Firefinch vs KrugerGuide

Firefinch is a beautifully designed, fun and easy-to-use birding app that will ignite an appreciation of birds and a celebration of the wild landscapes of Southern Africa. Explore illustrations, photos, sounds, maps, seasonal stats and helpful tips for almost 1000 bird species. And stay up to date with regular articles by expert birders, birding hotspot write-ups and info on the latest sightings and birding events. Join author and artist Faansie Peacock and the Firefinch community and embark on your birding adventure...whether you’re a fledgling or top twitcher.

The only all-in-one Guide to Kruger National Park is packed with unique features and content to help you make the most of your time in the park. Main features: - High-resolution, searchable offline map with routing from your live location. - Offline routing - Road status reports - Camp statusses - Free Kruger travel guide section with all the need-to-know information. - All roads are rated and enriched with recent sightings. - Over 150 places marked and photographed. - Background data backup. - Over 400 species profiles that are searchable and filterable to help you identify each - Low-data sightings board with 14-day history to help you find hotspots - Over 2000 stunning images of species and places in the park - Keep track of your trip and lifetime stats with ease Convenient, easy to use, and always accessible: - Download, install and explore. No additional downloads, add-ons, or connectivity is required for main functionality - Our convenient countdown widget on the home screen means you always know when the gates are opening or closing. - Phone numbers for camps, gates, and other park services are all click-to-call. - Mapped routes and distances between gates and camps. - Personalise your trip and profile with an image of your choice. A stunning Free travel guide that covers all you need to know: - The Park: Park history, ecology, climate, conservation. - Planning: When to visit, Where to stay, How to book, How to get to the park, and packing tips. - Your trip: How to be your own guide, What to do, Visiting Kruger with Kids and food available in the park. - Safety: Rules, Malaria, Safety Tips and what to do in emergencies. - Phone numbers and connectivity. - Gate times. Maps so you always know where you are: - No more worries about getting lost. Our park map works entirely offline and shows you where you are. - The map is searchable and filterable, showing you where you are and what’s nearby. - Filter our best-in-class park map based on the types of points of interest or their amenities - Over 300 places mapped and described. - Get to know more about your next destination by tapping the place. All park roads rated: - We’ve described and rated all roads to ensure you can easily plan your routes. - All the park roads have been linked to their points of interest so you can quickly get to know the area. - Want a taster of what you could see on the roads? We’ve driven them all and added photos from our adventures to each road. Easy-to-follow offline routes: - To help you decide where to drive next, we’ve included 70+ turn-by-turn, reversible routes with interactive maps. - Reverse any route, its map and its step with the press of a button. - Easily bookmark your current route to display it on the main map. Get to know the animals: - Our lists are currently searchable in English, Afrikaans, Dutch, French, German and Spanish. - Over 400 species with photos, descriptions, and more. - Check off animals you’ve spotted using a quick add option, or leave yourself a note about the sighting. Birding for everyone: - Our tailored list of 300 beginner and intermediate birds is filterable based on colours and key features to make it fun and easy. - Need more help identifying a tricky bird? Use the sighting heatmap to check if you’re in an area where the bird is likely to be. Track your stats: Do you like to track your stats? We’ve got you covered with info on your trips, sightings, check-ins, camps visited, roads driven, and more.  - The app tracks these per trip and over your lifetime of visits to the park. - We backup your data in the cloud so you never have to worry about losing your sightings or other stats. - You can now mark species, places or roads as your favourites Sightings board: - If you have some coverage, check out the community sightings board. - This feature will also enrich the routes in your area with sightings of the day. - Sightings from the last 14 days enrich all roads and places.