# Life List by NatureGuides — user reviews > 25 indexed App Store user reviews of Life List by NatureGuides by NatureGuides Ltd., rated 3.30/5 from 3 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-list-by-natureguides/id1635048243/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/life-list-by-natureguides/id1635048243.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 1 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (7 of 25) ### 3/5 — Très bien mais… *2025-03-01* Bonne idée d’application couplée avec le Guide Ornitho pour garder un historique de nos observations. Mais par contre me concernant sur IOS elle crash sans arrêt. Quand je rentre une nouvelle espèce elle se ferme, qu’en j’en supprime elle se ferme… un peu énervant à force… ### 3/5 — Ganz gut *2024-08-24* Würde mehr Sterne vergeben, wenn meine Wunschliste gespeichert würde. ### 3/5 — Ordering *2024-08-03* I think the bird ordering in Taxonomic should mirror the Collins Bird Guide. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your feedback. The app currently using IOC taxonomic ordering, whilst the Collins app uses ordering from the book. We will look into options to allow you to change this. ### 3/5 — Update photos *2024-02-20* Good app , simple and easy to use . Please add photos to all the birds . ### 3/5 — Clunky, slow and ‘buggy’ *2024-01-29* This app needs a lot more development and testing. Delete a sighting, you get dumped out of the app. Want sightings on one list to automatically update to another (eg your Hond list to your year list)? Nope - either edit every individual entry and add to a second list, or export to CSV and import to the other (which as others have noted is a bit buggy). Nice features, like maintaining an automatic life list, overshadowed by the clunky manual handling of each data entry, making it pretty much like an iPhone version of a paper notebook. Opportunities missed to make this smart. . **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your feedback. Apologies for your issues with crashes - we are investigating as its one of those issues which is hard to reliably reproduce and therefore fix. The app does include Smart Lists. For example you could create separate smart lists for the current year and for England, and new sightings would automatically appear in those lists as appropriate and update when you change them. Do get in touch (support@natureguides.com) with any other issues and suggestions and we'll take them on-board. ### 3/5 — In need of improvement *2023-08-15* I kept lists of bird sightings on the Collins App, creating a new list every time I went out and the lists were in date order. Now the lists have been imported to Life Lists they are in a completely random order, with no obvious way to order them either alphabetically or by date. The ability to order lists would be a huge improvement to what looks as if it could be a useful app. **Developer response:** Thanks for your feedback. You can now order the lists using the (…) button on the Home Screen. Inside the lists the same button can order sightings alphabetically, chronologically and so on. ### 3/5 — Katalog wäre gut *2023-08-06* Gute Idee, aber ausbaufähig. Es wäre gut, wenn man für das erstmalige anlegen einer Liste die man bisher analog geführt hat, aus dem Katalog aller Vögel einfach diejenigen markieren Könnte, die man gesehen hat. So muss ich jede Art Manuel eintippen oder aus der Vogelführer-App rüberziehen aber einzeln. Das ist sehr umständlich. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work on iPhone 15 pro *2023-12-14* Downloaded this App along with Collins App update but unfortunately it’s currently useless as only a white screen appears! This has been reported to Natureguides and hopefully a fix is on the way. This bug has now been resolved **Developer response:** Thanks for being in touch with us to report the issues with the newest iPhones. This issue was fixed in the last update and we hope you're now happy with the app. Do get in touch with us again with any more feedback. Thanks ### 1/5 — Doesn't work on iMac *2023-11-08* Not working on iMac...very good on iPad and iPhone. Hopefully the issues will be solved for iMac....looking forward ### 1/5 — Very disappointing *2023-08-18* Long time Collins Bird Guide user. Extremely poor design - no simple way to view a species and see which lists it’s in or to compare lists. Contradictory list contents following import from the old app . Appears to have been designed to record sightings, of little use as a list keeping app. All we want is to view a list of species (as in the original app) and choose which lists to add them to, with perhaps the option to record date & location. Deleting it (and also hesitating to pay for the new Collins edition as this experience has been so disappointing/frustrating). **Developer response:** We’re sorry to hear about the issues you’ve been having with the app. You can still use the Collins app to find species and add sightings. Each species has a (…) button where you can add a sighting or see your existing sightings. Lists are also still supporting in the filtering feature. Do feel free to get in touch using the email buttons in either app for help with migrating your old lists, or if you have any other feedback. Thanks ### 2/5 — Very frustrating user experience with the import of csv files *2026-02-08* I spent at least 6 hours trying to import a CSV file. There is no help anywhere describing how to do it so that it works properly. Support does not respond to email. I have since discovered that the data in the CSV file must be separated by commas instead of semicolons. I made some progress. However, now the time column and other are displayed not properly . I have to select manually. So I better stop now. Probably I have been faster doing manually. I don't understand how you can make such a complicated and user-unfriendly import function. Why not taking into account that in Europe, CSV files are separated by both : comma and semicolon ### 2/5 — Exporting lists does not work *2024-08-22* Okay in terms of recording lists, however the export function does not work, impossible therefore to back up your list which is vitally important. