Project FeederWatch App Reviews

Love it! Thanks for creating this app!. Used this app on my iPad for the first time this weekend (Jan 18-19, 2020). Very easy to use & submit count. Froze if I left the app open too long (hours) but just closed it & reopened; all my count data was retained. This is great!

Fits my methods and saves steps!. I use my iPad and record counts in a spreadsheet. This is much more convenient to use, and I can enter data into the website directly from the app rather than re-typing it all.

Great project. Fun to contribute to science!. Love, love, love Project FeederWatch and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Thanks for making such a slick app for tracking my birds. If you enjoy watching birds at your feeders, this is a great project to try.

Freezes repeatedly. App works well, until it doesn’t. Repeatedly freezes to the point that the only way to get it working in the middle of a count is to repeatedly power off and on my iPhone.

Latest update doesn’t work. Downloaded update on May 6 and it doesn’t work at all. Directs me to log in on the Cornell web site, which I successfully do, but app still does not load any of my previously submitted info.

Very easy!. I find this much easier than entering my counts the old way in my computer. Thank you Cornell Lab feederwatch team!

Terrible won’t let me log in. This app is horrible, I can’t even use it. I made a account twice and I activated it. When ever I tried to log in, it would show the same message. The message would say my account hasn’t been activated yet. Even though I clearly activated it. It will not let me log in at all. Horrible.

Not ready for prime time. I have used this app on my iPad for several seasons, but it is a pain to use. Sometimes it doesn’t want to recognize my login. Worse is it locks up for no clear reason. Just now it locked after I had entered most of my data. I won’t try again with this app, but enter data online.

Can’t alter/fix incorrect bird count. This app is so frustrating I may quit Feeder Watch altogether, which is sad because I love birds. I’ve used this app for several hours and discovered it will not let me fix an incorrect bird ID. I can add sightings but not delete any of them after I hit one wrong button. It just won’t zero out that bird. It’s so discouraging that the app failed to work within minutes of me downloading it. So I’m going back to using the website on my phone, which also has drawbacks. Cornell’s computer engineering team was obviously not consulted by its ornithology department…or those schools are just very bad at what they are studying.

App. This is the second time I’m reinstalling this app in iPhone. Both times because the app would go to a totally black screen after appearing to be launching - powering off/on didn’t rectify situation. I’ve lost my latest bird count due to this black screen lock up.

Oof. Clunky. Barely functional on iPad. Better on computer but not by much. Unnecessary sidebar menu for a single page scroll. Update seems overworked for such a simple use. Buttons to select deselect without tapping or just don’t take and highlighting isn’t contrasting enough.

App needs a lot of work.... Be prepared to refresh this app frequently and be patient, as it is very poorly implemented. It freezes often, the link to "Contact Us" doesn't work, and sometimes needs to be rebooted before a count can be submitted. It feels like a student project that was never completed before the student graduated and left it unfinished. I mean how many apps need to "connect to server" before it can launch. The good thing is that the counts aren't lost during all the refreshes and reboots so eventually the count can get submitted , assuming you get past your frustration with using this poorly implemented app.

App is finicky and buggy. I've been using this app for 3 winters now, and it's frustrating. It has always had problems syncing properly with the website. Now the most recent update, which fixed a login problem, causes the app to freeze up on my iPhone after using it for about 2 minutes. When this app works, it's convenient. I just wish it worked more consistently.

Please fix. Please fix the app! I open the app, I seems like I’m getting in then the screen goes all black. Nothing

Nuisance. App almost never works. Connection fails repeatedly and overall is slow to respond even if you can connect. I try to use it but find myself using the website instead. May as well delete the app.

Upset. I can’t, no matter what log in to my “account”. I just downloaded it, each with new usernames and passwords, none of them have let me pass. Very upset.

Works good now. Updated my review after I realized the username has to be entered with the uppercase or lowercase letters exactly to login. Once I did that, everything seems to be working well. It’s odd that it forces case structure since I don’t have that problem elsewhere.

