Searching — Best bird matches come first now. Fixed the Purple Indigobird. Map — Goes dark when your phone is dark. Quiz game — Scores show up properly. Timer stops when the game ends. Importing lists — Tells you when it skips a bird, or when the file is wrong. Lists & sounds — Right pictures show. Bird sounds open properly. Works for people who listen instead of look. Crashes — Fixed one that could freeze the app. Most important fix.

PHOTOS • Sighting photos are backed up to your account automatically, at up to 2048px — so keep your originals. • Both photo pickers now tell you exactly what gets stored. QUIZZES • Change your birder name whenever you like — set it once, and it applies everywhere. • Editing a quiz now opens straight on its details. • Shared leaderboards fixed: your own quizzes now show your score, and your best result is always the one that counts. WELCOME SCREEN • Cleaner, simpler look, and a clearer way to dismiss it. ACCESSIBILITY & DARK MODE • Better contrast on selected buttons and toggles in dark mode. • Improved screen-reader announcements across lists.

What's new in Firefinch 6: • New navigation for faster browsing • Whistlr custom quizzes, leaderboards & new habitats • Better bird calls with background audio • Log your own photos with sightings • Save sightings to multiple lists at once • Bigger text, better contrast & accessibility • Light & dark modes • Faster bird pages, clearer illustrations • Improved tablet experience • Lifer stats on lists and lifer indicators on sightings

What's new in Firefinch 6: • New navigation for faster browsing • Whistlr custom quizzes, leaderboards & new habitats • Better bird calls with background audio • Log your own photos with sightings • Save sightings to multiple lists at once • Bigger text, better contrast & accessibility • Light & dark modes • Faster bird pages, clearer illustrations • Improved tablet experience • Tons of fixes and refinements

PHOTOS ON YOUR SIGHTINGS Add photos to any bird sighting and browse them all in the new My Photos gallery. Search your photos by bird name, and start a new sighting straight from one. ONE SIGHTING, SEVERAL LISTS A single sighting can now belong to as many of your lists as you like, and every list updates its count straight away. MAKE YOUR OWN QUIZZES Whistlr now lets you build your own bird-call quizzes, name them, and share them with friends — and play the ones they send you. ALSO IMPROVED • Choose whether the app stays in Light mode or follows your phone • The welcome screen now appears once a day, and can be switched off • "Showing X of Y" counts on Lists, Birds, Search and My Photos • Dawn Chorus tells you when you're offline instead of showing a blank page • Swiping between bird pages is much faster • Bird illustrations sit on a clean white background and are no longer cropped • Tidier Lists screen, with search moved into the top bar FIXED • People who already had an account are no longer sent through first-run setup again • Your most recent life-list bird is now correct and clearly labelled • Renaming a list updates it everywhere, and list counts no longer drift • Photos no longer linger after you delete a sighting or list • Better contrast throughout dark mode

Firefinch 6 brings sharper learning, richer sound and a more accessible app. • Whistlr leaderboards — your ranking now appears right on the results screen, and the stats view has new Birds and Leaderboard tabs. Scores show accuracy, bird count and date. • Better bird-call playback — calls keep playing when you leave the screen or lock your phone, you can drag the sonogram to scrub to any point, and a mini-player keeps controls handy. • A new daily Welcome screen to start each session. • Accessibility throughout — larger Dynamic Type, improved contrast and full VoiceOver / TalkBack support. • Smoother location filtering and search, plus an iPad sidebar. • Refreshed bird database with the latest species data. • Improved iPad support. • Plenty of bug fixes, performance and stability improvements.

New species! Grey Pratincole Whistlr: - Easy Mode: Practice bird calls without losing points — perfect for learning new habitats - Learning Dashboard: Track your progress with play time stats, streaks, and high scores - Review Mode: Revisit tricky birds across habitats to strengthen your knowledge - Streaks: Build a daily streak with an optional freeze to protect your progress - Quiz length selection: Choose how many rounds you want to play Other: - Scientific and Zulu name options: Display bird names in your preferred language - Bug fixes and performance improvements

Added Scientific and Zulu name display options Bug fixes for Whistlr feedback points, Quiz length saving, search fixes.

