Best fishing apps

FishWeather: Marine Forecasts

№1 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 4,940 ratings

72our score

It's a go-to app for wind and marine conditions before heading out, with a reputation for accuracy that whole angling communities like Maine lobstermen rely on. It's weaker on wave height, which people call inaccurate, and water temperature is basically missing. The sore spot is that once-free things like the offshore report and the waves tab got moved behind a subscription or removed entirely, and against intrusive ads that angers even paying users.

Fishdope Fishing App

№2 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 341 ratings

72our score

This is a narrowly specialized service for saltwater fishing in Southern California, and dedicated boaters love it: fresh bite reports, water temperature and chlorophyll charts, spotter-plane fish scouting, all of which saves them hours and hundreds of dollars in fuel. The weak spot is the barrier to entry: the app is nearly useless without a paid subscription and without internet, and some content (zone reports, certain species) is trimmed in the app versus the website. Beginners and anyone outside SoCal will get little from it.

Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time

№3 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 15,705 ratings

68our score

Long-time users trust the solunar forecast and find it accurate for bass, reds and trout. The weak spots are specific: a lifetime purchase is lost when you switch from Android to iPhone, the calendar sometimes will not let you pick a date, and the default location resets to Lebanon, KS. The activity percentage also sometimes disagrees with what you see on the water.

Omnia Fishing: Spots & Maps

№4 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 3,644 ratings

68our score

Its strength is accurate lake maps with depth contours that genuinely help find deep holes and spots without wasting time, and support is responsive. The lack of offline hurts badly: many lakes have no signal and the app is useless there. A separate headache is the store side, items are perpetually out of stock, plus billing surprises after a supposedly free trial and intrusive AI all over the interface.

Fishing Forecast - TipTop App

№5 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 1,305 ratings

68our score

For those it suits, people like the bite forecast by time and species and being able to save favorite spots, handy for a beginner deciding when to go. It breaks down on coverage: for some, after subscribing there is no data at all in their area, and the navigator is kilometers only. Note that many five-star notes are generic and some reviews look planted.

Salt Strong: Fishing Spots App

№6 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 926 ratings

64our score

People praise it as an all-in-one for saltwater: tides, wind, bite score, ready-made spots and a log that auto-fills tide and moon, and people genuinely started catching more. It breaks down on performance: it lags badly, overheats the phone and drains battery a percent a minute, and some get stuck at sign-in entirely. Plus smart spots are generic and incomplete in some states.

Fishing Knots FishPlanet

№7 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 19,585 ratings

62our score

People really do learn new knots from the pictures and value the selection. But the teaching is weak, too few steps for a beginner, and some diagrams are simply wrong, for example the uni knot and perfection loop breakdowns. The lack of search and ads that stay even after a paid yearly subscription make it worse.

Deep Dive - Bass Fishing App

№8 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 6,286 ratings

62our score

People genuinely plan their trip around this app: it pulls wind, waves, water clarity and dam release schedules into one place, which rivals don't do. It breaks on coverage: a couple of popular lakes like Guntersville are packed with detail while your home water shows nothing, and water clarity often goes stale for days. Almost everything useful sits behind a subscription that people struggle to cancel.

Fishing Deluxe - Best Fishing Times Calendar

№9 · 4.5★ in store · genuine · 493 ratings

60our score

A years-long favorite calendar of best fishing times: people praise the accuracy of bite peaks, the simplicity, and no endless add-on purchases unlike competitors. There's exactly one problem, but a serious one: the current version crashes every time you open the map or change location, and the weather block stopped loading. On iPad the app crashes immediately. The developer is silent, so an otherwise excellent app has become nearly useless.

