Mycel vs FlockDetour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
FlockDetour
Navigate your routes while minimizing exposure to automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Compare fastest routes with options that balance speed and camera avoidance. Access free camera maps, agency records, and news, with premium features for turn-by-turn navigation and advanced detour modes.
- ALPR-aware GPS navigation
- Compare fastest, balanced, and fewer camera routes
- View minutes and miles added per route
- Free camera map with known ALPR locations
- Agency records on plate data retention
- Apple CarPlay integration
- Turn-by-turn navigation (Pro)
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Find Flock Safety cameras and other license plate readers (ALPR) on a free map. Compare the fastest route with detours that pass fewer known cameras. Works with Apple CarPlay. FlockDetour is GPS navigation built around that map. Plan a trip and compare the fastest route with Balanced and Fewer cameras detours. Each route shows the minutes and miles it adds and how many known plate readers it passes. You decide what the detour is worth. The camera map, fastest-route preview, agency records, and news are free. Turn-by-turn navigation and the Balanced and Fewer cameras modes require FlockDetour Pro. IN YOUR CAR (APPLE CARPLAY) • See the camera map on your car's screen • Choose a Fastest, Balanced, or Fewer cameras route before you leave • Follow turn-by-turn directions • Get a warning when a known camera is ahead on your route • Keep a map in the CarPlay Dashboard • Preview the fastest route free in CarPlay; turn-by-turn navigation and the two privacy modes require FlockDetour Pro CAMERA MAP (FREE) • Browse known Flock Safety cameras, other ALPRs, and speed and red-light cameras • Open a camera record to see its source and confidence level; direction and operator appear when known • Search destinations and save the places you drive to • Report a camera you've seen; new reports stay private until reviewed FASTEST-ROUTE PREVIEW (FREE) • Plan any trip to see the fastest route's line, drive time, and distance • Count the known cameras on it before you go AGENCY RECORDS (FREE) • Look up agencies that publish a Flock Safety transparency portal • See how long each agency keeps plate data, how many searches it ran, its vehicle detections, and which outside organizations can search its cameras • Every record links to the agency's official portal. If the agency doesn't publish a figure, the record leaves it out instead of showing zero FLOCKDETOUR NEWS (FREE) • Flock Safety and ALPR coverage, updated hourly, with links to the original sources FLOCKDETOUR PRO • Turn-by-turn directions with voice guidance, on your phone and in CarPlay • Balanced and Fewer cameras modes, designed to reduce exposure to known cameras • Background proximity alerts near known camera sites • Download new offline regions for the basemap and cached cameras Try every route mode at flockdetour.com, which plans the same routes free in any browser. No account needed. HONEST COVERAGE • A blank area on the map never means camera-free • Routes show tradeoffs, not guarantees • Recent destinations stay on your device PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No plate scanning • No FlockDetour account • No ads, and no sale of personal data • No route history kept by FlockDetour • Control cached data and alert preferences in Settings FlockDetour reduces exposure to cameras documented in its current data. It cannot identify every camera, guarantee avoidance, replace traffic laws, or ensure a route is surveillance-free. Always follow posted signs and drive safely. FlockDetour Pro is available through monthly and yearly auto-renewing subscriptions or a lifetime one-time purchase. The app displays only the localized price supplied by the App Store. Apple handles payment and subscription management. Terms of Use (EULA): https://flockdetour.com/terms Privacy policy: https://flockdetour.com/privacy FlockDetour is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Flock Safety or any surveillance vendor. CarPlay is a trademark of Apple Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mycel at none against FlockDetour's shown. FlockDetour's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mycel sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and FlockDetour sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mycel against 5.0 for FlockDetour. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
Mycel ships an update every 3 weeks, FlockDetour every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mycel | FlockDetour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 77 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alvaro Escarcha Esteban | Block Browser |
Customer experience
Mycel
FlockDetour
In-app purchases
Mycel
- Mycel Pro · Monthly$1.991 Month
- Mycel Pro · Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$39.99
FlockDetour
- FlockDetour Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- FlockDetour Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- FlockDetour Pro Lifetime$49.99






