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✓ No good...Didn’t identify any of the mushrooms I took photos of???.Version: 2.2
✓ Mushroom appI didn’t want the app that cost me and now I’m trying to cancel it before I get charged and can’t find it.Version: 1.1.6
✓ Poor for use in UKIt has only correctly identified 1 mushroom out of 5, and the 1 it did get correct was due to me correctly choosing the right one out of the 3 options it gave. Most of the wrong answers it gives aren’t even close! If your intentions are to eat the mushrooms that you find, then you REALLY need to spend time with a local expert. Toxic mushrooms can often look almost indistinguishable from edible ones, and although they clearly state that this app should NOT be used to clarify whether or not a mushroom is edible, my worry is that some people will ignore that statement. Again, books can help, but experts are always going to be your best option if you would like to eat what you forage..Version: 1.1.2
✓ It’s not few, forces you to pay to useThe new update has made it that you need to pay after 7 days. You used to be able to use the app with limited features, now you can’t even do that..Version: 2.3
✓ Does great sometimes, wild unqualified guesses other timesI paid for this app and as a novice identifying mushrooms it has helped. But, if it can’t identify a mushroom it will present what could only be called a wild guess. It would be better if the AI had a better feedback loop so users could report identification errors. Yes, you can correct the result but that is not helpful for novices. Here is what would help: . Put an indicator for the level of certainty. . Allow users to flag questionable results. . For any flagged items, the app team should research and improve the app for all. . If the app doesn’t know, don’t guess. Use the feedback loop to improve identification. . Some mushrooms were misidentified as they just do not show up in my part of the world. Use location info to improve results. . Allow user to put notes into mushrooms identified.Version: 2.9.1
✓ Please fix this!Can you please let me inspect the mushrooms i take pictures of through this app full screen? Its essential to let me see the details up close for a mushroom identification app and its ridiculous that it doesn't let me, it only puts it on a box above the identification photo when I tap on it. Im am sure there are MANY people having a frustrating time with this. Please let me put the mushroom on the big screen its so important. Side criticism: Also give an way to save specific photos to my phone.Version: 2.9.15
✓ Not effective, and they steal your moneyMy puppy ate a toxic mushroom. I’m a desperate attempt to ID, I downloaded 3 apps. This one wouldn’t let use the app without the trial subscription (the others remained free). I was distracted by my ill puppy, and couldn’t remember which app was going to charge a subscription fee of $45!?! (which wouldn’t have been nearly as painful, if it actually worked). I deleted all 3 apps, in hopes that that would cancel the subscription. Apparently, it does not. There’s no way to know which one has a subscription or when it would take payment. (My puppy is still on tons of medication, and her kidneys are in awful shape. She’s 6 months old, and her kidneys may not recover.). The makers of this app don’t care. No compassion whatsoever. Avoid this app. Stick with the free ones. They work better, anyway. This one only lets you use one photo. I’ve learned from the Facebook group that I found - that did help - is that many mushrooms look very similar, and you need at least three photos to ID them accurately (the top to show pattern and colour, the side to show cap shape and if there are any bumps/rings on the stem, and underneath to show if the underside of the caps have pores or gills). Stay away from this app, unless you have $45 to throw away..Version: 2.4
✓ Struggles to identify anythingI fed the app pictures I took of several very distinctive looking (non-ambiguous) mushrooms. All were very clear and at an optimal distance, but it really struggled to identify them. It got one of them right away, some of them only after clicking “retry” 2 or 3 times, and the rest of them not at all. I could understand confusing different mushrooms that looked similar, but the fact that it struggled to detect them at all doesn’t give me much confidence, or incentive to pay premium for an app that doesn’t work well. This may change (and I really hope it does), but as of version 1.1.0 I am disappointed. The plant version of their app works MUCH better..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Not very helpfulNot very helpful - didn’t add to what already knew.Version: 1.1.0
✓ Total scam can’t unsubscribeThere are no instructions to unsubscribe and the ‘app support’ link takes you to some Chinese webpage that has nothing to do with the mushroom app. After the free trial they start stealing $30 a month..Version: 1.1.0
