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Not as helpful as I hopedI have tried this a few times and the system always claims poor audio quality on recording and no match. Twice I was right next to the bird and they had loud distinct calls. Maybe the recording in a typical neighborhood is the issue. Phone mic tests showed clear recording. I then reviewed entire list of birds in library and found selection for my state (AZ) to be very limited. I am better off finding what I need on internet lookup. Nice idea, but for me, product not developed enough..Version: 8.06

Waste of moneyThis may be good for some things but for id'ing bird calls(which is what I got it for), it's worthless. At least 6 times have recorded very distinctive calls with very little background noise and ap was not able to id. One bird I was able to visually id but others, no luck. These should have been common birds that the ap should be able to handle. Not happy..Version: 9.0

Missed distinctive Whip-poor-willI have tried this app for several weeks, and it has successfully identified a bird only once. I live in the woods with little background noise, so recording bird song is fairly easy to do. Identification using this app is not. Last night, I recorded a single bird sound from a short distance. I knew it was a whippoorwill, but the app didn’t, even though the recording was strong. Turns out, the distinctive whippoorwill is not in its database. Why does my database list only 183 bird sounds, not the 240+ advertised? I thought the app would save my recordings, so I could replay them later for friends, but “my recordings” is empty. Why? The app is not user-friendly at all, but I hope the developers answer my questions so I can get more enjoyment from their app..Version: 8.06

Poor appPretty disappointing. 20 feet away from a loud woodpecker and this app could not identify this bird. I have been unsuccessful at identifying any bird in sight with this app. Need substantial improvement to justify the price..Version: 8.05

Basically never identifies correctlyEven in the rare case when it deems a recording good enough it more or less always thinks any sound is a Brown Thrasher or often other birds not even present here (and yes app knows my location and many of the birds are loud and clear). The UI is also a bit weird... keeps going to the save recording page with no back button and similar bad navigation design. I am going to uninstall so I stop wasting my time with this app..Version: 8.06

Frustrating and inaccurateI appreciate that the developers are trying to do something very difficult. It's also a very cool idea! I liked the interface they developed; the graphics were good, and I think it might have become fairly easy to use once you got used to it. But- 1. It was really hard to figure out how to record a bird's song from the main screen. That's what I bought this app for! 2. Once I got to where I could record birdsong, the app failed to record. Seriously, the on board voice memo app did better. This app requires you to record for 30 seconds, but it shuts down in less than a second with a failure message. For the record, what I was trying to record was a house wren singing nearby. If you know those little guys, you know how loud they are! The voice memo app recorded him perfectly. 3. Then I randomly looked up "Osprey". The range information given was not accurate. I hope iBird Northeast will still work after the latest iPhone update. That's a solid, simple app with accurate information. This one is a great idea that doesn't work well in practice..Version: 8.06

NopeThis App purports to be Bird Song ID, yet that feature is buried after several screen taps under My Recordings. Even when you tap "My Recordings," nothing is obvious about what to do next. So you fumble around finding Add Recording. Finally you see a tab that says Automatic Recognition. It is simply not Field Friendly. "Automatic Recognition" should be the first thing you see when you open up the app...a big button to hit like Shazam. When you hear a bird you can't identify, it does not give you the time to 1. Get the phone out, 2. Find the app on your phone, 3. Then wade through screens until you find the hidden buttons to do what you need. By that time, the bird has flown. There are other inexplicable aspects of the App: Bird Families. Here's what I see on the first screen, stuff like Cardinal (not a bird family), Chickadee (not a bird family), Chachalaca (really? on the first screen? What are my chances of happening across a Chachalaca?) Good idea, but ill-conceived. Developers should make the primary function of this App "Auto Recognition" then put a large button in the middle of the screen that starts that process with a single tap..Version: 8.06

Doesn’t workThis is NOT the Shazam for birds. Difficult to figure out how to even record the sound. Always says poor sound quality even deep in the woods with no wind and the bird close by. Few birds are in the library, so even trying to play samples doesn’t work. Manual ID section is not user friendly (what IS a short/med/long birdsong length?) Perhaps having samples of each for someone to choose from would be better..Version: 8.06

IneffectiveI got this app because I was trying hard to identify a bird that I keep hearing a unique call sound for but can never see the bird. I find this app rather picky about the quality length and loudness of the recording made. I did not have trouble finding the record button like some have complained about. But I have made sample after sample of the bird song and I keep getting warnings about too short, poor sound quality, not loud enough, and then when I think I got one that matches their picky criteria it comes up with a list of birds that have no resemblance to what I recorded. The UI/UX is clunky and strange at best. Sometimes the play button has no stop button, and sometimes it does. There’s no way to edit the length of the song sample to eliminate other birds that are chiming in. After you have it analyzed the song it gives you a list of bird choices. If you pick one to listen to their recording of it and decide that’s not the one... if you go back, your choices are add it to the library or you can listen to your recording again but you can’t analyze it and get your list back it appears. If you close this window because you’re not ready to add it since you didn’t find the bird, it will toss your recording. lt’s just a wacky app and a waste of five dollars. I wished I could get my five dollars back as it couldn’t even ID one bird call..Version: 8.06

