Firefinch vTeal (5.1.0)-full

Firefinch

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About this app

Developer Description

A beautiful and easy-to-use birding app full of Facts, Fun and Feathers!

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.

What's New

Scroll down on any specie to find a trove of valuable information on the specie!
Scrolling down, you will find articles related to that specific species
Sonogram smoothness improved
Fixed plate/sonogram pixelation issue

In-app purchases

$3.49 - $54.99 per item

Version Information

Version: Teal (5.1.0)-full
Downloads: 10K+
Updated on: Jan 5, 2026
Released: Jan 15, 2022
Requires: Android 7.0

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Firefinch users say on Google Play

★★★★★

Johan-O “Johan O”

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.

★★★★

debbie lawson

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

★★★

Amy Bauer

Simply amazing identification tips on the images and the calls. You are best in class on this. Well done! But for the asking price(most expensive in SA as far as I can tell), the lack of high resolution maps, filtering species by location and by key feature - reduces utility in the field. These features have been available in BirdPro for years and have recently been added to Roberts. Also,please add fuzzy search matching.. any typos yields no results. Hoping to these updates in a future version.

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Johan Fuhri

I'm sure this is a wonderful app, I'm really a fan of Faansie's books. It is a pity, however, that this app has decided to go with monthly subscriptions, and an exorbitant amount at that. Paying R1300 per year for an app, even of this quality, is absurd.

★

Hannah Jones

This app is obviously jam packed with information and content and is well laid out, there has clearly been alot of time and effort put into it BUT the cost for subscription is extortionate hence the one star. I simply don't have that sort of money to invest in an app and I would imagine many people would be the same!