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your feedback. It would be helpful if you could let us know in what way exporting is not working for you. Drop us a line at support@natureguides.com or using the Email NatureGuides link in the app. ### 2/5 — Lots Of Stuff Missing *2024-05-08* What's there is OK; trouble is there isn't much there. Very basic. Needs a lot more (eg maps of filtered sightings, better/more flexible location handling, long long list of missing features. Development seems to have stopped, which is a real shame as database structure is good, UI hood, it's just like it was rushed out long before it was finished and bean counters said "can't afford more work on it". It' shortcomings reflect badly on the other apps from same developer, as this app is meant be be closely linked to Collins Bird Guide (sort of in in a crude way) and BWP (they say it is but it isn't and development stalled on that app as well!) One excellent feature (only reason for 2 stars) is you can export and import your lists - excellent feature as bird recording is lifelong and apps are not normally and change so moving historical daya is crucial. **Developer response:** Hello, thanks for your feedback. Do feel free to get in touch (support@natureguides.com) with any and all suggestions for how we can improve the app. We are a small team – no bean counters amongst us! So any issues and suggestions you can contribute would be greatly appreciated. ### 2/5 — Needs changes *2023-12-18* Most American Bird pictures on the app ### 2/5 — Why login? *2023-11-22* I lost my notes when updating the Collins British Bird Guide app. The only way to get them back it to use this app, seemingly. But now I have to link my Apple ID to use it, both apps on the same phone. I’m not syncing this with other devices. I don’t use my Apple account to log into non-Apple apps. So now I’ve lost a function of the app. Second point: my Bird app main language is set to English (Collins) but this isn’t available in this new app. There are differences in names between the English languages. ### 3/5 — European emphasis *2025-07-16* Great format allowing you to edit entries and add notes (but not photos). Unlike the Merlin app, there is no ID assistance and only a single illustration. Illustrations are lacking for many common North American birds. In-app info link is actually a paid add-on for several good birding manuals, but both exclude North America. ### 3/5 — Almost great *2025-04-23* We need pictures of all birds. We should be able to choose a preset for quick sighting or new sighting because pressing “new sighting” should immediately open the keyboard. No Eared Grebe. No Ruff. No Ring Necked Pheasant. Rough legged Buzzard is wrong. It should be Hawk instead of Buzzard. No Common Raven. No Bank Swallow. No Yellow Rumped Warbler. No American Pipet. No House Sparrow. No European Starling. ## Most praised reviews (8 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Would recommend *2026-05-04* It really just does what is says it let’s you make a life and wish list I don’t know why people are complaining it doesn’t have enough when it does what you need it to perfectly and I would highly recommend this app if you are interested in keeping track off your life list ### 5/5 — Es funktioniert einfach und sehr umfangreich *2023-11-07* Die erste Liste, die alle Länder, soweit ich gereist bin 🙂 erfasst. Manchmal muss die Art über IOC Name gesucht werden, weil der Name nicht immer übereinstimmt aber ich bin sehr zufrieden. Jetzt noch ein Wunsch: Darstellungen optimieren z.B. Karten, Integration mit weiteren Apps, mehr Felder anzeigen. Eine super Liste, vielen Dank für eine gelungene App ### 5/5 — Das App ist klasse! *2023-08-20* Ich bin absolut begeistert👍 ### 5/5 — Perfect place for listers *2023-08-04* Previously I knocked a star off because the app kept reimporting my bird guide lists, overwriting any deletions etc. However, with fantastic support from developers, they quickly released a new version, killing this bug. Now the app works perfectly to maintain different lists however you want to define them, compiles a life list and integrates with Collins bird guide and BWP ### 5/5 — Awesome! *2023-08-03* Great app!! Do you ever intend to add United States support? I’m completely revamping my life list and need somewhere to move it to, and this is exactly what I was looking for, but it doesn’t work too well for North American birds ### 4/5 — Bien mais… *2025-03-09* Très bonne application, cependant je suis un peu déçue qu’il n’y ai pas la possibilité de proposer des oiseaux qui ne sont pas déjà sur l’application, comme par exemple des oiseaux indigènes de Nouvelle-Zélande tels le Rhipidure à collier ou le Méliphage carillonneur ### 4/5 — Great on iPhone *2024-12-04* Nice app for iPhone and iPad, sadly crashes on Mac ### 4/5 — Wunschliste *2023-07-19* Funktioniert für den Anfang ganz gut. Was noch fehlt: Eine Karte, auf der alle Sichtungen sichtbar sind. Die Möglichkeit, mehrere Sichtungen gesammelt in andere Listen zu verschieben. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. 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