Comparison

Learn Bird Watching vs Animal Tracker

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

Animal Tracker

Follow the real-time movements of wild animals globally, tracked via GPS tags. Contribute to scientific research by uploading your own observations and photos of tagged animals, helping scientists interpret movement data.

Highlights
  • Real-time animal movement tracking
  • Global migration route visualization
  • Upload personal observations and photos
  • Participate in scientific research projects
  • Data management via Movebank
Features
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With Animal Tracker, you can follow the movements of wild animals all over the world that are being tracked in near-real time! These movements are collected by tiny GPS tags carried by the animals and are stored at Movebank, a free online infrastructure used by hundreds of researchers to manage, share, analyze, and archive animal movement data. You can easily participate in our scientific research projects: Upload your real-life observations and photos of our tagged animals to Animal Tracker. Your observations are crucial for our scientists! We can determine the positions of the tagged animals but we are lacking behavioral observations - we can interpret our data much better with your additional observations. Therefore: become a scientist, become an Animal Tracker!

Screenshots

Learn Bird Watching4 screens
Animal Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Learn Bird Watching at 4.8 against Animal Tracker's 3.4. Learn Bird Watching also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 54%) and ratings volume (1.3K vs 28). Animal Tracker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Animal Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Learn Bird Watching holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Learn Bird Watching has 1.3K ratings behind it against 28, 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 54% of Animal Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Learn Bird Watching ships an update every 9 days, Animal Tracker every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Learn Bird Watching versus Animal Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLearn Bird WatchingAnimal Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better3.4 (28 ratings)
Positive reviews90.8% of reviews — better53.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.3K — better28
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB54 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLarkwireMax-Planck-Gesellschaft

Customer experience

Learn Bird Watching

All ratings1,284 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews109 reviews
Positive90.8%
Neutral4.6%
Negative4.6%

Animal Tracker

All ratings28 ratings
Positive53.6%
Neutral14.3%
Negative32.1%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive53.7%
Neutral9.8%
Negative36.6%

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

Animal Tracker

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
None

Animal Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Learn Bird Watching free?
Learn Bird Watching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Animal Tracker free?
Animal Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Learn Bird Watching or Animal Tracker?
Learn Bird Watching is rated higher. Learn Bird Watching averages 4.8 out of 5 from 1.3K ratings, while Animal Tracker averages 3.4 from 28 ratings.
Do Learn Bird Watching or Animal Tracker have ads?
Neither Learn Bird Watching nor Animal Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Learn Bird Watching or Animal Tracker?
Learn Bird Watching ships an update every 9 days, and Animal Tracker every 5 weeks. Most recently, Learn Bird Watching was updated on October 26, 2026 and Animal Tracker on October 24, 2026.

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