# EyeLoveBirds: Bird Checklists — user reviews > 96 indexed App Store user reviews of EyeLoveBirds by EYELOVELIFE INTERACTIVE INC, rated 4.60/5 from 524 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eyelovebirds-bird-checklists/id956417417/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/eyelovebirds-bird-checklists/id956417417.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 395 · 4★ 74 · 3★ 33 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of EyeLoveBirds? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Helpful for beginners - 🎨 Good amount of information - 🔊 Nice bird calls and songs - 🗺️ Useful location-based features - 💰 Fairly priced in-app purchases - 🤝 Good customer support **Cons** - 🔍 Difficult to find/identify birds without knowing the name - 📷 Limited/missing photos for some birds - 🗂️ Alphabetical listing instead of by classification - 🛒 Too many in-app purchases required - 🐛 Bugs and glitches with downloading/using the app **Commonly reported bugs** - Inconsistent/missing bird data in regional packs - Difficulty deleting sightings - Playback issues with bird calls and songs - Compatibility problems on older devices **Most requested features** - Add more bird photos and sounds - Implement filtering and search by bird characteristics - Allow users to upload and share their own bird photos - Provide migration patterns and seasonal information - Improve organization and navigation of bird lists ## Newest reviews (15 of 96) ### 3/5 — Not enough birds for North America *2026-03-18, version 3.5* I only get 50 birds, but the other ones get like 475 birds it’s annoying. ### 4/5 — Very good! 4.8/5 *2024-12-25, version 3.5* Could do with some updating on the UK checklist but I understand it might be hard to manage with lots of different checklists. Also would be good if you could change the name of birds. For example I'd rather have a mew gull be called a common gull. Other than these points it's perfect!! ### 2/5 — Limited Unless You Pay *2024-01-01, version 3.5* They only give you access to check 50 common birds…. you have to pay obscene amounts for small regional packs ### 3/5 — Decent, Needs Improvement *2022-03-12, version 3.5* I’ve paid for the birds of the US and yet it doesn’t have the famous song of the white-throated sparrow or the characteristic screech of a Red Tailed Hawk. I’d update my review to more stars if they could manage to improve some of these basic things. (Also more photos would be nice, like the hawk in flight - there’s plenty of commercial use images online). ### 2/5 — Disappointing *2022-01-09, version 3.5* Good app to kill a beginner’s joy of birdwatching. Lots of useful information on each species, but listing species alphabetically by common name makes finding a match to the bird in view practically impossible. It needs some organizing principle and an introductory ‘how to use this app’. ### 2/5 — Good Birds - Bad Database *2021-04-15, version 3.5* You would expect to be able to find a bird by its color, or if you know it’s a duck to be able to search ducks. Unless you already know the complete name of a bird, it is virtually impossible to find what you are looking for. Once you search through the thumbnail pics and find your bird, the data is good. ### 4/5 — Good Amount of Information *2021-03-10, version 3.5* I really like the way the species profiles are set up and that I can see multiple pictures and hear their songs and calls. It’s exactly what I was looking for. However, I would like the ability to filter the bird list by season and bird characteristics to help me ID birds more quickly. ### 2/5 — What kind of bird is that? *2021-02-17, version 3.5* That's the question I wanted answers for. Unfortunately, I can't see any way of answering the question without going through over 500 bird species pictures here in Florida. No questions like color? Tail shape? Size? Perhaps I'm missing something. I bought the Florida list, but why? Especially when the listing mentions helping identify birds. I can find every picture of every bird on Google. I don't see an advantage here. But...I'm not a birder, just a curious photographer. ### 3/5 — Couple hiccups to work through *2021-01-11, version 3.5* Hello, trying to sent feedback but keeps telling me that I need to set up an email account on my device, which it does. I would also suggest these as improvements; 1) pictures of birds on phone too small if you are trying to find the bird you seen and compare it if you don’t know the name 2) map of location doesn't enlarge to see exactly where they are located. ### 4/5 — Great info *2020-09-26, version 3.5* We would like to have more sounds from the birds but everything else is awesome and we love the checklist!! ### 4/5 — Unable to delete sightings *2020-07-25, version 3.5* Great app, would give a 5 if delete sighting feature worked. Otherwise, we are enjoying keeping track of all the birds we are seeing! ### 3/5 — Order of things *2020-05-19, version 3.5* Simple app to use but I wish they would list birds according to their classification rather than by alphabetical order. If you don’t know the exact name of a bird, it’s hard to find ### 4/5 — Good only if you know your birds *2020-05-18, version 3.5* Lots of info on each species and very useful but only if you already know what bird you are looking at. Absolutely no way of easily identifying other birds. Also birds are sorted alphabetically rather than by family which seems unnecessarily convoluted. The 4 stars are for the info on each bird and otherwise nice design and also for the free local content in my area. ### 3/5 — Missing bird *2020-05-17, version 3.5* Why is there no Baltimore Oriole in the Michigan guise? Also, it’d be great if there were pictures for more of the birds in the Michigan guide. ### 4/5 — Good info and ability to keep track *2020-03-25, version 3.4* The app is a little buggy. Have to reset the app to get out of the add screen. Plus there’s no way to input info about the birds to narrow the search. I use Merlin for that. You also can’t click the birds you’ve found to look at pictures and info. It would be cool if the app could show what other people have seen in an area. The pictures, info and sounds are really nice though. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — What am I doing wrong!?! Really disappointed *2022-06-05, version 3.5* I wanted an app so that I could find the names of all the birds I see in my backyard and at the state parks…. This app had pretty great ratings so I paid the $2.99 for the Florida birds…. Well over 2/3 of the birds of Florida have no photos and there isn’t a search option based on description… if I k ew the names of the birds I wouldn’t need/want this app. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2020-06-13, version 3.5* I’d like to say good things but I can’t even get the app to work as it just sits constantly trying to download the Ontario bird pack I bought. Paid the money and can’t open the app. Sorry...but very disappointed. Is there a fix? ### 1/5 — Very clumsy *2020-04-02, version 3.4* The list I had to pay for for Maryland had Arctic Birds on it. Either that or I couldn’t locate the list I purchased within the app. Just not what I was expecting from the description. ### 1/5 — Disappointing *2019-10-18, version 3.3* WAY too many in app purchases. Used a different app previously which had much better content. Will definitely go back to it. ### 1/5 — Upload Pictures *2019-08-23* Not sure if it’s offensive in the bird community, cuz I’m new. But I’ve been snapping pics of my egrets and my cormorants and I wish I could upload the photos to go along with my sightings. Not for everyone else to see, just for me to look back on and show my friends when I’m talking bout the birds and the bees. Also, wish I knew the migration patterns. I’ve seen birds and wondered what pattern they’re in in their cycle but without a calendar I’m never sure if they’re local or just passing through... ### 1/5 — Buyer beware! *2019-07-03, version 3.3* I have only recently been using this app and already on two different bird calls all you can hear is a dog barking in the distance. ### 1/5 — Only english *2019-04-19, version 3.3* Only english names. Oiseaux du Québec ne sert pas à grand chose si les noms d'oiseaux sont seulement en anglais. Lose money :( ### 1/5 — Horrible *2019-04-07, version 3.3* Every screen I touched, something popped up asking me to buy something. The app refused to use my full screen, just a tiny window in the middle. If I hit the expand button, it used maybe half the screen. Keyboard didn't work so I couldn't search anything. Why this garbage app is rated stop highly is beyond me. ### 1/5 — Unhelpful and limited *2018-12-27, version 3.3* Had to login just to create a simple list and didn't have as many common birds as advertised. Login didn't work through FB because of URL issues. It might be my IOS version, but if it claims to work, it should. ### 1/5 — Not for identifying birds *2018-07-19, version 3.2.1* Very difficult to understand the use case except to catalogue your bird sightings. If you don’t already know the name of every bird in the list, you have no ability to swim through the data to locate them. I paid to download my region’s bird list, but it’s just an alphabetical list. You can’t narrow the list to your location, or even upland/wetland or forest/grassland. So basically you would have to look at dozens or hundreds of listings to guess at something. Not practical when you have no idea of the name of any birds. This is not for identifying, but rather just for journaling. