GoodFish Australia vs WWF SASSI
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GoodFish Australia
This guide helps you make ocean-friendly seafood choices in Australia. It provides a traffic light sustainability ranking for various seafood types, empowering you to select sustainable options and reduce your impact on marine wildlife. The app covers most seafood available on the Australian market.
- Traffic light sustainability ranking system
- Up-to-date seafood assessments
- Search by common or standard names
- Brand recommendations for tuna
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GoodFish: Australia's Sustainable Seafood Guide is a tool to help you make an ocean-friendly choice about the seafood you eat. This is an independent Guide to choosing your seafood wisely. If you love your seafood but also love our oceans, then this is the app for you. The GoodFish guide is the leading app of its kind for Australian seafood. It covers 92% of seafood by volume on the market including those from wild-caught fisheries, fish farms and imported species. Download the Guide to access the easy to use traffic light sustainability ranking system, with Green ‘Better Choice’, Amber ‘Eat Less’ and Red ‘Say No’. The app has been developed by the Australian Marine Conservation Society (AMCS), Australia’s leading marine environmental not-for-profit in response to growing public concerns about overfishing, fish farming and our impact on our ocean wildlife. www.marineconservation.org.au Features: • Easy to use traffic light sustainability ranking system • Free, up to date seafood assessments • Search for seafood marketed under common names or Australian Standard Names • Choose the best brand of tuna from Greenpeace’s Canned Tuna Guide.
WWF SASSI
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WWF-SASSI is all about providing information! We aim to educate all participants in the seafood trade about marine conservation issues and create a market incentive to drive positive change at sea in this way. Through using our seafood list, you can know which seafood species to tuck into with a clear conscience (green), which to think twice about because of associated environmental impacts (orange), and which to avoid altogether (red). We help you make ocean-friendly seafood choices, for the love of our oceans. For more info, visit http://www.wwf.org.za/sassi.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GoodFish Australia at 4.2 against WWF SASSI's 1.0. GoodFish Australia also leads on ratings volume (64 vs 1). WWF SASSI's advantage is iOS requirement (13.4 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, 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.
GoodFish Australia holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GoodFish Australia has 64 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
GoodFish Australia ships an update every 4 months, WWF SASSI every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GoodFish Australia | WWF SASSI |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (64 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AUSTRALIAN MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC | Brand Foundry (Pty) Ltd |
Bugs and requests
GoodFish Australia
Reported bugs
13 issues- App goes off after installation
- Restaurant mapping function does not work properly
- App freezes after a selected fish is found
- App closes when typing a fish name
- Buttons don't work or go to wrong pages
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- Back buttons don't work
- Navigation buttons not working
- Can only run one query and then have to close and re-open
- App freezes and is clunky to navigate
- Back button is unresponsive
- Words in the search bar on the results page are invisible
- Home window search bar doesn't allow text insertion
- Sustainable restaurant mapping function does not work properly
Requested features
10 requests- Include sustainable shops to buy seafood from
- Add more types of code names for fish (e.g., shark fin soup, flake)
- Include a fish retailers map for availability updates
- Suggest a maximum sustainable consumption rate per week for fish types
- Add mercury levels of fish
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- Provide alternative names for fish
- Suggest alternative fish types when a choice is not sustainable
- Include information on palm oil
- Add a quick guide for pregnant Australian women with low mercury fish choices
- Assess specific brands (e.g., King Oscar sardines)
WWF SASSI
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GoodFish Australia
No in-app purchases
WWF SASSI
No in-app purchases
Questions
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