FishAngler: Fishing Guide App

№10 · 4.8★ in store · doubtful · 13,538 ratings

58our score

People kept a log, chatted and praised the accurate forecast and peak bite times for years. But the March 2026 update locked other people's catches and peak times behind payment, and that used to be the main free value. Add sign-in failures, a stuck login and stale catch reports up to five years old, and many left.

iSolunar™ Hunt & Fish Times

№11 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 3,420 ratings

58our score

People value it for solunar hunt and fish times and for being a one-time purchase with no subscription, and matching the classic Alden Knight paper tables wins over the old guard. The weak spot is the add-on weather module: people pay for it separately, yet wind, direction and temperature don't work after purchase. A separate pain is that the app forgets the purchase and restoring access just spins and never completes, plus updates lose trophy photos and there's no pinch-to-zoom.

Fish Deeper - Fishing App

№12 · 4.5★ in store · genuine · 653 ratings

58our score

This is the app for the Deeper castable sonar ball, and people love it for being compact: handy from a kayak instead of a full-size fish finder, helps target spots where fish actually are rather than empty water. But the phone connection drops, especially below 50% battery or more than a couple of feet away, the signal is delayed and jumpy, and you can't open the bathymetric map until you've mapped 70% of the lake, which is impossible from a kayak. Many are also annoyed that after subscribing the app keeps pushing them back to the payment page.

Fishing Points: Map & Forecast

№13 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 30,586 ratings

55our score

People praise the app for tides, saving spots and a catch log, and some think it is more accurate than rivals. But for inland lakes there is often no depth or chart data even though it is promised, and the activity forecast and wave heights disagree with reality. Plus unpleasant charges up to 49.99 dollars, sometimes even during the trial.

FishTrack - Charts & Forecasts

№14 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 6,198 ratings

55our score

The core value is finding warm water and temperature breaks before heading offshore, then punching the coordinates straight into a chart plotter. It stumbles on coverage: no Gulf of Mexico, bathymetry stops at southern New Jersey, images often fail to load. It's pricey at around 79 dollars a year, and one guide flatly says he gets the same data free from NASA Worldview.

onWater: Fishing Spots Map

№15 · 4.5★ in store · genuine · 2,550 ratings

55our score

People praise that it feels built by anglers for anglers, handy for learning streams and rivers while traveling, with accurate flow-rate data. It breaks down on the free version where nearly every click asks for payment, and on the measurement tool that is buggy and rarely works. Plus map crashes and broken login for some.

Hunt & Fish Times by iSolunar™

№16 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 666 ratings

55our score

The core, solunar tables and moon phases for predicting game and fish activity, works and lands with people: many say the data is close to the US Naval Observatory and actually matches animal behavior. What breaks is the extras: weather and wind direction are often wrong or won't load, the app crashes after updates, and support doesn't answer emails. A separate sore point is that it used to be a one-time purchase and is now a subscription.

Fishbrain - Fishing App

№17 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 67,037 ratings

52our score

People really do find spots and log their catches, one user caught their first fish in El Paso thanks to Fishbrain. But what used to be free is now locked behind a roughly 155 dollar a year subscription: you cannot even see other anglers' catches and photos in the feed. That turned a useful tool into a wall of locks.

Fishing Times Calendar

№18 · 4.7★ in store · genuine · 3,639 ratings

52our score

It's a simple solunar bite calendar with an easy-to-read clock, which is what people love it for, some using it for years on Toledo Bend. The main trouble is in the core itself: the time display is broken, mixing 24-hour and AM/PM formats into things like '13:34 pm' that can't exist. On top of that many call the bite predictions inaccurate, one angler with 40-plus trips a year always gets a 'fair-to-poor day', and ads pop up right while you're planning.

onX Fish: Midwest Fishing Maps

№19 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 1,437 ratings

52our score

People praise the fast way to find new lakes, access points and lakes with high populations of the fish they target, handy for a novice and for scouting. It breaks down on map detail: contours too coarse to pick out structure, many lakes simply missing, and depths wrong in places. Plus subscription pop-ups keep coming even after paying and state coverage is incomplete.

Angler: The Fishing App

№20 · 4.4★ in store · genuine · 496 ratings

52our score

The strength people stick with for years is the fishing journal: catch logs with photos, notes by fishing method, and a forecast of fish activity by time. Russian-speaking regulars praise exactly this. But the weather block simply doesn't work for many, showing a blank screen or a temperature off by 20-plus degrees, and tide times can be wrong. You also can't pick a specific spot on the water, and without paying you can't see tomorrow's forecast.

