CrabGear vs Dauntless OBD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CrabGear
This app helps West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery captains report lost fishing gear recovery. Recovery Captains in participating ports can log the location and time of recovered gear.
- Report lost fishing gear recovery
- Log location of recovered gear
- Log time of recovered gear
- Support West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery efforts
- Participating port captain functionality
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CrabGear supports supports the efforts of the West Coast Dungeness Crab Fishery to collect lost fishing gear. Recovery Captains in participating ports can use this mobile application to report where and when gear are recovered.
Dauntless OBD
Configure your DauntlessOBD device wirelessly. Access vehicle data streams, diagnostic trouble codes, and manage firmware updates. Requires a DauntlessOBD device for full functionality.
- Wireless pairing
- Firmware updates
- Vehicle data streams
- Diagnostic trouble codes
- Device configuration
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Official configuration app for the DauntlessOBD device. This app will help you with wireless pairing, firmware updates, and common vehicle data streams and diagnostic trouble codes. A DauntlessOBD device from Dauntless Devices LLC is required to use this app. Other devices are not supported.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Dauntless OBD at every 3 weeks against CrabGear's every 16 months. Dauntless OBD also leads on ratings volume (12 vs 1). 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 — 5.0 for CrabGear against 5.0 for Dauntless OBD. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dauntless OBD has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CrabGear ships an update every 16 months, Dauntless OBD every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrabGear | Dauntless OBD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Nature Conservancy | Dauntless Devices LLC |
Customer experience
CrabGear
Dauntless OBD
In-app purchases
CrabGear
No in-app purchases
Dauntless OBD
No in-app purchases