✓ Honest reviewI did enjoy using the app however it will it tell you if you can eat or not. would be helpful...Version: 2.9.15
✓ Insane priceImagine spending $40/annually for a dumb app that tells you what a few mushrooms are instead of buying a field guide. Lol..Version: 2.5
✓ Cool idea, but not fully realized.This app can help you identify mushrooms, and tell you info about them; that’s pretty cool. However, they want you to pay $30 per year to identify 1/3 of what you find in the wild and somewhat dubiously at that. In other words, it is not super helpful in many situations. If there was a regional database, a comparison tool, a short questionnaire about the characteristics that would aid in identifying or narrowing possible species this might be a 5 star app. Right now though, I find myself harvesting many samples for no reason as the app fails me time and again..Version: 2.6.1
✓ ScamVery deceiving UX. Downloaded it …do you start the free trial or the free trial and plan? So dodgy. I’d rather pay for a something that is legit upfront vs scammy. Find another option. Shame on the developers..Version: 2.4
✓ The ads kill it for meI love the concept. I might even may for premium, but there are so many ads and they take so long before I'm given the option to close out. The one for the coloring book app takes like 20/30 seconds before I can exit out. No I do not want that app, and the more time I have to stare at the ad before I can get to what I actually want to do, the more I really hate both this app for identifying mushrooms AND the app being advertised in the ad. Like come on....at least make your ads like 5 seconds instead of 20+ seconds. Insane..Version: 2.8.0
✓ SubscriptionCanceled my subscription first day of the free trail and after the 3rd day still got charged $63. Not worth downloading.Version: 1.1.1
✓ ComplicatedI really cannot tell if this app is usable or not, the ux does not allow me to use it with subscribing..Version: 2.1
✓ Impossible to cancel subscription before free trialImpossible to unsubscribe before end of 7 day free trial.Version: 2.6.1
✓ Doesn’t workTimed out before an answer was reached.Version: 2.1
✓ Same mushroom different identificationsI just downloaded this app, I hunt mushrooms quite often and I’m very careful about the types I consume or touch. I sent in 2 different photos of the same mushroom and it gave me both different results. The pore colors on the photos didn’t even match what they suggested the mushroom’s color to be. They also do not tell the viewer what the spore colors are on the mushrooms, which is very important to identification. Better to get mushroom hunting books and take classes to educate yourself better. It is a fun app for learning about mushrooms but I think there are some inaccuracies. ✨don’t consume mushrooms if you are unsure✨.Version: 2.5
✓ No obvious way to contact support and adverts despite payingThis is a clever app, that often gets the identification right. However, despite having paid £27 for a year’s subscription (yes, the most expensive app I have ever bought!), I am still being bombarded by adverts every time I open it. Very irritating and, if I had not already paid the money, I would have cancelled the subscription and deleted the app so beware before pressing the download button! Also when I came to the end of the first year (when I think it was only £4), there was no warning the price was going to go up sevenfold. I feel pretty cheated..Version: 2.9.3
✓ Tried to use once then deleted immediatelyThis app has one purpose and thats to hound you into paying them $5 a month for no reason, this app didnt work for what im trying to identify as the camera feature doesnt focus well and you cant manually focus it..Version: 2.12.0
✓ Warning … TrackingThis app tracks your every move. There’s nothing like giving up your privacy. Be aware before downloading and using this app!!.Version: 2.8.10
✓ Liked it until I was charged without creating an accountI had enjoyed the app but this month I was charged 31 without creating an account..Version: 1.1.1
✓ Scam appThere is literally no way to cancel subscription. I did not even agree to subscribe, simply downloading this app enables the subscribe action. DO NOT DOWNLOAD.Version: 1.1.3
✓ Obviously not that great but…The identifier is pretty whack and is missing mushrooms (probably why there are so many misidentified mushrooms) with that being said @ everyone who decided to randomly eat a mushroom ?? you’re stupid. i do not care if the app said it was safe to eat. any reasonable person and mushroom enthusiast will know it is not safe to just eat a random mushroom. it even states first and foremost to NOT use that information as a reason to go put random things in your mouth from your backyard. if you want to eat mushrooms go to your local grocery store and buy them. the ones you know are safe to eat. use your brain cells..Version: 2.5
