Reviews for Picture Mushroom - Mushroom ID

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20 reviews

Review by Underdonkey
(5/5) January 17, 2021

Didn’t realise it was a yearly expense but this is by far the best app for beginner to advanced mycologists! I’m happy to pay for the service as it is so much better that it’s contemporaries. The catalogue of data is pretty large, the identification features are good and detailed. It gives a list of […]

Review by Karsten Keese
(2/5) March 22, 2022

Strike one: forcing users to create an account for an app that by its nature and functionality absolutely does not require one. Strike two: expensive recurring subscription plans only, with no possibility to purchase the software once and for all. Strike three: does require almost ideal pictures of the object in terms of distance, angle, […]

Review by David Vader
(4/5) June 7, 2020

It’s definitely the best mushroom identification app. Suggestions: 1. Allow more than the 3 most likely species, so if the identification is fairly loose/ambiguous, I can scroll further to mine potential matches. 2. If the suggested matches aren’t correct, I should be able to do a search with text to find the right species from […]

Review by Mark Deakins
(3/5) September 19, 2025

It’s OK. I can’t identify mushrooms in the field when I don’t have service. I’ve corrected a few mushrooms that it falsely identified. It falsely identified a Jellied false coral as Cauliflower. I can’t corrected it because they don’t have it in their data base. The best that I can do is to put the […]

Review by Leo
(4/5) October 18, 2024

This app is almost perfect. For uploads of past photos at home – you should pull the GPS data from the photo, instead of using the phone’s current location. Otherwise, the mushroom location is marked as your home. :/ I can edit the mushroom type, but there is no way to edit location/GPS data. An […]

Review by Robert Singleton
(5/5) August 6, 2023

Very useful app, it doesn’t identify all fungi but does a pretty good job. I have found mushrooms that I can’t find in books, so no method is infallible. With time, this app will only get better and better. The cost is a bit prohibitive for me as all these subscriptions add up. Gone are […]

Review by AM Otto
(1/5) September 18, 2022

This app looked promising, BUT… I haven’t had a chance to try it. Why? Because the trial version comes with a “catch”: once you select Trial, you are automatically registered to pay from day 7 on. And if you forget about this choice, ir will start sucking money from your credit xard on a weekly […]

Review by Mantas
(4/5) August 7, 2024

Works as expected, in my experience pretty accurate results. However when you subscribe or take free trial keep in mind it will renew subscription for the entire year and not for example another week / month. A bit sneaky, -1 star for that. But they do say it at the bottom. Oh and they have […]

Review by Francisco Verenciano
(4/5) August 18, 2025

Ok. Hit and miss. Better than other apps for common species, but expensive imo. Mainly based in US species by the looks of it. (£26-€30 per year). A bit odd it having so many 5* ratings as when you look through the reviews there are also many low scores. Edit: Great improvement picture load time […]

Review by M Corbeil
(4/5) November 11, 2021

I love that there is a free trial but the yearly subscription is too expensive for what you get. If it was a 1 time fee I would consider it. This info seems to be crowd sourced. Out of 8 mushrooms I submitted only 3 were correctly ID’d. Even if it is incorrect it is […]

Review by XTraqd
(4/5) November 24, 2023

I still think I’m a novice at mushroom hunting, but for the last year I’ve found this app very useful and mostly quite accurate. Caution should still always be advised to double check the results against a recognised guide, and to check for look-a-likes, and compare as many images as you can. Never pick anything […]

Review by C Jewell (Jelly Jellyfish)
(3/5) September 15, 2020

Better if you could set the zone to exclude impossible matches and it has often been incorrect for me. I am glad we got the trial because this doesn’t help with a lot of the similar looking ones. Also adding a “commonly mistaken for” section or ability to narrow when the options presented are not […]

Review by Tetranius
(1/5) September 21, 2024

They make it look perfect in the preview pictures, but when I first open the app, the first thing I see is a ‘give us money’ screen. You have to pay! You get a free trial for 7 days, but you need to COMMIT TO PAY. Credit card and everything. cancel any time, but there […]

Review by Lewis Baldwin
(1/5) September 29, 2025

I downloaded the app so I could identify a large number of different mushrooms in my garden. Registered for a free trial, used the app for 5 minutes and then realised I had been charged £25.99! Not happy at all, had I known I was going to be charged I would not have used the […]

Review by Buttersticks
(1/5) March 6, 2024

DO NOT GET THIS APP! Any forager worth their water knows that ID apps just don’t cut it. It doesn’t matter how good you think it is, you NEED something more in-depth. A dichotomous key, spore prints, and multiple specimens are paramount, you simply cannot know for sure without these things. People can die from […]

Review by Ravenlee Angell
(1/5) November 3, 2023

App either would open and immediately close, or it would take forever to load after taking a photo or it would reject and tell me it’s having connection issues, which was a bunch of bull#&@*! Because nothing else seemed to be having issues, I’d Definitely like a full refund, plus it doesn’t even tell you […]

Review by Robert Eberhardt
(5/5) July 26, 2022

It took me awhile to use this app with my photos, particularly when it needed to be sized down to be within the apps frame. Pinching down with one hand, while pressing the button with the other is a bit awkward. However, the rest of the app is a real asset when foraging for mushrooms. […]

Review by Jill Shafer
(1/5) November 4, 2023

Trial Subscription Not Transparent – Signed up for a $1.99 month trial. Was notified of new charges, in less than a month. When directed on how to cancel, received confirmation the cancelation would be in 1 year. Tried to get customer support, and was then told the “cancelation” was for the auto renewal in a […]

Review by b l
(1/5) April 21, 2022

I signed up for a month to try it out. They charged me for a year. When I looked around in the app to figure out how to cancel the subscription, there was nothing. No information in the help nothing. I emailed support and they did tell me how to go into subscriptions in Google […]

Review by David Chapdelaine
(1/5) January 18, 2024

While the app did technically work, their free trial and subscription model felt almost predatory. If you selected the free trial, they automatically set you up with the one year subscription. Not the one month or the one week. The one YEAR. Which is $30. Kinda steep for missing the cut-off day by 3 days. […]