Lifer 1.7.5: sharper Camera Catch, new profile stats, and something spooky for Halloween. • Halloween week, 25th to 31st October: keep an eye on your Prismwings and on Twilight Hour. Something spooky is coming. • Sharper Camera Catch: the zoom buttons now match your iPhone's own lenses (0.5x, 1x, 2x and telephoto), with one-tap 5x, 10x and 20x for distant birds, and photos are captured at up to 48 MP. • More free Camera Catch: 5 catches and 5 attempts every day. • New on your profile: see how many of your lifers you've caught at Perfect, and your coverage across US states and European countries as well as UK counties. • Sound ID is more dependable: listening keeps going after a call, Siri or AirPods, and no more "Audio is not ready yet" after you put your phone away. • Starting out is simpler: Sound ID downloads in the background, the setup pop-up is gone, and you land straight on Catch. • Field Camera works with every camera, old or new, finishes its checks even if you switch apps, and tells you plainly when a photo can't be finished. • Your settings stay put, and your catch location sharing is confirmed once and kept with your account. • Nests: join or leave right at the top of the Nest screen. • Also: Bird of the Day for every language, the right weekly challenge day in the Americas, Birding Party Prismwings shown in the feed, the catch card no longer invisible with Reduce Motion on, wrong identifications sent to the review team, better translations, and lots of fixes.

Lifer 1.7.4 is a big one: Canada, Field Camera and a brand-new catch moment. • Canada is here. Audio Catch and Camera Catch now work across Canada, with a reviewed checklist of 677 birds, Canadian rarities, Guides for every province and territory, a downloadable Canada image pack and daily quizzes. • Field Camera: bring your own camera. Start a session, take your photos and transfer them to your phone. Lifer identifies them and checks when and where they were taken, and verified photos score as catches. Share them with your camera's name and settings, crop and try again, or send a photo for review. • Every catch now flies into its card. Your bird takes its own route round the card, lands on the photo and becomes your card. Prismwings get a reveal of their own. • See what you're hearing with a live, scrolling spectrogram while you listen, with birdsong drawn in gold. • New Field Clue quiz: four clues, one every 10 seconds, and the sooner you answer the more you score. The Birdsong quiz has a sonogram you can tap and scrub, and every quiz shows the answer bird. • Fairer scoring: catching the same bird again in the same place on the same day counts as one encounter, and upgrades earn the difference. • New milestones for North America: 25 for the US and 8 for Canada, with UK, Europe and North America filters. Unlocked milestones now stay on screen until you've seen them. • Weekly challenges can give each day its own bird, ask for upgrades to Perfect, and more. • Refreshed Bird Walks: a clearer live walk with a recording light, a proper Manage sheet, the birds you saw when you finish, named walks and tidier walk pages. • Also new: your catch's sound as a sonogram, a Prismwing card back with every Prismwing of a species, painted habitat scenes in the Social feed and a new startup animation. • Shared catch locations are now always approximate, shown as an area, never a pin. • Smoother scrolling on Home, the Aviary and Social, a fix for a crash on some Android phones, fixed sound quiz bug and many more fixes throughout.

- Full United States launch with a reviewed catalogue of 1,149 US birds, covering Audio Catch, Camera Catch, regional scoring and the Guide. - State-aware rarity and Guide data for all 50 states and Washington, DC, with safe national fallbacks. - US Bird of the Day, regional quizzes, Birdsong Quiz, Golden Hour and Twilight Hour competitions. - American bird names and US date formats, with a persistent choice between British, American and International names. - Downloadable US bird-image pack for reliable Guide and card artwork, including offline use. - Sensitive US bird locations are automatically protected from public maps, Social and alerts while preserving the owner’s private catch. - Much stronger Offline Mode: members remain signed in, catches continue working and unavailable connections no longer trigger unexpected logouts. - Camera Catch review requests can include an optional note for the review team, such as the species you think is pictured. - New Saved Camera Photos manager with a thumbnail grid, zoomable previews, cropping, selection, retry and deletion. - Camera photos can be saved at full resolution before identification, after a match or when no match is found. - Cleaner, more reliable Camera Catch with matching previews, improved recovery, better alternatives and protection against accidental automatic captures. - Redesigned Golden and Twilight Hour experience with animated regional birds, countryside scenes, live rankings, rank movement and distance from the leader. - Server-controlled regional rarities allow safe corrections without requiring another app update, while preserving offline fallbacks and existing catches. - Redesigned bottom navigation with clearer selection, a responsive Catch-button cradle and an animated Lifer hummingbird. - Refreshed bird cards with clearer photos, rarity, points, Prismwing numbering and competition awards. - Added accessible zoom controls throughout the main Map, catches, alerts, Bird Walks and location selectors. - Fixed Bird Walk actions becoming stuck when moving from a route guide into Audio or Camera Catch. - Fixed repeating Android location prompts and blank daily quizzes, with proper recovery and Retry controls. - Improved long-term audio storage and Cloud Vault cleanup, particularly for early users with large backed-up recording libraries. - Custom Nests now credit their mapper and link directly to their Lifer profile. - Numerous layout, typography, accessibility, performance and light/dark/OLED theme improvements throughout the app. - Lifer now uses its own animated hummingbird while loading, with matching pull-to-refresh feedback across the app. - The bottom navigation now has a lightly frosted, translucent finish in light, dark and OLED modes, with a fine gold edge in dark themes. - Large Prismwing cards use a shorter, clearer serial/count badge that no longer crowds rarity or mastery information. - The Lifer update screen has shorter release highlights and an optional invitation to join the Lifer Discord community. - Staff can see existing Nests and their boundaries while mapping a new Nest, making accidental duplicates much easier to avoid.

