Squeal on Pigs vs BirdNET
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Squeal on Pigs
This app educates landowners about the threat of feral pigs to natural resources. It provides tools to report suspected sightings and helps states work with landowners to eradicate feral pig populations.
- Feral pig threat information
- Landowner reporting tools
- Eradication campaign support
- Natural resource protection focus
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The goals of the Squeal on Pigs app and campaign is to: Inform landowners of the threat of feral pigs to our natural resources, particularly waterways, Provide landowners with the information they need to effectively and quickly report suspected sightings of feral pigs, Provide states with tools to work with private landowners to eradicate known populations of feral pigs.
BirdNET
Identify bird species by their sounds using AI. Record audio with your device and discover the birds around you. Contribute to conservation research by submitting your recordings.
- AI-powered bird sound recognition
- Identify common North American and European species
- Record audio with internal microphone
- View probable bird species identification
- Contribute to conservation research
- Learn about local birds
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How can computers learn to recognize birds from sounds? The BirdNET research project uses artificial intelligence and neural networks to train computers to identify nearly 3,000 of the most common species of North America and Europe. You can record a file using the internal microphone of your iOS device and see if BirdNET correctly identifies the probable bird species present in your recording. Get to know the birds around you and help us to collect observations by submitting your recordings. BirdNET is a joint project of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and Chemnitz University of Technology.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: BirdNET at 66% against Squeal on Pigs's 0%. BirdNET also leads on rating (4.0 vs 1.0) and ratings volume (215 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
BirdNET holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BirdNET has 215 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Squeal on Pigs's written reviews are positive against 66% of BirdNET's.
Squeal on Pigs ships an update every 2 months, BirdNET every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Squeal on Pigs | BirdNET |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.0 (215 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 66.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 215 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 98 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Charles T. Bargeron | Stefan Kahl |
Customer experience
Squeal on Pigs
BirdNET
Bugs and requests
Squeal on Pigs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
BirdNET
Reported bugs
5 issues- Crashes when trying to access observation history
- Recordings disappearing after app updates
- Inability to start a new recording without exiting the app
- Microphone not working on certain devices
- Incorrect or missing bird species in regional databases
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to manually select frequency ranges for analysis
- Option to delete individual observations or recordings
- Import/export functionality for recordings and observations
- Improved handling of background noise and interference
- More detailed feedback when multiple birds are detected
In-app purchases
Squeal on Pigs
No in-app purchases
BirdNET
No in-app purchases
