ADFG vs Salmon Finder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ADFG
This app provides Alaska hunters and anglers with essential information and services for planning trips and managing their activities. Access licenses, permits, and big game tags digitally, view regulations, and record harvests directly from your mobile device.
- Digital licenses and permits
- Big game locking-tag records
- Hunting regulations
- Record harvests
- Sport fish identification guide
- Offline map and regulation downloads
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The Alaska Department of Fish & Game realizes that people are now accustomed to carrying a lot of information and credentials on their mobile device. This mobile app is designed for anglers and hunters in Alaska and designed to enhance pre-trip planning and in-field experience. It provides access to the information and services needed to follow applicable hunting and fishing regulations. Currently, that includes the following: • Display licenses, permits and big game locking-tag records – The mobile app allows you to purchase and view your hunting, fishing, trapping, and most combination licenses. You can also obtain big game locking-tag records, commercial crewmember licenses, hunting permits, harvest tickets, and some personal use fishing permits. All licenses, permits, and big game locking-tag records are valid to carry and display to enforcement in the field on your mobile device. • View Hunting and sport fishing regulations – The mobile app allows you to view all current hunting regulations (including some personal use regulations) for the entire state. Additionally, you can view hunting regulations based on your physical location, search locations statewide, and download maps and regulations for offline use. In the future, the mobile app will include support for sport fishing regulations. • Record Harvest – The mobile app allows you to record hunting and fishing harvests in the field and report some personal use fishing harvests. • Sport fish species identification – Additional features include separate sections for a species identification guide complete with images and text descriptions of commonly targeted sport fish species; definitions, regional and statewide methods and means, prohibited acts and other necessary regulatory content that is not displayed at site specific or sub-levels.
Salmon Finder
Stay updated on salmon counts in Alaska with this app. It provides a user-friendly map and graph view of fish counts from the Department of Fish and Game, sending notifications when data is updated during the fishing season.
- Geography-based fish counts
- Updated from Alaska's Department of Fish and Game
- Map and graph view
- Notifications for updated counts
- Supports spring, summer, and fall seasons
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Salmon Finder presents a geography-based method for keeping up to date with fish counts during the spring, summer, and fall fishing season. No more searching for the spreadsheet on a website, Salmon Finder will keep you updated with the current counts from Alaska's Department of Fish and Game, with an easy to read map-and-graph view, along with notifications for updated counts during the season. Privacy: https://salmonfinder.com/privacypolicy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Salmon Finder at 100% against ADFG's 23%. Salmon Finder also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.5). ADFG's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (100 vs 2). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Salmon Finder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. ADFG asks for nothing beyond the download.
Salmon Finder holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ADFG has 100 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 23% of ADFG's written reviews are positive against 100% of Salmon Finder's.
ADFG ships an update every 5 weeks, Salmon Finder monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ADFG | Salmon Finder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (100 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 100 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 140 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Department of Fish & Game | Devious Panda, Ltd |
Customer experience
ADFG
Salmon Finder
Bugs and requests
ADFG
Reported bugs
27 issues- Login issues
- Sync errors
- App crashes
- Harvest report submission crashes
- Map crashes
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- Identity provider sign-in failure
- Login with Google fails
- Can't create account
- MyAlaska login issues
- Support link not working
- Can't change address
- Harvest not properly recorded
- Can't download maps
- Regs require WiFi
- Clunky and glitchy
- Login with Facebook issues
- Spinning wheel of death on login
- Google login button disappears
- Can't upload permanent licenses
- App doesn't open
- Login adds @myalaskaprod.local to username
- Email confirmation not received
- Randomly logs out and can't log back in
- MyAlaska login adds @myalaskaprod.local
- Doesn't show current license
- Login unavailable for Google
- App won't download/load
Requested features
13 requests- More push notifications for dates
- Push notifications for emergency orders
- Commercial announcements and regs
- Permit card digital storage
- Separate app for commercial fishing
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- Hunting draw tag information import
- Tide charts
- Option to skip login for regs access
- Add hunting permits picked up locally
- Auto-populate permits
- Link online purchases to app
- Mapping function in fishing
- Emergency Orders and updates via app
Salmon Finder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ADFG
No in-app purchases
Salmon Finder
- Annual subscription$24.991 Year
- Salmon Finder Tip $9.99$9.99
- Support Salmonfinder ($24.99)$24.99









