Pean.me vs Mycel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pean.me
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Pean is your private outdoor GPS map for the places worth remembering. Save fishing spots, mushrooms, berries, foraging places, hidden trails, hunting stands, landmarks, campsites, and other outdoor places in one tap from iPhone or Apple Watch. Pean captures GPS coordinates instantly, works when you have no signal, and syncs automatically when you reconnect. Every place is private by default. Add photos, notes, categories, and context from iPhone, then browse everything on your personal web map. Filter your saved spots, revisit them season after season, and share individual places only when you choose. Why outdoor people use Pean: - Save precise GPS spots in seconds - Works offline when mobile signal disappears - Add photos, notes, and categories - Use Apple Watch for quick place saving - Keep your map private by default - Return to fishing, mushroom, berry, trail, and hunting spots Pean is built for anglers, foragers, hikers, hunters, berry pickers, mushroom hunters, and anyone building a personal map of meaningful outdoor places. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Mycel
This app helps you track your foraging finds by pinning them on a map and journaling your outings. It uses local weather data to predict seasons and suggest the best times to forage for various items. You can also add custom species and access bilingual reference pages.
- Season prediction based on local weather
- Foraging Mode with one-tap logging
- Offline spot map with color-coded pins
- Outing journal with tracks and notes
- Bilingual reference pages for 60+ species
- Custom species and categories
- Apple Watch integration
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Find a good mushroom spot and you'll want it again next season — Mycel makes sure you never lose it. It's the foraging journal that pins every find on the map, tracks every outing, and reads the season from the real weather where you forage, so you know what's coming up and the best day to head out. Set it up for whatever you gather: mushrooms, berries, wild herbs, asparagus, or your own custom species. LEGAL — Mycel is a tracker, not an identifier. The app does not identify species from photos and does not provide guidance on consumption. Always verify with a local expert before any consumption. Some look-alikes are deadly. WHAT IT DOES • Season prediction: it crosses the recent weather in your area (WeatherKit + AEMET) with each species' pattern to suggest what to look for and the best day to head out. Tuned for mushrooms; for fruits and plants, a per-species seasonal calendar. • Foraging Mode: pin up to 3 species and one tap on the Lock Screen or Dynamic Island logs a find with your location. Without taking the phone out of your pocket. • When to go, zone by zone (Pro): Mycel checks the weather in the background and lets you know when a good day is coming up in one of your zones, based on rain and temperature. The “When to go” widget shows it on your Home Screen. • Offline spot map (OpenStreetMap) with your finds as colour-coded pins by category. Works with no signal deep in the woods. • Outing journal: every session keeps your track, finds and notes; group your places into zones and see what you found there. • A year ago, around this date: Home reminds you what you logged around these same dates in past years. And share your season as an image — no map, no locations. • 78 reference pages in 34 languages with description, habitat, season and look-alikes. 12 toxic species with explicit medical warnings (Amanita phalloides, Cortinarius rubellus, Lepiota brunneoincarnata…). • Custom species and categories: add whatever you forage where you live, even if it's not in the catalogue. • Apple Visual Look Up: Apple's system — not Mycel — can suggest species from your photos. • Apple Watch: active sessions show up on their own in the Smart Stack. PRIVACY • Your finds in your private iCloud, end-to-end encrypted across your iPhone and iPad. Or fully local-only if you prefer. • Zero analytics, zero third-party SDKs, zero tracking. Privacy nutrition: "Data Not Collected". • Photos never leave your library; Mycel only stores Apple's internal photo reference. PLANS • Free: 10 full foraging sessions, the map and the full reference, no expiry. (Predictions and bulk photo import are Pro.) • Lifetime $39.99 one-time: everything unlocked for good, no subscription. Includes every future backend feature (web heatmap, cross-device sync, etc.). • Annual $14.99/year with a 1-week free trial. • Monthly $1.99/mo. Cancel anytime. Mycel is built for Iberian foragers, but the catalogue covers most of European foraging. Coming soon: regional packs (Pyrenees, Galicia, Alps) and professional translation review for German / Italian / French. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://frostdev.eu/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Pean.me at 4 against Mycel's 2. Pean.me also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Pean.me sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Mycel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pean.me ships an update every 2 weeks, Mycel every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Pean.me | Mycel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrii Petlovanyi | Alvaro Escarcha Esteban |
In-app purchases
Pean.me
- Pean Pro$2.991 Month
- Pean Max$6.991 Month
- Pean Pro$19.991 Year
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- Pean Max$49.991 Year
Mycel
- Mycel Pro · Monthly$1.991 Month
- Mycel Pro · Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$39.99









