Fishing Points vs SurfCheck
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fishing Points
This app helps anglers find the best times and locations to fish by providing detailed forecasts for tides, moon phases, weather, and marine conditions. It offers interactive maps to discover and save fishing spots, track routes, and access offline nautical charts, along with a catch logbook and fishing regulations.
- Fishing forecasts (tides, moon, weather, solunar)
- Detailed fishing maps (satellite, nautical, lake depth)
- Save and discover fishing spots and routes
- Offline nautical chart access
- Catch logbook and fishing rules
- Hourly feeding times and fish activity
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Download all-in-one fishing app already connecting more than 12 million anglers worldwide. Fishing Points is fishing forecasts and maps app, made for beginner-, seasoned-, and pro anglers to discover new fishing spots, understand best fishing times and catch more fish. Suitable for both salt and freshwater anglers on open seas, lakes or rivers. Explore our detailed fishing forecasts to discover the best fishing times for your location. Understand how fish brain works by analyzing fishing tides, moon phases, marine forecasts, solunar and weather forecasts. We show current conditions and forecasts for temperature, rain probability, rain intensity, wind speed, gusts, wind directions and air pressure all in one app. To know where to fish, explore four different fishing map types, save and discover fishing spots, favorite locations, trotlines, and trolling paths. Access detailed satellite fishing maps, worldwide nautical charts, or use offline mode with marine nautical maps for boating (NOAA). View seagrass, oyster beds, mangrove layers, and now detailed lake maps with depth and contour charts - perfect for spotting drop-offs, channels, and structure (available in select states: Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and Washington). Revisit your trips with a private catch logbook, check bag limits and fishing rules, and learn what works to maximize your next trip! FEEDING TIMES FORECAST - Hourly feeding times with strong major and minor time intervals - Daily fish activity - Best fishing times calendar for bass and other popular species - Customizable smart notifications on days with feeding times FIND YOUR LOCATIONS - Save fishing spots, locations, hotspots and waypoints - Record trolling paths and trotlines - Save your favorite locations with more than 40 icons and 10 colors - Find saved locations with GPS - The only fishing app with worldwide access to nautical maps - Offline mode with nautical charts provided by NOAA - Get information and quickly locate more than 50.000 boat ramps worldwide - Seagrass, oyster beds, mangroves map layers - Compass - Measure distances FISHING WEATHER - Accurate current fishing weather conditions with hourly forecast for humidity, precipitation probability, UV index - Wind forecast including wind speed, gusts and direction - Current fishing barometer with hourly air pressure forecast - Severe live weather alerts - Rain radar RIVER DATA - Current water levels & flows for 35k+ river stations TIDES FOR FISHING - Hourly tides for fishing charts with information on the next high and low tides - Tide prediction charts with detailed tidal current - Tides overview forecasts with daily highest and lowest tides MARINE FORECAST - Hourly waves forecast (waves, swell, wind waves) - Sea temperature (SST) - Sea and ocean currents data SOLUNAR DATA - Sunrise and sunset times - Sun positions - Moonrise and moonset times - Moon positions - Moon phases SYNC DATA - Access your saved data across all your computer and mobile devices. - Use Webapp to plan and analyze fishing trips on your computer. Try Webapp on https://web.fishingpoints.app FISH RULES AND FISH SPECIES - Information on fish species including bass, trout, snapper, snook, drum, grouper, catfish etc. - Fish rules and regulations on bag limits and open seasons for selected US States (Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana) CATCH LOG - Create a fishing log and save the details of every catch (photos, weight, length) - Weather, solunar and tide information are added automatically to your catches SHARE - Import kmz or gpx files from GPS devices or other apps - Share your locations with friends - Share catch photos with your fellow anglers In case of questions, comments or suggestions, please send us a note to support@fishingpoints.app. Happy fishing! Privacy policy: https://fishingpoints.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://fishingpoints.app/terms
SurfCheck
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SurfCheck is a mobile surf application that helps solve the problem of inaccurate surf report data in Bali Indonesia. SurfCheck puts the power in the hands of the surf community, by giving them the ability to upload videos of the surf. This gives surfers in Bali Indonesia the opportunity to have the most accurate representation of the actual surf. With this interactive live surf forecast app the Bali surf community can check the surf any single minute during the day. Surfing in Bali will get easier from now on! Bali surf forecast websites do not match the real Bali surfing conditions and surf webcams mostly don’t work or have bad quality footage. Also, many surfing spots in Bali don’t even have any webcams. SurfCheck will let the Bali surf community to constantly check live surf reports from all of the common Bali surf spots and beaches. Posting a Surf Report: Bali Surfing users can post reports at the surf spots live in this App, simply pressing the record button for a few seconds. This collaboration provides other users to check and see these surf reports and get the live surf forecast about Bali Surf conditions anytime and from anywhere almost live. SurfCheck will provide the users with credits for their collaboration. Posting a surf report provides the user with credits. With these credits Bali surfers will be able to watch surf reports from the other users. No more wasting time driving to the surf spots without precise information about the surf conditions. Bali surfing spots favourite filter menu: SurfCheck will let you post a surf report of the spot you are at right now. Opening the Bali surfing spot menu, Bali surfers are able to choose their favourite spots they usually surf at. The “favourite surf spots” filters the surf reports and will show you the surf reports of your favourite surf spots automatically. Other surf reports from other surfing spots will not be shown and will be filtered out. This way you can check the surf of only the spots you love. SurfCheck ratings: Bali Surfers can evaluate the surf conditions of the surf spots by adding audio to their recording and can add text to describe the surf. This will result in accurate Bali surf conditions that are clear and easy to understand. Rating the surf conditions live will help the users to get essential information right at the moment. SurfCheck vision: Because SurfCheck is still a young surf start-up there will be room for lots of improvements in the near future. Think of community video rating, offline recording, community surf spot suggestions, location awareness to automatically detect the spot where the user is, maps integration, online surf date to cross reference with the reports, AI machine learning to recognize surf spots based on video footage, report quality and much more. Stay tuned and let’s get surfing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SurfCheck at none against Fishing Points's 12. SurfCheck also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Fishing Points's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks) and chart position (#86 vs unranked). On price and device support 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. Fishing Points sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. SurfCheck asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fishing Points ships an update fortnightly, SurfCheck every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fishing Points | SurfCheck |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #86 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 223 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fishing Points d.o.o. | Code-Remote B.V. |
Bugs and requests
Fishing Points
Reported bugs
3 issues- Nautical map no longer showing current location
- Tide times not accurate for some areas
- App crashing or not loading properly
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to search for fishing locations
- Integration with fish identification tools
- Custom alerts for ideal fishing conditions
- Offline map access
- Improved syncing between devices
SurfCheck
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fishing Points
- Premium3 variants$9.991 Month
- Premium7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
- Basic Premium$29.991 Year
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- Premium1 Year trial2 variants$49.991 Year
- Advanced Premium2 variants$49.991 Year
- Yearly Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
SurfCheck
No in-app purchases









