BirdUp - birdsong recognition

Fails to recognise 100% of recorded calls. Even in premium database is woefully small and excludes gulls or any species living on or near water. Not really worth persisting with.

Loved this app until I upgraded to premium which is vastly inferior to the free version. Now barely picks up any birds at all even on sensitive setting.

Fantastic app. Many a time when walking we have heard a birdsong that we have not recognised. This easy to use app has made their Identification simple.

The earlier free version worked reasonably well, but since I have installed the latest version and paid for premium service, the app has proved less than useless. I use this on both a Samsung S5 phone and a Samsung tab. I have read all the help files, tried the different sensitivity settings, and it has failed at every use. Recently I had the chance to do a positive test on the app, a bird was singing close to me in my garden, and it was quite loud with little or no wind or background noise. I made 3 recordings on both my phone and tablet. Only one recording recognised that there was a bird there, the other 5 showed nothing at all. It identified a Chaffinch (I could see the bird) as being a Yellowhammer. I am very dissapointed with this app and certainly can't recommend it.

Does not work at all on my ZTE Axon 7. Standing literally 2 metres from a Goldfinch in full song and this app gave a 30% probable match to a Chiffchaff and 25% Robin. Birds further away don't register at all. Tried playing with the settings, but it doesn't seem to help.

You have destroyed this app. It worked fine until you kept messing about with it

The free version worked very well. Now I suspect, that if a bird came up to it and said, 'I'm a robin, the app still wouldn't get it. Less than useless on the S7... please replace this version with the original.... Still useless - seems to invent birds when it can't recognise one....

Nice idea, but telling me seagulls are chaffinches with 62% confidence doesn't make me super confident about the recognition

In Northern Scotland and birds of prey all around. This app could not be used in this area. Failed to recognise the song right underneath.

Very useful and easy to use app. Works well on an Xperia Z5. It would be fun if types of chickens were included too!

The free trial version doesn't work

£2.39 is just plain greed.

Excellent app, works extremely well considering the limitations of the mic. in a mobile phone.

A brilliant app. Always recognises the birds in my forest in Ireland.

Really works well

Brilliant!

Tried this out and have identified some unknowns. Works well as we live in the country and reasonably has problems when human generated noise is around to interfere.

This is a fantastic app and the fact that there are pics and samples of the birds to compared is a real bonus. I upgraded after a week I was so pleased with it.

30 day trial was great but paid for app recorded nothing. John

Free version was great. It thought it heard a Tawney Owl in the London Underground (in the train carriage). Surrounded by about 6 birds singing when I'm in a wooded copse it says rustling, human voice, engine noise and nothing else. Crappier now than it was 3 weeks ago! A lot of improvement needed. Can you hear that? It's moaning. I think it gets worse with every"upgrade". The biggest upgrade is a refund.

Having delighted in the old version for the last year and raved about it to many others, it disappeared from my tablet and I have diligently got the updated version ( the one you keep mentioning to people Jon). However, this is a pale version of what you had originally. Go back to it and I'd pay. This new one didn't even pick up the randy collared dove a few feet away!

I don't mind paying the small sum of money asked but I am losing confidence in this. Every bird seems to be a linnet or a song thrush.

Doesn't recognise Black bird or Robin the most common Birds in UK

I have reinstalled, I will test over the weekend...thank you for responding.

I used this a year ago, it picked out plenty of birds in my garden. However, now it only can pick out traffic, rustling and dogs barking. I didn't hear any dogs, but plenty of blackbird song, bluetits and sparrows. I so want this application to work.

Like others I tried an older version and was pleased with the results. this newer version was unable to identify any birds despite a clear and dominant call in progress. Something has broken perhaps. Also, how can I store songs on sdcard I have minimal storage on phone?

Bad practice, taking a free app, and a stealthy upgrade to make it a paid app. Result: uninstall and a nasty review. YES, you made it clear. So too is opinion of your change of policy. It sucks. When this was installed, a year ago, it was not marked as a free trial.

I used it last year and it picked up birds. Now it picks up wind, rustling, walking, etc. No birds though. Not even one, really close by. It is terrible. Uninstalling.

Shame that this free app has been "upgraded" to a 'free trial' with a requirement to pay. Very unprofessional way to behave.

Used to love this app but now it doesn't seem to pick up bird song. Standing in a wood today miles from anyone , surrounded by different bird songs and all it heard was a human voice!

First go today. The app found willow warbler and Goldcrest before I did! I need to learn how to get the best out of it

A great little app that I am glad to have when out birding even though results are variable and not always reliable. When I select Birds from the main menu page to read information about a particular species or listen to a sample sound file there does not appear to be a way to return directly to the bird list. Clicking the back arrow at top left of the screen returns me to the main menu and I have to select Birds and scroll through the list again. I wonder if it would be possible to rectify that? It would also help if the Bird list were sorted alphabetically. Nevertheless a nicely presented App That should appeal to young and old, novice and expert alike.

Great app, but a little disapointed after upgrading as there are no hawk, buzzard or other birds of prey calls ( other than tawny owl) as these are difficult to identifiy when calling while flying high. But still worth the money Cheers John

Good so far. Keep adding species! It's identified quite a few birds correctly, confirmed by visual sightings. Especially useful for those small brown jobbies flitting around at the tops of trees. But are there really so many Greenfinches in the woods?

Can you display the proper bird names in the recording history panel? At the moment is shows code names, robin1 is easy to desipher, but others no so much. Great app!

I had fair results with the previous version, but they have deteriorated in version 3, such that the app is no longer useful for me. Uninstalling for this reason, not because of the cost, which is very reasonable if it works for you.

You can walk the woods listening to the bird songs and calls knowing Which birds are there

Great app! Even picked up belgian birds

Nice app Look forward to any additions

Update has improved app, but more improvements needed before I'd pay for it. Is it possible to have a 'confirm' button and a 'reject' button for correctly and incorrectly identified sounds, so that the app can learn from this? Or is that too ambitious ????