Birdathon vs Actief College
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Birdathon
This app helps birdwatchers create and organize detailed checklists of their observations. It automatically records time and location, allowing for easy editing and customization. Users can visualize their sightings on maps, add field notes, and export data for sharing or further analysis.
- Observation-centric checklists
- Automatic time and location recording
- Customizable maps with boundary overlays
- Field notes for additional observations
- Multiple checklist sorting options
- Data export to CSV and other formats
- Create checklist templates
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Birdathon is an observation-centric tool for creating birding checklists. It helps you organize your checklists and share them with others. Use Birdathon in the field to quickly record whether and where a bird is seen or heard and the number observed. The time and location of each observation is automatically recorded. You can adjust the location, time entries and the count of birds observed at any time to ensure your records are accurate. You can add breeding codes to your observations. Checklist maps display the locations of your observations. You can overlay county boundaries for every US state. You can add a range circle such as a 5MR (5-mile Radius) to your maps. You can import and overlay custom kml/kmz files onto your maps. An Overview feature lets you see your combined observations for any time period, and displays a map showing any boundaries you have selected, so you can utilize the map feature even when you are not actively checklisting. You can export Overview data into a csv text file or create a new checklist template from the Overview. Your checklists can be viewed in taxonomic order, alphabetically, by rarity or as a timeline of species. You can enrich your checklist with field notes and add observations such as mammals, butterflies, wildflowers, etc., to make it a more complete record of your experience. You can organize your checklists into categories such as Day List, Year List, County List, Life List, etc., and assign color themes to your lists. Bird species may be added and deleted from your lists at any time. You can create new checklist templates from your previous lists or import templates created by others. You can change which template is being used. You can import text files into Birdathon, making them into templates or new checklists. Different export options for your checklists allow you to import into eBird or another copy of Birdathon. The bird species source data and other resources used in this app come from the following sources: AviList, a unified global checklist of birds, is the core data set used for Birdathon. https://www.avilist.org. Some data has been integrated from the following sources: The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world (https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/), the American Ornithological Society's (AOS) Checklist of North and Middle American Birds (https://checklist.americanornithology.org), and the American Birding Association's (ABA) checklist of North American Birds (https://www.aba.org/listing-taxonomy/) Alpha codes come from The Institute for Bird Populations’ Standardized 4- and 6-letter Bird Species Codes. https://www.birdpop.org/pages/birdSpeciesCodes.php. County boundary data is from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) TIGER/Line 2019 Shapefiles found on the United States Census Bureau's website at https://www.census.gov/geographies/mapping-files/time-series/geo/tiger-line-file.2019.html. Boundaries should be used as general guidelines and not be considered precise. Note especially where county boundaries follow creeks, rivers, ridge lines and other natural features, and so are of much finer resolution than can be shown on Birdathon’s maps. California breeding bird atlas blocks come from the California Bird Atlas, https://www.californiabirdatlas.org. California Bird Atlas logo and breeding code descriptions used with permission.
Actief College
Stay connected with your school community. Access news, submit forms, communicate with staff, and view your personalized calendar. Get school updates even without logging in.
- Complete news feed
- Handy forms submission
- Direct messaging and notifications
- Personalized event calendar
- Set reminders for activities
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Ben jij een ouder, leerling of medewerker van het Actief College? Download dan nu de Actief College app en log in met de gegevens die je via mail hebt ontvangen. Geen uitnodiging gehad, maar wel altijd het laatste nieuws van Actief College in de broekzak? Dat kan ook zonder inlog! • Complete nieuwsfeed Bekijk de nieuwsfeed van de school, met de laatste updates van social media, de website of app. • Handige formulieren Geen verloren brieven of mails meer! Bekijk in een oogopslag wat jij nog moet regelen en vul in de app direct formulieren in. • Berichten en notificaties Heb je een vraag aan de school of mentor? Stuur via de app een bericht en ga het gesprek aan. • Actuele kalender Bekijk alle activiteiten die relevant voor jou zijn snel in de jaarkalender. Niet vergeten? Stel een herinnering voor jezelf in.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Actief College at none against Birdathon's 4. Actief College also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Birdathon's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Birdathon sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Actief College asks for nothing beyond the download.
Actief College holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Birdathon has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Birdathon ships an update every 4 months, Actief College every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birdathon | Actief College |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barry Langdon-Lassagne | Hoy B.V. |
Customer experience
Birdathon
Actief College
In-app purchases
Birdathon
- Good Tip$0.99
- Great Tip$1.99
- Amazing Tip$2.99
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- Incredible Tip$4.99
Actief College
No in-app purchases






