Whether you’re exploring the great outdoors, studying the natural world, cultivating backyard crops, or just want to get your bearings in the wilderness, this healthy harvest of foraging apps gets two green thumbs up. If you want to eat what you find, however, please get in-person training from experts.

Use Seek to identify plants and fungi with your camera while foraging. Participate in challenges, earn badges for observing different types of species, follow friends, and enjoy their discoveries. Then add, edit, share, and sync your own personal observations across devices.

Learn about plants in the wild or boost your botany game at home with tools for diagnosing diseases, and care reminders. Use light meter and watering calculator, plus tips for proper pruning and fertilization. Then share your garden victories with the PlantIn community, keep a photo diary, or chat with pros for horticultural help.

Find fascinating fungi and avoid toxic toadstools. Snap shots for instant IDs bolstered by an extensive mushroom encyclopedia, guides, and in-depth expert knowledge. Or add your photos, track your foraging sites, view customized maps, and keep tabs on trending mycology topics.

Share your pictures of flora and fauna, keep a record of living things you encounter, and check back for comments or identifications. Research-grade observations may even help scientists to better understand and protect nature as part of a joint initiative by the California Academy of Sciences and the National Geographic Society.

This comprehensive guide features detailed information about 1,500+ medicinal plants as well as tips for sowing, growing, and harvesting your own herb garden. Look up symptoms, browse, share, or bookmark plants and remedies, and save the information you need in PDF files.