Review of bat Apps available online, based on the article published in “Murciélagos de Castilla la Mancha” the 27th of August 2017. (http://bit.ly/2wMzjaL).
Scientific and educational tools:
Echo Meter Touch: The app lets you listen to bats in real-time and simultaneously view them on a full-color spectrogram and waveform plot. You need an ultrasonic microphone. (prize: 0€ + microphone)
USB Bat Detector: This app has been developed as a volunteer effort to help increase the monitoring and reporting of bats and also to show that it could be done. You need an ultrasonic microphone. (price: 0€ + microphone)
Bat Recorder: App to record, analyse and visualise ultrasonic bat echolocation calls, as well as other high frequency bioacoustic signals from cetaceans, insects, birds and other animals. You need an ultrasonic microphone. (price: 6.49€ + microphone)
Bat Locator: Tees Valley Wildlife App for collecting Bat data. The app allows users to view all of UKs bats with a description and where to find also the sound that the bat makes. (price: 0€)
iBats: Android application for the Google Phone that can be used for biodiversity monitoring by the iBats project (cf. www.ibats.org.uk). (price: 0€)
BatLib: One of the best bat App available. The BatLib App plays the different ultrasonic calls of the most common european bat species transformed into the audible space with the heterodyne mixer method. (price: 0€)
Swiss Bats: App about the 30 swiss bat species. Die Stiftung Fledermausschutz vermittelt Ihnen alles Wissenswerte über die heimlichen Königinnen der Nacht und stellt Ihnen die schweizerische Fledermausfauna vor. (price: 0.83€)
Bats of Ontario. Toronto Zoo: This is the Toronto Zoo Bat App. Learn everything you’ve ever wanted to know about bats including how they fly, interesting bat facts, and the problems they are facing in this Bat Conservation Guide. (price: 0€)
Ratapatxets de Catalunya: Simple App to identify acoustic recordings of bats from Catalonia. Developed as a school project in collaboration with the Granollers Museum of Natural Sciences. (price: 0€)
Bat sounds compilations:
Bats Sounds: Simple and quite basic App with a short compilation of bat sounds for educational purposes. Due to the large nº of Apps available, not highly recommended. (price: 0€)
Bats Sounds: Simple and quite basic App with a short compilation of bat sounds for educational purposes. Possibility to set them as ringtones. (price: 0€)
Bat Sounds for kids: Compilation of various bat and other animals sounds. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
Bat sounds lite: Compilation of different bat sounds. Very basic list and few recordings. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
Bat Sounds: Compilation of different bat sounds. Very basic list and few recordings. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
Bat Sounds: Compilation of different bat sounds. Very basic list and few recordings. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
Bat Sounds: Compilation of different bat sounds. Very basic list and few recordings. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
Bat Sounds: Compilation of different bat sounds. Very basic list and few recordings. No species or names provided. (price: 0€)
General sound visualisers:
Spectrogram: Spectrogram viewer which allows time frequency analysis. FFT resolution from 32 to 65536; 9 window algorithms to reduce spectrum leakage; fast pause/resume button; day or night mode. (price: 0€)
Spectral Audio Analizer: Free real-time audio analyser with 8 kHz spectral bandwidth. Display any sort of audio from the microphone as a coloured spectrogram. Capable of identifying environmental noise, etc. (price: 0€)
Audio Spectrum Simulator: Application to displays the spectrum of the voice input in real time from your Android phone’s microphone. (price: 0€)
Spectroid: Real-time audio spectrum analyser with reasonable frequency resolution across the the entire frequency spectrum. Spectroid uses multiple FFTs overlapped in frequency in order to provide better frequency resolution. (price: 0€)
Advanced Spectrum Analyzer PRO: Advanced FFT Spectrum Analyzer is a real-time ( RTA ) powerful audio tool to visualize and analyze signals from android device microphone in frequency domain. (price: 0€)
Games:
Wild bat simulator: Spread your leather wings and take silent flight just like a real vampire bat! Search for food and avoid city predators like cats! Enjoy the beauty of the night city with Wild Bat Simulator 3D! (price: 0€)
Floppy bat: Simple game where a flying bat has to collect objects while flying an avoiding collisions. (price: 0€)
Flappy bat: Simple game where a flying bat has to collect objects while flying an avoiding collisions. (price: 0€)
Flappy bat: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Lost bat: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Blind as a bat: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bat Rush: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Tap tap bat: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Echo the bat: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bat scape: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bat Challenge: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Tap bat: Zap the bats with a single tap in the game Bat Taps! Just tap the bat to score 10 points. Advances in difficulty with each point scored. Extremely easy game-play. (price: 0.72€)
Bat flight: Another simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bats: Very basic App that reproduces a bat foraging. Not much to play with… and lots of adv. (price: 0€)
Vampire rampage: More complex fantasy game with lots of advs with the aim to complete basic missions. (price: 0€)
Angry bat: Simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bat Company: Simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Bat dodge : Simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)
Birdy bat: Simple game where you control a bat flying with the aim to avoid collisions. (price: 0€)