Comparison

SuperBirder vs Tiklingo

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

Head to head
About

SuperBirder

Features
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Your intelligent birding companion — identify, record, and relive every encounter. - Powered by the open-source OSEA model to identify 10,964 bird species worldwide, with a major accuracy boost. Head-aware smart cropping shows the common name, English name, and scientific name at a glance. - Local species filtering makes your birding more precise and professional. - Save every sighting, build your personal field guide, and pin each discovery on the map — map pins now show species thumbnails, so you can tap to navigate to the exact spot. - Share to the community in one tap and explore popular birding hotspots with fellow birders. - Smart statistics quantify your species count, observation time, and regional distribution, plus a Year in Review by country and region — witness how far you've come. - A crown badge marks life birds and a laurel badge marks this year's new species (year birds) — treasure every "first" and every new encounter, year after year. - Clean, elegant interface that works fully offline — capture the beauty of birds anytime, anywhere.

About

Tiklingo

Transform your favorite videos into engaging language learning tools. This app breaks down dialogue into manageable clips, offering features like spaced review and on-device translation to enhance your practice.

Highlights
  • Import videos from various sources
  • Subtitle and speech transcription support
  • Dialogue-based clip splitting
  • Spaced review for memorization
  • On-device translation
  • Offline learning records
Features
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Turn videos you actually want to watch into language practice you'll open every day. Tiklingo reads your video and subtitles, then splits the dialogue into short clips, one sentence at a time. Listen first. If you can't make it out, show the subtitles; if that's not enough, show the translation. Loop a line until you get it. Watch • Random, Continue, Favorites, Words, and Practice. Swipe up for the next clip • Split by sentence, dialogue, long clips, or AI chapters, or watch the whole video straight through • Hold either side of the screen to slow down, swipe right to go back a sentence • Landscape videos can fill the portrait screen, framed on faces • Cover burned-in subtitles so you can focus on listening Words • Tap a word in the subtitles to look it up. Each word is saved with the line you heard it in • Shuffle through saved words, or browse them by video • Export an Anki deck, with the sentence or the translation on the front Practice • Fill-in dictation, retell, and translate-back cards • Type your answer or say it. Speech is recognized on your device AI Assistant • Ask about the line you're watching, anytime • Connect your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and keep several services to switch between Import • Photos, Files, or a whole folder. MP4, MOV, and MKV • Paste a YouTube or Bilibili link, or share a video in from another app • External subtitles, embedded tracks, or on-device transcription with Apple, Whisper, or Parakeet • Series organized by season, collections imported in a batch More • iPad, Bluetooth keyboard, game controller, and background audio • Videos, subtitles, and learning records stay on your device by default. Tiklingo has no server • Word lookup, the AI assistant, and AI chapters need an AI service you configure yourself The free version can import 2 videos. The full version is a one-time purchase that unlocks unlimited imports and deletion.

Screenshots

SuperBirder4 screens
Tiklingo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SuperBirder at none against Tiklingo's 1. SuperBirder also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Tiklingo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SuperBirder asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SuperBirder ships an update fortnightly, Tiklingo every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
SuperBirder versus Tiklingo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSuperBirderTiklingo
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size296 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames Zhen Yuē„„ 陈

In-app purchases

None

SuperBirder

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiklingo

One-time1
  • Tiklingo Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is SuperBirder free?
SuperBirder is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tiklingo free?
Tiklingo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SuperBirder or Tiklingo have ads?
Neither SuperBirder nor Tiklingo shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SuperBirder or Tiklingo?
SuperBirder ships an update fortnightly, and Tiklingo every 6 weeks. Most recently, SuperBirder was updated on November 9, 2026 and Tiklingo on November 6, 2026.

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