Fishing Spots: Find & Fish App

№21 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 10,893 ratings

50our score

The app helps find new spots and share catches, and for some that is enough even without paying. But the peak bite times that were free for years were moved behind the subscription, and the forecast became hard to read. Sign-in failures, no live weather and plenty of fake catch coordinates that people post at random get in the way.

Fishbox - Smart Fishing App

№22 · 4.6★ in store · doubtful · 35,920 ratings

48our score

Where there is data, people praise the bite forecast for accuracy, and the free access to the AI stands out too. But for rivers and many lakes there is little or no data, and spot and bait tips that used to be free moved behind the subscription. A separate pain is charges during the trial and 27.99 dollars with no refund.

Fishing App - Pro Angler

№23 · 4.6★ in store · doubtful · 6,079 ratings

48our score

People get it for the bite reports: what's biting, on what bait, with which techniques, and when reports are fresh they're valued. The catch is many have none: the last report dated June 20 when opened July 8, and without a subscription you get a generic description instead of a local report. Users also hit crashes when tapping the map, offer screens on launch, and instability searching for a new spot.

BUBBA Fishing

№24 · 4.8★ in store · genuine · 2,833 ratings

48our score

People praise the scale itself, sturdy and handy for culling fish at a tournament. It is maddening that on top of a 60-99 dollar device they also charge 5 dollars a month for app features, and some of those do not work even after paying. Plus glitches: the screen freezes, auto-log fails to record a fish, the catch map gets the location wrong.

TroutRoutes: Fly Fishing App

№25 · 4.5★ in store · doubtful · 3,831 ratings

46our score

People value it for one thing: it opens up trout streams and access points you never knew existed, even near home. It breaks exactly where it matters most, on the water: the app hangs on a blue screen, demands a connection and won't open without cell data at the river, and offline is capped at 750 tiles. Coverage is very uneven nationwide, near-empty in Maine and Florida, all against complaints about price and post-update glitches.

BassForce: Bass Fishing Guide

№26 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 2,987 ratings

46our score

People value the pro-level lure and condition tips, for a beginner it is a ready-made plan for the day. It breaks down on almost everything sitting behind a paid subscription, with the free version buried under payment pop-ups. Plus complaints about crashes when adding a location and wrong water temperature.

BassForecast: Bass Fishing App

№27 · 4.6★ in store · doubtful · 19,399 ratings

45our score

When it works, the lure tips genuinely help, people catch bass on the app's advice. But more and more often the app simply will not load, hanging on a grey screen, and ads are shown even to paying subscribers. Forecast accuracy is inconsistent, and the best baits of the day that used to be free were moved behind the subscription.

Fishing Points - Lake Maps

№28 · 4.4★ in store · genuine · 2,187 ratings

45our score

People value it as a cheap Navionics alternative after Garmin raised prices, it works for ice fishing and from a kayak and shows structure and currents. It breaks down on accuracy: depths off by several feet, GPS missing the mark, and some boats lose map detail after an update. Plus support does not reply and the one-time-versus-yearly purchases are murky.

Fishing Calendar & Tide Times

№29 · 4.4★ in store · doubtful · 11,904 ratings

44our score

When it works, the best fishing times are accurate, and people spend years comparing them against the real bite. But the tides often do not work, there is no switch to a 12-hour time format, and the graph does not show all the hours of the day. Support stays silent, and some people did not renew.

Lowrance: app for anglers

№30 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 2,600 ratings

44our score

People love the depth maps and being able to plan a trip at home, then push waypoints to the Lowrance sonar on the boat. Stability keeps breaking: crashes when opening the map, waypoints vanishing after a sync, freezes during basic navigation. They also removed the water-level adjustment that was the whole reason to pay.

