Comparison

Fishes vs Teletón 2016

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

Head to head
About

Fishes

An offline identification guide for Caribbean shore-fish. It features detailed species descriptions, over 8,200 images, and a search engine to identify fish by various characteristics. Users can also create and export observation lists.

Highlights
  • Offline identification guide
  • 1,693 species covered
  • Over 8,200 images
  • Detailed species descriptions
  • Search engine for identification
  • Customizable observation lists
  • English and Spanish interfaces
Features
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An identification guide for the shore-fish fauna of the Caribbean and adjacent areas. This App is the second of a set of 2 portable identification guides for Apple touch-screen devices that will cover the shore-fish faunas of the tropical American marine regions on both sides of the central American Isthmus: the Tropical Eastern Pacific, the Greater Caribbean (Caribbean and adjacent areas). This stand-alone App, which was adapted from the 2012 website Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean: online information system (www.stri.org/sfgc), works independently of the internet. • Complete English and Spanish interfaces. Connect to the Spanish interface by setting Spanish in the language preference of your device. • Covers 1,693 species, with over 8,200 images to help identify them. Users can select to work with either the entire fauna, or with the Diver Group, a subset of 919 species that could be found within SCUBA diving depths on or adjacent to reefs in different parts of the region. • A page for each species includes a detailed description (with information on its form, color, size, habitat and depth range), 1 or more species images (primarily photographs), key-features that distinguish it from similar species, a link to a page displaying similar species, and a map of its regional range. • Browse among alphabetic lists of species and species-within-families, changing name-sorting between scientific and common (first or last) names. • A search engine uses any combination of generic common names, location, habitat, and fish features (shape, color pattern and colors) to identify fishes. • A glossary of scientific terms is linked to each species page. • The notebook module allows (1) review of recently visited species pages and (2) construction of lists that record observations about fishes. New lists can be assembled from scratch or by making blank copies of existing lists. Lists are organized in folders, and are downloadable by email. • The iPad version includes glossary images, and high resolution range maps with dots indicating site records. • New for this version: option to work with either the entire fauna or a diver subgroup; 94 more species and almost 50% more images; habitat added to the fish ID search engine.

About

Teletón 2016

Features
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Screenshots

Fishes4 screens
Teletón 20162 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Teletón 2016 at every 12 months against Fishes's every 45 months. Teletón 2016 also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). 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

Fishes ships an update every 45 months, Teletón 2016 every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fishes versus Teletón 2016: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishesTeletón 2016
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (14 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings14 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 45 monthsEvery 12 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.08.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size817 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmithsonian InstitutionNA-AT technologies

In-app purchases

None

Fishes

No in-app purchases

None

Teletón 2016

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fishes free?
Fishes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teletón 2016 free?
Teletón 2016 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Fishes or Teletón 2016 have ads?
Neither Fishes nor Teletón 2016 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fishes or Teletón 2016?
Fishes ships an update every 45 months, and Teletón 2016 every 12 months. Most recently, Fishes was updated on November 1, 2026 and Teletón 2016 on November 6, 2026.

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