Pica Pica: Bird Sound ID
Kai Nicolaides & Stephan Junghanns GbR Education iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Pica Pica: Bird Sound ID is a free Education app for iPhone and iPad by Kai Nicolaides & Stephan Junghanns GbR. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 122 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 30
- 2026 · v1.1.2
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About Pica Pica: Bird Sound ID
Which bird is singing right now? Pica Pica listens and tells you — in seconds, right on your iPhone. Just start a recording: Pica Pica analyzes the song with BirdNET, one of the best bird sound recognition models available, developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Identification runs entirely offline on your device — your recordings never leave your iPhone. IDENTIFY • Identify bird songs in real time, even without an internet connection • Location and season feed into the identification — you only get suggestions for species that actually occur in your region • Over 6,000 species worldwide in the model COLLECT • Every species you discover lands in your personal sticker album • Rare species are specially marked — some finds are something truly special • Achievements and stats show your progress EXPLORE • Species portraits with photos, descriptions and song samples • Listen to and compare bird songs (recordings from Xeno-canto, photos from Wikimedia) • Community map: see what others have discovered near you and give hearts to special sightings PRIVACY • No ads, no tracking, no analytics • No server of our own: your sightings live in your personal iCloud • On the community map, your finds only show an approximate location (rounded to about 1 km) • Sign in with Apple — we receive neither your name nor your email address
What’s new
Version 1.1.2 · Updated September 30, 2026
What's new: • Your bird cards now close buttery-smooth when you swipe them down • Enjoying Pica Pica? You can now rate the app from your profile with a single tap – or tell me directly what you're missing or what bugs you • Recording settings are easier to understand: the location filter now explains what it does • Minor improvements and bug fixes Thanks for joining in and discovering birds!
App privacy
The developer, Kai Nicolaides & Stephan Junghanns GbR, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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