“Five Star frustration — I’m deleting this app out of sheer frustration. When I have a bird song to ID, it makes me watch at least two ads before letting me access recording the bird. By the time I do that, the opportunity is missed. I…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 503 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★16,796 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
416 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Identify, Collect and Learn – Free. No Ads. Ever.
Smart Bird ID is the all-in-one bird identifier, bird song identifier, bird call identifier, bird sounds guide, and bird watching app for birders, families, photographers, and nature lovers.
Wondering “what bird is this?” Smart Bird ID helps you identify birds instantly from a photo or by recording bird songs and bird calls around you.
Explore a global bird identification guide, discover birds near you, and improve your skills through daily challenges, quizzes, mini-games, and expert-led courses in the Bird Academy.
Whether you are spotting backyard birds, hiking a trail, or traveling, Smart Bird ID turns every bird encounter into a fun learning adventure.
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IDENTIFY ANY BIRD BY PHOTO OR SOUND
Quickly identify birds using powerful AI bird recognition and bird song identification tools.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 5.1.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 5.1.3, updated 2026-09-28.
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
Does not say 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.
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 4.99 to USD 99.99 — a 20x spread across 7 items
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 9 distinct reviewers (1.8% of 503 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Caution — To even begin using this app, I had to jump through all kinds of forced hoops, including the first one which was to give it a five star rating ((before I even used it))! I gave a three star rating because I had never used the…”
“Too many ads — Free version has too many ads that are too long”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 5.1.3.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown7
Lowest$4.99
Highest$99.99
Smart Bird ID+ Monthly$9.99
Smart Bird ID+ Monthly (Family)$19.99
Smart Bird ID+ Yearly$49.99
Smart Bird ID+ Yearly (Family)$99.99
Regional Sticker Pack$4.99
Show 2 more purchases
World Sticker Pack$7.99
Academy Pass$24.99