Comparison

iRecord App vs Peekabout

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

iRecord App

Contribute species sightings with GPS data and descriptions to aid scientific research and nature conservation. Your observations help gather vital biodiversity information, supporting conservation efforts, planning, research, and education.

Highlights
  • Record species sightings with GPS
  • Offline functionality
  • Supports all UK species
  • Automatic data checks
  • Expert review of sightings
  • Share sightings with community
  • Contribute to science and conservation
Features
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iRecord App enables you to get involved with biological recording. Contribute your species sightings with GPS acquired coordinates, descriptions and other information, thus providing scientists with important new biodiversity information that contributes to nature conservation, planning, research and education. Your data will be kept secure and will be regularly backed up. Automatic checks will be applied to your observations to help spot potential errors, and experts can review your sightings. All wildlife sightings for non-sensitive species are shared with other users and will be made available to National Recording Schemes, Local Record Centres and Vice County Recorders (VCRs). โ€ข Works fully offline โ€ข Record all the wildlife you see - supports all UK species โ€ข Add new records with minimal effort โ€ข Benefit from automatic data checks and review by experts โ€ข Share your sightings with the recording community โ€ข Contribute to science and conservation

About

Peekabout

Transform any walk into a personalized scavenger hunt for families. Tailors activities to your location, weather, and children's ages, offering two engaging play modes. Features hints and educational facts, learning from your past adventures for unique experiences every time.

Highlights
  • Personalized scavenger hunts
  • Location and weather adaptive
  • Two play modes: Explore & Challenge
  • Progressive hints and educational facts
  • Learns from past hunts
  • Offline functionality
  • Privacy-focused, no accounts
Features
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Peekabout turns any walk into a scavenger hunt tailored to where you are, who you're with, and what the weather's doing. Tell the app your terrain, the weather, and your children's ages. In seconds, it generates a fresh set of things to find, hear, touch, count, and collect - each one adapted to the season and your surroundings. No two hunts are the same. TWO WAYS TO PLAY Every hunt can be played two ways, and you choose once it's ready - no need to commit at setup. 1. Explore lets everyone tackle items in any order, at a relaxed pace, with a handful visible at a time so the list feels magical rather than overwhelming. 2. Challenge reveals one item at a time, a stopwatch runs, and every find is logged against your family's personal best. It's the same hunt either way - so mixed-age families can race a Challenge on the way out for older kids, then revisit it together as an Explore on the way back, reading the facts and chatting about every find. HINTS WHEN YOU NEED THEM Stuck? Tap for a clue. Each item has up to three progressively specific hints, written to nudge without giving it away. Every item also comes with a short educational hook - a "did you know?" moment that sparks curiosity without lecturing. LEARNS AS YOU GO Peekabout remembers what your family has found before. Each new hunt excludes recent items and adjusts difficulty based on your history. The more you walk, the better the hunts get. WORKS OFFLINE Once a hunt is generated, your phone goes in your pocket. No signal needed on the walk. There's also a built-in library of over 300 items for days when you have no internet at all. BUILT FOR FAMILIES The parent holds the phone. The children explore. Items are written for kids as young as two, with enough depth to keep older children and adults engaged. Large text, big buttons, and a calm interface that stays out of the way. SEVEN TERRAINS Woodland, park, beach, countryside, urban, riverside, and moorland - each with specialist sub-terrains. A rockpool hunt is different from a clifftop walk, even at the same beach. RESPECTS YOUR FAMILY'S PRIVACY No accounts. No sign-up. No tracking. No analytics. Ages are sent as bare numbers to generate hunts and nothing else. Hunt data stays on your device. Pay once. No ads. No subscriptions. No in-app purchases.

Screenshots

iRecord App4 screens
Peekabout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iRecord App at Free against Peekabout's $3.99. Peekabout's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On review sentiment, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

iRecord App is free to download; Peekabout costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iRecord App ships an update every 3 weeks, Peekabout every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
iRecord App versus Peekabout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriRecord AppPeekabout
PriceFree โ€” better$3.99
Positive reviews93.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews โ€” better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 10 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree โ€” betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size30 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCentre for Ecology and HydrologyBenjamin Edward Newman White

Customer experience

iRecord App

Written reviews61 reviews
Positive93.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.6%

Peekabout

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

iRecord App

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Records vanish
  • Observations have vanished
  • Unable to login since iOS upgrade
  • Edit function on website freezes
  • Map disappears on edit page
Show 7 more
  • Submit button dead on edit page
  • Wrong date/name shown in app after editing
  • Clunky and unwieldy website for editing/deleting entries
  • Past records lost after logging in again
  • Records buffered when submitting for a week
  • Records don't transfer over when updating phones
  • Logging out of the app deletes all records

Requested features

10 requests
  • Add short videos
  • Add an explore function to view nearby records
  • Add species profile for comparison
  • Link across devices/sync records
  • Allow downloading from camera without re-downloading library
Show 5 more
  • Option to go back to previous sites
  • Add video clips for extra ID material
  • Add dark mode option
  • Add species profile to compare what you think the species is to the actual species data
  • Allow editing submitted records from within the app

Peekabout

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iRecord App

No in-app purchases

None

Peekabout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iRecord App free?
iRecord App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Peekabout free?
Peekabout costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do iRecord App or Peekabout have ads?
Neither iRecord App nor Peekabout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iRecord App or Peekabout?
iRecord App ships an update every 3 weeks, and Peekabout every 10 days. Most recently, iRecord App was updated on October 24, 2026 and Peekabout on October 22, 2026.

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