A lifetime of sightings? Anywhere in the world? Yes.
Runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux? Without emulation software? Yes.
Easy-to-use? Fast data entry? Yes.
Fast import from eBird, Avisys, BirdBase, BirdTrack, and more? Yes.
Birds, butterflies, reptiles, and more, around the world? Yes.
Hundreds of built-in country and state checklists? Yes.
Big price? No. It's free.
Scythebill is a desktop application for birders to keep track of their life lists and birding records. There's plenty of great birdlist software and birding software available today, but:
- Scythebill is free (and will remain so).
- Scythebill is easy-to-use. It takes a few minutes to get started, and just seconds to import a lifetime's sightings.
- Scythebill is powerful - loads of features, like instantly flipping between the Clements and IOC checklists
- Scythebill is cross-platform - you don't need to lose your list just because you switch from Mac to Windows to Linux.
- Scythebill is open-source, so anyone can contribute to its development.
New - Scythebill 18.2 is available!
Scythebill 18.2 adds new features when browsing trips, privacy preferences, and more.
Other recent versions have added "Trips", one-step Wildlife Recorder imports, dark mode, photo name editing, the IOC 15.1 taxonomy, checklist printing, multi-taxonomy spreadsheets, a native "Apple Silicon" version, and much more! See the Scythebill blog for all release notes.
Other recent versions have added "Trips", one-step Wildlife Recorder imports, dark mode, photo name editing, the IOC 15.1 taxonomy, checklist printing, multi-taxonomy spreadsheets, a native "Apple Silicon" version, and much more! See the Scythebill blog for all release notes.
Also new - more extended taxonomies!
There's now fish, butterflies, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and odonates of the world taxonomies (with country checklists!) as well as taxonomies for European dragonflies and damselflies, North American moths, and three new taxonomies for United Kingdom invertebrates!