Leave a Review Chirp! Bird Songs & Calls USA
Good but also frustrating
It’s a great concept but frustrating in practice.
I was mostly looking for for a way to learn the birdsongs of the rich bird life in my area. While there is an option to make a selection for a slideshow to include your own regularly seen birds, there is no way to save this selection as a list, despite there being a button for “Saved lists” which remains frustratingly blank. Pre selected lists such as “Habitat” and Region miss many many local birds and include too many not found in my locale. Maryland and Delaware are not in included in regional lists for some reason.
The overall list is also rather incomplete. Although they probably have to stick to more commonly found birds due to file size constraints, more than a third of birds found in my own neighborhood are not represented.
If you are ok with simply learning what the app offers, then you will probably enjoy it just fine.Show lessscenographer
Having App 'Issues'
This has been a great app. I've had it many years ...as of Recents I'm having issues with Chirp USA , upon opening the app it often goes immediately to settings?? and can be difficult to get to the home menu.
I have already made sure my settings are all as I wish. I believe I have once uninstall the app and reinstalled was not a lot of improvement..
I may need to shop for another app similar as this once was very easy to navigate and user-friendlyShow lessKidcosby
Voiceover no longer works
Until recently the app was awesome, but the voiceover for the slideshow recently stopped working, which defeats the reason I use the app. I like to exercise or do chores while listening to bird songs, trying to identify them and then listening to the voice over to tell me whether my identification was correct. I can’t do that anymore.Show lesstakinganothername
Frustrating
I had used this app years ago and really enjoyed it. Downloaded it yesterday. The updates are very frustrating. I can’t go to a visual list. The extra work of having to click back to home page every time I want to view a bird. If the name of the bird I’d Robbin, I have to click, go back to home page, click, go back to home page, etc., too much work and time. If I’m doing something wrong, plz advise. For now. I’m going elsewhere.Show lessallinlistening
Developer Response
I'm sorry that you don't like the update. Could you explain a bit more though please? There shouldn't have been any major changes in the way the app works and you can still flick from bird to bird. Perhaps you could email us (spiny@spinysoftware.com) and we'll advise.Use To Be Great
No longer compatible with iOS as of v 15.2.1Freshkills
Good and could be better
This is a fantastic app for learning songs and calls. Separating birds by region, the different levels of quizzes, especially the quiz on your chosen favorites is great. It would be even better if you could make several lists beyond one favorite. For instance, I now know many songs but would like to make a separate list for just calls since those are more difficult. I hope that’s an easy addition to this fantastic app!Show lessAnaBananaIL
Developer Response
We are delighted that you enjoy the app and pleased to say that custom lists are exactly what we are working on at the moment! The next update will enable you to make as many lists as you like :)Good app, but needs some improvement.
This app is good, but it needs some improvement in two major areas. First, it needs more birds. I downloaded the app so I could improve my birdsong ID skills. But I can’t do that when it has only four species of shorebirds, which include one species of gull, one species of sandpiper, and one species of plover, plus the American Woodcock, no species of swallows, and no species of Egrets, to name a few. Quite frustrating. On a similar note the Level 3 quiz that says it’s supposed to include 50 birds, actually only includes about 10-20. If you took the quiz several times, most of the time it would only quiz you on the same 10 birds. Again, frustrating if you’re trying to learn bird songs. This app might be good for a beginner to learn bird songs, but you will eventually get to a point where your skills and demands of the app will exceed its limitations.Show lessallendwebb
Love it but can’t use it snymore
I’ve loved this app, but it no longer works on my iphone. When I try, I get an error message saying the app needs to be updated to work with this version of IOS. Boo!contented and happy
Doesn’t work anymore
This was my favorite bird song app, but doesn’t work anymore on apple 11BarbS49221
Disappointed
Have owned this app for years and suddenly I need to pay again? I actually paid and now the app won’t even open up. Refund me please.jherc30