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very nice app *2024-12-16, version 3.5* I do birdwatching as a side hobby, saw that my provinces birds pack or what’s it called was there so I bought it to support 👍 ### 5/5 — So far so dope *2023-04-30, version 3.5* This has been the best bird watching app I’ve experienced todate ### 5/5 — Quick Note *2023-04-02, version 3.5* I've been using this app alongside Audubon and Merlin Bird ID. In the section for redhead, the second image is a canvasback. ### 5/5 — Works perfectly *2023-01-02, version 3.5* Works exactly like you want as a journal to help identify and keep track of bird sightings. Easy to buy and download packs for different locations, and really fun to track. ### 5/5 — Great App for Beginners! *2022-06-20, version 3.5* This app is great for beginners. My husband and I both just got into birding (a serious leg injury has had me down from our usual backpacking and climbing activities, so we needed something new outside while I heal up) and this has been a great app for that! It has nice pictures (though could use more) and the songs are helpful. The descriptions give you some fun little facts as well. Expect to spend between $5 and $20 on in-app list purchases as you cannot add to your bird list without the bird being on a list you have. This to me was a very reasonable price. The app only comes with about 50 or so free birds to track so be aware you’ll need to purchase the whole US list or your individual state list (if in the US for example) if you want access to track a bird. They have some free lists for Canada though which is cool. Also cool is it looks like they may be starting to make national park lists! They already have one for Yosemite. However, please do not think this app will allow you to input features of a bird you see to identify it easily within the app. It will not. Like most things it is a good tool to help, but we usually use google search for features, narrow it down, then look for the type of bird in the apps search engine. For example… type in “stilt” or “ibis” and all the ones in app in your purchased lists will pop up to assist. Feedback for developers: We found a missing and common bird from the lists that we couldn’t properly track: the domestic goose. Please get that added in as it is different from the other geese listed in the lists. A few additional pictures for each bird would be excellent additions. While there are usually 2-3 for each, having one of a male, female, and juvenile from different angles would make this a next level app. Peregrine falcons for example look way different as adults than they do from their juvenile forms and while the app has basic head shots, they weren’t very comprehension so I had to go to the internet for those. Full wing / fight shots would also help. Please also stop having it ask to enable push notifications. That gets super irritating after the fourth time I open it. It doesn’t ask again while still open, but once closed and reopened it doesn’t remember the previous response. Bottom Line: Great app and well worth the purchase for new birders. Not comprehensive enough for pros or those birding a long time though. But for probably 75% of birders it rocks and makes searching easy. ### 5/5 — Love *2022-05-07, version 3.5* Such a great app. I use this right in my back yard. Informative, easy to use, knowledge in your pocket. A+ would recommend ### 5/5 — Greatest Bird App! *2021-05-20, version 3.5* I absolutely love this app. You get a fair amount of bird identifications to start with and you can choose to purchase additional packages for the areas and types of birds your interested in. The identifications, pictures and bird calls/songs are well done without being over done. Best of all the additional packages are fairly priced, they don’t price gouge you for additional packages. I couldn’t recommend this app enough! ### 5/5 — Great app but having an issue *2021-03-23, version 3.5* Wonderful app. I had problems with downloading lists, but enabling background updates fixed this. ### 5/5 — Best Bird calling app ever *2020-05-07, version 3.5* This app brought a-lot of Black caped chickadees to threes beside of me I suggest you to get the app I don’t get why people are not happy with I didn’t purchase anything ### 5/5 — Great! *2020-04-19, version 3.4* I love the app so far! But I have a question and I have not been able to find my answer or anywhere to ask someone. In my bird list, some of the birds have a box that says RA or PE next to their name. I’m not sure what that indicates. A FAQ section on the website would be a good addition. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*