# Red Sea Creatures — Fish ID & dive site guide

> Fish ID & dive site guide (iPhone/iPad app by Yevgen Sukharenko.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/red-sea-creatures/id6783286953 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Yevgen Sukharenko](https://appshunter.io/developer/6783286955)
- Category: Reference, Travel
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 37 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-06-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-05
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/red-sea-creatures/id6783286953/reviews.md

## What is Red Sea Creatures?

Red Sea Creatures is a field guide to everything that swims, hides and stings in the Red Sea: hundreds of species, the sites where you meet them, and a way to settle the argument on the boat about what that orange thing was. On iPhone, iPad and Mac.

FISHID: HAND IT A PHOTO. OR A WHOLE VIDEO.

- Feed it an underwater shot and it tells you what you saw, matched against photographs taken here, in this sea - not stock images of aquarium fish.
- Feed it a clip and it chews through the lot on your phone, finds where the picture changes and hands you the frames worth arguing about. Tap one, get a name.
- Blurry, backlit, half a fish behind a coral head? Send it anyway. That is what our photos look like too, and the answer is often still right.
- It knows one sea and nothing else, which is exactly why it gets them right. Show it your cat and it will say so.
- Five identifications a month are free. Packs that never expire, or a subscription if you dive most weeks - and what you buy belongs to your account, not to the phone in your hand.

THE CATALOGUE

- Hundreds of species - fish, sharks, rays, turtles, corals, nudibranchs - sorted by family, and in the big groups by genus, so the lookalikes stand together.
- Every card: photographs, scientific name, size, habitat, depth, behaviour, danger and venom, conservation status.
- And one fact per animal that actually sticks. Not a database dump.

THE REST OF THE KIT

- Dive sites with maps, depth, conditions and what lives at each.
- Dive centres across the Red Sea, filtered by city and country.
- Today's dive weather: air, water, wind, and whether you want the 5 mm.
- Dangerous marine life: what stings, what bites, what to do about it, who to call.
- Glossary: every technical word in the guide, in plain language.
- Blog: guides, species spotlights and stories from the reef.
- Search that understands a description, not just a name. Try "white fish black stripe yellow tail".
- Widgets on the Home and Lock Screen, the guide inside Messages, sticker packs for Telegram and WhatsApp.
- App Clip: scan a code at a dive centre and it opens without installing anything.
- Built for iPad and Mac too, light and dark.
- Optional account (Apple, Google, Facebook, Discord, X): save favourites, share your own photographs, review sites and centres.

CONSERVATION

The Red Sea is unique and it is fragile. Every card carries the conservation status of the animal on it. Look, photograph, and leave the reef the way you found it.

Free to explore. FishID gives everyone five identifications a month; packs and a subscription are there if you need more.

Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings.

Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://redseacreatures.com/privacy

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## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nudibranch Friend | $2.99 | one-time |
| Octopus Friend | $4.99 | one-time |
| Turtle Friend | $9.99 | one-time |
| Shark Friend | $19.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.1.1 — 2026-09-05

Prices you can actually read.

A dive course in Jordan comes listed at 350 JOD, and unless you live there that number means nothing at all. Now it also says about $490, in dollars, euros or pounds, whichever your phone speaks. It is a rough figure and not a quote: rates drift, and plenty of centers set their own dollar price that owes nothing to the official one. Enough, though, to tell a bargain from a splurge before you write to anybody.

Missed the last one? FishID has been naming fish from your photos for a while, and since the previous update it takes video as well: drop in a dive clip and it hands back the frames worth arguing about, already sorted out of the blue.

Below deck: edges sanded, bolts tightened.

See you in the water.

### 2.1.0 — 2026-09-02

Feed FishID your video.

Go on. That two-minute clip: blue, blue, a lionfish, blue, and something orange that left before your camera woke up. Drop it in. The app chews through the lot right there on your phone, spots every place the picture changes and hands you the frames worth arguing about: lionfish at the top, pufferfish four minutes deep. Tap one, get a name. Tap the same one tomorrow and it is still free, because answered frames stay answered.

Big categories finally fall in line. A hundred and fifty nudibranchs used to hit you as one glorious wall of slime; now they queue up by genus, each lot with a note on what makes it worth a second look.

Below deck: edges sanded, bolts tightened, a few things made quicker.

See you in the water.

### 2.0.0 — 2026-08-26

FishID: find out what you just photographed.

Pick an underwater shot from your library and we compare it against every species in the guide - photographs taken in the Red Sea, not aquarium stock. You get the closest matches with a confidence figure, each opening its full card: size, habits, and whether it is one to keep your distance from. Blurry, backlit, half a fish behind a coral head - that is what underwater photography looks like, and the answer is often still right.

Five identifications a month are free. If you need more there are packs that never expire and a subscription for regular divers, and what you buy belongs to your account rather than to the phone.

FishID has its own place in the tab bar now, and Read has moved into More.

Search understands descriptions too: try "white fish black stripe yellow tail" when the name escapes you.

Thanks for diving in with us!

### 1.6.3 — 2026-08-19

The guide has always used the real words - nematocyst, verrucotoxin, protogynous hermaphrodite.
This version explains them.

A glossary of two dozen terms, written for a diver rather than for a biologist. Why a jellyfish
that has been dead on the sand for a day still stings. Why a boxfish can afford to let you get
that close. What is actually happening when a fish "changes sex", and why the largest clownfish in
an anemone is always the female.

Every entry that describes something that can hurt you now ends with what to do in the first
minutes - including the cases where the right move is the opposite of what people usually do. Hot
water, not ice, for a stonefish spine, because that venom is a protein and heat takes it apart.
Never fresh water on a jellyfish sting, because it sets off the stinging cells still sitting on
the skin. It is first aid for the time it takes to reach a doctor, not a replacement for one.

And you no longer have to go looking. A species page now shows the terms its own description
uses: read that a boxfish releases ostracitoxin, tap the word, and the explanation opens over the
page without losing your place.

Thanks for diving in with us!

### 1.6.2 — 2026-08-11

Two new things on a species page, and a fix to who gets the credit.

How an animal breeds. Whether it scatters its eggs into open water, hides them in a nest, carries
them in its mouth or gives birth to live young. Whether it stays one sex for life, or starts male
and turns female later - which is the ordinary thing to do for a clownfish, and the reason the
biggest one in an anemone is always the mother. Every term comes with a line of plain language
underneath.

Where the name comes from. That unpronounceable Latin is usually a description, once you know
which words it is built from. A crab that walks around holding anemones in its claws is named
after the leather glove of a Roman boxer. A lionfish is simply called "soldier". We show the
meaning of both halves of the name, and name our source.

Also on a page: other names the same animal goes by, grouped by language.

And photo credits now follow the photo. A gallery shot by several people used to be signed by one
of them; each picture is now credited to whoever took it.

The species screen also reads in a better order now: the facts table comes before the long descriptions.

Thanks for diving in with us!

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