Fishbit vs CanDrives
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fishbit
This app helps aquarium hobbyists monitor and manage their fish tanks. It provides real-time data on water parameters, allows equipment control, and sends instant alerts for proactive care, ensuring a more enjoyable and secure fishkeeping experience.
- Monitor aquarium vitals
- Control aquarium equipment
- Instant alerts for critical levels
- View insightful charts and graphs
- Input water parameters (temperature, pH, salinity, etc.)
- Add aquarium livestock for insights
- Set reminders and schedules
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Fishbit is a product that helps people become better aquarists. We ensure proactive care and security, giving fish hobbyists peace of mind and a more enjoyable experience. Monitor your aquarium vitals, control your equipment, get instant alerts to your iPhone/iPad, see how your aquarium is performing, and have insightful charts and graphs delivered right to your iPhone/iPad! We believe in simple, beautiful, and useful tools and have designed our app & upcoming hardware in line with these principles. Fishbit App Functions > Input temperature, pH, salinity, nitrites, nitrates, ammonia (and so much more) as often as you want > Add your aquarium livestock into the app for insights > Add reminders and set schedules > Play with and learn from colorful & interactive graphs Fishbit App Functions (with Monitor & Controller) > Control & Monitor it all from your phone, this should take only ten minutes (not a joke!) > Obtain real time data of temperature, pH, and Salinity whether you are at home, work, or abroad (via Monitor) > Get alerts when your critical levels breach acceptable thresholds (via Monitor) and enact countermeasures (via Controller if applicable) > See how much energy you used (via Controller) > Control & Automate your 3rd party & Fishbit hardware – (Via Controller) Having trouble with your Fishbit App? Give feedback directly into the app or email hello@getfishbit.com
CanDrives
Easily donate your unreturned bottle deposits to a charity of your choice. Schedule a convenient pickup and support your favorite organizations.
- Schedule bottle deposit pickups
- Donate to chosen organizations
- Support local charities
- Convenient pickup scheduling
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Have unreturned bottle deposits!? Download the CanDrives app and donate them today to an organization of your choice by scheduling a pickup!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CanDrives at 4.0 against Fishbit's 2.8. Fishbit's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (9.1 vs 13.4). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CanDrives holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Fishbit's written reviews are positive against 50% of CanDrives's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fishbit ships an update monthly, CanDrives every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fishbit | CanDrives |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (5 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.1 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Current Labs Inc. | Can Drives, LLC |
Customer experience
Fishbit
CanDrives
In-app purchases
Fishbit
No in-app purchases
CanDrives
No in-app purchases
