“Useless unless you pay — I downloaded this “free” app. But then discovered that you must pay per month or annually in order to use it. Scam since that page allows you to pick pay rate, but no way to cancel and remove. And, I can’t find a…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 235 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.7 ★13,986 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
158 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
What bird is it? Bird Sounds Identifier Call ID can tell you!
Bird Sounds Identifier Call ID is a remarkable app designed to assist bird enthusiasts and nature lovers in identifying birds with ease. This powerful application offers two primary features for identifying birds: image recognition and bird song identification. Simply take/upload a picture of a bird or record a bird's sound, and you can get everything you want to know about it.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 1.7.4 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 1.7.4, updated 2026-09-29.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Hard to cancel
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
What we saw: Hard to cancel: raised by 6 distinct reviewers (2.6% of 235 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Get Merlin instead — This app is extremely difficult to use. And it’s very difficult to cancel. Total disappointment.”
“Terrible — Beware to not buy this there’s no way to cancel”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 1.7.4.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.