Last updated 28 September 2026
G'day Bird is made by Square by Square Pty Ltd, for iPhone and for Android, and this page covers both. The short version: the app doesn't have accounts, doesn't track you, and doesn't send anything about you anywhere. The only thing it ever sends is an anonymous thumbs up or down, if you rate a photo or a call.
Everything the app remembers stays on your phone: which birds you've kept or let go, your daily like count, and your settings. It isn't uploaded, and we can't see it. Deleting the app deletes it.
To keep the birds up to date, the app downloads new photos, calls and text from our content server (content.gdaybird.com, hosted on Cloudflare). Like any web request, that sends your device's IP address to the server; we don't log or keep it, and nothing else about you is sent.
If you switch it on, the day's bird sings from your phone each morning at the time you choose. On iPhone that's a notification the app schedules on the phone, with the bird as its sound; on Android it's an alarm the app sets on the phone. Either way it's done entirely on the phone: we don't run a notification service and nothing is sent to us. You can turn it off in the app's Settings or in your phone's notification settings.
If you rate a photo or a call, the app sends the bird, whether it was a photo or a call, and your thumbs up or down to gdaybird.com so we can improve the weak ones. That's the whole message: no account, device identifier or anything else that could tie a rating to you. We keep only the tallies.
The app has an optional tip jar. Tips are in-app purchases, handled by Apple on iPhone under Apple's privacy policy and by Google Play on Android under Google's privacy policy: the store takes the payment and the store keeps the receipt. We receive no name, email, card or address, and the app keeps nothing about a tip beyond the store's own record on your phone.
The optional "Sing it back" challenge records a few seconds of audio when you tap the microphone. The recording is compared with the bird's call on your phone and then discarded. It's never uploaded, stored beyond the comparison, or used for anything else. The app only asks for microphone access if you choose this challenge.
The bird photos and calls in the app are used under open licences (Creative Commons and public domain). Tap the ⓘ on any photo in the app for the photographer, recordist, licence and source.
Questions: gdaybird@squarebysquare.org