Birdgram US 4+
Bird sound and ID
Daniel Brown
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
Explore the rich world of bird sound around you!
Birdgram is an audio field guide in your pocket. The US version includes 770 species and over 45,000 recordings across all 50 states. This expansive dataset is made possible by the incredible collection at xeno-canto.org, which is dedicated to open access and data sharing using Creative Commons licensing.
App features:
• Browse ~50–200 recordings for each species. Way more than other apps!
• Record a bird using your phone and then search for it! Which species do you think it might be? The app will show you xeno-canto recordings similar to your recording to help you figure it out.
• Visually "see" every sound in the app as a spectrogram, an intuitive visual representation of the sound's shape over time.
• Places: add your current region or hotspot as a "place" to restrict results to just the birds near you. This rules out far-away species to help you discover your local birds.
• Offline: never get stuck when you're deep in the woods with poor reception, because Birdgram works fully offline! (Adding new places requires internet connection, but everything else works fully offline.)
Coming soon:
• More countries! xeno-canto.org recordings cover nearly all species in the world (check out their website), and Birdgram is designed to work in any country, with any species.
• Simplified design! The initial release of Birdgram is a scientific instrument: many knobs and not yet intuitive. In a future release I will streamline the user experience so that it's more accessible to non-experts and more intuitive for everyone.
Birdgram is free and open source:
• https://github.com/jdanbrown/birdgram
• Please get in touch if you'd like to contribute!
What’s New
Version 0.1.0
- Start adding "Help" buttons to each tab to make the UI more discoverable (more to come!)
- UI tweaks based on user feedback (more intuitive tab order and icons, fewer filter controls, full-width search buttons)
- Fix GPS not saving location with each recording
Ratings and Reviews
Nice app but could have a bit more features and information on how to use properly.
I’ve learned the app by now but would have been nice to have a settings page. I wish you could play the recording from the recording page so I know where to trim it instead of having to keep going back and forth pages.
Developer Response ,
Thanks! Any particular controls you'd want in a settings page? I'm always interested to hear what people would like to do that they can't yet.
"I wish you could play the recording from the recording page" — yeah, that's one of the more glaring omissions right now... Definitely on my list to fix!
Happy birding!
Great start / feature request
Still a little raw, but a great resource nonetheless. Especially considering it’s free and a side project! My number one feature request right now would be the ability to upload m4a’s from the native iPhone Voice Memo app. I have dozens and dozens of recordings there that I would love to see what the algorithm thinks might be. There are enough additional features on Voice Memo (e.g. pausing and restarting recording) that I’m not ready to start making BirdGram the default app I use to record vocalizations. An upload feature would help with that. Also eventually a moving bar to track what part of the spectrogram is being played (but that’s much lower on the list). Thanks to the developer!
The Future of Birding
Spectrograms are the future of birding because they give us so much more information than the human ear can detect. Seeing them in real time as you record is really helpful. Yes, the functionality is primitive and the UI isn’t at all intuitive but the developer admits to it in the app description so I’m rating this much higher than I normally would. I hope he follows through on his promise to improve the app because it has the potential to be amazing. Even in its current state, I highly recommend downloading it for recording birds in the field.
Developer Response ,
Thanks. :) I hope to live up to the promise! This is very much a side project for me so I can't devote myself to it full time, but I plan to keep improving it to make it something that more people can use. Happy birding!
App Privacy
The developer, Daniel Brown, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Daniel Brown
- Size
- 3.3 GB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2018 Dan Brown
- Price
- Free