A Google user 32
Saturday, September 21, 2019
It is not ineffective for identifying, learning, and recording birds. However, considering the price and in light of the free app Australian Birds it leaves a lot to be desired. The UI is clucky. Smart search is not useful at all in my experience. And it is a bit painful and restricted if used as your primary bird list. However, it is nice to be able to export and save your list separately to the app. The bird calls and descriptions are useful. Edited
Eric Sweet 15
Monday, September 20, 2021
Recommended by a friend, and it doesn't disappoint with coverage of species or ease of finding the bird you're looking for. The one feature that seems arbitrarily limited is related to entering sightings. It has an entry for GPS, but you can only have it entered automatically, based on your current location. If you're like me, and typically enter sightings at the end of the day, this means you can't manually record the actual GPS coords of the sighting, only have it enter *where you are when you enter the sighting*. Pretty limited, and doesn't afford any integration with Google Maps. Add those bits of functionality and I'd go 5 starts, as it is, it gets 4.
A Google user
51
Friday, February 28, 2020
This was a great app until the latest update. I used to be able to search by inputting a bird name, now I can't. This has rendered the app a failure in my opinion. I could search for robin and have all types available to select which was closer to the observation in the example results. Now i have to manually scroll through the list which detracts from the experience and somewhat wastes a lot of time if the bird is at the end of the alphabet. Not happy anymore and would not recommend.
B H 19
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
Excellent!!! Easy to use. I love having the bird sounds available. I really wish the list wouldn't count multiple sightings of the same bird in the number - if you can change this I would really appreciate it. I record seeing the same bird at the same location but different times or at different locations so the app is counting the same species multiple times. I don't think anyone wants to count the number of individual birds they see so I don't know if anyone would use that function.
A Google user
28
Sunday, March 1, 2020
Until the latest update (25th Feb 2020), I would have given this app 5/5. However, unless I am blind, the search bar (indicated by the magnifying glass symbol) has disappeared from the top of the list when you open the app, rendering it almost useless! You used to be able to type 'bowerbirds' for example and it would narrow he list down. Please reinstate the search bar! Edit - thank you for the fix - very prompt! Edited
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