Birds Complete Reference Guide vs DK RSPB Bird Sounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Birds Complete Reference Guide
Explore a comprehensive guide to over 11,400 bird species, featuring high-quality songs, calls, and detailed information. Organize your findings with personal lists and access external resources like Wikipedia for deeper insights. This app helps you manage and learn about birds both online and offline.
- 11,400+ bird species coverage
- High-quality bird songs and calls
- Offline access to bird data
- Search by English or Scientific name
- Personalized favorite and finding lists
- Links to Wikipedia, Avibase, and Ebird
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A complete birding reference app that includes over 11,400 species of birds grouped into 243 birding families. Access beautiful and distinct high quality songs and calls for individual birds in an easy to navigate way. All birds and lists can be accessed without an internet connection, however access to birding multimedia (sounds, images and videos) does require an online internet connection. You can search for a bird with the English name or Scientific name. A favorite list is also available allowing you to add any bird to your favorites. Personal birding lists can also be created helping you manage bird findings into your own separated lists. In-depth information for each bird can be found using links to Wikipedia, Avibase and Ebird found in each bird profile screen. If you feel there are any omissions that you would like to see added, or have any issues with that app please send us an Email.
DK RSPB Bird Sounds
Access over 200 bird sounds to complement DK's bird identification guides. This educational app helps users learn to recognize bird calls and songs.
- Over 200 bird sounds
- Complements bird identification guides
- Learn bird calls
- Educational audio content
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The accompanying app to DK's bird identification guides, providing the audio for over 200 birds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Birds Complete Reference Guide at 100% against DK RSPB Bird Sounds's 14%. Birds Complete Reference Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 10 months). DK RSPB Bird Sounds's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, device support and iOS requirement 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. Birds Complete Reference Guide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. DK RSPB Bird Sounds asks for nothing beyond the download.
Birds Complete Reference Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Birds Complete Reference Guide's written reviews are positive against 14% of DK RSPB Bird Sounds's.
Birds Complete Reference Guide ships an update every 5 weeks, DK RSPB Bird Sounds every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on June 3, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Birds Complete Reference Guide | DK RSPB Bird Sounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Faisal Akhtar | Dorling Kindersley |
Customer experience
Birds Complete Reference Guide
DK RSPB Bird Sounds
In-app purchases
Birds Complete Reference Guide
- Remove Advertisements$0.99
DK RSPB Bird Sounds
No in-app purchases
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