✓ Seriously?Does this app even have a back end because it wasn't even close and popped up the same (not close) photos of suggested mushrooms..Version: 2.12.0
✓ Are you kidding40 dollar subscription for a year. Honestly the worst app in the store atm do not download or sign up. APPLE REMOVE THIS APP FROM YOUR STORE!!!.Version: 2.6.1
✓ Terrible.I downloaded this app to find out about a specific mushroom I had found outside one day. I took multiple different pictures of the same mushroom and each time it would tell me it was a different mushroom. Very inaccurate. After doing some research myself I was able to identify it. But afterwards i got a call from my bank saying Apple was trying to charge me $25 for the “subscription” of this app even though I used it once and deleted it because it didn’t work. I’ve tried to cancel my subscription that I wasn’t even made aware that I would have to pay? If I was aware of this I never would have downloaded it because the app doesn’t work. This app is a scam. Don’t download it..Version: 1.1.1
✓ Not happy. Can’t cancelWhilst it positively identified the mushroom growing in my grass- no other mushrooms popped up or grew so I had no need to keep the app. So I went to the app to cancel and it diverted me to my Apple App Store - fair enough. I tried to cancel via my App Store and it won’t let me! There’s absolutely NO way to cancel it. All other of my apps have the option to ‘Cancel Subscription’ but not this one so beware! I will be cancelling my card and get a new one. So be careful when getting this app as you a) cannot proceed with the app unless you sign up to the free 7 day trial and give your card details for a years subscription to be automatically billed after the 7 days £26 odd and B) there’s no way to cancel this subscription in the mushroom app OR the App Store. Lesson learnt..Version: 2.6.0
✓ Charged after offer of free trialI was charged for app purchases even though it clearly started changing would only occur after the free trial expired. I cancelled the day I downloaded due to incorrect identification.Version: 2.10.2
✓ Misidentified All Mushrooms ShownThis app is a great idea but needs more refinement for accuracy. All the mushrooms that kept coming up from our pictures were not indigenous to the area..Version: 2.4
✓ Makes exploring fun!I really enjoy this app and feel for a novice it’s great! I enjoy learning about the nature around me and use mushroom books as a cross reference after using this app to help ID them. I am using the free version that you have to click around to use the app which is ok. I would appreciate having different medicinal uses listed and in which form(Tea, cooked etc.). Keep the warning of not to consume but add which cultures have used the various mushrooms. Some mushrooms do have this listed but I find myself googling and leaving the site and looking for more. Overall Great app! Thank you for creating this app! Edit: App adds popped up and was so off putting and I have no interest in games not having to have that interruption when I want to read about the mushrooms. I almost had 5 stars, if they added more about the app. Now with adds pop-up for the first time after reviewing and doing the update I’m really disappointed. 2 stars off. “Update to make app work more smoothly”?.Version: 2.7.5
✓ CancelHow do I cancel this subscription ?.Version: 2.5
✓ Good app but far from perfectFor those people saying ‘It’s not free!’ the pop up for the trial will happen every time you open it, but there’s a grey, hard to see ‘cancel’ at the top which lets you use the app for free with no trial. To cancel any subscription if you did accidentally sign up…you go to your phone settings, click your Apple ID at the top, and there’s a tab that says ‘subscriptions’ that allows you to cancel any apps you’ve paid for. You’re welcome. My issues with the app itself: somehow the heatmap is gone for me. Don’t know if that is not part of the free version anymore or something, but it was very helpful to seeing where in the world the mushroom was. The last few months I’m getting lots of suggestions for mushrooms that are nowhere near where my location is. If you’re gonna use my location data, at least have it help ID things. Also…the camera doesn’t want to focus while the app is open anymore, so I’m having to take photos out of the app and import them. Otherwise this app is super helpful for getting a ballpark ID on mushrooms and has been very accurate for some of them when I had little to go on. Always take them home and double check with spore prints and a good field guide, especially if you’re gonna eat them..Version: 2.10.7
✓ TERRIBLE - DONT GETYou have to sign up for a subscription to use this app.Version: 2.1
