Trick or Treat Tracker vs Birdfy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trick or Treat Tracker
This app helps you track the number of trick-or-treaters visiting your home. It syncs your count across devices via iCloud and allows real-time sharing with friends. You can also view historical data, including weather and notes, to plan for future Halloween nights.
- Real-time trick-or-treater tracking
- iCloud sync and sharing
- Historical data with weather and notes
- Personalizable spooky backgrounds
- Friend count comparison
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Keep track of how many Trick or Treaters come to your house and compete with your friends in realtime! iCloud Support - Your count is synced via iCloud across all of your devices. - You can use iCloud sharing to share your Trick or Treater count in realtime with all of your friends. - See your friend's count in realtime in the new "Sharing" tab. Live Activity and Widgets - Now, once you start counting, a live activity appears on the lock screen, allowing you to update the count without unlocking your iPhone or opening the app. - Add a widget to your home screen or lock screen for more options to add to your count without opening the app. History - Save your count from every year, so you can always go back and see how many tick or treaters you had each year. - Automatically add weather data to your event when saving your count. - Historical items can also contain weather (temperature and conditions) and notes to help you plan for future years. - View your historical events as a graph to visualize the data. Personalization - Choose from a variety of spooky backgrounds for total customization. Very useful to know how much candy to buy each year.
Birdfy
Monitor your backyard visitors in real-time with live streaming and automatic video capture of birds and animals. Organize clips by species, track nesting processes, and share your discoveries with a global community. Optional cloud services offer advanced AI recognition and extended recording.
- Live stream bird and animal activity
- Automatic video capture of detected moments
- Categorize clips by bird species
- Track nesting and hatching processes
- Community sharing of observations
- AI-powered species identification (cloud service)
- Customizable highlight reels (cloud service)
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The Bird Side of Life 1. Live Stream: Real-time Bird Visitor Tracking - View the device's live feed anytime, anywhere to track birds or animals visiting your backyard. 2. Moment Auto-Capture: Automatically Record Wonderful Moments - The device automatically records short video clips when it detects birds or other creatures, saving key moments without manual operation. You can view these directly within the app. 3. Categorized Collection: Manage Wonderful Clips by Bird Species - Sort videos by bird species based on recognition results or your manual selection, allowing you to easily find, manage, and browse your collected video content. 4. Community Sharing: Explore Other Users' Fascinating Observations - Share or browse wonderful content of bird visits with users worldwide. Enjoy an immersive video stream experience that supports Browse by bird species, expanding your birdwatching horizons. 5. Bird Nesting & Hatching Process Tracking (for Birdhouse Devices) - Automatically identify and record the complete process of birds from nest building, laying eggs, hatching, to fledging. The process is automatically archived by stages, allowing you to browse the entire lifecycle on a timeline. Finally, a merged video is generated, fully presenting the precious process of nesting and raising young. 6. Cloud Services (Optional Paid Premium Features) - AI Recognition Cloud Service: When enabled, it supports more intelligent video analysis and content organization, including: * Accurate Identification: 6000+ bird/animal identification, accurately recognizing species like birds, squirrels, and other visiting animals in your device's footage. * Highlights: Automatically generates daily highlights, selecting the most exciting moments of the day. * Monthly/Annual Recap: The system organizes and generates monthly and annual highlight video compilations for easy review and saving. * Birdfy Data: Records bird visit times, frequency, and species, generating data reports. * Smart Moment List Filtering: Supports quick filtering of interesting bird videos by recognition results, improving Browse efficiency. - MVR Cloud Service * Standard recording is 20 seconds. Subscribing provides longer moment recording times (30 seconds+) and longer moment preservation times. - Collection Cloud Service * Standard users have only 5GB of collection memory. Subscribing increases collection memory to 20GB+.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Trick or Treat Tracker at 100% against Birdfy's 49%. Trick or Treat Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (4.6 vs 4.1). Birdfy's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (3.9K vs 190). On price, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Birdfy sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.39 per month. Trick or Treat Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Trick or Treat Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Birdfy has 3.9K ratings behind it against 190, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Trick or Treat Tracker's written reviews are positive against 49% of Birdfy's.
Trick or Treat Tracker ships an update every 5 months, Birdfy every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Trick or Treat Tracker | Birdfy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (190 ratings) — better | 4.1 (3.9K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 49.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 190 | 3.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 290 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sean Kosanovich | NETVUE, INC. |
Customer experience
Trick or Treat Tracker
Birdfy
Bugs and requests
Trick or Treat Tracker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Birdfy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to delete devices
- Unreliable live view and video uploads
- Unexpected app logout and account deletion
Requested features
5 requests- Batch editing for misidentified birds
- Favorites/frequently spotted section
- Landscape mode support
- Customizable notification sounds
- Motion detection sensitivity adjustments
In-app purchases
Trick or Treat Tracker
No in-app purchases
Birdfy
- Collection Storage Basic mo.$2.391 Month
- MVR - Basic - Monthly$2.391 Month
- MVR - Plus - Monthly$3.591 Month
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- Hummingbird Recognition mo.$4.691 Month
- Bird Recognition Basic mo.$5.891 Month
- Collection Storage Pro mo.$7.091 Month
- Collection Storage Basic ann.$23.491 Year
- MVR - Basic - Annual$23.491 Year
- Bird Recognition Basic ann.$57.991 Year
- Bird Recognition Lifetime Plan$99.99
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