Comparison

FishingGuide vs Visual LightPad

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

Head to head
About

FishingGuide

Master the fundamentals of fishing with easy-to-follow, illustrated guides. Record your fishing adventures by marking your catches directly on a map.

Highlights
  • Illustrated fishing tutorials
  • Catch tracking on map
  • Basic fishing techniques
  • Map pin placement for catches
Features
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Learn the basics of fishing with simple, illustrated tutorials! Keep track of your catches by placing pins on your map!

About

Visual LightPad

Features
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Visual LightPad creates a bright illuminated surface for developing visual perceptual and visual motor skills in people with visual impairment. It's a cheaper alternative to expensive, dedicated hardware visual impairment light boxes. Think of it as a digital light box! Adjust Visual LightPad's brightness and color, then place semi transparent toys, numbers or letters on the iPad's screen. Where colors become difficult, open the color picker and change the background color to something that accentuates the toys. Where hardware light boxes can be associated with work, iPads tend to be associated with play. Visual LightPad helps develop awareness to color and light, but using objects also helps in the development of visual perceptual skills, hand eye coordination, and both visual scanning and tracking. Visual LightPad can also be used for; - Reading content printed onto acetate - Providing a reading backlight when paper documents are placed on top of it - Photo negative illumination - Sensory / mood lighting Visual LightPad is purposefully easy to use and relatively low on features. It supports presets for easy saving and recall of preferred settings. It is designed to run on iPad, but also runs on iPhone - meaning you can keep a small light box in your pocket at all times.

Screenshots

FishingGuide3 screens
Visual LightPad1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Visual LightPad at weekly against FishingGuide's every 45 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FishingGuide ships an update every 45 months, Visual LightPad weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 27, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
FishingGuide versus Visual LightPad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishingGuideVisual LightPad
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 45 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerheirong LtdAW Games

In-app purchases

None

FishingGuide

No in-app purchases

None

Visual LightPad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FishingGuide free?
FishingGuide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Visual LightPad free?
Visual LightPad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FishingGuide or Visual LightPad have ads?
Neither FishingGuide nor Visual LightPad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FishingGuide or Visual LightPad?
FishingGuide ships an update every 45 months, and Visual LightPad weekly. Most recently, FishingGuide was updated on August 27, 2026 and Visual LightPad on September 17, 2026.

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