Every bird you’ve ever seen, in one list.

Bird Life List is a private birding life list for iPhone and iPad. Log a sighting in seconds, watch your species count climb, and keep every lifer, photo, note and map pin on your own device — forever.

100% offline · No account · No tracking

Bird Life List is a paid app. A subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase is required to use it. There is no free tier and no advertising. Plans: Yearly $14.99 (starts with a 3-day free trial) · Monthly $2.99 · Lifetime $29.99 (one-time). Prices are in US dollars and may vary by region.

What it does

Sighting logSpecies, date, count, location, habitat, photo and field notes — one entry, everything together.

Life listUnique species, deduplicated automatically, numbered in the order you first saw them.

Sightings mapTap once to attach coordinates. Every bird becomes a pin on your own private map.

Year list & statsLife total, year list, month list, birding streak, top families and best day.

Species browserA built-in checklist of 250+ birds. See what you’ve found and what’s still to find.

CSV exportYour data is yours. Export the whole life list any time, to any app.

See it

The life list screen, showing 42 species recorded, each numbered by the date it was first seen — Your life list

The stats screen, showing life total, year list, birding streak and top bird families — Year list & stats

The sightings map, showing bird sightings pinned across the San Francisco Bay Area — Sightings map

The species browser, showing which birds have been found and which are still to find — Species checklist

Private by design

Bird Life List has no account, no server, no analytics and no advertising SDKs. Your sightings, photos, coordinates and notes are stored only on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is shared with anyone — including us. Read the full privacy policy.

About the checklist

The bundled species checklist was compiled originally for this app from public-domain ornithological nomenclature — vernacular names, binomial scientific names and family names. No proprietary checklist, taxonomy database, photograph or illustration is reproduced in the app.

Not a bird ID app

Bird Life List is a personal record, not an identification tool. It does not identify birds from photos or sound, it does not report your sightings to any database, and it has no community or rare-bird-alert features. It is designed to work with no internet connection at all.

Get in touch

Questions, bug reports or a species you’d like added to the checklist? Contact support — we reply to every message.

Support & contact