Fishing App: ANGLR Logbook

№31 · 4.2★ in store · genuine · 634 ratings

42our score

The job people buy it for: keeping a fishing log, trip track and catch log tied to location, and the app even pulls photos from your camera roll and creates entries from them, which people love. But the latest update nearly killed it: starting a trip throws an error, logging a catch crashes the app roughly half the time, and this is even in the paid Pro version. Many write that development was abandoned for a couple of years while the subscription kept billing, and support is terrible.

Fish AI - AI Fishing App

№32 · 4.7★ in store · gamed · 18,482 ratings

40our score

At its core the app helps a beginner find spots and figure out where to go for fish. But the path to any value is built like a trap, dozens of survey questions, then a promise of free access and a sudden charge of around 80 dollars a year with no monthly option. Many never saw the free access they were promised.

FishVerify: ID & Regulations

№33 · 4.6★ in store · genuine · 2,070 ratings

40our score

People like the idea, identify the species and get its regulations right away, and the fish info is good. It breaks down on the core job: identification often gets it wrong or does not see the fish in the photo at all, and for an offshore angler out of signal range it simply does not work. Plus everything hinges on a mandatory email login and identifications capped by credits.

Fish | Hunt FL

№34 · 3.4★ in store · genuine · 561 ratings

40our score

Florida's official wildlife app is valued for one thing: carrying your fishing license digitally on your phone instead of paper, plus rules, limits and a species identifier at hand. But people are furious that short 3 and 7-day licenses were removed, so out-of-state visitors now have to buy an annual one or stand in line for an hour at a tax office. On top of that the app crashes on launch and on iPad, the license often won't load, and tide and sunrise data are wrong versus NOAA.

Fishing Times Pro

№35 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 375 ratings

40our score

A simple solunar calendar of bite times: some rely on it for years, and wind readers like the handy wind forecast. But people are put off that the last major update stripped features and broke the interface, and many want the old version back. Plus data errors: tides in feet show as meters, the 24-hour format gets confused (12:16 becomes 24:16), and date scrolling stopped working.

LakeMonster: Fishing AI

№36 · 4.5★ in store · doubtful · 673 ratings

38our score

People genuinely value having the data in one place: water temperature, recent satellite imagery, live marina cameras and weather for planning a trip. But the headline feature, the AI fishing plan, is broken for days at a time, the app freezes to a white screen, and support answers neither emails nor the in-app form. Cancelling the subscription and getting a refund is also nearly impossible.

Fishidy: Fishing Maps App

№37 · 3.4★ in store · genuine · 563 ratings

35our score

Valued for depth maps with contours and structure points, a social feed of other people's catches, and a long history (some since 2012). But many complain that after paying you hit a loop of problems: premium won't unlock, the map loads only vegetation or a white screen, and for the lake or river you actually need there's simply no data. Plus few active people in the feed, so fresh catch reports are almost nonexistent.

Picture Fish - Fish Identifier

№38 · 4.5★ in store · doubtful · 5,272 ratings

34our score

It half-solves the job: it does okay on simple lake and saltwater fish, but on aquarium fish, especially cichlids, it consistently misses, calling everything a guppy or neon. Beyond identification it offers almost nothing: no species search like its siblings Picture Insect and Picture Mushroom, and anything interesting is locked behind a subscription. Essentially a field guide with no guide.

Catchr: Fish Identifier

№39 · 4.7★ in store · doubtful · 4,561 ratings

33our score

People genuinely love the idea: logging catches like Pokemon Go, accurate ID, slick design. But the product is half-broken: photo uploads mass-hang on the identification screen, the 'crew' feature doesn't work, and you can't invite friends. On top of that every single feature is locked behind a subscription that isn't flagged at install, and in smaller areas there's often nobody around and the feed is dead.

FishHunter - Fish Finder/Sonar

№40 · 3.9★ in store · genuine · 766 ratings

30our score

When it works, the compact sonar finds fish and depth well from a kayak or on ice, and people love casting it out and mapping the bottom. But more often it does not work: the unit will not connect or drops out, connecting takes half an hour, dark mode makes text unreadable, sign-in throws an Error. The app also has not been updated in ages and support ignores emails.