Your life list · in your pocket

Your local park is louder than you realised.

Lifer is the birding game. Point your phone, log what you find, and watch your life list grow.

Capture·Collect·Compete
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The Lifer aviary — a grid of captured bird cards with a dark stat band showing 35 captures, 16 lifers, 6 bird types
24 LifersIn your aviary
Just spottedPowerful Owl
Where every capture counts

Every bird you find, on the board.

Lifer keeps the count. Every capture, every first-ever sighting, every bird type — totalled in the one place you'll keep coming back to.

47
Captures
24
Lifers
9
Bird types
4,700
XP
Three taps from curious to hooked. No field guide to memorise. Just spot birds, build your Aviary, and discover species as you play.
How it works

Three taps from curious to hooked.

No field guide to memorise. No quiz to pass. You watch, you log, you climb — and you learn the birds without ever feeling like you're studying.

01
Capture

Spot it. Get close. Take the shot.

Line up your camera and Lifer identifies what you've found. The clearer the photo, the higher the confidence — so creep a little closer and frame it well.

  • Identifies the bird in front of you, with a confidence read.
  • Works on the trail — captures queue and sync when you're back online.
The Lifer capture screen — a painterly coastal scene with the feature-species card and wattle shutter button
02
Collect

Build an aviary that's only yours.

Every capture lands in your Aviary — your personal collection. Watch it grow from your first Magpie to the rare find you chased for weeks.

  • A real life list, open-ended.
  • Personalise your aviary. Tap any card for field notes.
The Lifer aviary grid of bird cards
03
Compete

Let the birding games begin.

Friends, leaderboards, streaks, multipliers, badges and more. Climb the global board, or just your flock's — friends you actually go birding with.

  • Global and friends leaderboards, your rank always in view.
  • Chase the feature species for extra points.
The Lifer leaderboard ranking birders by field points and lifers
The Lifer capture screen
The Lifer aviary grid
The Lifer leaderboard
The Lifer Discover screen — a searchable list of bird species with photos and scientific names, ticks marking the ones already in your aviary
Discover

A field guide to the birds around you.

Right in your back pocket. Look up any species, learn what to watch for, and know what you're chasing before you find it.

Field Notes Conservation status Species worldwide
Your patch

Adventure starts just outside your door.

Every capture, pinned. Your map becomes a record of where you've been birding. Search any species to see where it's been spotted, and find the hotspots worth heading to next.

Australian Magpie Osprey Rainbow Lorikeet Wood Sandpiper Barking Owl
The Lifer map of Newcastle with wattle pins marking the user's bird sightings across the suburb
Magpie-lark· Tighes Hill
Pacific Gull· Nobbys Beach
Lifer

Go find your first bird.

Just started? Your first lifer takes minutes. Already a twitcher? We've got you covered. Free to download, free to play.

Capture · Collect · Compete