Needs work. The app has several flaws. It frequently opens to a blank black screen. If birds are recorded on the app but submitted through a browser the app doesn’t recognize it. It’s then a difficult, sometimes impossible process to start a new count on the app. Sometimes entering the total observation doesn’t work unless you hold your tongue correctly and it’s easier to record the count incrementally. Tedious with large counts.

The update is not much of an improvement. Disappointed in the update- it took YEARS for Cornell to update this app, unlike eBird or Merlin, which are updated now and then. And now it logs me out when I close the app, and when I log back in I have to swipe through the whole ‘welcome and here’s how to participate’ pages again- every single time. the larger layout is annoying, it just means less information fits on my screen. The extra reporting options are nice but overall they’ve made the app more annoying to use.

no help. they do not keep up with updates. No effective help. No way to see site details, including address, of your own site, just payment/fundraising information. Every time Apple updates their software, logins become a nightmare for months. This is my last year. I have pads full of data that I never got on the system . I spend more time wrestling with the app than counting birds.

Buggy. I have to go back to the webpage to enter my counts. After downloading the latest version from the app,store, I still could enter my dates. I can enter the first date, then it pops to a later month and asks for the second date. Given I can’t get past the dates I can’t enter anything. The app supposedly checks if I have the current version and it doesn’t report a problem, however when I go to the App Store there is a newer version, which I downloaded to have the problems mentioned above. Disappointing given that Cornell has a very highly rated Computer Science program☹️

Makes the count harder. This is duplicative since it doesn’t have all functions of count, and it does not save counts of birds not on the expected species list. I will have to use paper and submit on the website (I would have to submit/edit on the website even if I did use the app).

Having some problems. In general, this app is good. I like the list of suggested species for my area as well as the profiles for different birds and their food preferences. Also having some photos and songs is a plus. However, this app regularly fails to recognize my login, requiring me to log in multiple times, and after recording my first two-day period reported there were 11 species and ZERO observations. Eventually the total was corrected, but this gave me a lot of concern in the meantime.

App freezes frequently on iPad Pro. The last month or so I have been forced to close the app on numerous occasions and reload it in order to continue a count. I have been using this app for several seasons and generally it is an improvement over using paper forms and manually uploading data. But having to reload is getting old. Fortunately there has been no loss of data. One general issue from the beginning is there is no way to enter data offline. So if you are sitting in your yard out of range of your router, you must either keep a paper count or try to remember your sighting until you can get back online. E-Bird does not have this limitation but those counts cannot be used for FeederWatch. Looking forward to an update that will fix these issues.

Love this app!. So easy to submit your Project Feederwatch data via the app! I love it! If you haven’t yet joined Project Feederwatch and like feeding birds in your backyard, please consider joining, and using this app to keep track of what you see. It is so easy! Become a Citizen Scientist!

Server issues. I downloaded it and the server doesn’t want to connect

Great until yesterday. Yesterday I was not able to enter our Feeder Watch count…the app, when it finally came up, just freezes. It is so disappointing! This is our second year counting for Feeder Watch and I’ve not had a problem recording the birds before. Prior to now, the app has been very easy to use.

N. Doesn't work. Account not found message every time I sign in. Even though I have reset the account details multiple times. Probably going to delete

All in one place. I have been doing FeederWatch for 20 years. My daughter pointed this ap out to me. Love it! All I need is the app and my binocs. So quick and easy and all the bird info is right there. Highly recommend!

Doesn’t connect. I tried using this app last winter. At first it worked. Then it stopped working. Every time I tried to use it I got it an error message saying it couldn't connect with Feederwatch.

room for improvement. Unquestionably this app makes it easier to record FeederWatch data. However, it crashes/hangs regularly on my (always up-to-date) iPhone when switching between apps. It would also be improved by having a taxonomic sort option and the ability to enter data by alpha code.

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Very convenient!. A lot easier to submit counts rather than transferring from the paper form (and saves some paper too). Great improvement!

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Data entry. So much easier to record all the bird counts for FeederWatch. Thank you.

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