Birdbuddy: ID & Collect Birds

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1. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   BB got greedy. I loved my BirdBuddy in the beginning, however, core features such as automatic bird ID are now behind a paywall. After paying $200+ for a bird feeder, I have no interest in paying extra for a subscription. I used to love getting notifications letting me know who was at the feeder. Now I just get generic notifications with additional steps to see which species are there. I rarely even check the app anymore. The downgrade in features previously offered is extremely disappointing.

2. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   No longer identifies automatically?!. We just set up our Birdbuddy and were enjoying the automatic bird identification. Now apparently it is behind a pay wall? We bought it specifically for that feature and it is rotten when a company takes away something that was a selling point to begin with.

3. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   Too much locked behind sub. I can’t invite my other family members in the house to connect to the camera without having to pay a subscription free. That’s insane. This is not a cheap device and I expect at least to have my wife also be able to use it. Greedy.

4. ★★★★★прочее

   Won’t connect to app. Bought this as a gift. I have tried so many times to complete setup. I have used home wifi and my hotspot. I can connect the device to my home internet and hotspot, but the connection to the bird buddy account always fails. Ready to give up because I haven’t heard back from support.

5. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   What a waste. $200 for a plastic hummingbird feeder and they’ve still managed to paywall half the useful features for it. Never mind the fact the livestream takes forever to connect with strong signal and the bird “identification” struggles to identify the one kind of bird that shows up. I was super excited to share the livestream with my girlfriend since we’re long distance but that’s an extra tier of monthly membership! Greed knows no limits, buy ANY other product if you’re reading this please

6. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   Not a smart feeder. I am very disappointed in my birdbuddy Hummingbird feeder. I have had it up for nearly 2 months and it has captured a total of 2 postcards. I thought this out of character for a hummingbird, which tend to have excellent memories and follow the same nectar routes so I put up an external birdfy camera to see if I was getting more visits: I'm capturing between 10-30 visits per day on the birdfy camera. In just 10 days since | put up the external camera I have captured 169 visits that were all missed by the bird buddy. I would NOT recommend paying $200 for this smart feeder plus $100 for the Al identification that is really just a normal hummingbird feeder with a fake camera installed. I contacted customer support and their response was basically "it's working just fine." Save your money and just buy a normal hummingbird feeder without a camera, you'll likely get the same number of pictures.

7. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   Amazing when first released, not worth the money now. I loved my bird buddy when I first got it. I got it through one of the original kickstarter campaigns, or whichever platform they used. The bird ID was spot on, I rarely had to correct it. Then it started to not be able to recognize birds that have visited my feeder 100’s of times (Blue Jays, Northern Cardinals). Then it started to not even record bird visits. I would see a cool interaction at the feeder through my window, but that event would never show up in my postcards. Now they’ve taken away the bird ID feature unless you pay for premium. Mine is getting close to needing to be replaced - I’m looking into other ‘copycat’ brands because Birdbuddy seems to have just become a name brand where you pay for the name but the product just isn’t worth the money anymore unfortunately.

8. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   AI has made this a low-quality product. automatic bird ID has been paywalls and has lost basic functionality. ID is also less accurate, their old algorithm worked better than AI, but doesn’t give you the option to - it’s force-feeding lower-quality functionality. take the loss on the AI investment, because it has broken the product.

9. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

   Not pairing, no support.. Spent the extra $100 to get one of these and can’t get it to pair right off the bat. $200 feeder that doesn’t function. Support is AI slop bot. Save your money!! Hitting “contact support” button does nothing, nor does troubleshoot. Uninstall app, re install app 3x… Tweaked my router. Created a 2.4GHZ network just for Birdbuddy. Reset it. Restarted phone. Before you buy this product do some research. For example, THERE IS NO CUSTOMER SERVICE NUMBER. Fortunately, I bought unit from chewy and not direct, with chewy I was able to talk to customer service and get a refund in less than 10 minutes.

