Spore identifies wild mushrooms by photo, shows the look-alikes you should compare against, and remembers where every find was. Honest about uncertainty. Free to start.
Open Spore and take a photo of the mushroom — cap, gills, stem, whatever you can see.
Get a species match with a plain-English confidence rating and look-alikes to double-check against.
Log the find to your journal with date, location and notes. Build a map of what grows where.
Every identification comes with a traffic-light confidence rating. No app should tell you a mushroom is safe to eat with false certainty — so Spore doesn’t.
Clear field marks, few look-alikes. Common, well-documented species photographed at good angles.
Reasonable match, but the photo could be clearer or there are plausible look-alikes. Compare carefully.
We are not confident. Do not eat this. Try a clearer photo, check the spore print, or ask an expert.
For every identification, Spore pulls up the species most commonly mistaken for it — with practical quick field tests. Gill shape. Colour. Smell. The small things that matter.
290+ species with photos and notes that work without signal, deep in the woods.
What’s fruiting now, in your region. Plan the next walk around the next flush.
Your pins, your business. Nothing shared, no account required to start.
Every find marked, mapped, and searchable. Learn your patches over the years.
