I downloaded this app yesterday after remembering this thread, and I absolutely love it! Thank you so much for letting us know about it!
So far, I was only able to try it out on the bush-crickets in my garden (apparently we have two types!! I didn’t know that!) and the birds in front of my bedroom window, so no verdict on how well it performs on walks yet, but right now I really really like it. I always found it annoying to juggle between Merlin and og BirdNET, but I put up with it because I wanted Merlin’s live detection AND BirdNET’s option to easily save short recordings. This new app beats both of the others in both aspects imo. The option to crop recordings before saving them is a lifesaver for my storage, and the ui for reviewing a session is so much better than Merlin’s! I can actually see all the moments where each species was supposedly detected now! It actually lets me manually disregard creaky doors that allegedly sound like owls so I don’t have a bunch of false positives in my saved recordings anymore! And it doesn’t have the server/crash issues that BirdNET has had for me for the last year or so. As a layperson, I probably won’t use the point count/survey/ARU features, but it’s cool to see that they’re there as well. Can’t wait to test it out on the frogs in my local nature reserve (once this heatwave is over)!