookalikes
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes and freezing issues
- 📧 Error email dialog that won't close on startup
- 💾 Extremely large file size (2-3.75 GB)
- 🌐 Images fail to download or load slowly
- ⚠️ Inconsistent color coding (e.g., poison ivy in green)
ResyOS
From 159 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Good for hosting
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 👍 Efficient for seating plan
- 👍 Reasonably priced
- 👍 Good account management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Poor app design and optimization
- 🐛 App keeps crashing
- 🐛 Unusable app
- 🐛 Outdated technology
- 🐛 Inferior reservation software
Bugs and requests
Foraging with the "Wildman"
Reported bugs
12 issues- App fails to open or opens to blank page
- Error email dialog appears on startup and cannot be dismissed
- Critical error: zip file did not unpack
- Images won't download or display
- App crashes when viewing warning symbols
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- No way to exit warning screens without force closing
- Email support feature creates infinite loop
- App incompatible with iOS 12 and iPhone XS
- Slow image loading even on high-speed WiFi
- App becomes stuck in initialization process
- Recent update made app worse or completely non-functional
- Glitchy behavior with latest iOS updates
Requested features
12 requests- Bookmark or favorites list for frequently checked plants
- Widget for quick phone access
- Offline download capability that actually works
- Expanded plant database for western and southern regions
- Better search and filtering by characteristics
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- Geographic tagging system for found plants
- Selective regional downloads to reduce file size
- Improved navigation with table of contents or alphabet bar
- Continuous scrolling through plant sections
- More poisonous plant entries for comparison
- Social media sharing features
- Support for international/non-US regions
ResyOS
Reported bugs
44 issues- App keeps crashing
- Updates make things worse
- Updates take hours to push
- Dashboard updates delayed
- App won't open
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- Bug prevents saving floor plan
- New update has glitches
- Reservation history not showing
- Basic operations not followed
- 500 errors
- Cannot change reservations
- Cannot change status
- Guest history bug
- Booked reservations disappear
- App constantly quits
- App won't load on iPad
- Cannot access tables on floor plan
- Floor plan view regressed
- Vertical orientation gone
- Cannot see all tables on floor plan
- App takes back to home screen
- App inaccessible
- Doesn't let you add tables to floor plan
- Customers complain about sign up/password
- App works half the time
- Missing features compared to competitors
- Sales staff pushy
- Locked into contract
- Issues and glitches
- Texting chat function works, nothing else
- App quits while logging in
- Daily crashes since update
- Data errors
- Un-updated reservations
- Cannot sit walk-in tables
- Never works
- So many glitches
- Makes sitting guests more difficult
- Essential components won't load
- Cannot assign sections to servers
- Lock timeout fail ID
- Cannot search for guest name
- Doesn't refresh automatically
- App freezes a lot
Requested features
12 requests- Add Android app
- Web control over tables
- Customize text messages
- Server rotation option
- Server sections option
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- Integration with POS
- Add a blacklist feature
- Landscape mode compatibility
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- Ability to search guest name
- Automatic refresh for reservations
In-app purchases
Foraging with the "Wildman"
No in-app purchases
ResyOS
No in-app purchases
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