Neural-Edge
Identify birds by sound.
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Identify the birds around you by their calls. BirdNET runs on the Neural Engine. No internet, no upload, no account. Just listen, name, and log.
NeuralEdge identifies the birds around you by their calls, using a neural network that runs entirely on your iPhone.
Open the app, tap Sentry Mode, and it listens. When a bird sings nearby, the model — Cornell's BirdNET v2.4, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine — names the species, logs the time and place, and goes back to listening. No internet, no upload, no account.
What NeuralEdge does:
Sentry Mode — continuous on-device listening. Bird calls in, species names out, no cloud round-trip.
Bird Log — every detection logged with time, location, and confidence score. Browse by species or by day.
Map view — every detection pinned on a map. See which birds frequent which places.
Species info — taxonomy from the eBird catalogue and a short summary from Wikipedia.
Privacy filter — human speech is suppressed before analysis. Conversations near the microphone are never sent to the model.
Webhook — push detection events to a URL you choose (Home Assistant, Zapier, your own server). Off by default.
What NeuralEdge does not do:
No accounts. No cloud. No upload. Detection runs entirely on-device, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine. The privacy nutrition label is "Data Not Collected" — NeuralEdge has nothing to send anywhere even if it wanted to.
Designed for iPhone (iOS 26). Microphone audio is analysed locally and never stored. Location is GPS-tagged on each detection and kept on your device.
Made by Indy.inc in the United Kingdom.
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More ways to listen.
— Audio Input Picker. Choose your source: built-in microphone, AirPods or Bluetooth headphones, a USB or 3.5 mm mic, or a network audio stream. Sentry Mode shows the live route and adapts cleanly when iOS swaps devices.
— AirPods and Bluetooth reliability. AirPods now appear properly in the input picker and deliver full-bandwidth audio when supported. Bluetooth inputs come with a small note about voice-band accuracy so you know what to expect.
— Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum, Standard. Three processing modes for the on-device microphone, so you can pick between background suppression and the full sonic field.
— Network audio streams. Point Neural-Edge at a WAV or 16-bit PCM stream over HTTP and it feeds the model exactly as if it came from a mic. Auto-reconnects quietly if the stream drops.
— Smoother detection loop. Classification now runs off the main thread, so the rest of the app stays responsive while Sentry Mode is working.
— Detection Map polish.
No accounts. No cloud. No tracking.
The developer, Indy.inc, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Inderjeet Bains
- Size
- 90.2 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Indy Bains. All rights reserved.