Falling Fruit

Falling Fruit

About this app

Falling Fruit is a community-driven platform for sharing locations of edible plants and other sources of free food. You can discover what others have been harvesting in your area and contribute your own observations.

We aspire to provide the world's most comprehensive and open foraging and freegan map. Since our launch in 2013, we have been collecting locations from app users, as well as from hundreds of community, university, and municipal datasets. Today, the map hosts millions of locations in thousands of cities covering thousands of edible types (fruit trees, berries, nuts, herbs, vegetables, mushrooms, dumpsters, and more).

Our mobile app offers the same core functionality as our free website, with refinements and native interfaces designed specifically for phones. A small price for the app helps cover the project's costs, and all proceeds go to Falling Fruit, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

Falling Fruit is not associated with Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit can be found at fallenfruit.org.

Ratings and reviews

I love the concept but the app could use a lot of work. Cannot upload images from gallery. You have to physically be in front of the wild edible to snap a picture of it to upload the image. There's isn't any sort of profile system. Would be nice to have profiles so people can have images and maybe a counter for now many spots they have uploaded. Would be a good incentive for people to start sharing more spots because it's pretty bare. Hope this app improves and doesn't become stagnant.

I like the service so I got the app. The app is worse than the online version. so many things are not there. I can't even give feedback on the app. Imagine I want to find an apple tree, there are like 50 kinds listed and I can only select one so the 10 apple trees near me don't show up. I also can't favorite certain places or yes so I can remember that they were good. I can't even find my own reviews in the app. Every entry needs to list the season when they are fruiting..most don't right now

This is an awesome tool for sharing information on local urban foraging! There are certainly areas for improvement, but for the price it's a great service. I would love the option of adding favorites, or a way to refer back to where I've visited. I would also like an option to delete/retire locations that are no longer available (for example, there's a ton of entries for a local grocery chain that closed years ago, and as far as I can tell there's not a way to get them removed).

What’s new

* Navigate in street view with clickable and labeled markers
* Drag to set location position in both map and street view
* Open photos fullscreen and zoom in further
* Update stale or incomplete locations with helpful hints
* Delete your account
* Reviews are sorted by newest first
* Cultivar names are shown in location labels
* Bug fixes and technical improvements