BirdGenie Reviews – Page 2
3/5 rating based on 31 reviews. Read all reviews for BirdGenie for iPhone.
BirdGenie is paid iOS app published by Princeton University Press Apps
Once cropped and noise reduction applied, goes nowhere
Nature Ali
Maybe this is an east coast centric app or it just doesn’t work. Cropped and noise reduced a steller’s jay and the dialog said match but there was no button to activate the process. Just sits there doing nothing but staring at a cropped histogram. Sad. I really hoped this wasn’t money thrown away. Guess it will be a while before a good app is available.
Needs more songs
John in The 'Ham
Simply too few birds in the database to make this an effective tool at the moment - but it has real potential especially since the recording feature is more sensitive and accurate than I would have guessed.
Completely inaccessible to voiceover users who are blind
Wogster1
Unlabeled buttons and a graphical interface. Please make your app accessible and inclusive for all by following accessibility guidelines. This design is irresponsible. I'd like my $4 back.
Has promise!
Amberzimm
I really have enjoyed this app and was surprised that it also works to attract birds when I’m playing the calls! Lol! A feature I’d like to see added, is the ability to pick for myself the bird that matches. I had a bird song that I recorded that it wanted to identify as a northern mocking bird. It didn’t match the call, but when I could see the bird - it was actually a white throated sparrow. It’s calls were identical too but I had to leave it as “unmatched” even though I found the match.
Not helpful
ktfgreen
I can't get a single match that makes sense. I recorded an amazing chirping in a tree in my backyard and it said it was a Canada Goose. Now, come on! This ap is a waste of money and time.
Needs work
njgal5
The interface was nice, but the app could not match a clear, distinct blue jay call. There should be an easy way to crowd source and teach the algorithm.
Locks up
Kb138
The ap locks up on the noise filter screen. I can adjust the noise bar, but when I click “match”, 8 out of 10 times it does not advance to the next screen. I can click the upper left arrow to move one screen back, and continue to adjust the noise filter...the ap just won’t advance forward. On the first screen where you adjust the length of the recording, I don’t like how the sound spectrogram gets distorted. That makes it harder to visually match it up.
Database is too small
BetzyBorg
Love the idea of this app, but the database is wayyyyy too small. We were on vacation in central Texas and kept hearing a bird every night. I purchased this app to hopefully identify the bird. The app didn’t even come close. After a while searching on the Audubon app, I was able to figure out that, while it sounded similar to a whip-poor-will, it was actually a chuck-wills-widow. The Audubon app had the exact sound as what I had recorded and I was delighted. I gave two stars bc it probably works for the most common birds that most new birders may not know. Intermediate birders or those in areas that may have less common birds won’t be happy with it. I hope they vastly improve the database or merge with Audubon or even the Merlin bird app. Those have robust databases with multiple birds and songs.
Keeps shutting down.
dontfoolmeonceeven
It was a novel idea so I was anxious to try it. It worked well on the first few local and easy recordings. Then it got harder to edit the recording. Then it only got close 20% of the time. Then as soon as you tapped to end the recording it shut down and kicked me out to the home screen. I deleted the app. I don’t see that I paid anything for it or else I would be asking for a refund.