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On your own device. BirdfolioSA has no accounts and doesn't upload your photos anywhere. Use Back Up in the menu to save a copy to a location you choose.

Your phone's file picker remembers the last place you used it. Tap the menu icon (☰) in the picker to switch to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or another location.

Yes. Create a backup with Back Up on the old phone, then use Restore from backup on the new one.

As many as you like. There's no per-species or total limit — each species can hold as many photos as you want, each with its own date, location and notes. The only real limit is your device's own storage space.

No. BirdfolioSA has no accounts, no analytics, and no server of its own that stores your photos — everything lives on your device. The only photos that ever leave it are ones Adobe already has (if you use Lightroom import, governed by Adobe's own privacy policy) or a backup file you explicitly create and choose where to save.

No — it's a checklist, not an identification tool. You choose the species yourself (searchable by English or Afrikaans name); nothing is auto-detected from the image.

Since everything lives only on your device, uninstalling deletes your photos and progress with it. Back Up first if there's any chance you'll reinstall or switch phones.

There's no built-in sync between devices, since there are no accounts. To move your checklist to another phone, use Back Up on the old one and Restore from backup on the new one.

No — your progress is based on distinct species photographed, not photo count. Extra photos of a species you've already ticked don't inflate your total.

Yes. Adobe Lightroom import is entirely optional — you can add photos from your gallery or by browsing files (Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, iCloud) without ever signing in to Adobe.

Adobe creates previews after a photo finishes syncing, which can take a while. Check the sync status in Lightroom, and try again once the photo shows a preview on Adobe's website.

Open the menu, choose Adobe Lightroom, then tap Disconnect. You can also remove BirdfolioSA's access from your Adobe account settings.

BirdfolioSA renews your Adobe sign-in automatically in the background, so you usually won't notice anything. Occasionally — for example if you change your Adobe password or remove BirdfolioSA's access in your Adobe account settings — your session is revoked, and you'll just be asked to sign in again next time you use Import from Lightroom.

That depends on your own Lightroom settings, not on BirdfolioSA — Adobe's own cloud sync can include your original files, RAW or otherwise. Whatever Adobe stores, BirdfolioSA never touches the original: it only ever downloads a smaller preview-sized copy, never the full-resolution file.

Photoshop isn't connected the way Lightroom is — Import from Lightroom only reads Lightroom's own synced catalog, not Photoshop's Cloud Documents. If your bird photos live in Photoshop, save or export them to a regular folder (one synced by Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive or iCloud) and add them with Browse files instead.

Two ways: use Import from Lightroom in the app, same as Lightroom Classic or desktop users — Lightroom mobile syncs to the same Adobe cloud catalog, so those photos show up there too, and this way correctly tracks which ones you've already imported. Or use Lightroom mobile's own Share button and pick BirdfolioSA directly. That also works, but has a known limitation right now: photos brought in this way aren't yet recognised as “already imported” by the filter, so take care not to import the same one twice. It's on our list to fix.