✓ LiesI’ve canceled and still charging my card Also they’ve said will remind you before charging and never happened Worst 50 dollars.Version: 2.9.16
✓ It’s pretty goodIt’s pretty good with the identification of most mushrooms and the UI is simple and clean. Unfortunately, there are a lot of basic features missing such as sorting and no community features where you actually interact with experts like the say. I also use inaturalist, which seems better on the actual mushroom identification and has a community of amateurs and professionals that give feedback on what you discover. I’m hoping for more features so that it makes sense to keep my subscription..Version: 2.8.2
✓ Not a free appApp is a subscription based app, not free, looks free but thats a lie, if you really need an app on yer phone that will do what a good book can do for twice the price monthly then go ahead and throw your money away..Version: 2.6.2
✓ This is a scamDo not sign up for this app, they provide no way to turn off auto renewal. There is no cancel option on iOS and there is no links to support that work, you can’t even message their Facebook site. Why is Apple allowing dodgy developers to rip off their customers. I will never trust another app on IOS after this experience..Version: 2.9.13
✓ This app is a scamDoesn’t work for Australia and won’t allow you to cancel during free trial period. SCAM WARNING..Version: 2.12.0
✓ Waste of timeIt’s 40 bucks a year. Why not just say that in the ad. Total waste of time.Version: 2.1
✓ Has potentialAccurate results about 30-40%. Might be a good place to start a search or use to eliminate possible Id but I would not rely on it for accurate results. And I 100% wouldn’t eat anything it identifies.. recently suggested a Cortinarius was a Lepista nuda!.Version: 1.1.5
✓ Falls shortAs a novice mushroom forager, wishing to consume the abundance of mushrooms, found in the northeast woods, where I live. I am finding this app is falling a little short in their assessments. The first thing I would hope to see when there’s analysis done of the mushroom is whether or not is toxic and can be consumed? I shouldn’t have to go looking for that information. It should jump out and hit me between the eyes. Since I don’t see that information why am I spending $30 a year? so I can learn to identify the different Latin names that I can’t pronounce? I want to know whether I can eat them or not..Version: 2.10.7
✓ Dangerous AppI used the app for the first time with a photo of a mushroom in the agaricus family. Below the photo was series of pictures came up calling it “Bisporus” which looked exactly like the one I had harvested. As it was considered safe to eat, I ate it, and got very nauseous. I did more research on wikipedia and learned there is a similar but inedible agaricus (xanthodermus) which I suspect I ate. (I live at 8,000 feet in New Mexico and there are many mushrooms after the summer rains.) I have never had the nerve to pick and eat one before today, when the app gave me the confidence I had an edible mushroom. The app did not exactly name my mushroom in the photo, which I didn’t realize at the time, but just showed file pictures that looked identical to mine. I will try the app again and take more care with identification details, but I will probably not ever eat a wild mushroom again, as I felt pretty terrible and scared. Just thought you should know the risk I experienced..Version: 1.0.1
✓ Works great ‘til no phone serviceI liked this app except for two big things: it is completely unavailable if you are out of phone service area (rural areas). Not only can you not identify mushrooms, you can’t see your own past finds, or save pics in the app to identify later. Other photo-based apps can do this. Also, it is super expensive —$30 per year! I’d understand, maybe, if was $30 one-time. Ouch. Lastly, it appears that they control your files and photos. So, you save a bunch of mushroom photos, then decide you no longer want to pay, goodbye to your files. That’s my thinking anyways..Version: 2.6.1
✓ I want to love itI have documented probably over 100 different species using this app. It was great at the start, before they added 15 second unskippable ads that play whenever you try and do literally anything. Also, you should be able to open a full resolution picture of the photo you took, which you can’t for some reason. Other than that, I’ve found it to be highly reliable at successful identifications especially if you take the time to get accurate pictures..Version: 2.8.0
✓ Waste of moneyConsistently incorrectly identifies mushroom species you get a different result each photo of the same mushroom..Version: 1.1.2
✓ Terrible. Couldn’t identify the mushroomWas not impressed. I had good pictures.Version: 2.10.7
