A mushroom foraging app for Ireland.
ForagePal is a mobile app for finding and identifying wild mushrooms.
It forecasts fruiting conditions by county, suggests likely names from a photo, and keeps a private log of your finds.
Ireland only for now; other countries may follow.
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play. €24.99 a year, with a 7-day store trial where eligible. The store handles billing; this site takes no payment. Ages 18 and over.
A look inside the app
Five screens; three are badged mock-ups for now.
Forecast
When is it worth going out?
A 14-day outlook you can argue with
Simple rules — recent rainfall, temperature, time of season — grade every county on a five-band likelihood scale, fourteen days ahead. Check it before you burn a Saturday.
- All 32 counties, Antrim to Kerry
- Calls it straight when an area has no answer
Forecast: A 14-day outlook you can argue with. Slide 1 of 5.
Forecast
When is it worth going out?
A 14-day outlook you can argue with
Simple rules — recent rainfall, temperature, time of season — grade every county on a five-band likelihood scale, fourteen days ahead. Check it before you burn a Saturday.
- All 32 counties, Antrim to Kerry
- Calls it straight when an area has no answer
Photo ID
What have I just found?
Point the camera, get a scored shortlist
Snap a find and get a ranked shortlist with confidence scores. The AI can be wrong, so every suggestion comes with its known lookalikes and how to tell them apart — all the tools to make the call an informed one.
- Deadly lookalikes listed first
- Tell-apart notes are curated reference, written per species
- Never eat anything based on an app ID alone. Always verify with an expert.
Learn
What grows here, and what resembles it?
199+ Irish mushrooms, in serious detail
Every species carries reference photos, its smell and taste, and over 1,300 notes on telling lookalikes apart. Edibility is a plain-language category, for you to weigh.
- Reference photos on every species
- Whatever the tell — staining, smell, cut flesh, host tree
- Month-by-month fruiting seasons on every entry
Trees
Where should I walk?
Know the wood before you park
Many prized mushrooms fruit near partner trees, so the right tree marks likely ground. Tap a point in mapped Irish woodland and the app names the dominant tree there.
- Built from Ireland’s national forest inventory
- Upfront where the mapping has gaps
My finds
Can I keep track of my spots?
A private log that stays yours
Pin what you found and where, and watch your own patch build up season by season. The log is private: only you ever see your pins.
- Exact coordinates opt-in; otherwise blurred to about a kilometre
- Delete your account and your finds any time
ForagePal is a discovery aid, not an identification authority. Never eat anything based on an app ID alone. Always verify with an expert.