Comparison

FishDonkey vs Fishtechy

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

Head to head
About

FishDonkey

Easily create and manage various types of fishing tournaments, from catch and release to competitive leagues. Features include live leaderboards, anti-cheating technology, and flexible customization options for organizers and participants.

Highlights
  • Create diverse tournament types
  • Live leaderboards with updates
  • Anti-cheating technology
  • Online registration and payment
  • Customizable tournament rules
  • Participant messaging
  • Works offline
Features
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Create and run fishing tournaments on a mobile phone: Catch and release,traditional tournaments by weight or length. You can run bracket (playoff style) head to head tournaments, multi day (Day 1 + Day 2 + Day 3), points based tournaments, photo or video. This is the best and easiest platform with the most options for running your event. FishDonkey is the Future of Tournament Fishing®. Conservation is an important aspect of tournament fishing. Not only do we enable our users to run fun and exciting fishing tournaments, but we also help conserve the fishery on your local lake. The app includes: - Online payment, online registration. - Live leaderboards with exciting updates all day long. - Anti-cheating technology (TM). - Digital Livewell®. - Boat Check-ins and Livewell Checks. - Cheating/fraud prevention tools. - Date and time stamped photos and videos. - Flexible tournament creation allows you to customize your tournament. Best at Tournament Creation The FishDonkey app has built in options to help you create and run an automated tournament just the way you want. Create a variety of tournament options such as biggest fish, largest stringer of fish, grand slam, multispecies tournaments, wildcard, or custom names. You can run a tournament anywhere. Specify any length of time, an hour, a month… easily define and manage the start and end dates. Track daily or weekly winners. Highlighted Features Works without an internet connection. Prevents cheating in catch and release tournaments. Send any participant (or all) messages by email, text, or phone call from the app. Enter your sponsors, prizes, rules, logos and welcome message. Define multiple divisions for children, kayak, boat fishing, angler, co-angler, etc. Potential uses Local fishing leagues World-wide tournaments High School Tournament Trail Team practice sessions Ice fishing tournaments, boat tournaments, shore tournaments, team tournaments Multi-species tournaments Tournaments with divisions (veterans, children, etc.) Cost It is free to create a tournament. Anglers pay a small fee when they join. (All pricing policies are subject to change.)

About

Fishtechy

This app uses AI to measure fish length, girth, and estimated weight, identify species, and create a digital journal. It helps reduce fish handling time for healthier releases and supports conservation efforts by allowing anonymous data sharing with fisheries science organizations.

Highlights
  • AI fish measurement (length, girth, weight)
  • Automatic species identification
  • Private digital catch journal
  • Anonymous data sharing for conservation
  • Online fishing contests and challenges
  • Trip tracking (miles, route, elevation)
Features
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AI measures your catch's length, girth and estimated weight, identifies the species, and creates a private digital journal — all in seconds. Proof, Not Guesswork No board, no tape, no guessing. A Proof Ball or Proof Bar in frame is all the app needs. Snap a photo or record a video and the numbers are waiting when you're done. Reduce Fish Handling Measure it. Release it. Faster. Less time out of the water means a healthier fish and a healthier fishery — a practical addition to any angler's gear, from bass boats to fly rods. The Most Accurate Way to Digitally Measure Fish Proof products give the AI a known dimension to measure against, so length and girth are verified measurements, not estimates. Weight is calculated from length and girth and always labeled as an estimate. Used correctly, nothing on your phone measures a fish more accurately. Support Conservation Every catch can count for science — only if you say so. Choose to share your catch data anonymously, without precise location, with vetted fisheries science organizations like NOAA to help protect the waters you fish. Never automatic, and you can withdraw at any time. Digital Journal & Automatic Species ID AI identifies your fish and logs species, size, location, time and weather to a private digital journal and map of your catches. No manual data entry. All your catch data in one place. Online Contests & Challenges Create or join fishing tournaments using your real catches. Compete privately with friends or publicly with anglers around the world. Catches can be scored as a percent of their world record, so you can compete fairly even when you're catching different species. Real catches. Digital leaderboards. For Your Whole Trip Fishtechy’s Story Mode tracks your entire trip, including miles walked or floated, a map of your route, elevation gained, and fish caught along the way. Track the whole trip with the Fishtechy app Your Data, Your Call Your catch data stays under your control. Nothing is shared with scientists or anyone else without your explicit consent. The proof is in the ball. Download the free Fishtechy app today.

Screenshots

FishDonkey4 screens
Fishtechy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fishtechy at 4.4 against FishDonkey's 4.0. Fishtechy also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). FishDonkey's advantage is review sentiment (69% vs 39%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.4). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fishtechy holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 87 and 194 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 69% of FishDonkey's written reviews are positive against 39% of Fishtechy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FishDonkey ships an update monthly, Fishtechy every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
FishDonkey versus Fishtechy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishDonkeyFishtechy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (87 ratings)4.4 (194 ratings) — better
Positive reviews68.9% of reviews — better39.0% of reviews
Number of ratings87194 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.4
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB237 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFishery Innovations, LLCFutrix, L.L.C

Customer experience

FishDonkey

All ratings86 ratings
Positive73.3%
Neutral2.3%
Negative24.4%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive68.9%
Neutral4.4%
Negative26.7%

Fishtechy

All ratings194 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral4.6%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive39.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative51.2%

Bugs and requests

FishDonkey

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Video portion crashes
  • Bump board ad close button is hidden
  • Server crashes
  • Digital live well not allowing fish entry
  • Cannot check results/leaderboards if not the payer
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  • App won't move past divisions during setup
  • App did not work for multiple users

Requested features

6 requests
  • Easier one-handed camera controls
  • Local/private tournament setup option
  • Camera picture delay function for solo fishing
  • Geographic specific feature for tournament search
  • Add more countries and fish species
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  • Improve boat education about AIS

Fishtechy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

FishDonkey

No in-app purchases

None

Fishtechy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FishDonkey free?
FishDonkey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fishtechy free?
Fishtechy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, FishDonkey or Fishtechy?
Fishtechy is rated higher. FishDonkey averages 4.0 out of 5 from 87 ratings, while Fishtechy averages 4.4 from 194 ratings.
Do FishDonkey or Fishtechy have ads?
Neither FishDonkey nor Fishtechy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FishDonkey or Fishtechy?
FishDonkey ships an update monthly, and Fishtechy every 5 days. Most recently, FishDonkey was updated on November 2, 2026 and Fishtechy on November 7, 2026.

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