Canoe.com vs BirdAlertPRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canoe.com
Access curated news and deals on shopping, travel, tech, and entertainment. Personalize your feed with favorite writers and trending stories from across Canada. Stay informed with product reviews, gift ideas, and exclusive offers.
- Customizable content feed
- Trending stories discovery
- Personalized topic selection
- Product reviews and news
- Deal alerts for shopping and travel
- Cross-platform user recognition
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Canoe is your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. Create your custom feed so you don’t miss the latest from your favourite writers. Stay up to date with product reviews and news, search for great gift ideas and get alerted to the best deals, including deals on travel. Features include: • Stay connected to your trusted source for shopping, travel, tech and entertainment. • You will be prompted to choose your preferred content when you first open the new app, ensuring a curated news feed that aligns with your interests. • Use the Discover tab to explore trending stories from Postmedia newsrooms across Canada • Personalize your news experience by selecting topics, journalists and columnists you care about, so your feed will be filled with the content and perspectives you enjoy. • As a registered user, you are recognized consistently across web and app platforms for a more cohesive experience. Register to sample the wide variety of breaking news and special features — plus extensive photo and video coverage. Home delivery print subscribers receive unlimited access, included as part of their print subscription and can gain access by simply signing in with their existing account when prompted. If you’re not an existing print subscriber, you can easily subscribe to the app through the App Store for iOS devices. Privacy policy: https://www.postmedia.com/privacy-statement/ Terms of use: https://www.postmedia.com/terms-and-conditions/ We appreciate and value your feedback. Please send any comments, suggestions or questions to: appfeedback@postmedia.com
BirdAlertPRO
This app provides daily bird and wildlife sightings across the UK and Ireland. It offers detailed directions, map pins, and breaking news on rare species. Users can set custom alerts for specific wildlife and view a daily updated photo gallery.
- NearMe bird sightings
- Detailed map pins for locations
- Submit wildlife news
- Rare species breaking news
- Customizable rare bird alerts
- Wildlife and bird photo gallery
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The must-have news service from RBA for every birder based in UK and Ireland, that guides you to hundreds of migrant bird sightings and other exciting wildlife every day, each with detailed directions, map pins and much more, provided by our unrivalled expert news team - since 1991. Whether you want fast accurate breaking news of rare or mega species, or wish to take advantage of tens of thousands of uncommon bird reports and other wildlife locally across the UK and Ireland, then BirdAlertPRO is the sightings guide for you. Get notified: Set up Rare Bird Alerts and other notifications tailored to your specific interest. Birds, butterflies, dragonflies, whales, dolphins, all are featured. The users’ photo gallery is updated daily. Packed full of new features to ensure you are the best informed… • NEW - NearMe: just one tap to see what birds are nearby your current location - based on your definition of the ‘nearby distance’ • NEW - Map Pins: pins on maps for each bird's location, down to a few metres, plus, when available, additional pins for • where to view the bird from • where to park • where the foot access to the site is via • NEW - Submit your news: is now much easier, more efficient and more accurate - by dropping pins on maps • NEW - Headlines: a completely new feature - for a quick overview of all the days’ bird action, with just one entry per species, ordered by rarity, and expandable for anything that grabs your interest • NEW - Saved Searches: save your frequently used searches for extra-quick access • NEW - Alert sounds: set unique sounds for different types of news alerts • NEW - Quick searches: easily find the news that most interests you, helped along by the RBA colour coding of each message to indicate rarity level • NEW - How far is that? a distance indicator on every news item shows how far away it is from your current position • NEW - Sunrise/sunset time shown for every site in the news - to help plan your day • NEW - Just one-tap to get Google directions directly from every news item, ensuring that you can get on your way as efficiently as possible • NEW - QuickSubmit: you can now ‘update’ any sighting with just three-taps • NEW - Thumbnail photos (optional) for each species on the news page • NEW - Alert me to this! Instantly create a notification filter directly from any news item to get updates on that specific bird • NEW - Alert filters with improved options such as a visible radius setting, which, combined with rarity level, or specific species or type of wildlife, enable you to be alerted immediately when any news of interest to you is transmitted • NEW - the ability to set-up alerts for rare butterflies, dragonflies, cetaceans and other wildlife in addition to birds • MyNews - a redesigned inbox for your personalised alerts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BirdAlertPRO at 88% against Canoe.com's 8%. BirdAlertPRO also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, update cadence, 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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Canoe.com | BirdAlertPRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 8.3% of reviews | 88.1% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Postmedia Network INC. | Rare Bird Alert |
Customer experience
Canoe.com
BirdAlertPRO
Bugs and requests
Canoe.com
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BirdAlertPRO
Reported bugs
12 issues- Keeps telling to log in when already logged in
- Crashes almost every day
- App crashes when clicking on an alert
- Cannot log in without registering on the web page
- App down on iOS 9
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- Won't open in iOS 9
- Messages do not want to load due to server errors
- Odd unexplained crashes
- Location maps info through Google is not always exact
- App crashes frequently
- Can't swipe through photos of a specific species
- GPS directions not as accurate as it could be
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to select one county for alerts
- Sort news by county
- Better iPad compatibility
- Swipe through photos of a species
- More accurate GPS directions using grid refs
In-app purchases
Canoe.com
No in-app purchases
BirdAlertPRO
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Canoe.com free?
Is BirdAlertPRO free?
Do Canoe.com or BirdAlertPRO have ads?
Which is updated more often, Canoe.com or BirdAlertPRO?
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