BirdGenie Reviews – Page 3
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
Doesn’t actually work...
ld620
...unless all you have are robins and cardinals. Anything vague melodic is a robin and anything with repetition is a cardinal. Even testing against clean recordings of birds listed in the app from the Macaulay library gives the wrong result 90+% of the time. Needs a ton of improvement to the matching algorithms and a much wider library before it’s worth the money. App also locks up if you try to ID a second recording unless you force quit between attempts.
Not worth the cost
agreener
I wish I had read the reviews before purchasing as most of them are accurate. I love the idea of the app, but the database is far too small. It couldn’t match even one of the most common birds in my area.
Would be better if it worked
GeorgeL.
Rarely makes a correct match. Says user can suggest birds to check for matching songs, but I can't find any way to do this. Many times I've ID'ed the bird after the app failed to identify it by song, and found it very frustrating that I couldn't then attach the ID to the song. App would be vastly more valuable if user could do this because one could then assemble one's own bird song library.
Disappointed ☹️
lilmissinmsp
I recently bought a home on the edge of a national wildlife refuge and thought this would be a great way to help me identify all the new bird calls I was hearing; however, the software isn’t advanced enough to thoroughly quiet background noise. Additionally, it seems, to get to the optimal/green area in the recording device you have to be in the tree with the bird with no other birds around. I was so excited to identify my new “neighbors”, and all I got was disappointment ☹️
Doesn’t work. Do not recommend.
L. Hatcher
This application does not work. I have never got an accurate match. Even the potential matches have no resemblance to the bird sounds I recorded.
Hasn’t worked at all
Portknoxpd
Despite several attempts this app does not work. It hasn’t identified a single bird. Don’t waste your money. This app, though with good intentions, needs lots of work before it should be released. Should offer refunds.
Not even close
alternateone
After a few failed attempts to ID an unknown bird, I tried this app with birds I did know. Easy ones like cardinals and robins. They wouldn’t even show up as possibilities. Almost every search results in at least one Woodpecker species too.
Potentially a good idea but not helpful yet.
Colt1238
Yet to get the app to match a single call. Would be better if users confirmed calls could be added to the database to improve the app’s identification ability. They should definitely consult the makers of iNaturalist.
Glad I got this one!
A_Joy1
A+ design, attractive, easy to navigate, intuitive… What a thrill to be able to recognize some of the birds in the neighborhood! If two songs occur consecutively, a special feature makes it possible to copy/edit the recording in order to identify and store both. If a match doesn’t pop up on the first try, taking the time to answer the questions provided is a nice way to familiarize oneself with a variety of bird calls. It’s fun to impress others by saying, "Hear that funky noise? It's a Great-tailed Grackle!"