The Developer
Hot Puffin Software
An independent iOS developer making apps that are thoughtful as well as useful. Sightings is built by a birder, for birders. Beta feedback is very welcome.
info@hotpuffin.com
Every bird.
Remembered.
The bird-sighting log for iPhone and iPad. For birders who like to know what they saw, where, and when.
Pick one species or several at once. Add the count, time, a “good view” or “heard only” flag and notes, with ♂, ♀ and Juv shortcuts. Or start straight from the Home Screen.
All 623 UK species are built in, grouped by family from waders to warblers, and marked common or rare. Search finds the bird you want in a couple of letters.
Your life list, year list, this month, this week and today are always up to date, with species and bird totals. Past years are kept too.
Make a patch list by drawing an area on the map. Pick a rolling or fixed date range, a name and an icon. Pin favourites to the top of the screen.
Every sighting gets its location and place name automatically. You can drag the pin to the exact spot, search for a place, or pick one of your recent locations.
Filter by family, rarity, date, “near me” or any area you draw. The results appear on a map, so you can see where each species turns up.
Sort any list A–Z, by family or by date. Tap a species to see each time you saw it, how many, and where.
A native app with a sidebar layout on iPad and in landscape, plus Dark Mode and Dynamic Type. Your sightings stay on your device.
Your lists at a glance, with favourites pinned to the top
Log a sighting in seconds
Every species, grouped by family
See where you saw them
Here's a taste of what we're building next for Sightings.
“Log 5 blackbirds and 2 robins.” Record sightings by voice, hands free, while your binoculars stay up. Species will also show up in Spotlight search.
Look back over the day's birding in one place, and run structured counts for a site or a set time.
Keep your sightings in step across iPhone and iPad, and share lists with the people you go birding with.
Checklists beyond the UK, and other wildlife alongside birds, starting with bees.
An independent iOS developer making apps that are thoughtful as well as useful. Sightings is built by a birder, for birders. Beta feedback is very welcome.
info@hotpuffin.com