What MycoHub is genuinely good at
We're not here to talk you out of MycoHub — it's a well-made app, and for a lot of growers it's the right one. Credit where it's due:
- Truly offline. No internet required. For a basement lab with no signal, that's a real feature, not a marketing line.
- Private by design. No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking — your data stays on your device. If "share nothing" is a hard requirement for you, that's exactly what MycoHub is built for.
- Native iOS & Android, polished. Dark mode, phone-native UX, and deep cultivation features: 12+ techniques, a genealogy/lineage tree, a strain library, QR label printing, per-batch photo logs, multi-flush harvests, cost tracking and inventory/supplier management.
- A one-time price option. A $9.99 lifetime "Starter" tier — no subscription — which is a fair, grower-friendly thing to offer.
If what you want is a private, offline, one-time-purchase phone app, MycoHub is an excellent pick and you can stop reading here with our blessing.
Where a commercial farm outgrows an offline phone app
The strengths above come from one design choice — offline-first, on one phone — and that's also where small commercial farms hit the wall. The questions that come up:
- "My grow data lives on one phone — what happens when I'm at the laptop doing the week's numbers?" Offline-first means no sync. You can't pull the same grows up on a desktop to plan, price, or invoice restaurants; you can't check them from a second device; and if the phone is lost or replaced, you're relying on having manually exported a backup.
- "It's mobile-only." A lot of the real work on a small farm — reviewing biological efficiency by strain, building a wholesale order, doing cost-per-pound — happens at a computer. A phone app can't be a browser tab next to your invoicing.
- "It's built around the hobby workflow." Spore-print genealogy trees and BRF/grain calculators are aimed at the home grower. A commercial gourmet/functional operation cares more about yield per block, contamination rate by cause, and cost per pound across hundreds of blocks you actually sell.
None of that makes MycoHub bad — it makes it a different tool for a different grower.
Mycro vs MycoHub, side by side
Honest yes / partial / no. Features change — verify current MycoHub details on their site, and if anything here is out of date, email hello@usemycro.com and we'll fix it.
| Capability | Mycro | MycoHub |
|---|---|---|
| Open it in any web browser — nothing to install | ✓phone or laptop | ✗iOS / Android app |
| Free, no sign-up, no download to start | ✓free Grow Log | ~free app, ads, 5-batch cap |
| Native mobile app | ~mobile web | ✓iOS + Android |
| Works 100% offline | ✗web-based | ✓offline-first |
| Auto biological efficiency + contamination rate | ✓in the free tool | ~yield/contam tracking in-app |
| Open-source grow engine | ✓MIT, on GitHub | ✗ |
| Cloud sync across devices / co-growers | ~early access | ✗offline by design |
| Built for commercial gourmet/functional farms | ✓ | ~hobby/home focus |
| One-time price option | ~$99 founding (early access) | ✓$9.99 lifetime Starter |
Do you have to switch? No — you can use both
This isn't all-or-nothing. If you already like MycoHub for offline, jar-side logging on your phone, keep it. Plenty of growers run Mycro's free browser Grow Log alongside it: the app for in-the-room capture, the browser for the numbers — biological efficiency, contamination rate and cost per pound by species — and for the commercial side at a desktop. The free Grow Log exports CSV/JSON, so your data is never trapped either way.
Who should pick which
- Pick MycoHub if: you're a home or hobby grower, you want a native phone app you can use 100% offline, privacy ("share nothing") is a hard requirement, and a one-time $9.99 is your ideal price.
- Pick Mycro if: you run a small commercial gourmet or functional farm, you want your grow log in a browser on any device with nothing to install, you live partly at a laptop, and you want yield, contamination and cost-per-pound that match a selling operation — on an open-source foundation.
Start with the free Grow Log — then get early access
Mycro is web-based grow-ops built for small gourmet & functional mushroom farms. The Grow Log is free and opens in your browser right now. The full commercial platform — cloud-synced batches, per-strain trends and the selling side — is in Founding-Grower early access.
Open the free Grow Log Get early access →Frequently asked questions
What is the best MycoHub alternative for a commercial gourmet mushroom farm?
MycoHub is an excellent offline mobile app for hobby and home growers who want everything on their phone with no account. For a small commercial gourmet or functional farm, the main gap is that MycoHub is offline-first and mobile-only, so your grow data lives on one phone with no cloud sync and no desktop access. Mycro is built for that case: it is web-based grow-ops you open in any browser, with a free Grow Log that needs no app install and automatically computes biological efficiency and contamination rate per batch.
Is there a mushroom grow log that works in a web browser instead of an app?
Yes. Mycro's Grow Log runs in any web browser on a phone or a laptop with nothing to download and no sign-up. You add a batch, advance it through inoculate, colonize, fruit and harvest, and it calculates biological efficiency, days in stage, an overdue-colonization flag and your contamination rate automatically. MycoHub, by contrast, is a native iOS and Android app that you install from the app store and use offline.
Does MycoHub sync across devices or to the cloud?
No, and that is intentional. MycoHub is offline-first and stores everything locally on your device as a privacy feature, with optional encrypted backups on its paid tiers. That is great if you want your data to never touch a server, but it means you cannot open the same grow on a second phone, a laptop in the office, or share it with a co-grower. A farm that runs across more than one device or person needs cloud sync, which is what Mycro is being built around.
Can I use MycoHub and Mycro together?
Yes. If you already like MycoHub for offline jar-side logging on your phone, keep it. Many growers use Mycro's free browser Grow Log alongside it to run the numbers — biological efficiency, contamination rate and cost per pound by species — and to handle the commercial side from a desktop. Nothing about Mycro requires you to stop using another app.
How much does Mycro cost compared to MycoHub?
Mycro's free tools, including the Grow Log, calculators and guides, are free with no account. The full commercial platform is in Founding-Grower early access — a one-time $99 founding spot that locks in early-grower pricing. MycoHub is free with ads, a one-time $9.99 lifetime Starter tier, or Pro and Farm subscriptions ($29.99 and $89.99 per year). They price differently because they are built for different growers: MycoHub for the offline hobby phone user, Mycro for the small commercial gourmet farm.
Comparison reflects publicly available information about MycoHub at the time of writing and may not capture every feature or recent change — verify current details on the vendor's own site. Mycro is for legal culinary & medicinal mushroom cultivation only. Not affiliated with MycoHub or MycoFile.