eGuide to Birds of East Africa

• Price: $28.99

Last verified 31 Jul 2026

2.8 12 ratings · App Store

1. 3/5Guy Combes

   I waited and waited for this app and had no hesitation paying handsomely for it, but am disappointed to find that there are only two index facilities, neither of which are user friendly for someone with a passion for birding but limited knowledge of taxonomy or name. I use a bird book regularly while on safari, and find it much easier to identify birds from a page of images rather than a taxonomic list. This app would benefit hugely from that, and/or a dichotomous key like that of ibird pro. If such an improvement was made I would recommend this to many enthusiasts! As it is I will stick to the book.

   Bububuguy · 31 Jul 2026

2. 1/5Great content. Lousy app!

   The contents are great although many modern bird books (for other areas) are better with richer descriptions and focus on identification. The app part however is a joke. If you choose between buying the physical book (similarly priced) or the app, buy the book! You get an index of the birds by name (sorted either alphabetically or by taxonomy). From there you can click through to the bird page. You can search, but that is only on name or family. If you, for example, search for vulture you will not find the Lammergeier because it is in its own taxonomy (under vultures). — correction. It does not search family, only the name of the bird. “Owl” generates a long list including “...fowl” but “owls” is an empty set. The more you look at this app the worse it gets. Selling a pdf version of the book would be nor useful! You can swipe from bird to bird but it is finicky (at least on my iPhone). It will not consider your search when swiping. If you have made a search for, say eagle, it will show you harriers after the snake eagles (swiping right on the southern banded snake-eagle). If you don’t know what family the bird you’re trying to identify you’ll probably throw your phone to the nearest baboon in disgust. The right choice by the developers would be to team up with an app like iBird through some licensing deal. Marry the great content with iBirds versatile and useful search and filter functionality. In the meantime, buy the book!!!

   Brorilä · 31 Jul 2026

3. 2/5They really didn’t try

   This is a digitized copy of the EA Helm Field Guide with audio clips - no more, no less. Helm is a good field guide, but I expect more from an interactive app. It’s next to useless when you’re trying to identify unfamiliar birds in the field. Unlike Sasol, which has a thumbnail image of each bird next to its name on the taxonomical and alphabetical listings, this has nothing. Sasol lets you tag and compare similar birds - not here. No geolocation features, basic sort functions, etc. the app is okay to maintain a basic list of birds seen and where, but even here its stunted due to lack of geolocation and time stamping capacity. You can not rely on this app for much other than list maintenance when you’re in the field or trying to reconstruct a day in the evening.

   smylest · 31 Jul 2026

4. 4/5Birds of East Africa

   I hope I didn’t pay three times for this because I had to keep going back to the site and going through the whole process three time orus41

   Orus41 · 31 Jul 2026

5. 1/5No pictures for finding birds

   Half of bird ID is scanning the small icons to find bird close to what you’re seeing then looking individually. This app only has the names in letters with no picture until you click into the name which isn’t an app you can really use well at all for birding.

   Guide YNP · 31 Jul 2026

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• 1.0
• 1.0.1

  Fixed a few bugs and corrected errors.

• 1.1

  Upgraded to a fully universal app. If the app is loaded on an iPad it will automatically take advantage of the larger screen optimize it's layout while still being the same app that runs normally on an iPhone/iPod Touch. Fixed some errors and bugs.

• 1.5

  A major update that fixes text, illustration, map and indexing errors. The revision includes many new and updated bird recordings. The original book introductory material has been added. UI has been updated for iOS 8. My List is now sorted alphabetically.

• 1.5.1 · 28 Jun 2017

  This update from Apple will improve the functionality of this app. No new features are included. Fixed some bugs. Update app for newer iOS versions and devices.