# Cicada Hunt — user reviews

> 17 indexed App Store user reviews of Cicada Hunt by Alex Rogers, rated 1.90/5 from 21 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cicada-hunt/id648038025/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/cicada-hunt/id648038025.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 2 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 14

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Doesn’t recognize anything

*2023-03-21*

At the moment, this app isn’t useful. I’m in a tropical forest so full of cicadas that I nearly need to wear ear plugs, and yet it says no cicadas detected…

### 1/5 — Only good for cicadas

*2022-07-09*

This
S app is only good for cicadas

### 1/5 — ONLY For The UK

*2022-06-23*

Doesn't work in the United States for sure. The cacophony of cicadas where I am and it shows no cicadas detected.

### 1/5 — Trash

*2022-05-15*

The website it connects to does not exist.. Total waste

### 1/5 — Hello?

*2021-08-11*

I guess the cicada has to be on the phone with you for this app to work.

### 1/5 — Not useful

*2021-07-16*

App "identifies" three options as possibilities that are not found in my part of the world. Useless.

### 1/5 — Failed to identify Texas cicada

*2021-07-12*

Big state, lots of very common cicadas chattering their buggy hearts out…”no cicada identified”.

### 1/5 — Does not recognize my cicada.

*2021-06-01*

Too bad it doesn’t work for BroodX.   Great idea.

### 1/5 — CicadNO

*2020-09-10*

Downloaded this after google recommending it for discovering what the noise of animal I was hearing... well this app is as useless as they come. It’s strictly only for Cicadas .. why? That’s about the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.

### 1/5 — Fake.

*2018-06-18*

Does not work.

## Most praised reviews (7 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Good App

*2016-07-17*

Thank you for making this app! I have caught soooo many cicadas now! Thank you!!!

### 5/5 — Help find the cicada!

*2013-07-02, version 1.2*

Do your bit for nature! App is easy to use, and does exactly what it says on the tin!

### 5/5 — Cool app!

*2013-06-28, version 1.2*

Loved the sonogram feature. Used it in the New Forest - was fun. Hope the Cicada Hunt will be successful!

### 5/5 — Great fun

*2013-06-28, version 1.2*

For all the family!

### 4/5 — It does it’s job.

*2022-08-08*

As far as I can tell this app does it’s job. Within a very narrow spectrum of the insect world it is doing an amazing thin; taking a bugs call, comparing it to a library of such similar calls that I can’t hear the difference and giving reasonable answers in a very short time period. 

I hope the developer will be able expand the library of insect sounds and include insects from North America and possibly from the whole world. I realize it is a lot to ask but it’s already in amazing program. 

My one suggestion is that an explanation that this program is only insects in the UK should be right next to “download this app” so people don’t get so frustrated.

### 3/5 — Ok

*2017-08-03*

I'm a little confused still on how it works.

### 2/5 — Does not recognize North American cicadas

*2021-05-27*

Multiple recordings or cicada found except there are lots

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