The takeaway: Weighing the difference between a FeatherSnap free and Premium subscription? Premium unlocks fascinating features that explain the world of birds in incredible detail.

If you have a FeatherSnap smart bird feeder or smart hummingbird feeder and you aren’t subscribed to the FeatherSnap Premium plan, you’re missing out.

Premium is the affordable full-featured plan upgrade that unlocks the power of FeatherSnap’s smart bird identification tools and bird sighting list, and throws in a whole lot more to help you get the most from your bird feeders.

Unfamiliar with Premium? Unsure if it’s for you? Here’s a rundown of what you can expect when you upgrade.

FeatherSnap Premium Plan Features

Both the free and Premium plans let you activate and manage your feeder, receive and download photos, and view a live feed from your feeder. Premium, however, adds much more:

  • 10 day vs. 3 day snap expiration

  • Unlimited badge earnings

  • Snap rush mode

  • AI species ID

  • Snap video request

  • Adding snaps to your personal Bird Book

  • Video downloads

  • Shareable snaps

  • Image cropping

  • Bird Book filtering by region

  • Access to Nest Work, FeatherSnap’s new social channel

What Is the Bird Book?

The FeatherSnap Bird Book is a page in your FeatherSnap app that is a gallery of all the distinct bird species that have visited your feeder. After identifying a bird at your feeder, you can add the image to your Bird Book, which also includes a time and date stamp. From here you download and share images, or post them to Nestwork.

What Is The Perch?

The Perch is your FeatherSnap app’s colorful learning center. Play games, collect seed prizes, customize your avatar, open your Snap Wrap, and more.

What Is Nestwork?

Nestwork is the FeatherSnap Premium app’s built-in social media channel. Users post photos and videos and ask questions. You can drop in, see some amazing (and often hilarious) smart bird feeder imagery, and learn more about birds and fellow birders.

What Is Snap Wrap?

Snap Wrap is a weekly digital snapshot of your feeder’s visitors. It shows facts such as how many feeder visits you had, what the top species visitor was, what region they call home, your peak feeding hour.

How Does AI Bird Identification Work?

FeatherSnap’s ornithologist plays a big role here, helping to write AI prompts that instruct computer models to recognize traits such as range, size, color, bill shape, body shape, and behavior. Those prompts train FeatherSnap’s AI tool to think like an ornithologist, consider the different traits, and return a result.

How Do I Upgrade to FeatherSnap Premium?

Upgrading your FeatherSnap account to Premium is a snap–head over to the plan page , enter the web portal and either log in or create an account, then find the “Add Plan” button. It’s easy!