Comparison

aFunghi vs RecFish

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

Head to head
About

aFunghi

Record your mushroom foraging trips with GPS tracking, photos, and notes. Share your discoveries and routes with friends, and view detailed statistics of your excursions. The app helps you log points of interest and offers basic mushroom species information.

Highlights
  • Real-time GPS excursion recording
  • Add comments and ratings
  • Log points of interest (POIs)
  • View POIs on map
  • Share location with companions
  • Automatic hike stop via geofencing
  • Basic mushroom species information
Features
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Do you like to forage for mushrooms? Mushroom foraging is a fun and stimulating activity, which puts you in direct contact with nature and the surrounding environment. aFunghi is the best application to create a diary of all your excursions while foraging mushrooms. Very easy to use. After pressing the 'Via' button, start searching and your efforts will paid off, you'll just have to take pictures of your finding. Returned home you will be able to look at your route, your findings and see detailed statistics. FUNCTIONALITY AND BENEFITS** - Record your excursions in real time thanks to GPS. - Add comments and ratings to your excursions. - Easily add your points of interest (POIs). - View all the POIs of your excursions on the map. - Discover some of the most common species of mushrooms. - Invite your hiking companions to share the last known position. You'll see their location and distance from you on the map. - Thanks to geofencing, the hike will stop automatically when you return to the starting point. - Share your hiking photos with friends. Continued use of the GPS may shorten battery life. WARNING: the aFunghi application is a pure consultation tool and cannot and will not replace the experience in the recognition of mushrooms. If you are not sure about the edibility of a mushroom, DO NOT COLLECT AND EAT it! Mushroom poisoning can be fatal or cause irreversible damage to the body.

About

RecFish

This app helps anglers identify fish species from photos using advanced image recognition. It works offline and allows users to contribute to improving its accuracy and species database. The app is completely free with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Photo-based fish identification
  • Offline functionality
  • Species identification accuracy
  • User-contributed data for improvement
  • Free to use
Features
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RecFish is a free and user-friendly fishing app that helps anglers like you accurately identify and record your catch by simply taking a photo or selecting a saved photo. RecFish uses the latest in image-recognition software and machine-learning models to instantly identify each fish to species level and works even when you are offline. RecFish can currently identify 100 species of fish with 95% accuracy. You can help improve RecFish even further by uploading your fish photos and letting us know whether RecFish accurately identified your catch. Anglers like you help us add more species and increase accuracy with the tap of a button! RecFish is completely free to use – no upfront costs, no in-app purchases, no paywalls, and no advertisements. Support for this project has been provided by competitive grants from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation with support from NOAA, by the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's Dean & Director's Innovation Fund, and by recreational anglers like you! For additional information about the RecFish project or to make a donation, please go to https://www.recfish.org.

Screenshots

aFunghi4 screens
RecFish4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: RecFish at none against aFunghi's shown. RecFish also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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

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

aFunghi ships an update every 4 months, RecFish monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
aFunghi versus RecFish: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteraFunghiRecFish
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews30.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsMonthly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB67 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClaudio Ricco'Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Customer experience

aFunghi

Written reviews13 reviews
Positive30.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative61.5%

RecFish

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

aFunghi

No in-app purchases

None

RecFish

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is aFunghi free?
aFunghi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is RecFish free?
RecFish is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do aFunghi or RecFish have ads?
aFunghi shows ads; RecFish does not.
Which is updated more often, aFunghi or RecFish?
aFunghi ships an update every 4 months, and RecFish monthly. Most recently, aFunghi was updated on September 7, 2026 and RecFish on September 12, 2026.

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