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Gljivar Featured on Lika Club

Mladen Tišljar
Mladen Tišljar
A forager cutting a porcini mushroom with a small knife in the forest, next to a basket of mushrooms

Lika Club, a news portal for the Lika region of Croatia, published an article on 6 November 2026 titled “Where to look for mushrooms in Lika? This map shows where they might be” (read it in Croatian). It is about Gljivar, our free Android and iPhone app that shows on a map where conditions for mushrooms to grow are good right now.

What Lika Club highlighted

  • A map of all of Croatia, Lika included, plus eight more countries: Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Hungary.
  • A score from 0 to 100 for grid cells about 10 km across, separately for porcini, chanterelles, parasol mushrooms and morels, for today and the next seven days.
  • A forecast built from the weather: rain and temperature over the past weeks, the time of year and the climate zone. It is updated every day.
  • A rain layer for the last 7 or 14 days and saved places with a notification when their score goes up.
  • A guide to 222 species with season, habitat and look-alikes, plus an overview of picking rules by country.

The portal also kept what matters most to us: the app does not identify mushrooms and cannot confirm what someone has picked. The guide is a learning aid, not a verdict on edibility. The forecast describes growing conditions and does not promise a find, and when in doubt, ask a mycologist.

Why we built Gljivar

“Everyone who goes mushroom picking asks the same thing: has there been enough rain, and is it worth going now? I wanted the answer to be visible on a map, for every area separately,” says Mladen Tišljar. At Designer2 we built Gljivar from idea to launch: testing the model against real finds, the daily forecast calculation, the interface and map design, and iOS and Android development. Read more about the project in our portfolio entry.

Get Gljivar

Gljivar is free with ads and needs no registration. The ad-free version costs €9.99 a year or €35 as a one-time purchase.

Thanks to the Lika Club team for the article! Read the full piece (in Croatian) on Lika Club. If you have an app idea of your own, get in touch.