Forager Diary vs PlanaCan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Forager Diary
Easily document wild edible finds with photos, notes, and locations. Visualize your discoveries on a map and get directions back to them. Share your finds with friends, even offline.
- Document finds with photos and notes
- Record date and exact location
- Visualize finds on a map
- Get directions to saved locations
- Share finds with friends
- Offline creation of sightings
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With Forager Diary, keeping track of your finds of wild edibles is a snap. • Easily document every wild edible you find with lovely photos, field notes, the date you found it, and its exact location, all presented in a gorgeous interface. • Visualize them all on a big, beautiful map. • Easily return to the locations of your most precious finds at a later date with by getting directions to their exact coordinates. • Share finds with friends through email. • Because we know there's a good chance you won't have data access on your foray, you can create sightings offline. Whether you're a wild mushroom fanatic who wants to make sure you never forget the location of a bolete patch or a berry picker who just wants to document your finds, this is the app you've been waiting for.
PlanaCan
This application assists commercial growers in planning, scheduling, and tracking their cultivation work. It offers a suite of tools across multiple platforms to streamline business operations.
- Business planning tools
- Work scheduling
- Cultivation tracking
- Multi-platform software suite
- Grower business management
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We leverage a suite of software applications across multiple platforms to help growers plan, schedule, and track work in their commercial cultivation.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Forager Diary at 83% against PlanaCan's 50%. PlanaCan's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PlanaCan holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Forager Diary's written reviews are positive against 50% of PlanaCan's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Forager Diary ships an update every 2 months, PlanaCan every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Forager Diary | PlanaCan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 4.3 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Timothy Sakhuja | Michael Rast |
Customer experience
Forager Diary
PlanaCan
In-app purchases
Forager Diary
No in-app purchases
PlanaCan
No in-app purchases