10. ★★★★★назойливые уведомления и апсейлы

    Slow and over featured. I just want to watch birds on my camera that I paid for, not be solicited for a subscription every time I open the app or have to ‘livestream’ to turn the camera on, or deal with any ai BS, or miss the birds because it takes 10 minutes every time the camera wakes up, or get notifications, just stop with all this and let me use the camera to watch birds, record video and take pictures.

11. ★★★★★нестабильная работа и подключение

    Hard to set up. Problems

12. ★★★★★прочее

    Doesn’t do what it used to. Birdbuddy used to automatically attempt to identify birds. You could choose to hide certain birds. I hid blue jays, but the update no longer identifies visitors. Now I receive multiple blue Jay postcards hourly. It’s ridiculous. I’m adding something my husband printed to try to keep large birds out in hopes of just getting postcards of other visitors.

13. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Degraded service. This company has removed nearly all functions available at launch and put them behind a paywall. It is now just a camera. Save your money and get a better product. To maximize short term profits they have degraded the service. This is terrible for a product that started on Kickstarter.

14. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Quality has gone down. The products they release are not tested and rushed to generate cash. The app releases are not tested and always buggy. They are moving fundamental features into a paid model outside of the standard ones they originally sold it as.

15. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    AVOID AT ALL COSTS. This has to be one of the most predatory apps I have ever seen. Firstly, when signing up and connecting, I get hit with a page that wants me to spend money on an annual subscription plan. Wasn't planning on paying it cause everything said that you can still use the feeder while not having a subscription. Here is the first problem, THERE IS NO 'X' TO LEAVE THIS PAGE!!!! This is a textbook predatory tactic to make people feel like the only way forward is to pay for a subscription. The only way to get around it is to completely close the app and go back into it. Though, that is not all. I get a prompt that tells me to share access to the feeder with family and friend. I do so, but I HAVE TO PAY FOR THE SUBSCRIPTION TO LET THEM JOIN!!!! Another textbook predatory tactice where people will feel bad and pressured to buy a sunscription since they already sent a message to family, yet they can't actually view the feed. The dumbest thing is that they can see the feeder exists on the app, yet they can't watch any live feed. 4.8 stars is also hard to get on the app store, especially with predatory subscriptions like this? Probably targeting only users who have had a positive experience with the app. Please do not buy or gift any of this company's products for anyone

16. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Membership change. I hate that they changed the membership. Now feels like another greedy company.

17. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Choose another birding app. This app and its platform is more frustration than it is fun. I’ve had a Birdbuddy feeder and the app for a few weeks and while it was engaging at first, the sheer volume and frequency of issues has quickly turned it into uselessness. The camera simply will not stay connected to the internet. It won’t identify birds and turn on (record) till they’ve been at the feeder for 5-10 seconds, which means it never gets those quick birds that dart in and out (I.e. the good ones you want to see). My “feed” is full of the same bully birds over and over and over again, yet it CONSTANTLY misses the woodpeckers and chickadees that visit the feeder. The best thing I can do with it is go into the live feed and manually take pictures of the birds that visit, but this is also an exercise in frustration. First, it takes 5 minutes to get the live feed working (have to make 5-10 attempts, shutting down the app over and over again to get it to work). Then, when you see a bird, you snap a bunch of pictures and send those off for identification. Ah, but it caps the number of pics you can take at 12, and once you’ve met the limit, you can’t simply save the pics and ID later. You have to send those off for identification, and of COURSE it kicks you off the live stream every time you do this. So every time you take a series of pics on the live stream, you have to spend another 5 minutes to log back into the livestream. Save yourself the hassle…try another brand, or save yourself some money and just go with a regular bird feeder.

18. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Ridiculous. The charging cord came apart. The camera won’t charge. Have no one from the company to assist. Am totally frustrated. This was a gift from my children and I am so disappointed in this. Will end up using it as a bird feeder because nothing works. Solar roof is a joke does not charge the camera. I am so upset and disappointed with this product.

19. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Now you have to pay. The previous version of the app is what made the bird buddy exciting to use. Now they want you to pay. I agree with another review that stated this is now a bird feeder with a camera. Once my bird food runs out I’m done with this product

20. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Now it’s a bird feeder. I was so happy with my bird buddy for several years! I received it as a gift and bought one as a gift for someone else. However with the latest app update, one of the core functions has been converted to paid subscription. Now it is merely a bird feeder with a camera - it doesn’t even record every bird visitor. Not sure how this change got approval, but it has definitely ticked off a lot of loyal customers (check out Reddit on the topic) So disappointing!

21. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Removed features. The automated identification feature was removed from the free subscription to paid subscription.

22. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Not worth opening the app anymore. Ridiculous that this company would take away the most important feature for this app (AI bird identification) and start requiring a subscription to identify birds that stop by. I already paid $200+ for this product and now it’s useless for its original purpose!!! I might as well get a baby monitor cam and tape it onto bowl of bird food.. I get way too many cardinals and I want to ignore them but because the app won’t identify them ahead of time, I get stupid notifications for every bird even though I don’t want to see them! Bait and switch by this company this product had major potential but the company just wants to drain their customers wallets with this subscription model.

23. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Loved the app a year ago, many features now paywalled. Will not be purchasing more feeders. Got my first bird buddy over a year ago and instantly loved it. Encountered a couple small bugs here and there but nothing bothersome. Liked a lot of the features of the free tier , especially the app ID’ing birds and sending you a notification of what birds were stopping by. This feature has now been moved to the premium tier. The app is also constantly adding AI features that, from a user standpoint, seem unneeded and don’t improve anything. Admittedly not an app-breaking problem but I don’t think this type of conduct should be rewarded. I would not have purchased a hummingbird video feeder from Birdbuddy had I known this would happen. From the recent reviews, I gather many others feel similarly.

24. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Garbage Update. Zero birds get ID’ed now. The switched their ID to AI and did it on the cheap. To save costs, now you have to manually prompt it to ID birds instead of it being done automatically. I would return this birdhouse if I could.

25. ★★★★★нестабильная работа и подключение

    Does Not Work. App is extremely slow and will not allow us to log in.

26. ★★★★★назойливые уведомления и апсейлы

    Junky UI/UX. way too many popups and upsells, some which are impossible to dismiss (premium upsell has no X button! Wth?). Got this for my parents and all they need is the livestream. Lose the junk and it would be much better.

27. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    ruined by AI upgrade. This was such a great app/feeder system last year! Sadly, they decided to upgrade to “a more advanced AI model,” and now it barely functions. Mine will only take pictures of one kind of bird (the AI is using its judgement to decide what I see, and it only judges northern cardinals as worthy), and the app offers way less information about birds than it used to. I really wish the app that worked was still an option, instead of the AI-driven crummy Instagram for birds they’ve decided to be.

28. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Getting worse. I received a Bird Buddy feeder as a gift a couple of years ago. At first, I was very pleased with the app interface. Remember that this a very expensive product to begin with. It used to automatically identify the birds in the videos it produced. You have to now tap an option on each video to ID the birds. When you send videos to others, it used to provide the species names, but no longer does. Previously, you had the option to exclude birds that appear too often in the feed. For example, I don’t need 15 videos of Northern Cardinals every day. You can choose to exclude species but it no longer works, I guess because it doesn’t ID in real time as previously. Be forewarned that the app constantly offers you very cool options. You then find out that these options require a subscription. What I find absurd is that they use Kickstarter to fund new products. This is now an established company. It seems tacky to fund in this manner. Kickstarter should be for actual startups.

29. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    App used to be great. They put a lot of regular features that used to be included behind a paywall like bird ids. That’s the whole point of the app.

30. ★★★★★подписка-ловушка

    Remove features after purchase. I have 3 of these feeders - a first day backer. They removed the bird identification which was the core selling point.