Mushroom Map: Spots near you is a location-sharing app for mushroom foragers to pin and find fungi sightings on an interactive map.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Lifestyle
Sentiment
1.4
10 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
The app removes the manual effort of scouting new foraging grounds by providing a crowdsourced database of species-specific locations.
For Mushroom foragers and outdoor enthusiasts seeking community-verified locations for specific fungi species.
What does it look like?
Key features
Interactive map displaying pins for mushroom sightings submitted by the community.
Unlocks historical and rare sightings behind a $4.99/week or $29.99/year subscription.
In-app navigation assistance to reach specific mushroom coordinates.
How much does it cost?
The freemium model gates map visibility and navigation tools behind a weekly or yearly subscription to monetize free-tier ad-inventory.
Velocity
Dormant developmentperformanceShow more...
Development has ceased, with no new feature builds or updates released in the last 295 days. The app currently sits in a zombie state, as the last update was nearly ten months ago and consisted only of minor bug fixes. There is no evidence of ongoing maintenance or active development cycles.
Who built it?
Picture & Photo Identifier Company
5 apps tracked · Lifestyle
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What do users think recently?
Recent user voice shows a frustrated sentiment. Users appreciate detailed mushroom identification data with location markers helps foragers understand specific environmental growth conditions.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Detailed mushroom identification data with location markers helps foragers understand specific environmental growth conditions
- Accessibility barriers on the welcome screen prevent users with larger text settings from accessing the app
4 of 4 recent reviews analyzed · limited sample
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Competitive landscape for Mushroom Map: Spots near you
How's the Lifestyle market?
Mushroom Map: Spots near you occupies a niche lifestyle segment, but its 1.4-star rating across 10 total ratings signals a failure to meet basic functional expectations. The 295-day update gap suggests the product is currently in a zombie state, limiting its ability to compete for active users.
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Key takeaways for Mushroom Map: Spots near you
Where is it heading?
The foraging app market is shifting toward community-moderated platforms that prioritize data accuracy over rapid expansion. Mushroom Map: Spots near you remains exposed due to its high price point and lack of recent updates, which will likely lead to continued churn as users seek free, more reliable alternatives.
- The 295-day update gap indicates a lack of active maintenance, which erodes user trust and prevents the resolution of critical accessibility bugs [1, 2].
- Persistent complaints regarding data accuracy and image scraping suggest the community-sourced model is failing to provide reliable value to foragers.
The SWOT
- Interactive map interface aggregates niche foraging data
- Implement sighting verification to improve data integrity
Next best moves
Audit welcome screen accessibility because text scaling prevents login → restore new-user conversion
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's biggest risk is not the lack of features…
Read the full takeSince the last report: The app remains in a zombie state with no functional changes, but the analysis now explicitly links the $4.99/week subscription cost to accelerated user churn and identifies unverified data as a core liability.
Bottom line
The current technical instability and 295-day update gap invalidate the premium subscription model, as users cannot access the core map functionality. A pivot toward basic accessibility and data verification is required to stop the rating decline and restore utility.
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