ObsIdentify vs Pitchling
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ObsIdentify
Instantly identify plants, animals, and mushrooms with a single photo. Track your discoveries, earn badges, and join challenges. Share your findings with friends and contribute to vital biological research.
- One-click species recognition
- Collect wildlife observations
- Earn badges and tips
- Join nature challenges
- Create and share groups
- Contribute to biological research
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Recognize nature in one click! Take a photo in Europe or the Dutch Caribbean and find out which species it is. Collect all your wildlife observations in the app. You'll be rewarded with tips to find new species, earn badges, and be invited to join challenges. Create groups with colleagues, family or friends, to share your stunning nature observations. Your observations, and those of others, contribute to biological research and knowledge about nature. Every observation counts! ObsIdentify only recognizes wild animals, plants and mushrooms in Europe and the Dutch Caribbean. Please do not use the app for selfies, people, pets, house or garden plants. The image recognition in ObsIdentify is made possible by millions of observations from thousands of users of Waarneming.nl, Waarnemingen.be and Observation.org. ObsIdentify is a product of the Observation International Foundation, in collaboration with Naturalis Biodiversity Center (The Netherlands) and Natuurpunt (Belgium).
Pitchling
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Hear a note. Name it. Pitchling trains the skill musicians actually want: recognising a note by ear and naming it with confidence. Not a quiz you memorise, but a daily practice that reshapes how you hear. THE PATH Thirty levels across five stages, from your first two notes to all twelve across the register. Each level introduces exactly one new idea and holds you there until it sticks. You start with C and G, one big leap apart. You finish naming any note, in any octave, on any instrument. SIX STUDIOS When you want to drill one thing: • Sing It Back — hear a note, sing it back, and see your pitch scored in cents • Pitch Match — a note plays, then fades. Rebuild it from memory on the dial • Daily Calibration — a cold-start check before any reference tone plays • Intervals — name the distance between two notes • Note Drill — your notes, your octaves, your instrument, your session length • Octaves — same note, five floors. Name the register FIVE REAL VOICES Grand piano sampled from a Yamaha Disklavier Pro, plus electric piano, nylon guitar, steel guitar, strings, and a pure sine tone. Hearing the same note across different timbres is what makes the skill transfer to real music. SEE YOUR EAR IMPROVE An Ear Score built from four separate abilities, a chromatic wheel showing which of the twelve notes you actually own, and your personal confusion pairs so you know exactly what to practise next. A STREAK WORTH KEEPING One gentle reminder a day, at a time you choose. Turn it off whenever you like. HONEST ABOUT WHAT THIS TRAINS True inborn absolute pitch is rare, and no app can hand it to an adult. What daily training demonstrably does improve is reliable note naming: an internalised reference pitch, gradually widened note sets, register placement, and exposure across instruments. That is exactly what Pitchling drills, no more and no less. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No analytics. No network calls at all. Everything you do stays on your device. Free, all of it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ObsIdentify at 15.1 against Pitchling's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | ObsIdentify | Pitchling |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 58.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 145 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Observation International | Khezan Khushnud Irani |
In-app purchases
ObsIdentify
No in-app purchases
Pitchling
No in-app purchases









