Comparison

FishVerify vs Catchzone

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FishVerify

Instantly identify fish species using your camera and access up-to-date local fishing regulations. Track your catches, log important fishing data, and store your licenses digitally. Premium features offer advanced identification, weather, and expert advice.

Highlights
  • Camera-based fish identification
  • Local fishing regulations (size, bag limits)
  • Catch logging with GPS and weather data
  • Digital wallet for fishing licenses
  • Marine weather and tide information
  • Expert fish identification assistance
Features
Currently charting
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FishVerify helps users identify hundreds of Freshwater & Saltwater fish with the click of a camera, simultaneously providing local fishing regulations. The app provides up-to-date rules & regulations on size and bag limits based on your GPS location. Check the app for supported regulation areas, new regions are being added regularly. This app includes in-app purchase options. Certain features are only available to subscribed users. • FREE FEATURES: Manually Search All Species, Fish Rules & Regulations. • FREE TRIAL: New subscribers will receive a 3-day free trial to access all premium features immediately after subscribing. You may cancel anytime. --------------------------------- FEATURES --------------------------------- With FishVerify Free Plan, you get: • LOCAL FISHING REGULATIONS - Quickly learn if your catch is in season, how many you can keep, the size limit, edibility, and much more. • REFERENCE TOOL - A must-have reference tool to identify local marine life, understand the complex and ever-changing rules and regulations and learn about marine habitats at a fraction of the cost as compared to most bulky charts and maps. Upgrade to FishVerify Premium to get even more: • IMAGE RECOGNITION [Premium Feature] - FishVerify uses the latest in image recognition and artificial intelligence to instantly identify your fish species. Just take a picture with your phone’s camera or upload an existing image to enjoy species identification within seconds. • CATCH LOG [Premium Feature] - Log your catches like the professionals. FishVerify creates a catch log and captures the GPS coordinates of each catch so you can return to the same location over and over again. The app will also capture and record current weather and water conditions including wind, air temperature, moon phase, barometric pressure, cloud coverage, water temperature, wave height, sunrise & sunset. Learn what to look for and repeat successful trends to catch more fish the next time you’re on the water. • DIGITAL WALLET [Premium Feature] - FishVerify makes it easy to securely store your fishing licenses, permits, boat insurance and more. Receive expiration notifications, and have all important information at your fingertips. • MARINE WEATHER [Premium Feature] - Real-time marine weather, tides, waves, sea temperature, solunar and more. • ASK AN EXPERT [Premium Feature] - Submit your catch to have one of our experts identify it --------------------------------- IN-APP PURCHASES --------------------------------- There are three types of subscriptions available: 1. Monthly Premium subscription (Price $ 5.99) includes a 3-day free trial - Auto-renewing 2. Yearly Premium subscription (Price $ 29.99) includes a 3-day free trial - Auto-renewing 3. Scan Pack one-time purchase (Price $ 6.99) Get 5 Scans. Non-Renewing ** Subscriptions Details: * Continue subscribing to FishVerify to access all premium features. Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account and will automatically renew each month/year within 24 hours of your subscription ending. You may cancel anytime by turning off auto renewal in your iTunes Account settings. ** Scan pack one-time purchase does not include access to all premium features. ----------------------------- ABOUT US ----------------------------- Created by experienced Florida fisherman, FishVerify began after a 2014 fishing trip turned up an unidentifiable fish species. Privacy Policy: https://fishverify.com/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://fishverify.com/tos/ Like FishVerify on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fishverify Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fishverify

About

Catchzone

This app acts as a fishing guide, providing detailed information on fish seasons, regulations, and water bodies. It offers advanced features like auto-location, weather forecasts, tides, and offline access for anglers.

