Animals · Channel report
What people complain about in Birding
WaveSeek read 1,222 public posts about Birding over 30 days and found 83 genuine complaints in them. Below are the ones that came up most, each linking to the post it was read from.
Measured 5 August 2026 · 5 distinct sources in the last 7 days · this page is rebuilt on every deploy
Daily mentions, 2026-07-22 → 2026-08-05. Peak 144 in a day.
Week over week, mentions moved +61%. A growth figure only appears here when it survives a baseline floor, a source-change check and a credibility ceiling — most channels most weeks show nothing, and that is the honest answer.
The evidence chain
Every complaint below came out of this. Nothing is estimated; each step is a count.
- 1,222posts ingested about Birding30-day window
- 823read by the classifier67% of them
- 83were genuine complaints10% of what was read
Mentions here exclude news wires and video titles: somebody reporting on Birding is not somebody having a problem with it. The Trends screen inside the app counts those too, because it measures attention rather than frustration — which is why the two numbers differ and why this page says which one it is using.
What people actually complain about
The 8 most frequent complaint clusters of 30 found, phrased by the classifier from the posts themselves. The links go to the original post — not to a summary of it.
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Reduced identification accuracy after update
love this app and the new update indeed makes logging in easier. But this update isn't as sensitive to id…
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Inaccurate species identification from audio/photo
Twenty years ago we spent two weeks in Hawaii. This bird came very close to us in Kauai. It may have been at the Luau or at our camp site...…
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Lack of dark mode hurting field usability
Pls support dark mode to improve field use. I do enjoy this app, but the bright white background frighten…
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4
Unreliable recording sessions losing data on interruption
Loses active recording session. The app can be in the middle of recording and if you do the wrong thing,…
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5
Login failures with unresponsive customer support
favorite app but please fix it! I was logged out randomly and it won't let me log back in (app crashes) I…
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Unreliable identification and saving after update
This app used to work amazingly, identifying many birds and helping me to learn birdsong. Unfortunately f…
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7
Lost saved data and forced re-download after update
Omg what did you do? — Latest “greatest” version wiped out my recordings from years and more. Forced to create a username and log…
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Inaccurate sound identification
Not accurate — Identified hawk cry as a crow. Uninstalling
The count is over every post in the cluster. The links are a sample of them, capped at three, and never imply the list is complete.
Who is already there
4 apps measured in this channel from their own recent store reviews. Ratings are computed from the reviews WaveSeek ingested in the window, not read off a store listing.
| App | Rating | Reviews read | 4★ and up |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab | 4.3★ | 19 | 79% |
| Picture Bird: Bird identifier | 5★ | 4 | 100% |
| eBird | 3★ | 3 | 33% |
| Audubon Bird Guide | 1★ | 1 | 0% |
Search demand
12,158 Google searches a month on average, from Google Ads keyword volume — the one number on this page you can check against a source that is not us.
Twelve months of monthly volume, ending 2026-06 for the keywords birding, birding app.
Searches moved steadily up across the year — 10,000/mo in July to 13,500/mo in June. Twelve months cannot separate a season from a trend, so read this as growth rather than seasonality.
What this page does not tell you
Four competitors in this category print a market size on a page like this one. We do not, because we cannot measure one: mention counts, complaint counts and search volume are not a market size, and a dollar figure built from them would be a guess wearing a decimal point. The same goes for revenue projections, customer demographics and funding comparables.
Everything above is a count of public posts and reviews over a stated window. It is evidence of what people said, not a prediction of what will sell.
See Birding change
This page is a snapshot. Inside WaveSeek the same channel is live: the complaint list is re-clustered every six hours, competitor ratings are tracked week over week, and saved ideas report what moved since you saved them.
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