Bird Buddy: Tap Into Nature

Love seeing all the beautiful birds that come daily to my feeder. Friends are ordering one for themselves.

Appalling lack of care for their customers - avoid like the plague!

I have owned my BirdBuddy for about two weeks. The pictures and video of the various species of birds has been very enjoyable and I am very pleased to know that my investment will provide food for generations of seasonal and year round species for many years to come. TAS,Englewood,FL.

You never know when you order something if it will be as good as the ads. Put up my feeder last Sunday and have already started getting visitors on the Thursday. Videos are clear and even have sound. Very happy with my new purchase. I have been showing everyone and recommending.

I just put a Bird Buddy at Birds & Breakfast BnB in the mountainous rainforest of Costa Rica. We enjoy watching dozens of tropical species from the outside dining table all day long, but watching the bids up close and interacting is incredible! If you like birds and have the ability to put one near a wifi connection it will be an endless source of joy and wonder! You can also link friends to the app so that they can enjoy the action as well.

Several friends have Bird Buddy setups at their houses and love them. We live on the edge of a forest with some transitional land around us so we have many bird species. We have feeders all around our properties but never enough time to enjoy them. Having Bird Buddy send us notifications of activity is awesome. The identification features of the paid service is very helpful. We have had 7 species identified in just 2 days. There will be many more I’m sure. The setup is easy, and so far it has been everything we hoped for. My wife and I both get notifications throughout the day. Some times it’s just a picture, others it’s a video.

Note (Nov. 19, 2024): I’ve stopped using the app because the main feed currently shows miniature postcards that you haven’t subscribed to, and I feel like I’m scrolling through a bunch of advertisements. It’s not a feature you can turn off. Otherwise, this is a great app. — Bird Buddy added a feature a while ago where you can connect your app to three random bird feeders around the world to see what kind of birds visit feeders in Costa Rica or Belgium or other places. I wasn’t interested in it because I just want to see the birds that visit my feeders and the ones of my friends and family. Lo and behold, they recently changed that feature to be less obtrusive if it doesn’t interest you. At the same time, they have made it easier to view a live feed of your own feeder. It is, unfortunately, still a bit slow to load. They warn it can take something like 30 seconds to load the live view, so if you’re pulling it up because you just spotted a bird at your feeder, you’ll probably miss it (at least, I usually do). As for the physical product, the camera is fine, and the battery life is okay. I charge mine a couple times a month, and the camera auto-adjusts its exposure for the whole image rather than optimizing for the darker objects, which tend to be the birds. Altogether, it’s good enough to do what it’s designed to do: Take videos and photos of birds that visit your bird feeder, which fundamentally is a great value proposition. There is an up-sell currently priced at $60 per year or $6 per month. You unlock higher-resolution video, a more sensitive motion detection system (so you catch more flighty birds), the ability to ignore squirrels or bird species that don’t interest you, and the ability to share your bird feeder feed with up to 10 people (instead of 3).

Terrible app, open to "Yikes... and error has occurred ", not very intuitive to use and forget the Live view working with any consistency especially when your trying to view while away from home.

The app is probably a 3 star app, with fairly boring and unintuitive design. The hardware is really neat. The problem is spammy notifications trying to upsell subscriptions. The app didn’t always do this, but it does now and the only option is to disable all notifications for the app if you don’t want the spam. That then disables a key part of having a Bird Buddy — knowing when your feathered (or furry) friends are stopping by. Suggestions for the app folks: add the ability to customize notifications, or dump the spam entirely. Update to the developer: I’m adding back the 2 lost stars for your prompt feedback. That said, I have filed support tickets for this issue previously to no avail. Please get this fixed.

Updating my review to reflect the fact that the most important paywalled feature (ignoring species) is now free. Thanks for listening to feedback!