Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector Positive Reviews

Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector App User Positive Comments 2024

Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector app received 13 positive comments and reviews by users. Can you share your positive thoughts about echo meter touch bat detector?

Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector for Positive User Reviews

✓ Nearly perfect...This app is so close to being perfect, I use it on 2-3 hour surveys every night and it handles it great. Battery life on ipad is far better than on iPhone, so I wouldn't bother with the iPhone. Flaws so far is it does crash a couple of times a night, no data lost just a bit annoying. Also the wi fi sync feature is pointless with a lot of files, it takes forever, however connecting it via cable organises each recording into its own folder, which is super annoying but they say they're working on. Well worth the money. Bat detection for the 21st century!.Laneychief.Version: 1.0.4

✓ Same bat time, same bat station!What fun this is! Easy to get started but also provides advanced features..Positive DogVersion: 2.2.5

✓ Opens a door to another worldI have to say that as an amateur naturalist I have been just delighted with this app and the Echo Meter Touch. Combined they allow easy access to the complex world of bats and helps you to start to understanding how very little we generally know about these amazing creatures. To have the ability to not only record the echolocation ‘shouts’ of bats but to also potentially Identify the likely species flying overhead in the dark is amazing. To then be able to play back the sounds and the sonograms for closer analysis is priceless in my book. However, to see the look of surprise and dropped jaws on folks faces when they hear these calls in such detail for the first time, especially youngsters, just goes to demonstrate how powerful this app and the Echo Meter Touch as educational tools and conservation motivators. I have already joined the local bat group and the Bat Conservation Monitor Group as a result of using the app. Here is the perfect vehicle for reinforcing the power and influence of citizen science. I just wish that I could stretch to the pro version..AlphaZeroOneVersion: 2.2.12

✓ Fantastic!This is an awesome device & I highly recommend it. I’ve been interested in bats for a long time & this is so educational! It’s so cool to show off to family & friends from my travels. My fave feature is the i.d. part where you put in the state your located & the different types are listed. Definitely worth the price & so fun to use:).$medthymeVersion: 2.7.8

✓ Excellent kit.The box of tricks arrived two days before I was due to go on holiday. I had very little time to get acquainted with the app. I need not have worried it worked perfectly. I spent every night close to Bodmin moor (in Cornwall) for a week collecting data with four spices of bat being identified. Can’t wait to get back home to examine the data on my computer. Having built many bat detectors over the years I now have a system that is a quantum leap over anything that went before..WJ197Version: 2.2.12

✓ Brilliant app and deviceI have been using the Echo Meter Touch 2 in a professional capacity and it has performed brilliantly to date. Easy to ID and visualise bat calls on the app and in the field, for a very affordable price too. You will need to amend some of the settings i.e. minimum trigger frequency and sensitivity before using it, otherwise the auto ID function doesn’t work so well and you’ll hear a lot of background noise. I’ve used the app with the iPhone XR, iPad 2017 and iPod Touch and it works smoothly on each. When recording in live mode I find using headphones and locking the screen (it will still record) best practice. Using the speakers and keeping the screen on constantly does drain the battery, especially on an iPod..DEJ77777Version: 2.7.9

✓ AddictiveI was given an Echo Meter 2 (iOS version) for Christmas and I am now guilty of having it constantly in my pocket. It gets used on my iPhone 6, my iPad and on my other half’s iPhone 8. Absolutely fascinating to see the secret world happening around you after dusk. Ecologist daughter was impressed at what she saw when she used it on my iPad..Kentish LassVersion: 2.7.8

