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. Every motion at 2 a.m. becomes a named visitor — fox, deer, raccoon — quietly building a living journal of your yard.

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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 grabs the frame, discards anything human, and runs science-grade species identification.

3

A field guide that fills itself in

Every visitor joins your timeline, your species collection, and your yard's own biodiversity score.

Everything in the app

Identify, explore, notify, contribute

All from the cameras already on your house.

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Identify

AI species ID with confidence scores. Conservative, science-grade labels that fall back to family level when night-vision is ambiguous.

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Explore

A daily timeline per camera, a species library with badges, a biodiversity score, plus IUCN Red List status 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

Every species gets its own page: what it is, whether the IUCN lists it as threatened, and every time it has visited your yard.

Privacy is the whole point

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

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Never people or birds

Any frame containing a person is discarded before species identification and is never stored — not just frames that contain only people.

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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.

From early yards

Breakfast, now with a fox

"Finally something that uses my Ring cams for delight instead of anxiety. The privacy filter sold me."

— The Okafor family

"I had no idea a fox walked through my yard every night. Now breakfast starts with 'Red Fox — a new species for you.'"

— Early access user

"My kids check the species collection like a Pokédex for the backyard. 23 species and counting."

— Suburban Ohio
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?

Never. Any frame containing a person is discarded before species identification and is never stored. YardWild also doesn't identify birds — mammals and backyard wildlife are the point.

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, with conservation status from the IUCN Red List.

Is it on iPhone?

Android is live on Google Play; the iOS companion is in review. You link through your Ring account either way.

How much does it cost?

Free to try. Wildlife identification runs on a premium plan billed through the Ring/Amazon ecosystem, roughly per camera.

See who visits tonight.

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

Available in the Ring Appstore