- Faster catches and return to listening. - New Catch settings menu: Offline Mode, mic, location, vibration and keep-awake. - Cleaner Camera Catch flow. - Larger close button, haptics and restored 3D cards on post Catch screen. - Smoother Social feed scrolling. - More reliable photo sharing with automatic retries. - Improved offline session recovery and startup stability. - More efficient audio detection.

- Made catch reveals faster and celebrations smoother. - Improved Audio Catch reliability, restart recovery and resume speed. - Improved detection handling for noisy recordings. - Sped up loading, syncing and streaks for large collections. - Added a true-black OLED theme. - Fixed Golden Hour and Twilight Hour outages. - Fixed privacy settings reverting and offline sign-outs. - Reduced Camera Catch memory use, especially in Birding Parties. - Added confirmation before sending photos for review.

- The Hide: private Flock chat and catch sharing. - Golden Hour & Twilight Hour: regional contests, medals and Crests. - Faster startup, smoother catches and safer offline sync. - Independent Audio, Camera and Manual catch progression. - Captive records and Legendary reviews. - Smarter storage cleanup and faster Cloud Vault. - Photo prizes, quiz reminders and Guardian alerts. - Volume-button camera capture and improved navigation. - Fixed Party Prismwings, reactions and layout issues.

•⁠ ⁠See the community's Photo of the Week, its theme and winning birder on Home. •⁠ ⁠New Lifer Luminary ranking and new animated rings. •⁠ ⁠Request a team review for any Camera Catch. •⁠ ⁠Find birds faster using BTO codes and familiar abbreviations such as LTT and LBBG. •⁠ ⁠Improved country-specific rarity guidance across Europe. •⁠ ⁠Fixed Species Heatmap freezing when searching. •⁠ ⁠Improved offline Camera Catch, challenge rewards, leaderboard ranks and card mastery counts. •⁠ Made manual bird search much faster and more reliable, including improved scrolling, loading and Back behaviour. •⁠ Improved offline catch uploads so Nest syncing cannot leave catches stuck on a device. •⁠ The Guide now adapts to your current country while keeping Europe available as the full regional catalogue. •⁠ All four daily quizzes now reveal a bird fact in a tighter, consistent card layout. •⁠ Fixed Back navigation after viewing a member from a Flock.

•⁠ ⁠See the community's Photo of the Week, its theme and winning birder on Home. •⁠ ⁠New Lifer Luminary ranking and new animated rings. •⁠ ⁠Request a team review for any Camera Catch. •⁠ ⁠Find birds faster using BTO codes and familiar abbreviations such as LTT and LBBG. •⁠ ⁠Improved country-specific rarity guidance across Europe. •⁠ ⁠Fixed Species Heatmap freezing when searching. •⁠ ⁠Improved offline Camera Catch, challenge rewards, leaderboard ranks and card mastery counts.

• Discover standout birding places with Nest Rankings. Rank Nests by species, rarity, sightings, activity, birders, points, Audio Catch or Camera Catch records, then filter by country, affiliation, time period, distance and your own Nest relationships. • Explore a redesigned Milestones experience with search, status and category filters, smoother scrolling and detailed progress. Bird-based Milestones now show what you have recorded and which birds you still need, while Home highlights achievements closest to completion. • Report incorrect Audio Catch identifications directly from the reveal and optionally remove the catch. Reports made offline are retained safely until they can be sent. • Enjoy stronger offline reliability. Collections, privacy settings, saved catches and other local data remain safely separated between accounts, and deleted catches no longer return after reconnecting. • Explore Social with Highlights, Nearby, Photos, Lifers, Nests, Legendary, Rare, Uncommon, Prismwings and Walks, plus smoother feed performance. • Manual wild sightings can now contribute to Nests, and Founding Guardians can choose their Nest’s hero image from approved community photos. • Improved Audio Catch accuracy for commonly confused birds, reduced memory use and improved card stability. • Refined quizzes, leaderboard rings and gold, silver and bronze podium places. • Improved Pro access checks and fixed custom profile-photo selection on iOS. • Completed a consumer translation pass across every supported language.

