Pizzey & Knight Birds of Aus

Love this app. It's easy to use, has great identification pictures and descriptions, and the local bird lists are very helpful when looking for an ID in a new place. Only issue is that recently the 'similar birds'function has been faulty (somehow I don't think a brown headed honeyeater and a brush turkey are 'similar')

Good app ruined by 2 things. - 1/People have more than 2 devices these days. Restricting its use to 2 is greedy, especially at the price point. 2/ the search controls don't hold a typed in search after a bird is selected. I get very sick of retyping "parrot"

From the day I installed this app it has regularly crashed when trying to get the list of birds for my GPS location, and that's on two different phones and two different tablets. Dozens of crash reports have been submitted but nothing gets done about it. It's a fault with the app that ruins its most desirable feature! Please fix it! Yes Gibbon Multimedia, the GPS location certainly works, but it only works reliably if you force a stop on the app and restart it from scratch. If it works today it will generally crash tomorrow. There's nothing wrong with the GPS location, the problem is with your app crashing after it has been dormant for some time. Version 1.4 is worse, I have to force stop it every single time I return to the app.

Great app overall.

Great application with good support. Licencing my 2 device licence had a hiccup so it probably pays to check all's ok a few days before leaving the internet for the bush (that gives support time to resolve possible issue and device to be updated).

Earlier version kept crashing. This latest upgrade is very stable. Comprehensive and easy to use.

Loving the new updated version

As with many other reviewers I love this apps content, but loath it's instability. It constantly crashes which makes its use very frustrating. The most expensive app I've bought by far and it is the least convenient. If it was stable I'd give 5 stars. Gibbons insistence that users must quit app every time it is used is a very poor response. One other area that could be improved is the resolution of the illustrations. Especially for use on a phone. Unable to zoom on drawings to see better detail.

Great app when it works for me. Quite often it won't open giving me an invalid message and closing itself. I am also currently having problems playing ther bird sounds. There is no sound.

Love the app. Great information. The bird sounds are really great for calling in the species. We have replaced our tablet however and we are wondering how we can get another download for new machine?

Everything that is in the hard copy field guide is in the app, plus a whole lot more. Makes for a lot less stuff to carry around in the bush.. I've used this guide for a while now and i love it! Simply the best field guide for australian birds.

This is a buggy app, but its core functionality is good and it is very useful. The bugginess mostly relates to a tendency to crash, a lot. I would say that I average one crash for every 10 minutes of use for this app, maybe even every five minutes. But, it doesn't take anything down with it, so you can start it up again no worries. There are also a couple of quirks where backing out of something doesn't take you back to the last menu you were in before you started on it, but instead goes right back to the main menu. It's supposed to be able to sync data, and after over two hours of mucking around, I managed to sync my bird list between two devices and store a backup in the cloud (importing files from Google Drive didn't work at all, so in the end I had to use the export and import via the SD card functions).

I wish I had this years ago! Highly recommended for bird enthusiasts I dont have any issues it's stable and runs quickly

Crashes just about every time I use it on my Galaxy Note 4.

Use this app all the time. Love it!

P&K is my favourite field guide and I was very excited when the app was released. It is much better than the Morcombe app (which I have on my phone) with more features and better illustrations. BUT it crashes whenever I try and use the location settings. That really annoyed me at first but now I have had a proper use of the app it isn't such a big deal. However this app is expensive, dearer than the actual field guide. Overall it is very good but I'd like to see the stability fixed and if the price could come down by at least $20 this would be exceptional for birders at all levels.

Used it on a galaxy s5 and now on note 7. Frequent crashes on both. Also it doesn't find the external sd card. When I copied the (internally installed) data to external card, deleted the internal data and then directed the app to the external card, it worked, so there wouldn't be principal problem. Had to do that a year ago with the S5 and now again with the Note 7. Contacted the developer but no fix. Also can't backup or restore my lists to Google drive or card. For the price it needs fixing!

From the day I installed this app it has regularly crashed when trying to get the list of birds for my GPS location, and that's on two different phones. It's a fault with the app that ruins its most desirable feature! Please fix it!

I really enjoy using this app, it is very functional and easy to use. I did have a little difficulty loading it initially but the service was great and once I got help setting it up I haven't had any issues. I only wish that you could search by Latin name instead of just common name and it would be great if in the lists you could specify if you saw it or only heard it. Otherwise no complaints, well worth the money as I use it regularly.

Very good app, best one for Australian birds but tends to crash if you do not close the app prior to putting the phone to sleep. You then have to restart the app a few times before it will start. Thankfully the developers have removed the licence check as that just used to make the issue worse.

There is lot that can be improved. For example, currently the indexing images are too small, they could be bigger or give option to make them bigger. Secondly, the first index of Field Guide is Avocet, and it then follows alphabetical but the order of pages is as per the hardcopy. Please make both either alphabetical or as they are in book. The app had 5 star rating from me when first launched but then it was disappointing that the developers did not make any effort to improve it.

The content on the app is first rate, unfortunately the crashes that occur every couple of minutes are very annoying when using the app. This is by far the most unreliable app I have, including dozens of free ones. If this was a free app one could overlook that, but this is a very expensive AU$50 app! At that price the exceptionally poor quality is unconscionable hence the poor rating.

