BirdTRX: Bird Song ID & Diary

BirdTRX — bird song identification and a birding journal in one. Identify birds by song and keep a birdwatching diary you'll actually want to revisit.

Most bird apps just tell you what you heard, then forget it. BirdTRX keeps it. Every sighting becomes part of your own field journal — the birds, the place, the weather, the photos, and the memory of the day.

If you've ever wanted somewhere to actually keep your birding experiences, not just identify a call and move on, this is for you. BirdTRX is built around rich diary entries: quick to log, and great to look back over.

Keep a real birding journal
- Write proper entries — photos, voice notes, and freely styled text
- Format as you like: headings, text sizes and colours, per paragraph
- Choose a cover photo for every entry
- Each entry is automatically stamped with the date, time, weather, and location
- Look back on a diary that's genuinely yours to keep

Identify bird song — straight into your journal
- Tap the mic and BirdTRX identifies birds using BirdNET, one of the most accurate bird-song models there is, from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Results come back in seconds with the species and a confidence score — accept or reject each detection before it joins your entry
- Runs on your phone after the first download — no signal needed in the field
- What you hear drops straight into your diary, no retyping

Build your Life List automatically
- Every sighting becomes a record — species you ID by song are added for you, and birds you simply name in your notes are picked up too
- Tap any species to see every sighting, with its time and place
- Remove a single mistaken record without touching your diary entry
- Add past sightings by hand; filter by year or location

Log a whole day out
- Log a sighting in seconds, or write a full entry when you want to
- Start a Field Trip and keep a day's sightings together in one entry
- Quick log from your Life List: tap a species, confirm the spot, and save the sighting to your diary in one tap

Find birds near you
- Nearby eBird hotspots, sorted by distance, with a maps link to navigate
- A local rarity feed for what's being reported close by

Regional species filter
- BirdTRX uses BirdNET's regional range model to focus results on species likely in your area — fewer false positives. Covers Europe, North America and Australia.

Export and back up
- Export your sightings to an eBird-ready CSV
- Back up free as a single file to keep anywhere, or upgrade for automatic backup to your own Google Drive
- Your data is always yours

Private by design
- Local-first: your journal stays on your phone
- No account, no cloud lock-in, no adverts
- No sign-in to begin — you stay in control of your data

Why BirdTRX?
Most birding apps are checklists. BirdTRX is a birding journal — for the birdwatcher who wants to record the experience, not just the tick, with bird-song identification built into the writing rather than a separate app to switch between.

Free & Premium
BirdTRX is free to use, with one Bird Song ID a day, your full journal, Life List, field trips, nearby sites, voice notes, and single-file backup — no account, no ads.
Premium (optional subscription) adds:
- Unlimited Bird Song ID
- Automatic Google Drive backup
New to BirdTRX? Try Premium free for 14 days — cancel anytime before it ends and you won't be charged. Billing is handled securely by Google Play.

What you need
- Android 7.0 or later
- About 260 MB storage for the BirdNET model (one-time download)
- Microphone permission for Bird Song ID
- Location permission for weather, nearby sites and GPS tagging (optional)

Made by birders, for birders. Get outside and start your birding journal.

Developed by GoRa Pastimes — independent app developer, Dunfermline, Scotland.
Bird song identification powered by BirdNET (Cornell Lab of Ornithology / Chemnitz University of Technology).
Birding hotspot data provided by eBird (Cornell Lab of Ornithology).