- Added 150+ new 'Bird Sprites' and support for future additions of remotely curated bird-sprite artwork. - Enabled custom bird sprites throughout Social and profiles. - Added Home Screen widgets: Audio Catch opens Lifer and begins listening, Camera Catch opens the photo flow, Bird of the Day shows the current regional bird, and This Week mirrors the user's streak and weekly progress. - Added permanent daily global leaderboard medals to profiles. Gold, Silver and Bronze record first, second and third place on each eligible completed day. - Added optional International naming style for Bird species in Settings. - Added 15 familiar domestic bird forms. These award 0 points but can be caught. - Changed Catch vibration so a detection only alerts by default when its Catch or Re-catch action is available; an optional Catch & Detection setting restores vibration for every newly surfaced bird. - Added an offline European coastline index so coastal observations resolve to the Coast biome much more reliably. - Added `Request Review` after an unsuccessful Camera Catch. The Lifer team can identify or reject the private photo, and an approved result notifies the user and awards the resulting catch through the normal progression path. - Added a 'Nests' card beneath Bird of the Day on the home screen. - Added 21 Europe-focused collection milestones and made generic species milestones region-neutral for UK and European users. - Rebuilt profile activity around the same interactive Social post component used by the main feed, including reactions, comments, milestones and Nest activity. - Added first-versus-repeat Legendary rewards per species and Nest: the first eligible catch keeps its full reward, while later eligible catches of the same Legendary at that Nest award 20 points. - Hotfix for consent screen blocking users

- Added 150+ new 'Bird Sprites' and support for future additions of remotely curated bird-sprite artwork. - Enabled custom bird sprites throughout Social and profiles. - Added Home Screen widgets: Audio Catch opens Lifer and begins listening, Camera Catch opens the photo flow, Bird of the Day shows the current regional bird, and This Week mirrors the user's streak and weekly progress. - Added permanent daily global leaderboard medals to profiles. Gold, Silver and Bronze record first, second and third place on each eligible completed day. - Added optional International naming style for Bird species in Settings. - Added 15 familiar domestic bird forms. These award 0 points but can be caught. - Changed Catch vibration so a detection only alerts by default when its Catch or Re-catch action is available; an optional Catch & Detection setting restores vibration for every newly surfaced bird. - Added an offline European coastline index so coastal observations resolve to the Coast biome much more reliably. - Added `Request Review` after an unsuccessful Camera Catch. The Lifer team can identify or reject the private photo, and an approved result notifies the user and awards the resulting catch through the normal progression path. - Added a 'Nests' card beneath Bird of the Day on the home screen. - Added 21 Europe-focused collection milestones and made generic species milestones region-neutral for UK and European users. - Rebuilt profile activity around the same interactive Social post component used by the main feed, including reactions, comments, milestones and Nest activity. - Added first-versus-repeat Legendary rewards per species and Nest: the first eligible catch keeps its full reward, while later eligible catches of the same Legendary at that Nest award 20 points.

•⁠ ⁠Added Following Nests to the Nest map. •⁠ ⁠Improved Nest map loading, selected markers, and light-mode Nest summaries. •⁠ ⁠Added country-specific Bird of the Day completion totals to the Home screen summary. •⁠ ⁠Added Prismwing counts and progress to the Home collection summary. •⁠ ⁠Historical Life List records now show saved notes and can be updated with their real date and location. •⁠ ⁠Added clearer Details and catch-management shortcuts for bird cards and species. •⁠ ⁠Catch Detail now shows the full ID, Audio or Photo, and Overall rating breakdown when available. •⁠ ⁠Made Nest reporting easier to find. •⁠ ⁠Improved startup performance and Audio Catch recovery after returning to the app. •⁠ ⁠Improved camera-screen stability when permissions or device availability change. •⁠ ⁠Replaced Common Gull with Lesser Black-backed Gull in the UK Bird of the Day rotation. •⁠ ⁠Improved the Weekly Challenge group icon and refined collection colours on Home.

Introducing Nests - explore over 5,000 parks and reserves across the UK and Europe, contribute sightings, discover local birdlife, share photos and compete to become Nest Guardian. • New Daily Birdsong Quiz • Nest search, request Nests, milestones, alerts and social stories • Improved maps, GPS, notifications and performance • Optional always-on display for Audio Catch • Expanded guides, privacy controls and British bird names

- Camera catch now gives you a 25% catch bonus, and 50% for any birds that haven't been caught previously. - Pro users now get an unlimited Camera Catch quota. - "Save for later" during a slow Camera Catch analysis. - Improved ratings system for catches. - Catalan support. - Improved offline mode. - Fixed Aviary custom artwork process. - Tightened audio identification for some species. - Improved Social feed loading images. - Fixed incorrect card finishes on some profile favourites.

