Audubon Bird Guide vs Find a Grave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Audubon Bird Guide
Identify North American birds with a comprehensive field guide. Features include real-time bird identification, detailed species information, and sighting logs. Connect with a community of birdwatchers and conservationists.
- Real-time bird identification tool
- Detailed species profiles with photos and audio
- Personalized bird sighting logs and life lists
- Nearby birding hotspots and sightings
- Community photo sharing
- Conservation news and action opportunities
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The Audubon Bird Guide is a free and complete field guide to over 800 species of North American birds, right in your pocket. Built for all experience levels, it will help you identify the birds around you, keep track of the birds you’ve seen, and get outside to find new birds near you. With over 2 million downloads to date, it is one of the best and most trusted field guides for North American birds. KEY FEATURES: ALL-NEW: BIRD ID It's now easier than ever to identify a bird you just saw. Enter all you were able to observe—what color was it? How big? What did its tail look like?—and Bird ID will narrow down a list of possible matches for your location and date in real time. LEARN ABOUT THE BIRDS YOU LOVE Our field guide features over 3,000 photos, over eight hours of audio clips of songs and calls, multi-season range maps, and in-depth text by leading North American bird expert Kenn Kaufman. KEEP TRACK OF ALL THE BIRDS YOU SEE With our completely redesigned Sightings feature, you can keep a record of every bird you encounter, whether you're hiking, sitting on the porch, or simply catching a glimpse of birds out the window. We'll even keep an updated life list for you. EXPLORE THE BIRDS AROUND YOU See where the birds are with nearby birding hotspots and real-time sightings from eBird. SHARE PHOTOS Post your photos to the Photo Feed so other Audubon Bird Guide users can see your best bird shots. GET INVOLVED WITH AUDUBON Keep up with the latest news from the world of birds, science, and conservation. Find an Audubon location near you to go birding. Or see where your voice is needed and take action to protect birds and the places they need, right from your app. Have any questions or need help? Contact us at audubonconnect@audubon.org About Audubon: The National Audubon Society protects birds and the places they need, today and tomorrow, throughout the Americas using science, advocacy, education, and on-the-ground conservation. Audubon’s state programs, nature centers, chapters, and partners have an unparalleled wingspan that reaches millions of people each year to inform, inspire, and unite diverse communities in conservation action. Since 1905, Audubon’s vision has been a world in which people and wildlife thrive.
Find a Grave
Access the world's largest free online collection of burial information. Search millions of graves, add new memorials with photos and GPS, and find loved ones' resting places. Honor ancestors by creating memorials and sharing discoveries.
- Search 250+ million graves
- Add memorials and photos
- Record GPS locations
- Create ancestor memorials
- Share discoveries
- Manage user profiles
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The Find a Grave app is a great way to use and add to the world’s largest free online collection of burial information. Quickly search more than 265 million graves in half a million cemeteries around the world. Add a new memorial or a photo and GPS location to an existing memorial. Easily add information for multiple graves by photographing and then uploading them for future transcription. Find and visit a loved one’s final resting place anywhere, anytime. Request a headstone photo or snap one yourself and share it instantly. Honor your ancestors by creating memorials. All this and more with just a few taps. Features: + Access the largest online collection of burial info for free + Find cemeteries near you and locate grave sites of your loved ones through a simple search + Add headstones photo and GPS coordinates + Create memorials with bios and photos + Share discoveries through Facebook, emails, text messages + Manage your profile and see the profiles of others + Track your own memorials, photos, and virtual cemeteries
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Find a Grave at none against Audubon Bird Guide's shown. Find a Grave also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Audubon Bird Guide's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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.
Find a Grave holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4.5K and 3.7K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 64% of Audubon Bird Guide's written reviews are positive against 60% of Find a Grave's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Audubon Bird Guide ships an update every 3 weeks, Find a Grave every 9 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.
| Parameter | Audubon Bird Guide | Find a Grave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (4.5K ratings) | 4.7 (3.7K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 64.2% of reviews — better | 59.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.5K — better | 3.7K |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 355 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | National Audubon Society | Ancestry.com |
Customer experience
Audubon Bird Guide
Find a Grave
User reviews
Audubon Bird Guide
From 4.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🔍 Helpful for identifying birds
- 🎶 Useful bird calls and sounds
- 📍 Provides location-based bird sightings
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes
- 🔄 Confusing interface changes
- 🔒 Requires account creation
- 📍 Limited location-based features
- 🗺️ Outdated or incomplete range maps
Find a Grave
From 3.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent app for family history research
- 🚀 Easy to use and navigate
- 🚀 Helpful for finding and visiting graves
- 🚀 Valuable resource for genealogy
- 🚀 Great for volunteering and contributing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🐛 Inaccurate or incomplete information
- 🔒 Privacy concerns with strangers creating memorials
- 🔒 Difficult to manage memorials and correct errors
- 💡 Limited functionality compared to website
Bugs and requests
Audubon Bird Guide
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when opening settings
- Incorrect sighting location recording
- Unreliable login and account features
- Compatibility issues with newer devices
- Syncing and data loss problems
Requested features
7 requests- Add photo ID and sound ID features
- Improve location-based bird sightings
- Expand coverage to more regions/countries
- Allow offline access to field guide
- Provide more detailed bird information
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- Improve sorting and filtering options
- Sync sightings with other platforms
Find a Grave
Reported bugs
4 issues- Server errors and inability to load memorials
- Issues with uploading and editing photos
- Problems with signing in and accessing account features
- Inconsistent behavior across iOS versions
Requested features
5 requests- Add ability to message other users within the app
- Improve search functionality and allow for more flexible searches
- Integrate with Ancestry.com for seamless family tree integration
- Add option to set default location/cemetery preferences
- Improve GPS and mapping features to better locate graves
In-app purchases
Audubon Bird Guide
No in-app purchases
Find a Grave
No in-app purchases
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