# Öswald - App in den Wald!

> The AR forest app from BFW

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.BFW.Oeswald](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.BFW.Oeswald)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.BFW.Oeswald`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bundesforschungszentrum für Wald
- **Category:** GAME\_EDUCATIONAL
- **Downloads:** 299
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-10-03
- **First published:** 2024-04-15
- **Publisher country:** AT
- **Size:** 218 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.BFW.Oeswald)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.vars.at/oeswald-datenschutzerklarung/](https://www.vars.at/oeswald-datenschutzerklarung/)

## Description

Welcome to “Öswald – App into the Forest!”, the companion through Austria’s forests. Öswald is structured like a social media platform for the Austrian forest - entertaining, interactive and tailor-made for young people. Through story slides, quizzes in selfie mode and much more, the AR app presents the forest with all its strengths and challenges in an entertaining and captivating way.<br><br>The interactive learning app provides information about forests, biodiversity and climate change. Join Öswald on his mission to shape the forest of the future and preserve biodiversity. Answer quiz questions correctly and watch a treetop grow on your head!<br><br>Note: To use the AR app, a reference image is required to trigger augmented reality. You can find this on the “WALD meets SCHOOL” platform.

## Rankings

- #1,555,977 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.CAMERA`
- `android.permission.HIGH_SAMPLING_RATE_SENSORS`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_AUDIO`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_IMAGES`
- `android.permission.READ_MEDIA_VIDEO`
- `android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE`

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.BFW.Oeswald)