Picture Bird: Bird identifier

• Picture Bird Premium — $39.99

Last verified 30 Aug 2026

4.7 39987 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Nice app but inaccurate

   While using the identify by sound feature, too many times I get results for birds that don’t even live on the North American continent, forget about in Massachusetts. I like the app. It’s a great idea, but unless I am willing to pay 💰for a subscription I don’t get accurate results for the sound identification feature. I used it to check if it would accurately identify a Red bellied Woodpecker, but the results were of a species of Toucan found in Columbia. This was after several attempts to identify a bird, but the result kept coming back, incorrectly, as a Common Nightingale, which is found in Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, and Central Asia…but Not in New England. It would be nice if we could set our location, for free, so that we could get accurate information.

   JudgieMcjudgejudge · 30 Aug 2026

2. 5/5Accurate

   In my experience, this is the best bird identifier there is. A subscription is a little too expensive for me at the moment but I’m still able to insert a photo and get an accurate result. I know most people believe other, more “well-respected” apps are the best but I have used and tested several, over a few years now, including those, and I can honestly say that this is my go-to. There are some limitations but truly, even some of the worst photos I’ve used to test, have been accurate. You have the option to correct an answer but I have maybe done it once. I get more correct answers on harder to place photos than I ever did with clear ones, using other apps. People ask if I have those and I say yes but this has become the only one I use. As soon as I get back on my feet financially, I’m going for the pro version because the options are amazing!! I have played around with this app, I totally trust and love it!

   Leigirard · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5Useless-I don’t love birds for $40 taken out of my account

   I downloaded the trial version because I wondered what bird was being so loud outside. I’m not a bird enthusiast or anything. Of course I was automatically charged the $40 yearly price instead of the $3.99 monthly price. No apps with integrity in their product have to deceive people into something that they don’t want. Any such contract has no legal binding as a signature is only proof of deception. Contracts are agreements between two parties. What is written and signed only proves that two parties were either in agreement or one was deceived. Let’s look at the fine print. It’s “fine” because it’s meant to deceive. Otherwise it would be written clearly in bold. And there wouldn’t be unhappy people. This isn’t a game show and we’re sore losers! The solution is simple. You pay for what you use. No harm no fowl. If you have a useful product then people will happily pay for it. That’s why companies with integrity withstand the erosion of time. This applies to all apps that iTunes have yet to afford the courtesy to their customers with this free trial madness! This has got to stop! It leaves us with a bad taste i our mouth. Shame on iTunes and Shame on you!

   Pi66ie · 30 Aug 2026

4. 4/5Perhaps not worth $40 / year

   This is a very nice app in some ways and a bit tedious in a few others. I don’t think it is quite good enough to warrant $40 per year. The first thing I tried was to identify the birds in my photos. I have lots of photos. The navigation process is terrible on the iPad. After I select a bird photo, if the photo is good (or even mediocre), the app is excellent at correct identification. All the birds I tried (13) were correct as the first or second choice. The great majority were right as the first choice. That warranted the four stars. I didn’t try the sounds yet. More about navigation: If I select a thumbnail, it is usually one of many for a particular bird. If the first one I pick is not the best, I ‘X’ out and I expect the navigation to stay in the same spot among my 5,000 or so photos. It doesn’t; it jumps back to the latest picture. That gives a super tedious process of trying to select the best photo from a little thumbnail or wasting minutes getting back to the same spot. Doing that once is bad enough but by the time I got through 13 bird images, I was tired of that process. The app tells me I have 13 collections, matching the 13 birds I identified. However, the “Me” tab shows only four of the birds and I have not found a way to scroll or page to the rest of them. That seems an odd deficiency. There was no obvious help link in the app. So, I think I will delete the app to avoid $40 charges. That’s sad because I like the excellent identification.

   Math teacher in WA · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Picture Bird Song Identifier

   I was so looking forward to using this app to identify birds by their song. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t work. Recording the voice of a bird recently on Picture Bird, I listened to the three suggestions the app brought up. Hmm…Why do I have to pay $40 a year for three suggestions? It gets worse. All three of the suggestions had the song I had just heard…identical recordings of the same bird. It gets worse still. I brought up iBird Pro, a terrific app I’ve used for years, and played the 5-7 different recordings for each of the three birds suggested by Picture Bird. None of the suggestions were correct. The bird I had recorded was not any of these! This is not the only time this has happened. So far, the app has identified one bird correctly (a Northern Mockingbird) and half diesel incorrectly. Once, I gave up waiting for a bird to sing and stopped the recorder with no sound on it. It still made suggestions. In conclusion, I have to say, this app is a rip-off. It’s a great concept…go do your research and come back to us with a finished product before you start charging for it.

   SEJones720 · 30 Aug 2026

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