Shroomify - USA Mushroom ID

Foragers Friend

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About this app

Identify Fungi Fast with Shroomify. A must for mushroom identification.

Mushroom ID made easy, by selecting the characteristics of the fungi you would like to identify the in-app algorithms work out the most likely matches.

You can also view the 'Top 20' of the month which lists all the common Fungi you can find in the month you are in.

If you are a keen mushroom forager / hunter then there's lots of useful info, including the edibility of all mushrooms listed and a list of good edible mushrooms that grow in your country.

The app comes pre-loaded with over 400 common Fungi and over 1000 images.

When you open the app your position is used to load a relevant dataset to show just the mushrooms that occur in your country or region. Graphs and country ranking are also shown for each individual fungi to help you see how common it is and when in the year it is most common.

Ratings and reviews

Out of all the fungus ID apps I use this one most often and find it very easy to use and reliable. There is definitely run for improvement, but good job overall. My suggestion would be to add a couple new region databases like one for New England area and another for the Midwest and add more species to help determine the ID. That would be a great start to 5 stars and then you can work on making it look prettier. 👍

Needs a 'back' button. I like the small illustrations on the different filter choices. However, as a newbie I don't have an eye for it and many characteristics, like color, seem to fit somewhere between 2 or 3 of the possible options. Therefore, I'd often like to go back and change my filter, but cannot, and have to start over which gets annoying.

It's an overall impressive and user-friendly app which has some very useful features. In a majority of cases (I'd say 60-70%) I'm able to find matching species, or at least something in a similar enough Genus/Family that I can research via other sources. This app is often great as a jumping-off point and can make learning fungus identification easier and more interesting to beginners, but it falls kinda flat as a field guide. The concept/UI/design are fantastic though.

What's new

Fixed bug for German observations and improved mushroom ranking