# Neural-Edge — Identify birds by sound.

> Identify birds by sound. (iPhone/iPad app by Indy.inc.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neural-edge/id6769885616 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Indy.inc](https://appshunter.io/developer/455576741)
- Category: Reference, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.5 · 86 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-05-18
- Data updated: 2026-05-30
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/neural-edge/id6769885616/reviews.md

## What is Neural?

NeuralEdge identifies the birds around you by their calls, using a neural network that runs entirely on your iPhone.

Open the app, tap Sentry Mode, and it listens. When a bird sings nearby, the model — Cornell's BirdNET v2.4, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine — names the species, logs the time and place, and goes back to listening. No internet, no upload, no account.

What NeuralEdge does:

Sentry Mode — continuous on-device listening. Bird calls in, species names out, no cloud round-trip.
Bird Log — every detection logged with time, location, and confidence score. Browse by species or by day.
Map view — every detection pinned on a map. See which birds frequent which places.
Species info — taxonomy from the eBird catalogue and a short summary from Wikipedia.
Privacy filter — human speech is suppressed before analysis. Conversations near the microphone are never sent to the model.
Webhook — push detection events to a URL you choose (Home Assistant, Zapier, your own server). Off by default.

What NeuralEdge does not do:

No accounts. No cloud. No upload. Detection runs entirely on-device, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine. The privacy nutrition label is "Data Not Collected" — NeuralEdge has nothing to send anywhere even if it wanted to.

Designed for iPhone (iOS 26). Microphone audio is analysed locally and never stored. Location is GPS-tagged on each detection and kept on your device.

Made by Indy.inc in the United Kingdom.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 26.5.1 — 2026-05-19

More ways to listen.

— Audio Input Picker. Choose your source: built-in microphone, AirPods or Bluetooth headphones, a USB or 3.5 mm mic, or a network audio stream. Sentry Mode shows the live route and adapts cleanly when iOS swaps devices.

— AirPods and Bluetooth reliability. AirPods now appear properly in the input picker and deliver full-bandwidth audio when supported. Bluetooth inputs come with a small note about voice-band accuracy so you know what to expect.

— Voice Isolation, Wide Spectrum, Standard. Three processing modes for the on-device microphone, so you can pick between background suppression and the full sonic field.

— Network audio streams. Point Neural-Edge at a WAV or 16-bit PCM stream over HTTP and it feeds the model exactly as if it came from a mic. Auto-reconnects quietly if the stream drops.

— Smoother detection loop. Classification now runs off the main thread, so the rest of the app stays responsive while Sentry Mode is working.

— Detection Map polish.

No accounts. No cloud. No tracking.

### 26.5.0 — 2026-05-18

No release notes.

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