Difficult to install to sd card but managed with help. Great features. Like the app.

Quick and helpful support for an app with great features, including maps sounds and lists, and a thorough, well presented data set.

Great birding app! Fine detail location searches, calls from a variety of locations, photos to go with the illustrations, the ability to flick through the book pages to find that pesky bird you can't put your finger on. Really enjoying the app, becoming a much better birder because of it!

Very good app, best one for Australian birds but tends to crash if you do not close the app prior to putting the phone to sleep. You then have to restart the app a few times before it will start. Thankfully the developers have removed the licence check as that just used to make the issue worse.

WARNING: After download you're forced to accept a 2 device only licensing agreement for the data. Should be first thing in the description, not something to find out after purchase. Shady! In denial about buggy interface and call concerns petty: Inexcusable problems for a field guide. Image zoom limited to 1 step upon rotating device. In bird guide menu bug takes you back to 1st image for current species on rotate. Makes it frustrating to use on a phone. Not obvious that scrolling images requires swipe on image part of screen. Deleting bird sighting from guide requires exit to top menu. Crash on map if no GPS fix. Only 4 bird sites in Sydney metro area on map makes feature pointless. Purchased with Telstra bill so no refund option. Was hoping to put it on the kids' tablets as well but I guess one copy for my phone and one for my tablet is all I get. (Not buying them their own copy - they're 5 and 7). Dramatically reduces the advantage over buying a physical guide.Not everyone who wants to use your app on multiple devices is trying to steal it. Kids and I are unlikely to use app simultaneously. Good data wasted. Pity.

Great now you don' t have to get on the Internet every month to verify your registration. My husband would like to have the bird nests featured in sketch or photo form

Wonderful app. Best feature has to subspecies information. It does crash quite often, but I also use it a lot. It also has some odd quirks. Definitely better than the Morcombe app which I also heavily use (I recommend buying both). 5 stars.

Tried downloading 4 times now with ample room on my Samsung SP. Each time, upon opening app, every icon says "data missing".

Crashes all the time. Goes so far as not working anymore. Had to reinstall several times. Syncing of list did not work properly either, lost more than half of my twitches. To bad, would otherwise be a nice program. Now it even tells, me that my licence is not valid for this device.??

Now working really well. I was able to identify a bird in minutes that I had not been able to find in other apps and books.

Great amount of info. The site guide is especially helpful. Support first class

I don't know how to use it.

I have used the Pizzey and Knight book as my primary field guide during the 14 years I have lived in Australia, so was excited to see this app appear. I already have the 'other' Australian bird app, so it is difficult to comment without comparison. This P&K app uses the original illustrations, but with the addition of a number of good photos and also has good looking distribution maps. As with the 'other' app there are sound recordings of calls available. It is much slicker than the 'other' app and the sightings/list functions are quite different, some of this good (e.g. inclusion of one list in another). On the downside this app seems to have had license problems, some fixed (see other reviews/responses), but I still had to have my 'license' reset on their servers. I don't know what caused this or how common it might be, but the support service was polite and helpful. Finally, as with quite a few other users, I am experiencing a number of crashes (on the most recent Sony devices, not old underpowered devices). Once these are fixed it will certainly be the best AU birding app and worth the higher price.

One problem, about once a month I am asked to connect to net and reopen app as the license is about to expire. I have paid for this app and should not have to do this (Morcombe does not do this). I am not always able to connect to the net especially when I am working remote for 3 or 4 months at a time. Otherwise I would definitely rate this 5 star. Thank you Pizzey & Knight for taking off the 30 day license check. I now rate this app 5 star.

This app keeps intermittently crashing, or failing to load on both my samsung media player (yp-g70) and my samsung tab 3 10.1, without explanation. A pity, since I wanted the info in the PK field guide without having to lug round the weighty hard copy. When it does run, it is not as well organised as the Morecombe app, nor as intuitive to use. Clunky in conception and implimentation. Bit like the books, really, where the Morecombe compact edition shines, despite some shortcomings. My apologies, I didn't wish to post anonymously - my first review. My name is greg muller, I teach natural history at university level. My students and I spend weeks at a time in the field, need an accurate guide, that works on multiple platforms reliably, doesn't need constant rebooting, is frugal on battery life, and easy to use. I've used these apps with hundreds of students now - they universally prefer the Morecombe app (even my experienced colleagues find the P&K implementation awkward), and the Morecombe compact print edition. I didn't post this review as a churlish commentary, but a genuine attempt to get you to improve it. I love the detail in P&K, but it's clunky. and M's maps are way superior.

This is a great app, it might seem pricey at first glance but you actually get more information than the print edition (eg photos, sound recordings, advanced search tool) which sells for about the same price, so in fact the app is a good deal. It occasionally crashes on the "Similar Birds" feature but is otherwise stable. I had trouble extracting to SD card (had to specify the location manually) but eventually worked it out.

I wish I had this years ago! Highly recommended for bird enthusiasts

Each time I open the app it shuts down within seconds. I have a very good Sony tablet.