Swift Mapper

This is a good app for recording swift activity but, typical of citizen science things, focuses on data collection. E.G. without filtering for dates, the map is more or less useless for the citizen.

May just be me but my iphone defaults to white text on a whiteish background. Difficult to see especially outdoors. How can I change the text/box colours?

It would be great if the app could give the possibility of selecting just the current year so we could see swift distribution build as sightings come in each year. As far as I can see there is no option for this on the map and you have to click each registered sighting to see the year. It would be so good to be able to filter so you can just see the present year. With the thousands of existing entries from all the previous years finding swifts sightings for the current year it is like looking for a needle in the ocean.

Updated following revision in late May 20. Much better with all functions now working. Hopefully this will provide a clearer view of how much the UK swift population has changed over recent years.

I had the same issues as Jtrevdevon, so it’s likely these will be repetitive comments and irritations. Hopefully you can fix these in the next update. A great idea though and hopefully will be a success

The app does not allow the functionality to alter time of day. I am using latest ios13 on an iPhone XR device. Was not able to enter the correct time as was entering sighting from previous day (evening) but app would only allow the ‘current’ time, so it showed an AM sighting, not PM. Also when you attempt to select the number of birds the number scroll is not visible; it shows as all white? It is still possible to select the number of swifts but you have to do it by ‘feel’ via the number of clicks. I also couldn’t sign in via Google, kept getting login error message (100% all my details were correct) These bugs are fundamental to the use of the app and I hope you can resolve them soon!

The rolling counter to enter bird numbers is blank so you have to “feel” the number of clicks to record bird numbers.

On my iPhone X the locator does not work - the app does not ask for permissions for location data and there’s no Swift Mapper section in settings to enable it. Really needs a filter (like the website) so you can choose the years to see on the map. I’d like to see 2020 only to track the arrival of Swifts across the country. Got excited to notice a record in our village, only to discover it was from last year.