Songscape¶
Professional bioacoustics in your pocket.
Songscape is a Flutter app built for field researchers, conservationists, and birders who need dependable acoustic evidence in the field. It runs the BirdNET+ audio classifier and geo-model directly on your device, so species identification works fully offline once installed.
Features¶
- Live Mode - Real-time scrolling spectrogram with species identification
- Point Count Mode - Timed survey sessions with countdown timer and station metadata
- Survey Mode - Long-running transect surveys with GPS tracking, background monitoring, and detection sampling
- File Analysis Mode - Offline analysis of existing recordings (WAV, FLAC, MP3, OGG, and more)
- ARU Mode - Turn your device into an acoustic recording unit for multi-day deployments
- Explore - Browse species expected at your location using the BirdNET geo-model
- Session Library - Review, edit, and export past sessions with audio playback
- Export - Raven Pro, CSV, JSON, GPX, and ZIP bundle formats with provenance metadata
- On-device inference - BirdNET+ model coverage for 9,789 species, no internet required
- FLAC recording - Compressed audio capture with smaller files for long surveys
- Accessibility - Screen-reader labels, tooltips, and optional spoken detection announcements
- Responsive layouts - Adaptive phone, tablet, portrait, and landscape interfaces
- Localization - Interface and spoken announcements in 11 languages
Quick Start¶
See the User Guide for an overview, then open Getting Started to install and run Songscape.
Install¶
Note: The APK is ~260 MB because it includes the BirdNET+ model assets and all species images for offline use.
License¶
Songscape is built on the open-source BirdNET Live app (MIT License). The bundled BirdNET+ model is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.