Are you a mushroom hunting lover who has trouble identifying edibles? There are many mushroom identification apps for Android that can help you distinguish edible mushrooms from poisonous ones. These apps cover all possible mushroom species and they do not offer detailed information on all of them.
The best thing about these applications is that they show you several photos of each mushroom so that you can be sure that it is the one you are looking for. Some applications even allow you to identify mushrooms by taking or uploading a photo of it. If you want to know what the best apps to identify mushrooms, I invite you to keep reading.
Mushroom identifier
Mushroom identifier allows us to recognize any mushroom we come across taking a simple photograph, photography that compares a wide database to offer us the result most similar to the image with detailed information about its gastronomic uses (if it is not poisonous), the characteristic color, similar mushrooms ...
In addition, if we want to expand our knowledge, it puts at our disposal a funny game in which it shows images of mushrooms and three options to answer. It will also help us to identify the best conditions to collect mushrooms in the area where we are.
Mushroom Identify is available for your download for free, includes ads and in-app purchases to unlock all the features it offers us. Unlike other applications that seem forgotten in the Play Store, this application is regularly updated adding new varieties.
fungipedia
Thanks to the more than 2.000 photographs incorporated in the application, we can manually identify the mushrooms among the more than 500 species. In addition, it allows us to create our own database with the locations of the mushrooms located through the GPS of our smartphone, creating harvesting areas.
Does not require an internet connection and the application is in Spanish. Fungipedia has been created by the Fungipedia Mycological Association, so they know about mushrooms and others for a while, although it has not been updated for more than 4 years. This application is available in the Play Store for 6,99 euros.
Mushroom identifier - detection and classification
Mushroom identifier allows us know through the camera of our device a large number of varieties of mushrooms. Once identified, it shows us information about its properties, gastronomy, varieties, color ... Each one of the mushrooms that we identify with the application can be stored in a private database.
It also offers us the best areas to collect along with the ideal seasons of the year to be able to find each and every one of the more than 100 species that the application recognizes.
This application is available in two versions: a free one with ads and a paid version that has a price of 5,99 euros.
Fungus - Identification of fungi
Fungus uses artificial intelligence algorithms to recognize the fungus in question from its database consisting of more than 12.000 fungi classified into almost 1.800 species through the camera of our device. If we want the identification to be as accurate as possible, we must photograph the mushrooms with good lighting and from different points of view.
This application allows us to create a search history with the photographs we have taken to recognize them. Once you have identified the mushroom in question, it will show us the corresponding Wikipedia file where we can find all the information we may need at that time, the most important being whether or not it is venous.
Fungus - Fungus Identification is available for your download for free and contains ads but no in-app purchases.
Mushrooms 2
In Setas 2 you will find a complete guide that help identify mushrooms from over 2000 varieties classified into 300 species. The file for each mushroom includes a wide file, the names of the species in 11 languages and includes a quiz game to practice our knowledge.
Allows us search by appearance, color, size, flavor, whether or not it is edible, to the family to which they belong, beneficial medical effects, on which element of nature it grows ...
Mushroom Bolets is available in a free version with ads and another paid version without ads that has a price of 11,99 euros.
Bolets Mushrooms - Mushtool
The main objective of this application is to offer you the most complete guide to all mushrooms you can imagine, it includes a search engine that allows us to search by mushroom names, species, crown shapes and even colors.
Mushrooms include a detailed description, along with its scientific name, color, shape and other elements that can help us to easily recognize mushrooms, including information on whether it is edible or poisonous.
The application includes a notebook section that allows us to save the mushroom photos that we collect and also write down our thoughts, tricks ... In addition, it includes articles with the best recipes and tricks on how to cook mushrooms correctly.
Mushroom Bolets is available in a free version with ads and another paid version without ads that has a price of 2,39 euros.
Shroomify - Mushroom Identification
If none of the previous applications has helped us to identify the mushrooms that are in our environment, we must opt for an application such as Shroomify, an application that It is only in English and that allows us to detect up to 400 common fungi.
The name of the fungus that identifies the application, also shown in latin, so we can quickly turn to Wikipedia to find out the specific properties if we do not have much knowledge of the Shakespearean language.
The application allows us to access a large database where we can search by names, shapes and colors. Shroomify is available for download for free, it does not include ads but if you buy within the application to unlock access to all the functions it offers us (which are not few).
Book of mushrooms
The application offers us information on more than 300 species of mushrooms, it has a very practical and easy-to-use interface that allows users to people of any age quickly get hold of it. It includes a search engine that allows us to search by the name of a mushroom, by its type and even by the area where you can find it.
All the mushrooms that the application is able to identify are accompanied by several photos showing the mushroom from different angles so that we are sure that the mushroom that appears on the screen is really the one you see in real life. Each file includes detailed information on the mushroom, including the ideal season to collect it, areas where it usually appears, gastronomic uses ...
Like the previous application, Book of Mushrooms is available only in english, at least at the time of publishing this article.
Book of Mushrooms is available in two versions: a free one with ads and a paid one without ads that has a price of 2,19 euros.
Finally, if you do not want to install any additional applications and you have Google Lens, you can try identify mushrooms from a photo with this search engine service.
