BirdNET Live vs Thicket

BirdNET Live runs our most sophisticated sound ID model directly on your device — no internet connection required. Watch a live scrolling spectrogram, view species detections in real time, and manage your growing library of animal sounds right from your phone. BirdNET Live supports bioacoustic research and structured acoustic surveys across multiple workflows: - Live Mode — Real-time species detections with a live spectrogram - Point Counts — Structured timed sessions with live detections - Surveys — Record longer transects while tracking detections along your route - File Analysis — Analyze audio files from local storage - Batch Analysis — Process multiple audio files in bulk - ARU Mode — Schedule longer acoustic recording deployments BirdNET Live is designed for researchers and citizen scientists alike and offers extensive configuration and detection review options. This app is a joint effort by the Cornell K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics and Chemnitz University of Technology, in partnership with the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Development of this app is supported by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt. For more information, consult our online user guide: https://birdnet-team.github.io/birdnet-live-app/user/

Thicket listens, and tells you which birds are singing. It runs entirely on your iPhone. No signal, no account, no upload — the model is on the phone, so it works the same in a wood in November as it does in the garden. Nothing you record leaves the device. WHAT IT DOES Names what it hears. Species likely where you are, this week, with a confidence of High, Medium or Possible — and it says Possible when it means it. Shows you the sound. A live spectrogram, ten seconds at a time, with each bird's calls drawn in its own colour. Drag back through two hours of the session to find the one you missed. Plays it back. Hear any detection again before you accept it. Knows when to stay quiet. A bird is flagged the first time it sings, then left alone. Mute the robin that won't stop; snooze it for an hour; or mute everything the range model calls common and listen only for what isn't. Keeps a notebook. Every session with a bird in it is saved — where, how long, what sang. Mark the ones you actually saw; exports only ever include those. Tells you what's about. Recent reports from eBird and iNaturalist near you, rated Common to Rare, with the five best places to go. Opt in and it will tell you when something notable turns up nearby. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No subscription, no streaks, no badges, no account required. Sign in only if you want your history to survive a lost phone. HONEST ABOUT THE LIMITS Identification by sound is hard, and Thicket gets things wrong — most often between species that genuinely sound alike. Treat Possible as a question, not an answer. Confidence percentages aren't yet calibrated against field results. — Identification uses BirdNET V2.4, developed by the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and Chemnitz University of Technology, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Nearby sightings from eBird and iNaturalist.