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source: marlvel.ai
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section_label: "User Sentiment"
section_anchor: "#user-sentiment"
app_name: "Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab"
bundle_id: "edu.cornell.birds.merlin"
parent_report: "https://marlvel.ai/api/llm/apps/reference/edu-cornell-birds-merlin"
canonical_url: "https://marlvel.ai/apps/edu-cornell-birds-merlin#user-sentiment"
license: CC-BY-NC-4.0
citation: "Marlvel.ai — Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab User Sentiment (section of intelligence report)"
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## 🟢 User Sentiment (High Confidence: 100 of 149 reviews analyzed) {#user-sentiment}
- **Overall Rating:** 4.89/5
- **Platform Split:** iOS 4.9/5 (107.6K ratings) | Android 4.9/5 (159.5K ratings)
- **Overall Sentiment:** Excited

### Top Praises
- **Audio identification technology provides accurate and educational birding experiences for users of all skill levels**

### Top Complaints (Impact Areas)
- **Removal of automatic recording saves following the latest update causes significant data loss for field users**

### Top Requests (What Users Want)
- **Restoration of automatic recording save functionality as a configurable setting for power users**

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