Whistlr - Learn Bird Calls Master bird calls with our new Whistlr game! Features include: - Multiple habitats to explore (Bushveld, Fynbos, Highveld, Wetland, Night birds, and Lesotho) - Adaptive difficulty that adjusts to your skill level - Expert Mode for advanced birders - Track your mastery progress with visual badges - Free access to your first habitat Afrikaans Support - Added language preference for Afrikaans bird names - Afrikaans family and group names now available Content Updates - New bird photos, sounds, sonograms, and distribution maps - Updated bird database Improvements & Fixes - Fixed iOS 18 navigation bar display issues - Fixed language preference not saving between sessions - Fixed sighting location picker reverting to wrong location - Improved photo gallery performance - Related Articles section added to bird profiles - Dawn Chorus section improvements

What's New in v5.1.9 Introducing Whistlr - Learn Bird Sounds by Ear Can you identify birds just by their calls? Now you can learn with Whistlr, our new bird sound learning game! How it works: - Listen to a bird call and guess which bird it is - Start easy with multiple choice, then progress to typing the answer as you improve - Master birds across 4 difficulty levels - from beginner to expert - Track your progress with spaced repetition (the game remembers which birds you struggle with) Getting started: - Find Whistlr in the side menu or on the bottom of the home page - Forest habitat is free for everyone - no subscription needed - See your mastery progress on each habitat card --- Bird View Related Dawn Chorus Articles The new Related Articles section on bird pages shows you Dawn Chorus articles written about that species. Swipe through cards to discover fascinating stories about your favourite birds. Have knowledge to share? Tap "Write for Dawn Chorus" to contribute your own article ideas. --- Improvements & Fixes - Location picker fixed - Setting a custom sighting location now works correctly - Smoother photo browsing - Improved gallery performance and full-screen viewing - Better link handling - External links in articles now open properly - Various UI polish - Cleaner buttons, better spacing, and improved accessibility --- Enjoy exploring bird sounds with Whistlr!

What's New in v5.1.9 Introducing Whistlr - Learn Bird Sounds by Ear Can you identify birds just by their calls? Now you can learn with Whistlr, our new bird sound learning game! How it works: - Listen to a bird call and guess which bird it is - Start easy with multiple choice, then progress to typing the answer as you improve - Master birds across 4 difficulty levels - from beginner to expert - Track your progress with spaced repetition (the game remembers which birds you struggle with) Getting started: - Find Whistlr in the side menu or on the bottom of the home page - Forest habitat is free for everyone - no subscription needed - See your mastery progress on each habitat card --- Bird View Related Dawn Chorus Articles The new Related Articles section on bird pages shows you Dawn Chorus articles written about that species. Swipe through cards to discover fascinating stories about your favourite birds. Have knowledge to share? Tap "Write for Dawn Chorus" to contribute your own article ideas. --- Improvements & Fixes - Location picker fixed - Setting a custom sighting location now works correctly - Smoother photo browsing - Improved gallery performance and full-screen viewing - Better link handling - External links in articles now open properly - Various UI polish - Cleaner buttons, better spacing, and improved accessibility --- Enjoy exploring bird sounds with Whistlr!

