Daniel Bernard 15
Friday, June 27, 2025
Update has made the app basically unusable. It crashes whenever I do basically anything. Anytime I use the explore function, check submitted checklists, or have the app running in the background and then open it up - bam, crash. Aside from the nonstop crashes, the inability to edit the time or distance without deleting the entire track is asinine. The auto-detection of overlap, but not being able to account for continuing to bird after prematurely stopped the track (or the app crashes) is dumb.
Ravichandran John 4
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Used to be simple and easy app to use but the new functionality of compulsory tracking though Gps has made this app a nightmare. If we finish at the point where we started the distance becomes zero. The checklist gets changed to stationary as well. The FAQ provides a very illogical way to edit the path and it assumes we come back the way we went. If precise tracking is required why allow editing the path? And how does this precision help except adding one more fanciful functionality?
Caleb Shingleton 26
Thursday, June 19, 2025
As a daily birder, eBird has completely changed the way I keep track of my sightings. It’s super easy to use, and I love how I can log checklists, explore hotspots, and even get alerts for rare birds in my area. The “Explore” tab helps me discover new places to bird, and I like seeing what birds have been reported near me. Another thing that I really like is, that my checklists are going towards conservation and scientific data.
Tom Cooper (Austin) 5
Thursday, June 19, 2025
At least a third of the time, the app will not allow the checklist to be submitted ("There was an error submitting the checklist."). Re-booting the phone does not help. The only way I have found past this issue is to wait a day and submit again. Update 19 June 2025: It's happening again - can't submit checklists from the app. Edited
Gina D 13
Thursday, May 1, 2025
This is for computer friendly hard core bird watchers. I appreciate their work to chart birds and allow people around the world to contribute data for bird conservation. For an amateur like me who only wants to identify birds around me and learn about them, this app is too complicated. They offer an online class, but I don't want school. I tried this to be apart of the bird count week, but now my Merlin app won't accept new birds to my life list. I've tried all the fixes, but too complicated.
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