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Birdbuddy vs. Birdfy: Which Budget Smart Feeder Should You Buy? (2026)

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Hard to believe, but smart bird feeders have been around for six years.

The idea started with Birdbuddy (then styled Bird Buddy), which launched a Kickstarter campaign in November 2020 for the world’s first app-connected, AI-powered smart bird feeder. Birdfy followed in 2021 with its first camera-equipped feeder, and today the two companies remain the most popular brands in the smart bird-feeder space, with a sizable catalog of offerings, including smart bird baths and smart nesting boxes.

Thanks to two new releases from Birdfy and Birdbuddy, you can now get a premium smart bird feeder experience for under $100—something that just a year or two ago would have cost $200 or more.

I tested both Birdfy’s Rookie and Birdbuddy’s...

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