Is Mushroom Magic a replacement for GeoForager?

No, and it isn’t trying to be. GeoForager owns the community-curated, geocaching-style forage-pin library across generalist species. Mushroom Magic is an hourly, morel-specialized signal layer — soil + weather ingest, fire-closure reroutes, and a morel-tuned score that fires the moment the read crosses your threshold. They cover different jobs in the same hobby.

When should I stick with GeoForager?

If you forage across generalist species, want a community pin library of past-season spots, lean on per-region offline map packs, or treat foraging as a treasure-hunt across cached pins rather than an hourly go/no-go read — GeoForager is the right tool for that.

Does Mushroom Magic cover other species?

Morels are first. Other species are planned, but not shipped — if you’re a multi-species forager right now, run Mushroom Magic on top of a community pin tool, not instead of one.

How often does Mushroom Magic update?

Hourly. Soil, temp, and USFS closure feeds are fused every hour and the “go now” push fires the moment the morel score crosses your threshold — and re-fires when a fire-closure change reroutes you to your next burn area.

Mushroom Magic vs GeoForager

Two tools. One grows a community map. The other is a morel signal.

Both products are real, and they solve different problems. GeoForager owns the community-curated, geocaching-style forage-pin library across generalist species; Mushroom Magic owns the hourly, morel-specialized signal — soil + weather ingest, fire-closure reroutes, and a morel score that fires the moment the read crosses your threshold. Pick the one that matches the job.

Side by side

What each tool actually covers.

Feature	GeoForagercommunity forage pins	Mushroom Magic live · hourly
Real-time soil / weather ingest Soil-temp + RH into a morel score	Not included	Included
Fire-closure reroutes Auto-reroute when a USFS gate closes a burn area	Not included	Included
Hourly alerts Live push the moment the score crosses threshold	passive (manual check)	Included
Region coverage Where the data actually exists	community-curated, sparse in morel country	every USFS region w/ burn-age overlay
Pricing What it costs to keep both running	freemium w/ paid tiers (~$5–$15/mo)	Day Pass $2 · Monthly $20 · Annual $200
Burn-scar scoring Rate burn age for morels — A is fresh, D is spent	Not included	Included
Morel-specific scoring Species-tuned, not a generic foraging score	Not included	Included
Offline map packs Per-region basemap downloads for no-signal trips	region-based	Not included
Community pin library User-shared past-season forage spots	Included	focused on live, score-driven picks
Photo species ID Snap-a-photo mushroom identification	generalist species	planned (not shipped)
Base-layer topo Underlying map style	community-annotated basemap	USFS-tinted, burn-scar aware

Honest framing

When to choose which.

Pick Mushroom Magic

You're a morel hunter who moves on the hourly read.

If your season hinges on a single push that says “go now or don’t”tonight — soil-temp + RH + fire closures fused into a morel score, auto-rerouted the moment a USFS gate closes a burn area — that's the hourly, morel-specialized signal Mushroom Magic was built to deliver.

Pick GeoForager

You forage past morels and want the community pin atlas.

If you fill the basket with generalist species — past-season crowd-shared pins geocaching-style across the map, per-region offline map packs, and a community atlas that grows with every hunt — GeoForager is the tool that already covers that job end-to-end.

Pick your season

Reserve a plan.

Three tiers — Day Pass, Monthly, Annual. Subscribe the moment payments turn on and the first “go now” push is yours.

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