Money grab now
I used to love my Bird Buddy, it was fun and I loved seeing the various visitors. But after a few updates many standard features (such as auto identifying) are now blocked and hidden behind costly subscriptions. We used to be able to ignore certain visitors but now you can’t do that unless you pay an exorbitant subscription after already paying a ton for the feeder itself. I didn’t mind the premium on the feeder since the built in features were worth it, but now those features cost extra and the feeder still costs the same… you can’t have it both ways, if you want us to buy into the subscription then the feeder should be half the cost it is now, otherwise go back to providing the same features you used to. I would not recommend anyone buying a Bird Buddy now, I’d say to look at the much cheaper alternatives.
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Video Quality
The video quality is poor especially to others we see in the community. Blurry and jerky movements. Stills are of good quality.
Almost great
I do really like the app, there’s room for improvement for sure. Sometimes the identification is off or wrong, other times I can see birds at the feeder and never get a notification or a postcard. The postcards are not the best either most of them are blurry or the back of birds. I also thing that the app itself has some odd features like the editing of postcards to add hats and scarves lol it’s just not for me. Overall the app works but it’s not as user friendly as I think it could be.
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BB got greedy
I loved my BirdBuddy in the beginning, however, core features such as automatic bird ID are now behind a paywall. After paying $200+ for a bird feeder, I have no interest in paying extra for a subscription. I used to love getting notifications letting me know who was at the feeder. Now I just get generic notifications with additional steps to see which species are there. I rarely even check the app anymore. The downgrade in features previously offered is extremely disappointing.
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No longer identifies automatically?!
We just set up our Birdbuddy and were enjoying the automatic bird identification. Now apparently it is behind a pay wall? We bought it specifically for that feature and it is rotten when a company takes away something that was a selling point to begin with.
