Current Luxury vs Birdfy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Current Luxury
Manage your smart draperies and umbrellas with this app. Add new devices, create groups for simultaneous control, and set custom presets. Automate your home by scheduling device operations.
- Control draperies and umbrellas
- Add new devices
- Create device groups
- Use custom presets
- Schedule automatic operations
- Zigbee support
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Control your Current Luxury draperies and umbrellas. Add new devices to your account. Now with Zigbee support. Create groups of devices to control with a single command. Use presets to set multiple devices to preconfigured positions. Add a schedule to your presets to allow your devices to operate automatically.
Birdfy
Track and record birds visiting your backyard with live streaming and automatic clip capture. Organize footage by species, share observations with a global community, and monitor nesting processes. Optional cloud services offer advanced AI recognition and extended recording.
- Live stream bird visitor tracking
- Automatic moment capture
- Categorized video collection by species
- Community sharing of observations
- Nesting and hatching process tracking
- AI-powered bird identification
- Cloud storage and extended recording
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The Bird Side of Life 1. Live Stream: Real-time Bird Visitor Tracking - View the device's live feed anytime, anywhere to track birds or animals visiting your backyard. 2. Moment Auto-Capture: Automatically Record Wonderful Moments - The device automatically records short video clips when it detects birds or other creatures, saving key moments without manual operation. You can view these directly within the app. 3. Categorized Collection: Manage Wonderful Clips by Bird Species - Sort videos by bird species based on recognition results or your manual selection, allowing you to easily find, manage, and browse your collected video content. 4. Community Sharing: Explore Other Users' Fascinating Observations - Share or browse wonderful content of bird visits with users worldwide. Enjoy an immersive video stream experience that supports Browse by bird species, expanding your birdwatching horizons. 5. Bird Nesting & Hatching Process Tracking (for Birdhouse Devices) - Automatically identify and record the complete process of birds from nest building, laying eggs, hatching, to fledging. The process is automatically archived by stages, allowing you to browse the entire lifecycle on a timeline. Finally, a merged video is generated, fully presenting the precious process of nesting and raising young. 6. Cloud Services (Optional Paid Premium Features) - AI Recognition Cloud Service: When enabled, it supports more intelligent video analysis and content organization, including: * Accurate Identification: 6000+ bird/animal identification, accurately recognizing species like birds, squirrels, and other visiting animals in your device's footage. * Highlights: Automatically generates daily highlights, selecting the most exciting moments of the day. * Monthly/Annual Recap: The system organizes and generates monthly and annual highlight video compilations for easy review and saving. * Birdfy Data: Records bird visit times, frequency, and species, generating data reports. * Smart Moment List Filtering: Supports quick filtering of interesting bird videos by recognition results, improving Browse efficiency. - MVR Cloud Service * Standard recording is 20 seconds. Subscribing provides longer moment recording times (30 seconds+) and longer moment preservation times. - Collection Cloud Service * Standard users have only 5GB of collection memory. Subscribing increases collection memory to 20GB+.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Birdfy at 4.2 against Current Luxury's 2.7. Birdfy also leads on ratings volume (3.9K vs 3) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Current Luxury's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (67% vs 49%). 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
Both are free to download. Birdfy sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.39 per month. Current Luxury asks for nothing beyond the download.
Birdfy holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Birdfy has 3.9K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Current Luxury's written reviews are positive against 49% of Birdfy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Current Luxury ships an update every 3 weeks, Birdfy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Current Luxury | Birdfy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 4.2 (3.9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 49.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3.9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 298 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Current Products Company LLC. | NETVUE, INC. |
Customer experience
Current Luxury
Birdfy
Bugs and requests
Current Luxury
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Birdfy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to delete devices
- Unreliable live view and video uploads
- Unexpected app logout and account deletion
Requested features
5 requests- Batch editing for misidentified birds
- Favorites/frequently spotted section
- Landscape mode support
- Customizable notification sounds
- Motion detection sensitivity adjustments
In-app purchases
Current Luxury
No in-app purchases
Birdfy
- Collection Storage Basic mo.$2.391 Month
- MVR - Basic - Monthly$2.391 Month
- MVR - Plus - Monthly$3.591 Month
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- Hummingbird Recognition mo.$4.691 Month
- Bird Recognition Basic mo.$5.891 Month
- Collection Storage Pro mo.$7.091 Month
- Collection Storage Basic ann.$23.491 Year
- MVR - Basic - Annual$23.491 Year
- Bird Recognition Basic ann.$57.991 Year
- Bird Recognition Lifetime Plan$99.99









