Birdathon vs MyLSEC
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.
MyLSEC
This app offers a personalized platform for managing college life, including news, email, calendar, attendance tracking, and access to learning resources. It aims to enhance the educational experience by keeping students informed and organized.
- College news and announcements
- Access to college email
- Timetable and task management
- Attendance tracking and absence notification
- Virtual Learning Environment access
- Progress and assignment monitoring
- Access to English and maths support software
- Office 365 integration
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The MyLSEColleges mobile app provides an easy-to use, personalised platform for you to manage everything you need to succeed at London South East Colleges. The App has everything you need in one place, will notify you of an important updates and will be , your go-to place to enhance your learning and your education experience. Features include: Newsroom – Important announcements and up to date news about the College to keep your informed and up to date Email – Your College email right there on your home screen to keep you informed about your course Calendar – Your Calendar and Task on your home screen, including your timetable Attendance – See and track your attendance eNotify - Be able to notify us of absence or anything affecting your attendance Canvas – Easy Access to Canvas our Virtual Learning Environment to help keep you learning on the move eTrackr – Monitor your progress, see important information about assignments and how you are doing Century – Easy access to our English and maths support software Office365 – Access to your Office 365 account to work and study wherever you are Plus all the information you will need about College life all in your very own MyLSEColleges
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Birdathon at 100% against MyLSEC's 33%. Birdathon also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 27 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 1). MyLSEC's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, monetization model and device support 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. MyLSEC asks for nothing beyond the download.
MyLSEC 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. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Birdathon's written reviews are positive against 33% of MyLSEC's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Birdathon ships an update every 4 months, MyLSEC every 27 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Birdathon | MyLSEC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (15 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 27 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 12.3.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 192 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Barry Langdon-Lassagne | Collabco |
Customer experience
Birdathon
MyLSEC
In-app purchases
Birdathon
- Good Tip$0.99
- Great Tip$1.99
- Amazing Tip$2.99
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- Incredible Tip$4.99
MyLSEC
No in-app purchases