Highlights
  • Interactive water body maps
  • Fish season and regulation lookup
  • Auto-locating catch codes
  • Personal best tracking
  • Social feed for sharing catches
  • Local weather and tide forecasts
  • Offline map access
Features
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Catch Zone is your very own fishing guide in the palm of your hand. It has mapping features for you to scroll and look at water body’s, you can then tap on the water body and see which fish is in season and out of season for that river, lake, stream, or pond. As well as the regulations for the individual fish in that waterbody. It has a search feature from the map screen for you to look up any regulated waterbody. Your catch code will populate and you can see all the information on the water body you want to fish or are currently fishing. Catch Zone comes complete with an auto locating feature that will tell you your catch code for any waterbody in Washington or Oregon. Track your personal best with our catch tags that save to your personal profile. We have a large social feed for you to share your greatest catch and stories with the world. At the bottom of every fish screen, we have made it easy to access emergency regulations with a clickable link. Subscriptions are required for complete functionality of our app. We offer two subscriptions a monthly subscription or a yearly subscription. Both of our subscriptions give full access to our app. We have added a new weather page to our app! On the weather page you will find your local forecast, a seven day forecast, as well as Tides, River levels, stocking reports , dam counts, ocean conditions, and moon phases. Our tide feature is great it auto locates your closest station and then you can also select different locations near you or even search for any station you want to know about. We have added tips and info for every waterbody on our app. These tips and info will tell you what fish are in that waterbody, the best time to fish for them, and in some cases tell you how to set up your rod, and tell you what works best . This feature is very helpful for a new angler . It tells you where bank access is as well as where boat access is. Tons of our users have been using this feature to explore new areas! We have implemented a new offline mode on our app!!! You can open the app when you don’t have service and when you go to the map screen you can still search any waterbody and get the info you need with no service! Catch Zone is a subscription based app which means a subscription is required for access to the app and its functionality. We offer two subscriptions currently: Our yearly subscription costs 69.99 which will be billed after your 7 day free trial. Our monthly subscription costs is 9.99 which will be billed monthly after your free trial ends. Please see our End user license agreement https://app.termly.io/document/eula/cd33fe37-763d-4d8e-92b1-f2599c27511a

Screenshots

FishVerify4 screens
Catchzone4 screens

Verdict

The call

FishVerify and Catchzone both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 80% of Catchzone's written reviews are positive against 42% of FishVerify's. FishVerify's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ratings volume (2.2K vs 3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FishVerify sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Catchzone sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for FishVerify against 4.7 for Catchzone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FishVerify has 2.2K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of FishVerify's written reviews are positive against 80% of Catchzone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FishVerify ships an update monthly, Catchzone fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
FishVerify versus Catchzone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishVerifyCatchzone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.2K ratings)4.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.8% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.2K — better3
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#120 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size152 MB166 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFishVerify LLCFish Washington LLC

Customer experience

FishVerify

All ratings2,183 ratings
Positive90.1%
Neutral1.8%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive41.8%
Neutral5.9%
Negative52.4%

Catchzone

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%

Bugs and requests

FishVerify

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Camera functionality issues or crashes
  • Inability to cancel subscriptions easily
  • Incorrect or missing regulation information

Requested features

4 requests
  • Offline mode for remote fishing areas
  • Expanded species coverage, especially for regional fish
  • Ability to manually add/edit fish entries
  • Integration with other fishing apps or platforms

Catchzone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

FishVerify

Subscriptions8
  • FishVerify Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • FishVerify Premium$5.991 Month
  • FishVerify Premium3 Days trial$20.993 Months
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  • FishVerify Annual Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Annual Promo$29.991 Year
  • Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
  • FishVerify Annual Subscription2 variants$29.991 Year
  • FishVerify Premium3 Days trial$47.991 Year
One-time2
  • Scan Pack$2.99
  • Scan Pack$6.99
6 purchases

Catchzone

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Bathmetry7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Bathmetry7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription2 variants$69.991 Year

Questions

Is FishVerify free?
FishVerify is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Catchzone free?
Catchzone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, FishVerify or Catchzone?
Catchzone is rated higher. FishVerify averages 4.6 out of 5 from 2.2K ratings, while Catchzone averages 4.7 from 3 ratings.
Do FishVerify or Catchzone have ads?
Neither FishVerify nor Catchzone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FishVerify or Catchzone?
FishVerify ships an update monthly, and Catchzone fortnightly. Most recently, FishVerify was updated on September 26, 2026 and Catchzone on August 6, 2026.

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