YardWild
🌙 Works with the Ring cameras you already own

Your backyard is full of wildlife.
Now you'll know.

YardWild turns your Ring outdoor cameras into a backyard wildlife watcher. Wildlife that crosses your yard at 2 a.m. gets a name — fox, deer, raccoon — quietly building a living journal of your yard.

2:14●●●
Tonight · 7 visitors
New tonight
● Backyard · 02:14
IR
Red Fox · 97%
Red Fox
★ a new species for you
How it works

Three taps to a wilder yard

No new hardware. No new camera. Just the Ring you already own, taught to look for wonder.

1

Link your Ring

One tap through Ring's official secure sign-in. Pick which outdoor cameras to watch. No new hardware, ever.

2

Meet your visitor

A fox crosses the lawn at 2 a.m. YardWild takes the frame and identifies the species. People are never identified.

3

A field guide that fills itself in

Each visitor YardWild identifies joins your timeline, your species collection, and your yard's own biodiversity score.

Everything in the app

Identify, explore, notify, learn

All from the cameras already on your house.

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Identify

AI species ID with confidence scores. When a night-vision frame is too ambiguous for the exact species, YardWild names the group instead and marks it “species uncertain”.

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Explore

A daily timeline per camera, a species library with badges, a biodiversity score, and short field notes.

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Notify

All sightings or notable-only, with quiet hours and a weekly or monthly digest.

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Learn

Each species gets its own page listing every time it has visited your yard, with a short description where one is available.

Privacy is the whole point

"A camera that finally looks at the wildlife — and looks away from you."

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Never people

YardWild never names, counts, recognises or describes any person. From 22 September 2026 YardWild may keep a frame in which someone appears and identify the wildlife in it; the person is never identified. This takes effect as that release is certified and rolled out.

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No tracking, no ads

No location tracking. No advertising. No data sales. Your yard stays yours.

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Delete within 24 hours

Per-camera controls, and full account & data deletion that completes within a day.

FAQ

Good questions

Do I need to buy a special camera?

No. YardWild works with the Ring outdoor cameras and doorbells you already own. There's no new hardware to buy or install.

Will it identify people at my door?

People are never identified: YardWild never names, counts, recognises or describes anyone. From 22 September 2026 YardWild may keep a frame in which a person appears and identify the wildlife in it, so a stored snapshot may show a person in the background, and may also identify birds. Each change takes effect as that release is certified and rolled out; until then a frame containing a person is discarded before identification and birds are not identified.

Which animals can it recognize?

US backyard wildlife — White-tailed Deer, Eastern Gray Squirrel, Northern Raccoon, Red Fox, Eastern Cottontail, Virginia Opossum, Striped Skunk, Coyote and more.

Is it on iPhone?

Yes. YardWild is on the App Store for iPhone and on Google Play for Android. You link it to your Ring account either way.

How do I add YardWild?

Add YardWild to your Ring account: it is a third-party app on the Ring Appstore with its own plan, managed entirely by Ring. You add and manage it in the Ring app (Menu → My Apps → YardWild) or at account.ring.com/account/integrations, where your plan and its terms appear.

See who visits tonight.

Works with your Ring cameras in one tap. The wildlife was always there — now you'll meet it.

Available in the Ring Appstore