Comparison

Learn Bird Watching vs American Birds Sounds Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Learn Bird Watching

Learn to identify birds by sound and sight with a game-based system. This app offers audio and visual courses created by experts to improve your birding skills, suitable for beginners and advanced enthusiasts alike.

Highlights
  • Game-based learning system
  • Identify birds by sound
  • Identify birds by sight
  • Expert-created courses
  • Suitable for all skill levels
  • Master birding by ear
Features
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BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA Learn birds the fun way! Learn to identify the birds that you're seeing and hearing. Take birding and birdwatching to a new level! Larkwire is a complete, game-based system for learning. Great for beginners and still challenging for advanced birders. Audio courses teach you to identify bird sounds and visual courses teach plumage. All courses are created by world class experts in field identification. This is the app used by professionals to master birding by ear. ***** "Best thing I’ve ever bought on the App Store." (Shopetastic review, 04/16/2020) ***** "Uniformly excellent" (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) ***** "A Rosetta Stone for birdsong." (Birding Magazine) ***** "This is a really cool tool!" (BirdChick) ***** "Really fun!" (Wildlife South) ********************************************** "Larkwire is already helping immensely with my ability to bird in the field. And my 7-year-old daughter is asking for 'that bird song game on the computer.'—I guess you have THREE of us hooked!" (Courtenay Schurman, Mountaineering Trainer) ********************************************** ********************************************** "It's like having a personal teacher who can pinpoint my weaknesses and make me work on them as I play. By far the best value for your money when you think about buying an avian audio guide." (Alain Clavette, aka @Acadian_Birder) ********************************************** ********************************************** "A fantastic tool for learning and reviewing birdsong. ... What I can vouch for, as a teacher, is the solid learning theory behind the software—this program is sure to improve the speed and accuracy with which you identify birds by ear." (David Pugh, Calgary Birder) ********************************************** SUPPORT For questions or support, email: support@larkwire.com EULA - Apple standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

American Birds Sounds Pro

Explore the sounds, calls, and songs of over 1100 North American bird species. This app allows offline listening, personal list creation, field notes, and includes mini-games to help you learn about different birds.

Highlights
  • High-quality bird sounds, calls, and songs
  • Offline listening and field notes
  • Personalized bird lists
  • Birdwatching checklist
  • Mini-games for learning
  • Links to additional media
Features
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Presenting am American Birds Sounds app with high quality sounds, calls and songs of birds found in the USA, Canada and other parts of America! Listen to all the beautiful bird songs offline and create lists and field notes too. Over 1100 birds are included and over 700 sounds, calls and songs! Featuring the American Robin, Northern Cardinal, Blue Jay, Starling, House Finch, Bluebirds, Ruby Throated Hummingbird, Baltimore Oriole, Downy Woodpecker, American Goldfinch, Carolina Wren. Purple Martin and many more birds! Personal Lists can be created too! Create a list of your favourite birds, or add birds that you've seen on a recent bird watching trip. Birds can be added to your lists from each birds species screens. Fields notes can also be created! Allowing you to document each bird sighting. A Birdwatching checklist is included allowing you to tick off birds you have seen. Birds can be grouped by family or alphabetical order, with and without headings, using the Birds Sounds settings. Mini games are also included helping you to learn the different birds found in this app: Guess the Picture, Guess the Sound and Guess the Name. Links to additional media, including sounds, images and videos can be found on the species screen. In App Billing is supported via the 'Remove Ads' button in the menu. Upon purchasing this upgrade this app will not serve any advertisements. All future app updates will also not receive any adverts too. Media Attributions for the author of each sound and a link to the relevant creative commons licence are included. Please contact us if you have any issues with any of the media included in the app. If you have any questions, requests or suggestions, just send us an Email and we'll happily respond :)

Screenshots

Learn Bird Watching4 screens
American Birds Sounds Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Learn Bird Watching at 91% against American Birds Sounds Pro's 0%. Learn Bird Watching also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). American Birds Sounds Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Learn Bird Watching sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year and American Birds Sounds Pro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learn Bird Watching holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Bird Watching has 1.3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Learn Bird Watching's written reviews are positive against 0% of American Birds Sounds Pro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Bird Watching ships an update every 9 days, American Birds Sounds Pro every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Learn Bird Watching versus American Birds Sounds Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Bird WatchingAmerican Birds Sounds Pro
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB187 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperLarkwireFaisal Akhtar

Customer experience

Learn Bird Watching

All ratings1,284 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.5%

American Birds Sounds Pro

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Learn Bird Watching

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Unable to download sample content
  • Repeating the same bird songs in succession
  • Inconsistent progress tracking

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add bird song playback when selecting bird images
  • Implement voice recognition for answering questions
  • Include spectrograms for better visual learning
  • Expand coverage to birds in other regions

American Birds Sounds Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Learn Bird Watching

Subscriptions3
  • Single Course Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • All Courses Annual7 Days trial$44.991 Year
  • All Courses Annual (Family)7 Days trial$64.991 Year
One-time7
  • Bird Songs Core West (N. Am)$9.99
  • Bird Songs Core East (N. Am)$9.99
  • Waterbirds Core (N. Am)$9.99
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  • Bird Songs Pro East (N. Am)$24.99
  • Bird Songs Pro West (N. Am)$24.99
  • Waterbirds songs/calls (N. Am)$24.99
  • Breeding Plumage East (N.Am.)$24.99
1 purchases

American Birds Sounds Pro

One-time1
  • Remove Advertisements$2.99

Questions

Is Learn Bird Watching free?
Learn Bird Watching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is American Birds Sounds Pro free?
American Birds Sounds Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Learn Bird Watching or American Birds Sounds Pro?
Learn Bird Watching is rated higher. Learn Bird Watching averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while American Birds Sounds Pro averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Learn Bird Watching or American Birds Sounds Pro have ads?
American Birds Sounds Pro shows ads; Learn Bird Watching does not.
Which is updated more often, Learn Bird Watching or American Birds Sounds Pro?
Learn Bird Watching ships an update every 9 days, and American Birds Sounds Pro every 10 months. Most recently, Learn Bird Watching was updated on October 29, 2026 and American Birds Sounds Pro on October 24, 2026.

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