Recorder is uselessI bought this to identify my backyard birds from their songs, and for that purpose this app is a complete waste of money; it has yet to accurately identify a single bird song from my recordings. The app complains that the quality of my recordings is poor and it seems unless the bird is singing directly into your phone this will be the case, because even if it’s just the one bird singing fairly loudly and no other background noise, my recording is still not good enough. There is no way to edit your recording to cut out extra birds, and even their own recorded examples will sometimes have extraneous birds chiming in so you don’t know what you’re supposed to be hearing. The manual ID feature is a joke; I’ve gotten wide-ranging suggestions from owl to heron to sparrow for a single entry. I don’t know how they come up with their percentage accuracy but these too are a joke because they are wildly inaccurate. I also know that some birds have multiple calls/songs but the app does not give more than one of each. Don’t waste your money on this one..Version: 8.06

Doesn't work. Fake reviews.This app completely fails on identifying Bird songs. I can only surmise that any positive review was from employees or paid reviewers. The positive reviews do sound like ads not real people. I lead bird walks and help teach bird ID and this app can't even get common, clear, obvious Bird songs right. The layout of the app makes it look like someone in a 3rd world country put it together that never even has been to USA. Chachalaca as a bird family? As someone that communicates with thousands of beginner birders on a regular basis I will let them know to steer clear of this app..Version: 8.06

Priorities Mixed UpI bought this app to ID bird calls FIRST AND FOREMOST, and that should be what I see FIRST! The first time I tried to use it, the bird was gone before I could find the REAL purpose of the app. While listening to bird calls is informative on the app, it's NOT why I purchased the app! Please upgrade the app to have its Advertised Function front and center! It does work, just not easily while in the field and that was its advertised function..Version: 8.06

I want my $5 backI am having exact same experience as the other negative reviewers. The calls couldn't be clearer yet the app is unable to identify a single COMMON bird. I even played a call on my computer in a quiet room with the app on record. That is an ideal lab condition. It failed. So if anyone else buys this app after reading this review it must be because you want to waste $5. This app is beyond awful. Developers did not test it. I want my money back!!!!!!!.Version: 8.06

A real disapointmentI’ve used this app off and on for over 6 months and I’d guess 65% of my recordings come back as poor quality even though the bird is singing in the tree next to me. Maybe an auxillary mic would help. But when I get a good recording, which is about 1/3 of the time, it has never correctly identified the bird. I mean never as in not even once. This week I play some simple bird songs (the Easter Phoebe for example) from Merlin (another app) and this app couldn’t identify even perfectly recorded bird songs. My only advice is if you use it, and you don’t know your birdsongs, don’t trust this app to help you. You’d be better off taking the results and using them to eliminate what bird you heard. And FWIW, I’ve never rated an app 1 star before. As I said, this is a real disapointment..Version: 8.06

Not an accurate app whatsoever.I had high hopes when I got this app, but I was greatly disappointed when I realized the app was essentially just guessing the most common birds around me. To test this, I played a variety of different bird calls from another phone and had this app try to identify them; sure enough, it just kept suggesting common birds like the cardinal, goldfinch, and robin. I suppose the app is probably right some of the time, given how common those birds are... but it’s purely because of luck. I will say though, at least you can play the bird calls on this app to check if it sounds the same. (Though the answer is usually no.) That’s the only thing saving this review from being 1-Star. I wasted money on this app. If you’re an aspiring birder, it seems there is still no great method to identify bird calls other than just looking up possible candidates the slow way..Version: 8.06

User unfriendlyI specifically bought this app to ID bird songs in my backyard and assumed it would do just that since "ID automatic recognition" is in the app's title. Unfortunately, it took me a while to figure out how to create a recording in order to identify the song. The ID function is there, but buried under layers of taps, so it's definitely NOT the primary function of this app. If you were to put the ID/auto-recognition function on the home page and readily accessible that would be an improvement. For now, I feel that I have wasted my money..Version: 8.06

Work in progressThey're getting there ... but still have a ways to go before the ID feature is easy & reliable. To be fair, recording quality from a phone with lots of background noise is not great. Plus, birds have accents. A titmouse in DC doesn't quite sound like the titmouse in the recording. That makes the problem fundamentally different than music ID apps like Shazam. Still, the developers make *usage* difficult an unintuitive. That, they have control over ... and should work to improve..Version: 8.06

Very finickyWhen you are able to get a good ID it’s great, however it’s very few and far between. There cannot be any background noise at all otherwise you’ll get a poor recording error, which fir me seems to be most of the time. I’ve also noticed it favors certain birds, tho if you listen to their songs they sound nothing like the bird I’m hearing whatsoever..Version: 8.06

Dissappointed in every aspectI purchased this app hoping that it would help me and my wife to identify the birds that we commonly hear from our window. We live in Eastern Canada and the app failed to recognize most calls and songs. Navigating through the bird lists proved unnecessarily cumbersome, and the bird families groupings are not complete enough to be useful. Also, many recordings are either missing, or are too quiet to be of much use. In the end, I choose to delete this app despite having paid for it because it isn’t useful enough to justify the large quantity of storage space (>270MB) that it consumes..Version: 8.06