- Improved Audio Catch accuracy and species group confusion. - Added 800+ licensed bird sounds to species pages. - Redesigned profiles with cover photos and Pro custom avatars. - Made offline catches sync more reliably after reconnecting. - Improved species heat-map privacy and appearance. - Reduced card-image flashing and crashes.

- Redesigned Camera Catch with smoother zoom and focus controls and better visuals. - Added Field Photos to personal and public profiles. - Daily quizzes now refresh at local midnight. - Fixed large external imports dropping species from multi-species checklists. - Improved location, audio, Flock navigation, and reliability.

- Privacy controls for catch locations and optional GBIF data sharing on first launch. - Manually log a species directly from the catch screen. - Camera catch now has a 'Import from gallery' option to use external photos from your camera, with optional sharing of the photo on the social feed. - Added more Daily Rare Bird ID and Field Clues - Rare Bird ID shows full photo. - Smoother card scrolling, improved Cloud Vault setup, steadier Bird Walks & better sign-in recovery.

● ⁠New Daily Quizzes: Rare Bird ID and Field Clues. ● ⁠Added full Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Finnish language support & species name translations. ●⁠ ⁠Added comments to quiz social posts. ● Added a Country leaderboard scope. ● ⁠Improved Camera Catch and photo upload handling. ● Drag-and-drop for profile milestone badges. ● Improved Aviary small-card scrolling. ● Reworked card photo customisation.

- Improved Audio Catch detection when multiple birds are calling at once. - Improved Camera Catch speed, matching and smoother card reveal after saving a catch. - Added Mastery Shelf with species leaderboards. - Lifer now analyses several short windows as well as the full listening window, helping it pick up brief calls in busier environments. - Improved offline mode and sync issues after reconnecting. - Added automatic Audio Catch resume when returning to Lifer after leaving the app or switching screens. - Added a Catch & Detection setting to disable automatic Audio Catch resume if preferred. - Improved Home and Social font size issues. - Improved country-aware Audio Catch startup. - Better Catch layout on smaller screens. - Reduced Home screen startup flicker. - Audio Catch strictness now follows the active country - catching via audio will feel better in European countries. - Fixed country-aware rarity for catches and species pages. - Species detail rarity now shows the country context. - Birding Party catch corrections now sync to everyone.

- Improved Audio Catch detection of birds. - Birding Party: share catches with up to 4 nearby birders. - Join by QR code or 6-character invite code. - Grouped Birding Party social posts with shared comments/reactions. - Review, zoom, pan, and crop Camera Catch photos. - Bird of the Day and milestone celebrations after catch. - Better milestone text and fixed Home streak loading bug. - Multiple prismwing catches of the same species are shown on small and large cards.

- Smoother Home intro animations, streaks, and weekly stats. - Faster Aviary cards with cached previews and premium loading skeletons. - Improved Maps: free recent catches, Pro Complete Catch Map, better pins, loading, and filters. - Polished Social posts, Discover pills, profile badges, headers, and bottom navigation. - Fixed leaderboard points, weekly date logic, and species duplicates.

- Fixed public profile issues - Fixed manual sighting deletion - Improved Biome detection - Improved large text support across app - Tightened Camera & Audio Catch validation - Cleaned up milestones - User experience improvements

- Fixed Europe Audio Catch filtering so country checklists include common birds as well as expected birds. - Added Social feed posts for successful Daily Sound Quiz completions, including correct-answer streaks. - Fixed repeated false-positive Bittern audio catches. - Added Pro custom Flock display photos. - Styling improvements for Flocks - Fixed manual sighting search so users can log supported birds outside the UK - Added sort options to profile Species and Life List screens.

- Flocks are here: create private birding groups with shared Life Lists, feeds and leaderboards. - Catch is smoother, and saves previous detections during catch. - Archived renamed to Life List and overhauled the manual log process. - Life List now appears on profiles with a clearer Life Number. - Add profile background bird photos and choose imported/manual cards as favourites.

- New Pro feature: Species heat-maps inside Species Details to show heat-maps of bird species. - Fixed regional Bird of the Day. - Improved bird walk post layout on feeds. - Larger bird walk standout cards now show up to 15 ranked species. - Added an "Open birds" view for completed bird walks. - Lifer Pro Camera Catch increased to 50 per day. - Updated map views across the app to use globe projection. - Fixed the home screen level progression 'flicker' - Fixed crashing bugs