Flock Yard Bird List vs eBird Alert!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flock Yard Bird List
Easily track birds seen in your yard, share sightings and photos with friends, and connect with a community of nature enthusiasts. Enjoy beautiful bird art and compete on leaderboards for a fun, social birdwatching experience.
- Log and track bird sightings
- Share sightings and photos with friends
- Compete on community leaderboards
- View beautiful bird species illustrations
- Create a personal bird journal
- Connect with nature enthusiasts
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Flock is the perfect app for bird lovers that want a place to track the birds in their yard. Flock helps you quickly add the birds you see in your yard, share sightings with friends, and connect with a growing community of nature enthusiasts. With beautiful bird species art by world-renowned artist Keith Hansen, Flock offers a visually rich experience as you log your sightings, add notes and photos, and create your personal bird journal. You can even share your own bird photos to help learn more about the birds visiting your yard. Compete with friends and fellow birders on leaderboards, making birdwatching even more fun. Flock isn’t just about tracking—it’s about connection. Share your latest sightings, exchange tips, and climb the leaderboards as you track more birds. Whether you're documenting backyard discoveries or exploring birdwatching with others, Flock makes it fun, social, and beautifully interactive. Key Features: Log and track sightings: Record the birds you see and keep detailed notes. Leaderboards: Compete with friends and the community to see who can track the most birds. Beautiful Artwork: Enjoy beautiful bird species illustrations by Keith Hansen. Share with friends: Post your sightings and your own bird photos to help others learn more. Download Flock today to start tracking birds, sharing photos and sightings, and climbing the leaderboards with friends—all while enjoying beautiful bird art! This app is subject to Apple's standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
eBird Alert!
Discover rare bird sightings in your vicinity using data from a global bird record database. Customize your search by distance, recency, and location, and access identification details and photos to aid in spotting. Easily open sighting locations in your preferred map application.
- View rare and local bird sightings
- Customize sighting proximity and recency
- Select specific nearby counties
- Open sighting locations in maps
- Access identification details and photos
- Add sightings to eBird checklists
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eBird Alert! shows rare bird sightings in your area, found from the checklists your fellow birders have submitted to eBird -- a global online database of bird records used by hundreds of thousands of birders around the world. Features - Select how nearby and how recent the sightings can be. - Select which nearby county in which to find birds. - See rarities or all local birds. - Open a sighting location in Apple or Google Maps. - See all sighting comments for a particular location. - Get identification details and photos to help you spot the bird,. - If you spot it, add it to your checklist in the eBird app. Privacy - eBird Alert! requires your location to find nearby birds. It will never upload your location, or any other data, to any server.
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Verdict
Flock Yard Bird List and eBird Alert! both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of eBird Alert!'s written reviews are positive against 63% of Flock Yard Bird List's. eBird Alert! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Flock Yard Bird List's advantage is ratings volume (100 vs 8). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Flock Yard Bird List sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. eBird Alert! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Flock Yard Bird List against 4.8 for eBird Alert!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flock Yard Bird List has 100 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Flock Yard Bird List's written reviews are positive against 100% of eBird Alert!'s.
Flock Yard Bird List ships an update every 4 weeks, eBird Alert! monthly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Flock Yard Bird List | eBird Alert! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (100 ratings) — better | 4.8 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flock LLC | Colin Rafferty |
Customer experience
Flock Yard Bird List
eBird Alert!
In-app purchases
Flock Yard Bird List
- Flock Premium Monthly7 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Flock Premium Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
eBird Alert!
No in-app purchases
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