Three ways to identify a bird, one place to keep what you find
Birds do not pose. Sometimes you hear one and never see it; sometimes you find only a feather on the trail. BirdTune covers all three cases, works without a signal, and files every result into a life list you will actually revisit.
Sound ID
Hold up the phone and record. BirdTune reads the song against its reference library and returns ranked matches with confidence figures, plus the spectrogram so you can see the shape of what you heard.
- Ten seconds is usually enough
- Handles several birds at once
- Keeps your recording on the sighting
Photo ID
Point and shoot, or pull a frame from your camera roll. Even a distant or partly hidden bird narrows to a shortlist, with the field marks that separate the candidates called out on the image.
- Works on camera-roll photos
- Flags confusable species
- Marks plumage, age, and sex
Feather ID
The one almost nobody else does. Lay a found feather on a plain surface, photograph it, and BirdTune works from barring, shape, and proportion toward the species it came from and where on the wing it sat.
- Reads pattern and barring
- Suggests the feather's position
- Good for moult season finds
Offline first, not offline-tolerant
Download a regional pack before you leave and the app keeps working where the map goes grey. Your life list, your saved recordings, and every downloaded species page open with no connection. Captures you take out of range sit in a queue and identify themselves as soon as you have bars again. You never lose the sighting because the signal did.
Learn birds through images
A single stock portrait teaches you almost nothing. Every species page carries a gallery across male, female, juvenile, flight, and seasonal plumage, with field marks annotated on the photograph itself. Similar species sit side by side, so the difference between two brown sparrows finally becomes something you can see rather than something you read.
A life list with genuine depth
Most apps give you a number. BirdTune keeps the whole record: the date, the place, the photo or recording you made, and your own notes on what the bird was doing. It rolls up into family checklists, a month-by-month birding calendar, and badges tied to what you can now recognise unaided.
Progress by family, region, and season.
What you saw, month by month, year on year.
Drills on the calls you keep getting wrong.
Your records leave as a file whenever you want.