Listen to, record and identify bats using the Echo Meter Touch hardware module.
About Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector
Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector is a books & reference app developed by Wildlife Acoustics, Inc..
How many times has Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector been downloaded?
Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector has been downloaded 140 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.6 thousand times. It is ranked in the top 100 books & reference apps.
What is the rating of Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector?
Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector is rated 4.25 out of 5 stars, based on 560 ratings.
Is Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector free?
Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector is free to download. The APK download size is 73.48 MB. The latest version available is 3.1.8. The last update was on June 10, 2026.
What are the requirements for Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector?
Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector requires Android 8.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play November 2017.
Description
Using the Echo Meter Touch 2 plug-in modules, available from www.wildlifeacoustics.com, Amazon, or through distributors worldwide, this app allows you to listen to, record, and automatically identify bats by their ultrasonic echolocation calls. The modules and this companion app reveal the silent and often times invisible world of bats, providing outdoor enthusiasts, citizen scientists, and researchers an affordable and informative way to interact with these important creatures.
There are two models available: Echo Meter Touch 2 (EMT2) costs $179 and is intended for nature enthusiasts and batting hobbyists and Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro costs $349 and is designed for bat professionals and features a higher quality microphone, adjustable gain, and higher sample rate.
The Echo Meter Touch Ultrasonic Modules sense ultrasonic signals, digitize the signal, and transmit the ultrasonic data to your the app on your Android device. The EMT2 offers exclusive features and unprecedented ease-of-use for a handheld bat detector.
LISTEN TO BAT’S ECHOLOCATIONS EMT2 translates bat echolocations into frequencies that are audible to humans using two technologies. Wildlife Acoustics’ patented Real Time Expansion (RTE) allows you to listen to bats in real time with unparalleled fidelity. RTE maintains the timing and tonality of the original echolocations. Heterodyne (HET) listening via manual and automatic tuning is also available, for those accustomed to that way of hearing bats.
VIEW THE ECHOLOCATIONS ON A SPECTROGRAM A real-time spectrogram shows the frequencies and timing of the echolocations. Scroll back in time and zoom in on previous "bat passes."
SEE MOST LIKELY BAT SPECIES IN REAL-TIME*** The Auto ID feature analyzes the echolocation calls and suggests the two most likely bat species matches in real time. This is the same technology used in our professional Kaleidoscope Pro Bat Auto Identification software. Currently, the app can identify 26 species in North America, 25 in Europe and 57 in the neotropics. For more information on Kaleidoscope and a full list of species, visit our website.
RECORD .WAV FILES Activate triggered recording mode to automatically save bat passes to full spectrum .wav files for analysis on a computer or to view on your Android device. Or use manual record mode to control start and stop of recording. View the recording spectrogram and add voice or text notes. Listen to the recording using RTE, HET, or traditional Time Expansion Playback (playback at fractional speed to make the ultrasound audible).
SEE YOUR PATH AND RECORDING LOCATIONS View in satellite or road map view. View identified species codes directly on the map. Go to the recording's spectrogram from the map view. Transfer to your computer to view in Google Earth. Your Android device must have GPS capability or you must use a Bluetooth GPS receiver for this functionality. *Continued use of GPS running in the background will decrease battery life.*
TRANSFER RECORDINGS TO YOUR COMPUTER The EMT2 can transfer the .wav recordings to your computer over a Wi-Fi network or cabled through iTunes. Using Wi-Fi, the app bundles the recordings in a .zip folder and allows download by entering a URL in any web browser.
SHARE RECORDINGS VIA EMAIL OR TEXT And import and open files that have been shared with you.
***Because bats vary their echolocation calls in response to a wide variety of needs, no automated identification can achieve 100% accuracy in species identification. Auto-ID, though largely accurate, should not be relied on as a basis for scientific research. Auto-ID is intended for use in analyzing recordings of single bats in free flight in low clutter environments. Auto-ID will not work well on recordings of roost emergence, multiple or captive bats, bats in high clutter environments, or bat social calls. Auto-ID does not include every possible bat for each of the covered regions.
Echo Meter is a registered trademark of Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
Recent changes: +Fixes an issue with recordings being saved in an unintended location. This version will move any recordings in the wrong location back to the intended location.
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Comments on Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector for Android
★★★★☆Tim Bourne· May 27, 2025
A great app for Idling bats if used with discretion. However, often seems to run very slowly and crashes intermittently.
★★★★★Brian Johnson· Jul 24, 2025
Really awesome to listen to bats, using the decimeter device. This app makes bat watching so much fun. And no, I'm not talking about watching Batman. I have not heard Batman yet...
★★★★★Joseph Minor· May 23, 2025
Amazing technology gives the best estimate of the species of bat making calls that are "invisible" to the human ear.
★★★★☆Howard Silvanus-Davis· Jul 25, 2022
Hardware works well, but there seems to be some interference, and I can't work out where and what it might be. I am still discovering features as it is early days. Love the auto identification.
★★★★★Taiye Adeyanju· Aug 1, 2024
Just began using the echo meter touch pro. Very handy
★★☆☆☆vincent smith· Jun 27, 2022
Very buggie to the point of almost unusable. Lots of crashes during survey. Lenovo tab M10 hd, noticed this is not on your compatible list of devices. Wish I had seen this before buying module and tablet. Will there be an update to the app for this device? Currently, (June 2022) support are helping via email to find a workaround to get module working with my tablet.
★★☆☆☆Teun Dekker· Apr 15, 2023
Great device. But frustrated that based on specs it is not clear whether a mobile phone will work with the app or not. Example:bought a Motorola e13, which has a USB-C, is otg compatible, and has android 13 . When trying to install the app it says: this app won't work for your device. It is unclear why not, as it fulfills all specs according to the descriptions. Ease update the specs, so users know in advance whether a given model will or will not work with the app and hardware!
★☆☆☆☆Jason Short· Aug 16, 2023
I'm only giving 1 star as I can't give 0 stars. The latest version of software now uploads your files to Google Drive as a single ZIP file, whereas before it uploaded each file individually. Once I had uploaded files from 4 Bat Surveys that I had completed I then had to download the ZIP files to ensure that the individual recordings had been safely stored in the cloud. Every single ZIP file was unable to be accessed after being downloaded. This is an awful update and needs fixing.
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