✓ MediocreI get a positive ID about 1/4 of the time. Most of the time it doesn’t recognise mushrooms/fungi as such..Version: 2.2
✓ AdsThe amount of ads just to read basic information is insane. DELETE APP, same information is free in other places. I’m all for contributing to good apps, and I would possibly consider the $30 a year this app wants, but I didn’t get a chance to find out everything the app can do because I was hit with ads so often when just trying to read simple descriptions that I gave up. There has to be a way to let people try it out without making them commit to being charged at the end of seven days if they want to keep it or get busy with life and forget to cancel. I don’t know where the developers live, but $30 for an app that only identifies mushrooms is a big commitment for me financially. Just insane… Edit: Dev emailed me but I don’t think they understand my review… no, I do not want to email you, I don’t need to have this discussion in private. Not do I need to provide my financial information to your app even temporarily just to see what it is your app does. That is very shady to me. You can make the app full access for 30 days and THEN ask if users want to subscribe or lose full features. You do not need user financial information upon download..Version: 2.8.0
✓ No free trialI chose to look and was immediately charged $12.96 just to try, no free 7 day trial honoured.Version: 2.11.1
✓ Not wantedI didn’t realize there was a fee for this app and was unable to reverse it using the instructions given. Not happy😟.Version: 2.7.1
✓ Downloaded - did t workI bought this to run on my iPhone 12 with latest OS. App launches and gets to the “take photo screen” - there is a diagram of a mushroom, side and bottom buttons, load images and a big red take photo button. Everything works - except the take photo button. I can not get this app to take photos. The only way to get it to load a mushroom is to take the photo with camera app and load the image manually. Then it thinks Australian mushrooms are Californian ones native to the USA. So I’m not sure if trust it even when it does work. Canceled my subscription :(.Version: 2.8.4
✓ Identifications Not TrustworthyThis app is a great idea, but the accuracy in identifying mushroom species can’t be trusted, which ruins most of its value. What would make it infinitely better is if you could submit your images into a feed where mushroom experts could scroll through and submit their best guess. Then you could see (for instance) that the AI said it’s Species Z, 10 people said it’s Species X, and 2 people said it’s Species Y. This could be a fun game for Mushroom enthusiasts to show off their expertise, while giving valuable insights to beginners like me, while improving the AI identification with this human intervention..Version: 2.9.3
✓ Identification gives inconsistent resultsI have just taken photos of six mushrooms from different angles. In all but one case taking a photo of the underside gives a different genus to that given by taking a profile photo. In the interests of safety it would be best not to eat any mushroom until it is identified by an expert. I only bought it because the PictureThis app for plants is very good. The developers need to do a lot more work on this one..Version: 1.1.3
✓ Poor identificationUsed this on a Psilocybe Cubensis and it misidentified it as a “weeping Widow”. So…this app could be the difference between dinner and a psychedelic trip. I dare someone to use this app on a mystery mushroom and then feed that mushroom to their kid…..Version: 2.4.1
✓ Inaccurate, free version useless and even after subscribing many features require additional upgradeI definitely would not rely on this to identify mushrooms with poisonous lookalikes. The only ones it gets accurately are mushrooms that anyone can ID with a field guide, like chanterelle, hen-of-the-woods, amanita muscaria, enoki, trumpet, giant puffball, and others without any lookalikes. The ones that resemble toxic mushrooms. I certainly would not chance on any white mushroom, as it could easily mistake an immature destroying angel for some harmless edible white species of agaricus, without cutting it in half or taking a spore print, especially if features like the veil have fallen off. Waste of money for something only useful two months of the year and won’t keep you alive when it truly counts..Version: 2.11.1
✓ How do you unsubscribe?I downloaded this app then saw the price, I want to cancel it now before the free trial runs out. how do you do that?.Version: 1.1.3
✓ TerrifyingThe privacy policy states that it will track you (location and website use) and will ignore any device’s “Do Not Track” feature like it’s a suggestion. No thanks, don’t like that.Version: 2.8.4
