Got a tree going mad this winter? List your surplus in under a minute. Someone nearby is already searching for exactly what you've got.
uForage is a free community food map. It shows you what's growing near you right now: roadside stalls, backyard fruit trees with too much fruit, small growers, honey, eggs, and wild food you walk past every day without seeing.
Search for what you actually want. Eggs, lemons, herbs, honey. Results are sorted by what's closest to you, with directions to get there.
Got more than you can eat? List your surplus in under a minute. Someone nearby is already looking for it, and your excess goes to a neighbour instead of the compost.
Not sure what something is? Point your camera. uForage uses image recognition plus a community of real people to help identify wild and backyard food, with safety and spray warnings on listings.
Foraging worldwide. uForage connects to a global database of more than 1.6 million wild food locations, so the map works whether you're in the Northern Rivers or northern Italy. Detail on non-Australian wild food listings requires a subscription.
Why we built it
Food should be accessible to everyone regardless of income. Community food networks are more resilient than supply chains, and we learned that the hard way during the 2022 Northern Rivers floods, when the roads were cut and the shelves were empty and the people who were okay were the ones who knew their local growers.
uForage is free to use, built by two people in Murwillumbah, and mapped by the community that uses it.
Winner, Business NSW Regen Connection Accelerator. As featured on ABC, NBN News and 7NEWS.
I seem to be the only person in Berlin ever to use this app which is both annoying and fun. I’m like a pioneer discovering and documenting all of the fruit of the Berlin wilderness. That’s a pretty big task but I’m up to the challenge. A few things in the app are clunky. 4 pictures is a bit annoying but whatever I guess. The point is obviously to auto identify the plant which is very cool. One thing is that the list function doesn’t seem to work. That could definitely be fixed. Also there is quite a lag when clicking on a plant on the map at times. Could add a few more categories to the thing. Like nuts or berries and have veggies separate from fruit. Ornamental plants in a separate section. Also sometimes the app freezes. I’m surprised it doesn’t have more users though. Overall is really good and has a nice clean and aesthetic UI. But it’s a bit slowwww like speed it up a little if possible. I just dropped a few stars because the plants that I found do not display properly on the in app map. It shows them very far away from the actual location but when you route to it it’s fine.
Privacy and glitches
MitraA42
This is a great idea. But .,,A)It asks for too much non optional personal data like address and birth month and gender. B) gets geolocation slightly wrong and doesn't allow moving it, so people probably won't find the tree I contributed C) would be nice if it integrated with a plant identification program.
Great idea
Gidget8800
Great idea and clean layout but I can’t scroll around the map to a wider view so I can catch good finds on a road trip and so far none in my area
A stability release. Three ways the app could stop working have been fixed,
along with a handful of things people wrote in about.
CRASHES AND FREEZES
• uForage could close itself while you were moving around the map — panning,
zooming, or waiting for nearby listings to load. The more spots in view, the
more likely it was. This was by far the most common way the app crashed.
• "Continue with Facebook" closed the app the moment you tapped it. It now
opens the Facebook sign-in page as it should.
• A spinner could get stuck over the whole screen and stay there, even after
closing and reopening the app — leaving you unable to log in or sign up at
all. If this happened to you, updating clears it.
SIGNING UP
• The "Where are you located?" field could show results for something you had
half-typed, or nothing at all, which could stop you finishing sign-up.
Choosing a suggestion now reliably fills the field.
MESSAGES
• Opening a conversation could show "Something went wrong" instead of your
messages, however many times you tried. It happened when the other person
had deleted their account or had an incomplete profile. Those conversations
open normally again, and new messages arrive in them.
• The wrong profile picture could appear beside messages in a conversation.
SUPPORTING US
• On the support screen, people already on the free plan could not select
Free, and had no way forward except going back.
• When a payment is declined, you now get a clear explanation instead of a
silent failure.
Version 2.3.246
The developer, Achiapa Nuvoli Family Trust, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Purchases
Financial Info
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Search History
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
Seller
The Trustee for Achiapa Nuvoli Family Trust
Size
102.6 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