✓ Pocket Ultrasonic Access and AnalysisIt is important to note that this App is only useful when used in conjunction the specified ultrasonic microphone. My review is based on using the App in that setting. I purchased an Echo Touch 2 Pro last fall and I love it. The device is very small and coupled with an inexpensive short stubby extension it easily plugs into my iPhone without a need to remove the case. When I’m not actually using it I keep it in and the extension within its small case and carry it in the pocket of my favorite jacket for ready access. I originally bought the device for a purpose unrelated to monitoring bats. I had an interest in testing ultrasonic rodent repellers and had no way to compare the intensity of their output or the character of their sound. They light up when you turn them on but you have no direct way to verify what they are actually doing beyond that and no way to tell if they stop working. An internet search for ultrasonic sound detectors brought me to the Echo Touch 2 and I was sorry to see that they no longer offered the lower price base model. The higher price for the Pro model looked a bit daunting but after a couple of days of debate I went ahead and ordered. It was a great purchase, coupled with the App it provided everything I needed to contrast ultrasonic emitter models; their output levels and detailed characteristics of the sounds they emitted. It was also useful in mapping volume levels throughout an area and at a distance. I especially appreciated it when checking mobile repellers installed under the hood in vehicles. That location may sound weird but rodents can cause expensive damage to engine wiring and penetrate into vehicle interiors, even cars normally kept in a garage are at risk when parked away from home for a few hours. Although I had no particular interest in bats when I purchased it, I thought it only appropriate to give it a try for its intended purpose too. What an eye opener that was. The first time I went into the backyard and turned it on I heard and then saw a bat almost immediately. I’d been living here 25 years and never noticed any bats before that night. The sound and visual information presented was incredible. Over the next few days I made a point to closely investigate the user information available about the various settings and I became much more adept at getting the most from the device and the App. While the occasional backyard bat was interesting, I decided to explore other locations in my area and started doing evening walks beside a nearby river. That quickly became a daily habit and I’d set out just before dark and cover a mile or so each way. The App and device would detect several dozen to well over a hundred bat signatures every evening and allow me to clearly hear them. I learned the types of bats in the area, where they tended to cluster and with the App’s indications of their presence I was able to spot many of them too. After returning home from an evening “bat walk” I usually review all the individual recordings captured by the App. I consider the types of bats suggested by the classification feature, the frequencies and how their sounds look (rising/falling) on the screen and the repetition patterns. I also use the satellite view map GPS tagging within the App to see where each recording was captured to note the bats favorite hunting locations. It’s been very interesting working with the excellent automatic recordings and associated GPS location information to learn about the types of bats and the areas they frequent. I love the detailed information presented on the screen and the multiple ways to filter and listen to the sounds bats emit. The price of the device might seem steep if you aren’t actively engaged in research but it works very well and combined with the App it opens the door into an amazing world that you were likely unaware of. I’m using it with an iPhone 12 Pro and I’ve never had a problem with the App or microphone device and I’m quite pleased with both. I don’t have a way to contrast it with any similar device but I feel it has excellent sensitivity. It has on occasion detected bats that I could see were quite distant and yet I could hear them clearly. Another reviewer mentioned that they wanted to be able to listen to something else while using the App but that doesn’t make sense to me. When I use it I am 100% focused on listening to it because I’m there to detect and locate bats. Sometimes the sounds are faint when the bats are distant but if you are listening you’ll still know they are present..AngloplayerVersion: 2.8.9

✓ Highly recommendedAfter using a traditional low priced bat detector in the U.K. for a few years I find this App is brilliant. Whereas before I could only say 'yes, there's a bat', this App offers solid suggestions as to what it's likely to be. I've already discovered I have 3 species visiting my urban garden. Absolutely ideal for amateurs, and well worth the outlay for the microphone (about £200). Only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is that I can't find a way to load my recordings direct to Google Drive. That would be the icing on the cake <hint hint>.X@naduVersion: 2.2.5

✓ Omg this is so much fun!I adore my new Bat Detector! I already found some bats! Can't wait to get back outdoors again and find more!!!.NatalieDowneVersion: 2.2.5

✓ Brilliant appBut please get the bug with the new update sorted out so I can update the software on my iPad without being unable to use this for work.Megan PriceVersion: 1.2

✓ Terrific app with room for improvementIt would be good if you could select all recordings of the same type all at once, i.e: • Session/date • No ID/species.WisemancheezVersion: 2.7.22

✓ Fun, but the software could be betterWe bought the echo-meter 2 ultrasonic mike and downloaded this app. It’s been a lot of fun listening to the bats, but a bit frustrating in a number of ways. So a 4-star review, but they should fix the code. 1. This isn’t their fault, but on an iPhone you can’t use anything audio at the same time as the app so e.g. no headphones of Bluetooth speakers. This would be OK, except that: 2. The echo-meter appears to pick up output from the speaker (why isn’t it either cancelled in software, or given a setting to block everything below e.g. 15 kHz?). The result is low-frequency “echoes” of the bat signals. At least, I think that that’s what’s going on. 3. There’s no way to get the app to show you what it thinks that the species sonograms are. The code apparently uses a clustering algorithm, so it could display the characteristic patterns that it’s looking for. Why would you do that on the app not a computer you might ask: 4. While you can download your recordings, the free version of your application that they recommend (kaleidoscope) is less capable than the iOS app and has no ability to ID bats. For a $170 piece of kit that’s really annoying. I can see why they don’t give a full pro license, but a version that’s as good as the app would be reasonable and appreciated. Oh, and Kaleidoscope can’t display the GPS info either (I could probably do that myself as the metadata is transferred), and it sorts incorrectly. And doesn’t read all the fields in the csv files (maybe the pro version does???).Lml100Version: 2.8.4