✓ DisgustAbsolutely disgusting ethics exhibited by both developer and distributor. No indication of any price until already purchased and hair trigger buy buttons. No way to reverse process once lured into looking at the app and the options allowed in the “report a problem” process are totally inadequate. I do not want the app. I have not used the app. I don’t want to wait until I have purchased the app and then have to beg for my money back I simply do not want your worthless app and I do not want to have anything to do with you and your sleazy business practices. Cancel the purchase!.Version: 2.9.11
✓ Really BadJust tried this out on 8 different mushrooms. The camera ID feature barely works. Even when it lead me to a plausible match, the individual pages for mushroom species are filled with random user-uploaded images that are wildly inaccurate. What are very clearly different species will all be labelled as the same species. Maybe it's my location (Vermont). Really don't understand where the positive reviews come from..Version: 2.6.1
✓ InaccurateWorks sometimes but usually inaccurate..Version: 2.10.7
✓ Lots of pop upsTried for 10 minutes, so many pop ups. Have deleted and will try another app..Version: 2.8.2
✓ No identificationThe app could not identify the mushroom I photographed..Version: 1.1.6
✓ Oh Dear not goodI have been using the PictureThis plant identification app for some while now and was happy enough to subscribe so I felt confident that this app would be reliable being out of the same stable. However, things did not start well when on first use straight out of the box it failed to ID a simple ‘garden’ white mushroom. In fact it didn’t even give a definitive answer as to whether or not it had ID’d the mushroom, just a repeated message “Try again” What does that mean? I now notice there are some pretty poor reviews so I think I may have wasted my time but I most likely won’t subscribe depending on the reaction to this review..Version: 1.1.0
✓ UI design mattersWhat the app doesn't tell you is that if your picture matches 3 different mushrooms and you swipe between them, and then close your picture, it will assign your picture to the mushroom you currently are viewing out of the 3 options. I assume that this is then fed to their ML and makes it worse. Well done. Hire a UI designer. Shoot your product owner..Version: 2.10.7
✓ Never trust an appThis is helpful at times. It’s correct I’ve found maybe 50% of the time. When none of the 3 suggestions are correct and you X out it assumes you got the correct id further helping others receive wrong id’s. You have to scroll to suggest an edit. This fine for those who know what to suggest. If you have no idea it saves your incorrect Id when you back out. Common easy to identify mushies like cortinarius iodes are not recognized at all. Instead the poisonous mushroom is identified as an edible blewit. Not good. Hopefully all who use this app know to triple check sources including a written guide that will warn of the look a-likes..Version: 2.5
✓ Ressemble à cèpesPrès du ruisseau près du pont..Version: 2.10.3
✓ BewareOne star too many. Like all apps on subscription won’t let you try first, you can try for 7 days and if you forget to cancel you are committed because they take your money from Apple. Why can’t we try a few idents first without commitments????? I delete them if they are this type. Puts me off downloading apps in the future. Tell your customers it’s a SUBSCRIPTION App in large letters if you dare!!!!! Thank you..Version: 2.7.0
✓ PayanteAttrape où on doit s’abonner pour utiliser. Pas gratuit.Version: 2.7.1
✓ Not impressedDoesn’t work offline.Version: 2.9.4
✓ Extremely irresponsibleThis app is terrible and the authors quite literally don’t know anything about mushrooms. If you want to learn about mycology there are no shortcuts. This app is likely going to contribute to a liver transplant before they realize how terrible the idea is. On top of that they’re charging a membership fee?! So shameful, I hope the developers get what they deserve Edit: the developers have left me an extremely ignorant response that doesn’t address anything stated in my review it completely deflects and implies that I didn’t even use the app; further more it claims I was reviewing the app by the same developers ‘PictureThis plant identifier’ So disgraceful! The developer response given reads as such- “We are sorry you had a bad experience with our app(implying my review is talking about PictureThis plant identifier). Mushrooms and plants are apart of a different kingdom, Picture this’ plant identifier is designed for plants not fungi, good news is we have a new mushrooms identifier, please download our new mushrooms identifier app”.Version: 1.1.1
✓ PriceShould be free.Version: 2.10.4
✓ DeceptivePressed on the app for a trial, then cancelled within the hour. Have now been charged 29.99 And the app is pretty bad, hence my cancellation.Version: 2.10.1
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