There is free fruit growing on your street.
FreeTree is a free foraging map of public fruit and nut trees — apples, pears, cherries, plums, walnuts, figs and berries — built from the open tree registers cities publish themselves, and it tells you when each one is ripe.
Where the fruit trees come from
Nothing here is guessed and nothing is scraped. Every tree comes from a register a city published itself — 219 open datasets in total — and the app names the one it came from.
Municipal tree registers
Open tree cadastres from 24 countries, each under a licence that permits redistribution. Publisher, licence and vintage are credited inside the app for every single tree.
A real harvest calendar
Harvest windows are held per species and per climate zone, so a walnut in Hamburg and one in Vienna do not claim the same week. The app shows what is ripe now, and what is coming.
Only what is edible
Ornamental varieties are dropped at import rather than filtered later, and a tree identified only to genus is never presented as food. If it says apple, it is an apple.
How to find free fruit near you
Three taps from opening the app to standing under something ripe.
Open the map
Pins coloured by what they bear. Filter to apples, nuts or berries — or to what is in season this week, within walking distance.
Pick a tree
Species in Latin and your own language, harvest window, walking time, and what other foragers reported on it recently.
Tell the next person
Say what was on it, log a watering in a dry spell, or add a tree the city register is missing.
Every species on the map
72 fruit and nut species are mapped today, common name and binomial, so the app answers a search for “apple tree” and one for “Malus domestica” alike.
Cities and countries covered
210 cities in 24 countries, from 219 open datasets — and the list grows whenever another city publishes its tree register.
Germany 214,654 trees
Aachen, Bedburg-Hau, Beelitz, Berlin, Bielefeld, Chemnitz, Dortmund, Dresden, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Elmshorn, Emmerich am Rhein, Erlangen, Frankfurt (Oder), Frankfurt am Main, Freiburg im Breisgau, Fürstenwalde/Spree, Hamburg, Issum, Kiel, Kleve, Kloster Lehnin, Krefeld, Köln, Leipzig, Lübeck, Moers, Neuss, Norderstedt, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Landes- und Bundesstraßen), Nuthetal, Osnabrück, Rostock, Schwalmtal, Soest, Trebbin, Viersen, Wedel, Wesel, Würzburg, Xanten, Zehdenick
United Kingdom 192,906 trees
Belfast, Bristol, Edinburgh, Fareham, London, Sheffield, York
Spain 184,991 trees
Alcobendas, Arganda del Rey, Barcelona, Ciutadella de Menorca, Fuenlabrada, Madrid, Manlleu, València, Zaragoza
Canada 138,232 trees
Cambridge (ON), Fredericton, Guelph, Halifax, Hamilton, Kitchener, Maple Ridge, Medicine Hat, Mississauga, Montréal, Okotoks, Ottawa, Québec, Repentigny, Saguenay, St. Albert, Surrey, Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, Windsor (parks), Windsor (right of way), Winnipeg
Colombia 138,021 trees
Bogotá
Netherlands 96,723 trees
Alkmaar, Almelo, Amsterdam, Arnhem, Assen, Breda, Delft, Deventer, Eindhoven, Gelderland (provinciale wegen), Groningen, Haarlem, Hilversum, Nijmegen, Oss, Raalte, Utrecht, Utrecht (provinciale wegen), Velsen, Voorschoten, Zuid-Holland (provinciale wegen), Zwolle
United States 72,225 trees
Boston, Boulder, Cambridge (MA), Charlottesville, Denver, Los Angeles County (unincorporated), Mesa, Portland (OR), Providence, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Washington, D.C., Yucaipa
Italy 50,424 trees
Alessandria, Bologna, Copertino, Ferrara, Firenze, Lucca, Messina, Milano, Torino
France 50,306 trees
Anglet, Bayonne, Bordeaux, Clichy, Grand Paris Seine Ouest, Grand Paris Sud, Issy-les-Moulineaux, La Rochelle, Lyon, Metz, Mulhouse, Nantes, Nièvre (départment), Noisy-le-Grand, Paris La Défense, Plaine Commune, Seine-Saint-Denis (départment), Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tourcoing, Tours
Portugal 48,696 trees
Arronches, Cascais, Lisboa, Oeiras, Porto
Switzerland 40,697 trees
Basel, Bern, Emmen, Genève (canton), Luzern, Zug, Zürich
Australia 27,390 trees
Adelaide, Ballarat, Brimbank, Burnside, Canberra, Colac Otway, Corangamite, Glen Eira, Glenelg (VIC), Greater Geelong, Greater Shepparton, Hobsons Bay, Macedon Ranges, Manningham, Melbourne, Northern Grampians, Perth, Port Phillip, Southern Grampians, Strathbogie, Sydney, Wodonga
Belgium 25,605 trees
Antwerpen, Brussel / Bruxelles, Gent, Jette, Liège, Namur
Sweden 21,252 trees
Malmö, Umeå
Austria 18,382 trees
Innsbruck, Linz, Wien
Greece 16,051 trees
Agrinio, Athina, Piraeus, Thessaloniki
Czechia 10,706 trees
Brno
Finland 10,047 trees
Helsinki, Turku
Argentina 8,156 trees
Buenos Aires
Ireland 7,812 trees
Fingal, South Dublin
Denmark 5,191 trees
København, Vejle
Poland 5,131 trees
Kołobrzeg, Szczecin
New Zealand 4,276 trees
Christchurch, New Plymouth, Upper Hutt (fruit trees)
Slovakia 922 trees
Bratislava
Questions people ask
Is FreeTree free?
Yes — free to download and free to use, with no ads, no subscription and no in-app purchases. An account is optional: the map, the search, saving trees and reporting a harvest all work signed out.
Where does the tree data come from?
From the open tree registers that cities and municipalities publish themselves — 219 datasets across 24 countries. Each is used under a licence that permits redistribution, and the app credits the publisher, the licence and the year of the data for every tree.
Am I allowed to pick the fruit?
It depends on where you are, and FreeTree does not give legal advice. The trees mapped here stand on publicly accessible land, but the rules on picking differ between countries and even between municipalities — some invite it, some tolerate it, some restrict it. Check your local rules, never pick from private property, and take only what you will use.
How does it know when fruit is ripe?
Harvest windows are stored per species and per climate zone rather than one date per species, so the same walnut ripens at different times in northern Germany and in southern Italy. The app shows ripe now, coming soon, or out of season for each tree.
Which fruit trees are on the map?
72 species with a real presence in the data, including apple, pear, sweet and sour cherry, plum, cherry plum, sloe, apricot, walnut, black walnut, hazelnut, sweet chestnut, mulberry, quince, medlar, elderberry, rowan, serviceberry, hawthorn, cornelian cherry, fig, olive, pomegranate, persimmon, loquat and citrus.
A tree is missing. Can I add it?
Yes. You can add a tree from where you are standing — within 500 m of it, so a submission is something you saw rather than something you guessed — and it is reviewed before it reaches the map.
Does it track me?
No. There is no advertising and no analytics profile. Your location is used on the device to show what is near you, and an account exists only so a saved list survives a new phone.
Go and find one.
Free, no ads, no account needed — and it works signed out.