No AI guesswork: Forage computes your region’s season from over 3 billion data points and helps you identify every find safely.
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Sea Buckthorn
Ending soon
Cornelian Cherry
In season
Parasol
Ending soon
Black Elder
In season
Sloe
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Season calendars are averages, and an AI only guesses on top of them. Forage instead computes with over 3 billion data points from museums, research collections and naturalists worldwide.
For every species you see when it's actually ripe in your region, how many real finds back that up, and which month gets the most reports.
Plus what no calendar knows: Forage factors in weeks of recent weather and your location's elevation. A warm valley is ready earlier than a cool ridge.
The photo scan recognizes plants and mushrooms remarkably well in practice and points you in the right direction instantly.
Then you make sure: every species comes with characteristics to check, edible parts, warnings, and the lookalikes you need to watch for.
Never eat anything you haven't identified beyond doubt.
Berries, mushrooms, wild herbs: what you forage, you'd otherwise buy. Forage converts your logged finds into local store prices.
So year after year, you know what the forest gave you by the end of the season.
“What's that? Can you eat it?” With Forage the answer is in your hand: what it is, when it ripens, and what you can make from it.
The Foragedex turns every walk into a treasure hunt: each new species an entry, badges for keeping at it. Outside, kids learn more than in front of any screen.
For many species, only two weeks separate “not yet” from “over.” Miss them, and you wait a year.
Put species on your watchlist: the moment the season starts in your region, Forage pings you, instead of you checking every week.
Start for free. Pro gives you offline regions, an unlimited watchlist, and 50 scans a month.
Not sure what you found? Post a photo in the forum, and experienced foragers help you identify it.
Every spot stays yours alone or gets shared. Switch any time, for each spot individually.
Browse every recorded species. Missing one? Just search for it, and we ask our botanists and add it.
Scan plants and mushrooms from a photo. A hint of what to look at, never a verdict.
With Pro, save your region offline: your spots are there even without signal, right where you need them.
With Pro: unlimited watchlist, the full species heatmap, and 50 scans a month.
Download free and see what’s in season in your region right now.
How the seasonal timing is calculated, how Forage compares with the other foraging apps, and what it deliberately does not do.
What Forage does, where the data comes from, and how the season estimate is calculated. Written to be checked rather than believed.
ComparisonEight apps compared honestly, with a feature matrix, prices and regional availability. Including where another app is the better choice.
ComparisonSeven apps that identify mushrooms, how often they get it right, what works offline and which one helps you check a find.
Head to headGather is a written field guide for the United States and Canada. What Forage adds on top, and when Gather is the better read.
Head to headThe biggest open foraging map in the world, and what Forage does that a map on its own cannot.
Forage helps you discover and identify wild plants, but identification is never 100% certain. Many edible plants have toxic lookalikes. Never eat anything you find based only on what this app tells you. Always confirm with a field guide, an experienced forager or a local expert. The season score tells you where to look, too: it’s not a guarantee. Mind conservation law and property rights as well.