FishDonkey vs Tacull
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Create diverse tournament types
- Live leaderboards with updates
- Anti-cheating technology
- Online registration and payment
- Customizable tournament rules
- Participant messaging
- Works offline
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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.)
Tacull
Compete in live catch-photo-release fishing tournaments. Submit catches with photos, length, species, and location from anywhere on the water. The leaderboard updates in real time as judges approve submissions.
- Live CPR fishing tournaments
- Offline-first catch submission
- Real-time leaderboard updates
- AI-assisted judging
- Photo-of-record provenance
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Tacull is the catch-photo-release tournament platform for serious anglers. Compete in live CPR fishing tournaments, submit catches from anywhere on the water, and watch the leaderboard update as judges approve your fish in real time. No paper scorecards. No waiting until you're back at the dock. Just photo, submit, fish on. HOW IT WORKS - Find a tournament. Browse open tournaments hosted by your favorite circuits and registered organizations. Sign your waiver and you're in. - Catch and submit. Photograph your fish on the official measuring board. Tacull captures the photo, length, species, and location. The submission queue is offline-first — sync drops, dead zones, and weak signal don't lose your catch. - Track your standing. The leaderboard updates the moment a judge approves a submission. Watch the standings shift in real time. See what species are scoring and how you stack up. BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU FISH Offline-first by design. Submit a catch in a no-service backwater and Tacull will handle the upload as soon as you're back in coverage. No catch is ever lost. Photo-of-record provenance. Every submission carries timestamp, location, and image hash for fair competition. Judges see the same data you do. AI-assisted judging. Tacull's judging pipeline pre-screens species, length, and image quality so human judges can focus on edge cases — and your catch gets approved faster. Questions or partnership inquiries: info@tacull.com Tacull is built by Stone Keep Apps LLC.
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Verdict
FishDonkey and Tacull both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 69% of FishDonkey's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tacull's. FishDonkey also leads on ratings volume (87 vs 4) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Tacull's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for FishDonkey against 4.0 for Tacull. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FishDonkey has 87 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of FishDonkey's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tacull's.
FishDonkey ships an update monthly, Tacull every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FishDonkey | Tacull |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (87 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 87 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Fishery Innovations, LLC | Stone Keep Apps LLC |
Customer experience
FishDonkey
Tacull
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
Tacull
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
FishDonkey
No in-app purchases
Tacull
No in-app purchases