What's New in v5.1.8 Introducing Whistlr - Learn Bird Sounds by Ear Can you identify birds just by their calls? Now you can learn with Whistlr, our new bird sound learning game! How it works: - Listen to a bird call and guess which bird it is - Start easy with multiple choice, then progress to typing the answer as you improve - Master birds across 4 difficulty levels - from beginner to expert - Track your progress with spaced repetition (the game remembers which birds you struggle with) Getting started: - Find Whistlr in the side menu - Forest habitat is free for everyone - no subscription needed - See your mastery progress on each habitat card --- Bird View Related Dawn Chorus Articles The new Related Articles section on bird pages shows you Dawn Chorus articles written about that species. Swipe through cards to discover fascinating stories about your favourite birds. Have knowledge to share? Tap "Write for Dawn Chorus" to contribute your own article ideas. --- Improvements & Fixes - Location picker fixed - Setting a custom sighting location now works correctly - Smoother photo browsing - Improved gallery performance and full-screen viewing - Better link handling - External links in articles now open properly - Various UI polish - Cleaner buttons, better spacing, and improved accessibility --- Enjoy exploring bird sounds with Whistlr!

Scroll down on the bird view to find a trove of valuable information about all the birds! When scrolling down on a bird, you can now find related Dawn Chorus articles to that bird right on the bird's view Fixed the broken photo button Fixed the issue that prevented people from adjusting the location of their sightings Added the photo locations again

Upland Sandpiper Sabine's Spinetail A whole new look for details on the birds and a lot of extra info on that screen... Enjoy!

Added the ability to restore purchases without the need to see the paywall.

Added Sabine's Spinetail Replaced plates of larks, some pipits and common swift Updated a few sounds

Fixed a critical bug where editing an existing sighting would create a duplicate entry in the list instead of updating the original Fixed an issue where edited sighting data (notes, dates, etc.) wouldn't refresh immediately in the list view after saving Fixed a bug where saving a sighting while offline would leave users stuck on the edit screen

Location filter now works for all Southern African countries using SABAP2 data. We squashed a few bugs.

Complete Location-Based Bird Filtering System: Are you overwhelmed by 1000 species staring at you and you wished you could narrow it down to just those you might probably see? Are you planning a trip and want to know which lifers you might get? Then this is for you! Improved search accuracy. (You can now find those Rüppels Parrots much easier) Fixed a bug that prevented updated info showing on the sightings after one has been saved.

•⁠ ⁠Added Warwick Tarboton’s incredible egg images, for all local breeding species. Fascinating and beautiful! •⁠ ⁠All new swallow plates, with new in-flight illustrations and updated thumbnails. •⁠ ⁠We’ve split Rock Martin into two species. Ditto for Red-rumped Swallow. Maybe you can gain an armchair tick? •⁠ ⁠Vanessa Stephen sent us a whole bunch of sounds of rare seabirds from Marion Island. •⁠ ⁠We still need recordings of about 150 species, but now you can at least read what they sound like. •⁠ ⁠As always, we did lots of bug fixes and performance improvements. •⁠ ⁠And here’s a fun Easter Egg: If you meet us in person, show us your subscribed app to get a hidden feature unlocked!

Egg images for all Southern African breeding species Updated swallow plates and thumbnails with improved image quality. Added new bird sounds and sonograms including Marion Island species. Introduced Red-throated Rock Martin with complete media assets. Improved map displays for Rock Martin with vector graphics support. Bug fixes and performance improvements. Enhanced bird viewing experience with new information page for birds without audio recordings. Easter egg: If you meet us in person, show us your subscribed app to get a hidden feature unlocked.

Fixed two crashes that happened when looking at a bird with no tags or searching for a bird with an empty notes field.

You can now share a list: 1) With another Firefinch or Kruger Birding user 2) Between your own Firefinch and Kruger Birding apps 3) Export as a CSV in Birdlasser format Some bug fixes

You can now share a list: 1) With another Firefinch or Kruger Birding user 2) Between your own Firefinch and Kruger Birding apps 3) Export as a CSV in Birdlasser format

Subscription Fix: Resolved a critical issue with subscription management that could affect access to premium features Database Improvements: Fixed data inconsistencies to ensure your bird records and lists are always accurate Performance Enhancements: Faster data loading and improved app responsiveness Code Optimisation: Behind-the-scenes improvements for better app stability