Point PlumageSort at a folder. It identifies the birds and sorts them into folders named for the species — on your own Mac, with no upload, no account and no network connection.
Free for your first 20 species. No card, no account.
Version 1.0.6 · macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon and Intel
And, as importantly, what it declines to do
1,040 of them recorded in the Indian subcontinent. Tell it where you were shooting and it stops offering you American birds.
Anything it isn't confident about goes to _Uncertain rather than being
guessed at. Measured on 391 photographs of 20 species it has never seen, the strictest
of the three settings keeps 89% of them out of your species folders.
Identification runs on Apple's on-device machine learning. There is no server to send photographs to, which is also why it works in the field with no signal.
Forty frames of the same bird is one encounter, not forty. Your allowance goes on the species you photographed, not the shutter you held down.
One plan, or buy photographs outright
For a period that runs out mid-job. They never expire
Top-ups need no subscription and never expire — they are there so a job does not halt at 2am, and so you can pay once if a plan is not what you want. A plan is still the better rate, and Birder removes the arithmetic entirely. Inside the app you can also top up by any amount from ₹99.
| Photographs | ₹ | |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | 20 species | — |
| Birder, per 2 months | unlimited | 2,000 |
| Field Notes | 500, never expire | 500 once |
| Expedition | 2,000, never expire | 1,200 once |
A licence covers one machine, and you can move it to another whenever you like from inside the app. Photograph counts are approximate because long bursts of one bird are charged once, so heavy burst shooters get considerably more than the number above.
macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon or Intel · about 250 MB
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