Comparison

Collins Bird Guide vs iBird Stickers

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

Head to head
About

Collins Bird Guide

This comprehensive field guide app helps users identify European bird species with detailed illustrations, sounds, and text. It offers powerful search filters, sighting logs, and curated lists of similar birds for quick identification. Optional in-app purchases unlock video clips and advanced AI-powered identification assistance.

Highlights
  • 973 species covered
  • 3,700+ illustrations
  • Detailed species text
  • Record sightings
  • Powerful search filter
  • Confusable species lists
  • 1,100+ songs and calls
Features
Currently charting
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‘It’s much more convenient than taking a big book with you...the Collins app is fantastic.’ – Chris Packham, Metro ‘The Collins Bird Guide app is destined to become a real triumph, the ultimate in field guide apps — and deservedly so.’ – BirdGuides The Collins Bird Guide App combines world-class illustrations and comprehensive information with intuitive design to create the ultimate field guide for passionate birders and casual birdwatchers alike. The app is based on the landmark book by Lars Svensson, Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström, universally acknowledged as the standard European field guide. This definitive work has been reimagined for iPad and iPhone by birders for birders. The Collins Bird Guide App provides everything you need to identify a species quickly and learn about it thoroughly. Immerse yourself in the exceptional illustrations, maps, calls and concise text. Use the powerful search filter and curated confusion lists to focus in on a species. The Collins Bird Guide App is an essential companion always to hand on your iPhone, and available to browse in full glory on your iPad. Features include: ‣ 973 species covered - 843 illustrated ‣ 3,700+ beautiful illustrations by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterström ‣ Detailed text covering habitat, range, identification and voice by Lars Svensson ‣ Record sightings, location and date with the listing tool ‣ Powerful search filter ‣ Intuitive design to quickly and easily swipe through species ‣ Curated lists of confusable species ‣ Over 1,100 carefully selected songs and calls – many by Lars Svensson ‣ Select species names from 30+ languages ‣ Expertly edited video clips for 811 species in the app (require in-app purchase) ‣ Available in English, Swedish, Norwegian, French and German ‣ Weighs nothing! Identify Assist is our brand-new subscription service. Instantly identify species from photos and recordings with cutting-edge AI. As well as this and the optional video library, the app incorporates British Trust for Ornithology/BirdWatch Ireland/Scottish Ornithologists' Club Bird Atlas 2007–11 mapping data as an in-app purchase, providing the most comprehensive location mapping of any bird guide app. The latest version of the app requires iOS 17.0 or later. If you like the app, don’t forget to share the app, rate it and leave a review. Privacy Policy natureguides.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

iBird Stickers

Add humor and realism to your messages with high-definition bird head stickers. These stickers are based on hand-drawn illustrations from a popular birding app, designed for bird enthusiasts with a sense of humor.

Highlights
  • High-definition bird head stickers
  • Based on hand-drawn illustrations
  • Realistic humor for birders
  • 32 unique stickers
  • Designed for messaging
Features
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It you haven't heard about the new stickers craze your missing out on a ton of fun. We designed these new iBird Stickers for real birders who have a sense of humor, care about realism and want to bring a smile to their friends when they send a message. The 32 stickers in this new iBird Sticker pack set are the high definition heads of bird species of North America pulled directly from the high-quality hand-drawn illustrations found in our iBird Pro app. Almost all nature stickers are cartoonish and while maybe they are fun, real birders want accuracy with their humor. These are just the start of our plans for stickers; if you like where we are headed please let us know and we will keep extending the packs. Should we add animation? More species? More sizes? Send us a message via our Facebook page (facebook.com/ibird) or by email to ibird.com/contact-us.

Screenshots

Collins Bird Guide4 screens
iBird Stickers2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: iBird Stickers at Free against Collins Bird Guide's $14.99. iBird Stickers also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and rating (4.4 vs 4.0). Collins Bird Guide's advantage is chart position (#138 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

iBird Stickers is free to download; Collins Bird Guide costs $14.99 up front. Collins Bird Guide sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. iBird Stickers asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

iBird Stickers holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 28 and 34 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Collins Bird Guide's written reviews are positive against 54% of iBird Stickers's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Collins Bird Guide versus iBird Stickers: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCollins Bird GuideiBird Stickers
Price$14.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (28 ratings)4.4 (34 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.3% of reviews — better53.8% of reviews
Number of ratings2834 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#138 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.2 GB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNatureGuides Ltd.Mitch Waite Group

Customer experience

Collins Bird Guide

All ratings28 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral10.7%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive57.3%
Neutral17.6%
Negative25.2%

iBird Stickers

All ratings34 ratings
Positive85.3%
Neutral2.9%
Negative11.8%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive53.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative38.5%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Collins Bird Guide

Subscriptions2
  • Identify Assist - monthly$2.991 Month
  • Identify Assist - yearly14 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time8
  • BTO Atlas Maps Pack$1.99
  • DDA Maps$1.99
  • Third edition$1.99
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  • Video Library Volume 1$4.99
  • Video Library Volume 2$4.99
  • Video Library Volume 3$4.99
  • EBBA2 Breeding Maps$4.99
  • Video Library$9.99
None

iBird Stickers

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Collins Bird Guide free?
Collins Bird Guide costs $14.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is iBird Stickers free?
iBird Stickers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Collins Bird Guide or iBird Stickers?
iBird Stickers is rated higher. Collins Bird Guide averages 4.0 out of 5 from 28 ratings, while iBird Stickers averages 4.4 from 34 ratings.
Do Collins Bird Guide or iBird Stickers have ads?
Neither Collins Bird Guide nor iBird Stickers shows ads.

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