Tasty edible mushroom or toadstool? Clarify that in the forest right away!
Delicious edible mushroom or poisonous mushroom?
My Mushrooms clears this up right in the forest without a heavy mushroom book.
Test winner 2015 of the German Society for Mycology (DGfM): Best of 7 mushroom identification apps, only one with a positive overall rating.
In-app purchases (click “Info and Shop” on the app homepage)
LIGHT version (free): 5200 small photos of 368 mushrooms (including 100 of 8 mushrooms large), all functions except private copy
PRO version (only €4.99): Activation of 5200 large photos of all 368 mushrooms
EXPERT version (only €5.99): 18,500 mushroom names without photos and without descriptions, with a display of private copies of your mushroom books. Does NOT include the PRO version!
No subscription, just pay once, e.g. with the Google Play prepaid card (from €15) from the supermarket
No advertising, no data collection, no "calling home", fair price
Offline app You don't need the internet!
All versions
- Photo search for quick browsing, with selection filters
- Characteristics search (mushroom identification) for characteristics of 221 mushrooms, very extensive, with explanatory pictograms
- Name search with adjustable search filters, unusually powerful
- Mushroom book with chapters and table of contents
- Literature references for over 50 books: You immediately know which mushroom is described in which book
- Your own photos can be saved for each type of mushroom (image archive, mine)
- Notes for your own comments on each species and genus
- Find lists for all mushroom and genus names
- Mushroom lexicon with 1100 technical terms
- Survival quiz to get to know mushrooms in a playful way
- Sharing of photos, found lists, private copies via messenger (WhatsApp, email, etc.)
- Exact GPS position to find your mushrooms, with measuring table sheet, quadrants, minute fields
- 368 descriptions with food value, short portrait, types of confusion, literature references
-221 of which are detailed descriptions with feature search
- Detailed help texts with useful tips
- Poison emergency call with telephone numbers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
- Collecting tips so that you can enjoy your finds
PRO version only
- 5200 large photos of 368 mushroom species (PRO only)
EXPERT version only
- 18,500 mushroom names and 2,300 genus names without photos, without descriptions, with references
- Private copy function Browse your own, self-scanned mushroom books on the go (note copyright!)
- 2000 English mushroom names
Attention: Despite strong compression, the app requires approx. 500 MB of memory! That's only 0.1 MB per photo compared to the many MB of your camera. More about this in the FAQ's on my website.
Detailed mushroom descriptions with
- Short portrait
- Edibility
- Cap
- Fruit layer (hymenium with tubes/lamellae/spines/other)
- Stem
- Meat
- Place of growth and companion plants
- Release time
- Confusion mushrooms (with differences and link!)
- Spurs
- Microfeatures
- Comments on special features
- References to 54 books (saves the hassle of leafing through tables of contents)
- German, scientific and English mushroom names
- Your own photos and notes
Contact
- Website with FAQs, help texts, mushroom name lists, etc. at www.meinepilze.de.
- I am happy to answer questions via email (info (at) meinepilze.de)
- Please avoid reviews with less than 5 stars. If you would rather write an email, you will receive a solution and I will have the chance to correct errors.
- All help texts as a printable PDF file on my website. This is how you get the most out of the app.
In-app purchases can still be undone after weeks. To do this I need your Google process number.
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