Needs big improvementIf you are an ultra amature looking for backyard birds, this mightbe adequate, but it is very poor at recognizing anything remotely unusual. It requires a 30 second recording clip to properly analyze a song. How many birds sing continuously for 30 seconds?? I am afraid I classify this as a total waste of money. We took it on a trip to birding central ie Point Pelee - and it failed completely to recognize anything but a robin, and even that was an uncertain result. It needs to recognize very short songs and recordings to be useful. I couldn't even get it to recognize simple songs from the Cornell site played from my computer..Version: 8.05

Could not recognize birdsDoesn’t work. Had perfectly clear sound to record. Suggested few birds with sound not even close..Version: 8.06

Worst app ever! I want my money back!Sitting in my backyard with birds chirping and it cannot even identify a common Robin. 90% of the time it doesn’t even pickup the chirps (which are very loud). This app wants you do record for 30 seconds and try to get only one bird call! REALLY! I’ve tried to tell the other birds to hush but for some reason they just don’t listen to me! Believe me it’s not my phone or my settings, I’ve checked them multiple times. DO NOT WASTE YOUR HARD WARNED $$ ON THIS APP....NO MATTER WHAT PRICE IT IS, EVEN IF ITS FREE!.Version: 8.06

Largely UselessAs consistent as bird sings tend to be, and with apps like SoundHound able to pick out and match even obscure tunes, you would figure that someone would develop an app to identify birds. Well, worry no more: if it exists, this isn’t it! BirdSongID is so picky about the quality of recordings to the point where they certainly can’t be blamed for failing to identify even the most basic bird calls. Record for a minute and it’ll warn you you need to record for thirty seconds. And short of crawling up in the tree and being right next to the bird, it will tell you your recording quality is poor. Its ability to discriminate bird songs from one another is non-existent. Don’t bother with this app: it’s a waste of both time and money..Version: 8.06

Epic failI got the app a couple of years ago and was disappointed at the time but thought I would try again. I live in a fairly secluded quiet area and use an iPhone 10. Even When there is no background noise and the birds are very close I have only once had the app say recording quality was “good” it is almost universally “fair” even when I play the recording back and it is crystal clear. This app is limited to only 183 birds when it advertises 240, and the bird in the app often have only the song or the call, not both. This app have never successfully identified any bird I have recorded. I am very disappointed that I am still unable to identify any of the hidden treasures in my back yard using this app....Version: 9.0

DeletingI tried to use this app several times over the years to record and identify birds. I never did get it to work. I guess the problem was background noise. I did enjoy the sample songs and calls, however, and the beautiful pictures of birds. However I’m deleting this one today and I’m going to try another. Sorry..Version: 9.0

Only good for listening to its list of callsI don’t recommend this app. It is difficult to use, no help icon & not logical. As others have said, it can’t identify your clear recordings. You can look at pictures of birds & hear their calls is the only use for it. Sometimes my recording just disappear. If you find the name of a bird you recorded & try to add it, it is almost impossible using the “change “ button; as that closes the app. It is very frustrating & time consuming to use..Version: 9.0

Not worth itOn three separate occasions, I recorded the song of birds I was literally looking at and could easily identify. They were a Carolina Wren, a crow, and an Eastern Bluebird. The audio quality of the bluebird recording may have not been great, so I’ll even give a pass for that one, but the other two were very close and crystal clear, especially the wren. This app misidentified all of them. This completely shot my confidence in the apps ability to accurately tell me what bird I was listening to. Don’t waste your time..Version: 9.0

Mad Moose AlI like the app in theory. I haven’t used it enough to really rate it effectively. The one problem I’ve had is getting clear recordings. Years ago I got a parabolic reflector and recorded songs with a camcorder. The problem was matching the recordings with typical published bird songs. I am upgrading to a microphone designed for use with iPhone. If it works with the parabolic reflector and app it should solve both problems. Keeping my fingers crossed..Version: 8.06

Very confusingI’ve used the app a number of times now but still find the interface bizarre and confusing. What is with the quiz screen in manual ID with the eye and numbers in the corners? Where did my recording go? Why did all the bird options for my automatic recognition disappear after I played the first one? I’ve managed to ID some birds by listening to the recordings and so the catalog of bird songs is useful, but otherwise this is very frustrating. Please fix the interface..Version: 8.06

No, it’s not Shazam for birdsI can’t believe I paid money for this app. The description that they put in had a quote saying it was Shazam for birds. It isn’t. I’ve tried recording 4-5 different times, all loud recordings with minimal noise in the background (crickets, birds much farther away, an occasional car from a road farther away), and not one ever got analyzed. When I looked at the list that’s included in the automatic recognition, it’s so minimal. There is no way you at this is Shazam for birds when that list is so short. There is a much larger database included in the app with recordings, but unless you want to scroll through a hundred or so birds and listen to each one, you will not find what you are looking for. I feel like I got swindled and I want my money back..Version: 8.06


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