Perchbook: Birding Life List

Your life list, without the login. Perchbook needs no account, never asks for your location and keeps every sighting on your phone. Logging, your life and year lists, the look-for list and backups are free and work offline. Optional AI bird ideas include 2 free requests; after that they are part of Pro, an auto-renewing subscription.

Perchbook is a simple bird watching journal for birders who already know what they saw. Type the bird's name, pick the date, add how many and, if you like, a place and a note. That's it: no GPS track, no timer, no checklist to submit.

WHY IT'S DIFFERENT
• Nothing to sign up for: no email, no password, nothing that can lock you out of your own list.
• No location permission: a place is something you type, and it stays on your phone.
• Old sightings welcome: log any date back to 1950, so your paper notebook can come along.
• A count and a note on every sighting, editable anytime. Deletions can be undone.
• Your records stay yours: back them up to a file and restore them on a new phone, or export a CSV spreadsheet.
• No ads. Light and dark themes. English and Korean.

WHAT IT DOES
• Life list: every species you've logged, merged by name (capital letters and spaces don't matter), newest lifers first, each with its species number.
• Year list for any year, all sightings in one view, and a "new this month" count.
• Lifer moments: before you save, the log screen tells you when a bird is new for your life list, then celebrates it.
• Species page: first and last seen, number of sightings and birds counted, and every sighting with edit and delete. Rename a species to fix a typo or merge two names.
• Name suggestions from birds you've already logged.
• Birds to look for: keep a wish list, see which ones you still need, and tap one to log it the moment you see it.
• Copy your life list as text with names and first dates only. Places are never included, so sensitive species stay safe.

AI BIRD IDEAS (OPTIONAL)
Pick a region, habitat and season, and AI suggests up to 8 wild birds you could look for (birds already on your lists are left out), each with a field mark and where to look. Save any of them to your look-for list. Only the region, season, habitat, language and the bird names already on your lists are sent to an AI provider, and only after you agree. Places, dates, counts and notes are never sent. A request that fails is not counted. AI tips can be wrong, so check a field guide, and you can report a result from the app.

PRO SUBSCRIPTION
After the 2 free AI requests, AI ideas need Pro, an auto-renewing weekly or yearly subscription. The price and any free trial are shown in Google Play before you confirm. Pro allows up to 30 AI requests per 24 hours, and AI ideas may pause for everyone when the app-wide limit of 100 requests per 24 hours is reached. Cancel anytime in Google Play under Payments & subscriptions. Your lists, look-for list, backups and exports never need Pro.

PRIVACY
Sightings, places, dates, counts and notes stay on this phone. You can withdraw AI consent and delete all your data in Settings.

Perchbook does not identify birds from photos or sounds; you enter what you saw. Watch from a distance, never disturb nests, and follow local rules for protected areas.