Roberts Birds

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December 6, 2024
June 13, 2026
2.6.2
iOS 16.0+
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1.62GB
iPhone, iPad
4 days ago
American English

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This comprehensive birding app for South Africa offers detailed information, bird calls, and distribution maps. It features an advanced identification tool using various search criteria and an image recognition function. Log your sightings and access data offline.

✓Extensive bird illustrations and images

✓Large library of bird calls

✓Comparative bird plates

✓Interactive distribution maps

✓Advanced ID Search with multiple filters

✓Image recognition for bird identification

✓Sighting logging and syncing

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What users say

Summarized from real user reviews of Roberts Birds. Based on 3 reviews and a 2.7/5 average, it highlights the 11 positives and 134 negatives reviewers mention most about this Reference app.

Positive things

👍Great app with tons of info
💡Seamless offline functionality
👍Friendly user interface
💡Love the image recognition feature
💡Image recognition works SUPER well
💡Very comprehensive!
💡Great app
💡Several improvements on the previous one
💡Works great and very comprehensive
💡Image recognition is a nice addition
💡Image Recognition working

Negative things

😞Hugely disappointed with subscription
😞Ripoff annual subscription model
😞Expensive subscription model
😞Annoying cash grab
😞Unfortunately, not working
😞Sync and back-up is buggy
😞Loses important information
😞Duplicates all entries on the server
😞Sync slows down
😞Not a great app
😞Old app was much better
😞Doesn’t sync
😞Lost my life list
😞No feedback or support
😞Can’t log in
😞Don’t receive password reset emails
😞Very frustrating
😞Couldn’t sign in
😞Developer doesn’t answer emails
😞Absolutely awful
😞Old format was more appealing
😞Easier to use for average consumer
😞New format difficult to get used to
😞Not as easy to use
😞Won’t be renewing subscription
😞Not in app purchases
😞Completely paid app
😞Can’t do anything without paying
😞Have to buy it again
😞Not fair play
😞Terrible
😞Unusable in its present form
😞Cannot get imported lists
😞Missing bird calls
😞Old app works much better
😞Should be withdrawn and fixed
😞Horrible
😞Give back the old app!
😞Beware losing your lists
😞Disaster
😞Last update made it worse
😞Can’t scroll between birds
😞Decided I must subscribe again
😞Randomly asks to subscribe again
😞Pay over and over for the same thing
😞Do not touch this app with a barge pole
😞Glitches constantly
😞DO NOT PURCHASE
😞App closes when searching for bird
😞One search only
😞Navigating is a nightmare
😞Not intuitive
😞Old version is 10x better
😞Constantly glitching
😞More chaotic than older format
😞Not as seamless to navigate
😞Problem for last two months
😞No updates have helped
😞A little bit disappointed
😞Roberts Birds not transferable
😞Stole my money and time
😞Losing all data
😞Lost purchase when changed to subscription
😞Where is my purchase?
😞No response from company
😞Subscription options
😞Should offer month by month
😞Annual option ain’t worth it
😞Previous purchase gone
😞Won’t recognise previously purchased
😞Do not purchase
😞No Grandfather Rights
😞Lost access to previous app
😞Forced to pay subscription
😞Crashes
😞Slow
😞Don’t bother
😞App Crash !!!
😞Crashes and immediately closes
😞Issues escalating
😞Extremely disappointing !!!
😞Doesn’t work
😞Won’t load after installing
😞Terrible
😞Worst thing ever
😞Hopeless
😞Absolutely useless!
😞Do not waste your money
😞Response Time
😞App is slow
😞Occasionally crashes
😞Lag when scrolling
😞Lag when adding lifer
😞Programmers useless
😞Functional disappointment
😞Cumbersome to use
😞Frustrating task
😞Excessive fiddling
😞Feels like work
😞Cannot relate to positive feedback
😞Critical opinion
😞Numerous issues
😞Duplicate entries
😞Detracts from usability
😞Deeply disappointed
😞Reminds me of Microsoft principle
😞Regret spending money
😞Bad upgrade
😞Un-userfriendly
😞Everything is small
😞Feel unorganised
😞Multiple fingers and two hands to navigate
😞Very limited options
😞Left to right then up and down
😞Have to close photo and reopen next
😞Not able to scroll from one to next
😞Map is unfriendly
😞Difficult to see distribution vs geographical lines
😞Lost my games option
😞Still unable to transfer list
😞Unable to see life list realtime
😞Have to go to website to download lists
😞Cancel my subscription immediately
😞Re-evaluating other birding apps
😞BAD!!
😞Needs work
😞Not as clean as R2
😞More difficult to navigate
😞Not sure what developers believed
😞Where are my lists?
😞Terrible replacement for Roberts 2
😞Lost my lists
😞Birding site info gone
😞Bad interface

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What's New in Roberts Birds

2.6.2

June 13, 2026

Improved restoring of purchases More calls added

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User reviews

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Hugely disappointed

I’ve always had the Robers Bird app on my iPhone. However, the new annual subscription model is an absolute ripoff.

jonathandev

6 months ago

Unfortunately, not working. Sync and back-up is buggy and cannot be fixed.

The app, if it was working, would have been great. Unfortunately one looses important information when importing lists from the original app (e.g. no GPS data etc). The killer is the sync. Every time one syncs to the Roberts Server it duplicates all entries on the server. The App support, once removed the duplicates, when I contacted them, but no lasting solution was found. This means that the sync slows down up until it is no longer usable. Really a pity. We will go back to the old version and hope this one gets fixed. Kind regards, from Namibia

Dirk-Namibia

9 months ago

Expensive subscription

Hugely disappointing that this app is released on an expensive subscription model. I’d happily pay a decent amount as a one-off payment but the subscription model is just an annoying cash grab.

Astro monkey bookworm

10 months ago

Birding beginner

I have just come from Kgalagadi and was intrigued by the bird species. Your app was recommended. Just finished going through the app and am very excited with what it has to offer.

UrshC

a year ago

Newer app frustrations

The old Roberts 2 bird app was better. This new version shuts down if I switch between 2 bird choices when trying to id a bird. Frustrating

Outside looking up

a year ago

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