Comparison

Fishing Points vs Catchzone

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

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

Fishing Points4 screens
Catchzone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Fishing Points at free with in-app purchases against Catchzone's subscription. Fishing Points also leads on ratings volume (31K vs 3) and chart position (#88 vs unranked). Catchzone's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Fishing Points sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 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 — 4.7 for Fishing Points against 4.7 for Catchzone. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fishing Points has 31K ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Fishing Points's written reviews are positive against 80% of Catchzone's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fishing Points ships an update every 3 weeks, Catchzone fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fishing Points versus Catchzone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishing PointsCatchzone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (31K ratings)4.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews64.7% of reviews80.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings31K — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
Best chart rank#88 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size221 MB166 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFishing Points d.o.o.Fish Washington LLC

Customer experience

Fishing Points

All ratings30,887 ratings
Positive91.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews815 reviews
Positive64.7%
Neutral8.6%
Negative26.7%

Catchzone

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

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

Catchzone

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Fishing Points

Subscriptions7
  • Premium3 variants$9.991 Month
  • Premium7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Basic Premium$29.991 Year
Show 4 more
  • 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
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 Fishing Points free?
Fishing Points 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, Fishing Points or Catchzone?
Fishing Points and Catchzone are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 31K and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Fishing Points or Catchzone have ads?
Fishing Points shows ads; Catchzone does not.
Which is updated more often, Fishing Points or Catchzone?
Fishing Points ships an update every 3 weeks, and Catchzone fortnightly. Most recently, Fishing Points was updated on September 26, 2026 and Catchzone on August 6, 2026.

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