Comparison

uForage vs HeartCrops

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

Head to head
About

uForage

Discover fresh, local food sources, from wild edibles to roadside stalls and micro-farms. This app aims to reduce food waste and end hunger by connecting communities with accessible food options.

Highlights
  • Find wild growing food
  • Discover roadside stalls
  • Connect with micro farms
  • Locate local growers and bakers
  • Reduce food waste
  • Access free food sources
Features
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uForage is a free community food map. It shows you what's growing near you right now: roadside stalls, backyard fruit trees with too much fruit, small growers, honey, eggs, and wild food you walk past every day without seeing. Search for what you actually want. Eggs, lemons, herbs, honey. Results are sorted by what's closest to you, with directions to get there. Got more than you can eat? List your surplus in under a minute. Someone nearby is already looking for it, and your excess goes to a neighbour instead of the compost. Not sure what something is? Point your camera. uForage uses image recognition plus a community of real people to help identify wild and backyard food, with safety and spray warnings on listings. Foraging worldwide. uForage connects to a global database of more than 1.6 million wild food locations, so the map works whether you're in the Northern Rivers or northern Italy. Detail on non-Australian wild food listings requires a subscription. Why we built it Food should be accessible to everyone regardless of income. Community food networks are more resilient than supply chains, and we learned that the hard way during the 2022 Northern Rivers floods, when the roads were cut and the shelves were empty and the people who were okay were the ones who knew their local growers. uForage is free to use, built by two people in Murwillumbah, and mapped by the community that uses it. Winner, Business NSW Regen Connection Accelerator. As featured on ABC, NBN News and 7NEWS.

About

HeartCrops

Features
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HeartCrops is a platform for backyard and small scale growers to sell, swap and share their homemade and home grown produce. Find other HeartCroppers near you on the convenient map, DM buyers and sellers to organise transactions - how you trade is up to you! Swap, sell or give it away for free, you decide! It's easy to make a store and add product listings, or to browse through listings to see other shops and products. Join the kindness movement and start building your local food network today!

Screenshots

uForage4 screens
HeartCrops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: uForage at none against HeartCrops's shown. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

uForage ships an update every 3 weeks, HeartCrops monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
uForage versus HeartCrops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteruForageHeartCrops
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAchiapa Nuvoli Family TrustHeartCrops Pty Ltd

In-app purchases

None

uForage

No in-app purchases

None

HeartCrops

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is uForage free?
uForage is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HeartCrops free?
HeartCrops is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do uForage or HeartCrops have ads?
HeartCrops shows ads; uForage does not.
Which is updated more often, uForage or HeartCrops?
uForage ships an update every 3 weeks, and HeartCrops monthly. Most recently, uForage was updated on October 27, 2026 and HeartCrops on October 16, 2026.

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