Firefinch

Firefinch

In-app purchases

About this app

Firefinch is a beautifully designed, fun and easy-to-use birding app that will ignite an appreciation of birds and a celebration of the wild landscapes of Southern Africa. Explore illustrations, photos, sounds, maps, seasonal stats and helpful tips for almost 1000 bird species. And stay up to date with regular articles by expert birders, birding hotspot write-ups and info on the latest sightings and birding events. Join author and artist Faansie Peacock and the Firefinch community and embark on your birding adventure...whether you’re a fledgling or top twitcher.

Ratings and reviews

Best app by far. I've used a lot of bird apps over the last few years (paid and free apps), but I stick to this one. It's easy to use and the identification description in the illustrations are very helpful. Perfect for beginners and advanced users. You can inport your birdlasser info to the app. I love this app.

This app is as essential to me as my binoculars. It is beautifully put together and so easy to navigate around. The bird plates are beautifully designed and the "top tips" on the plates and sound clips are so, so useful. The new filter by location function is also brilliant and helps me create "target lists" for birding trips. Considering the effort to develop and maintain this app, R79.99/m is a very fair price. Worth far more to me than a R99.99/m Amazon Prime subscription. I love this app.

I used this app on a trip to kruger and loved it. I loved the diagrams and the fact that there were good photos as well... and also the birds sounds. I think it is expensive compared to other birding apps and would prefer a once-off subscription as with the Robert's app. I could not find functionality to add a list for different trips... and that would be very useful indeed. Also would like more info on behavior and characteristics of each bird rather than the summary of the category of bird

What’s new

New Features
- Whistlr: New bird call training game! Learn bird sounds through spaced repetition
- Forest habitat FREE for all users - premium habitats available with subscription
- Related Articles: Discover curated content about birds you're viewing
- Toggle between Afrikaans/English bird names. You can use the burger menu and scroll down to the bottom to find the setting.

Improvements
- Fixed feedback button on Android 11+
- Various bug fixes and performance improvements