Comparison

STRIKER™ Cast vs Ghost Gauge

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

Head to head
About

STRIKER™ Cast

Enhance your fishing trips by wirelessly connecting your mobile device to a portable sonar unit. Visualize fish and underwater structures in real-time, with options for traditional sonar or ice fishing modes. Create custom maps and mark your favorite fishing spots for easier returns.

Highlights
  • Wireless sonar streaming up to 200'
  • Displays fish and structure in detail
  • Traditional 2-D sonar and ice fishing modes
  • Automatic setting adjustments
  • Custom map creation with 1' contours
  • Mark favorite fishing spots
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Why guess where to find fish? See exactly where they’re hiding with STRIKER™ Cast portable fishfinder and the STRIKER Cast app. This app lets you pair your mobile device with the sonar device and start fishing in minutes. Cast from shore, dock or watercraft, and reel back in to locate and display fish on your iPhone or iPad. With the STRIKER Cast GPS model, you can even create your own custom maps with 1’ contours. This app is not intended to be a standalone fishing or sonar app. • Sonar streams wirelessly from up to 200’ away • Displays fish and structure in crisp, easy-to-interpret detail • Choose from easy-to-understand traditional 2-D sonar and ice fishing flasher modes • Includes automatic setting adjustments for gain, range and more • Access maps with up to 1’ contours from the Garmin Quickdraw™ Community or create your own • Mark your favorite fishing spots so you can easily find your way back Make your first cast a STRIKER Cast. Please note: Continuous use of GPS can shorten battery life.

About

Ghost Gauge

This app displays real-time vehicle data from a compatible dash cluster via Bluetooth. It offers customizable alerts, ride logging with detailed analysis, and firmware updates for the hardware. A demo mode simulates the gauge for exploration.

Highlights
  • Live vehicle readings (temp, boost, voltage, speed)
  • Customizable caution and critical alerts
  • Time-sensitive notifications
  • Ride logging with detailed analysis
  • Firmware updates for dash cluster
  • Customizable gauge settings
Features
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Ghost Gauge is the companion app for the Ghost Gauge dash cluster, a custom gauge built for the Can-Am Maverick X3. The app needs that hardware to show real readings - but Demo mode runs the whole app against a simulated gauge, so you can see everything it does before you have one. READINGS, LIVE Belt and coolant temperature, intake air, boost, oil pressure, battery voltage, engine speed and road speed, straight off the gauge over Bluetooth. Pick Celsius or Fahrenheit, psi or bar, mph or km/h - the app converts, the gauge keeps its own numbers. ALARMS THAT REACH YOU The gauge's own caution and critical limits become notifications, and critical ones are Time Sensitive, so they arrive while your iPhone is on Do Not Disturb. The belt temperature sits on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island for the whole ride, so you don't have to take the phone out to look. RIDE LOGGING With the app open, every second of a ride is written to your device: readings, and where you were. Afterwards each ride shows the belt and coolant curve, how long each reading spent past caution and past critical, the peaks, and a map of the track coloured by belt temperature with a marker on the hottest second. The last fifty rides are kept; you can delete any of them. EVERY SETTING ON THE PANEL Alert limits typed in your own units, which screens the gauge shows and in what order, the screen it starts on, the typeface, the startup animation, dark or light colours, backlight. Change it on the phone and the panel follows. FIRMWARE IN ONE TAP New firmware for the gauge is downloaded in the background while you have signal, then installed out where you don't. The app hands the gauge over to its own WiFi, sends the file, and waits for it to come back on Bluetooth. Every release is signed, and the gauge checks the signature before it will boot one. MADE FOR IPAD On an iPad the app opens out into a full dash: a rev counter across the top, a large belt ring with coolant, oil, boost, intake air, volts and speed around it, and the last three minutes charted beside the peaks. NOTHING LEAVES YOUR DEVICE No account, no server, no analytics. The app talks to your gauge and to nothing else. Ride logs, including position, stay on your iPhone or iPad. Requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later.

Screenshots

STRIKER™ Cast4 screens
Ghost Gauge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: STRIKER™ Cast at 4.7 against Ghost Gauge's 1.0. STRIKER™ Cast also leads on ratings volume (185 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Ghost Gauge's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 16 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

STRIKER™ Cast holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: STRIKER™ Cast has 185 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

STRIKER™ Cast ships an update every 16 months, Ghost Gauge every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
STRIKER™ Cast versus Ghost Gauge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSTRIKER™ CastGhost Gauge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (185 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings185 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 16 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGarminKhalid Almohannadi

Customer experience

STRIKER™ Cast

All ratings185 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.2%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews132 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.4%

Ghost Gauge

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

STRIKER™ Cast

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App won't connect to Garmin server after restart
  • Connectivity drops within 30 meters
  • App requires login even in areas with no cell service
  • Device won't reconnect after disconnecting
  • App freezes on certain phone models
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  • Offline functionality unavailable
  • Account creation failures
  • Accuracy degradation over time
  • Requires frequent app restarts

Requested features

14 requests
  • Fish alarm audio notification
  • Split screen sonar and map view
  • Fish size estimation capability
  • Fish species identification
  • Offline map downloading
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  • Integration with Navionics app
  • Regular app updates and improvements
  • Satellite imagery layer for maps
  • Device location tracking if lost
  • Replaceable battery option
  • USB-C charging connector
  • 3D sonar visualization
  • Larger depth and temperature display
  • Lake name identification

Ghost Gauge

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

STRIKER™ Cast

No in-app purchases

None

Ghost Gauge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is STRIKER™ Cast free?
STRIKER™ Cast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ghost Gauge free?
Ghost Gauge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, STRIKER™ Cast or Ghost Gauge?
STRIKER™ Cast is rated higher. STRIKER™ Cast averages 4.7 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while Ghost Gauge averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do STRIKER™ Cast or Ghost Gauge have ads?
Neither STRIKER™ Cast nor Ghost Gauge shows ads.
Which is updated more often, STRIKER™ Cast or Ghost Gauge?
STRIKER™ Cast ships an update every 16 months, and Ghost Gauge every 10 days. Most recently, STRIKER™ Cast was updated on October 27, 2026 and Ghost Gauge on October 26, 2026.

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