Comparison

Catchzone vs PNW Trout Stocking

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

Head to head
About

Catchzone

This app acts as a fishing guide, providing detailed information on fish seasons, regulations, and water bodies. It offers advanced features like auto-location, weather forecasts, tides, and offline access for anglers.

Highlights
  • Interactive water body maps
  • Fish season and regulation lookup
  • Auto-locating catch codes
  • Personal best tracking
  • Social feed for sharing catches
  • Local weather and tide forecasts
  • Offline map access
Features
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Catch Zone is your very own fishing guide in the palm of your hand. It has mapping features for you to scroll and look at water body’s, you can then tap on the water body and see which fish is in season and out of season for that river, lake, stream, or pond. As well as the regulations for the individual fish in that waterbody. It has a search feature from the map screen for you to look up any regulated waterbody. Your catch code will populate and you can see all the information on the water body you want to fish or are currently fishing. Catch Zone comes complete with an auto locating feature that will tell you your catch code for any waterbody in Washington or Oregon. Track your personal best with our catch tags that save to your personal profile. We have a large social feed for you to share your greatest catch and stories with the world. At the bottom of every fish screen, we have made it easy to access emergency regulations with a clickable link. Subscriptions are required for complete functionality of our app. We offer two subscriptions a monthly subscription or a yearly subscription. Both of our subscriptions give full access to our app. We have added a new weather page to our app! On the weather page you will find your local forecast, a seven day forecast, as well as Tides, River levels, stocking reports , dam counts, ocean conditions, and moon phases. Our tide feature is great it auto locates your closest station and then you can also select different locations near you or even search for any station you want to know about. We have added tips and info for every waterbody on our app. These tips and info will tell you what fish are in that waterbody, the best time to fish for them, and in some cases tell you how to set up your rod, and tell you what works best . This feature is very helpful for a new angler . It tells you where bank access is as well as where boat access is. Tons of our users have been using this feature to explore new areas! We have implemented a new offline mode on our app!!! You can open the app when you don’t have service and when you go to the map screen you can still search any waterbody and get the info you need with no service! Catch Zone is a subscription based app which means a subscription is required for access to the app and its functionality. We offer two subscriptions currently: Our yearly subscription costs 69.99 which will be billed after your 7 day free trial. Our monthly subscription costs is 9.99 which will be billed monthly after your free trial ends. Please see our End user license agreement https://app.termly.io/document/eula/cd33fe37-763d-4d8e-92b1-f2599c27511a

About

PNW Trout Stocking

Features
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Every water Oregon stocks with trout, and the week the fish are due. PNW Trout carries the waters ODFW maps for trout stocking: lakes, ponds and reservoirs across the state, with the full published schedule. When each one is due, how many fish, and what size. Follow the waters you fish. The app tells you the week each is scheduled. WHAT'S IN IT - This Week: everything going in the water statewide, with the whole season on one scrollable strip - Search that matches ODFW's own spelling. Type "pd" and every pond in the state comes back, each showing the state's shorthand - Filter by camping, boat ramp, accessible, species and water type - Sort by name, by distance, or by most fish scheduled - A map of every mapped water, colored by what's coming - Per-water detail: the schedule week by week, fish per month, amenities, species, and exactly how precise the location is SCHEDULED, NOT CONFIRMED ODFW publishes the week a water is scheduled, not the day, and fish are sometimes diverted. This app never tells you a stocking happened. It tells you what the state has planned. That distinction is visible everywhere in the interface, because a wasted drive is worse than no information at all. NO OPINIONS No reviews, no ratings, no star scores, and there never will be. Stocking counts, amenities, species and locations are facts published by the state. Whether a lake is any good is your call to make. NO ACCOUNT No sign-in. No analytics. No tracking. The waters you follow never leave your phone. Works offline once loaded. Data from the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, re-read twice a week. PNW Trout is an independent app and is not affiliated with or endorsed by ODFW.

Screenshots

Catchzone4 screens
PNW Trout Stocking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PNW Trout Stocking at none against Catchzone's 8. PNW Trout Stocking also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Catchzone's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Catchzone sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. PNW Trout Stocking asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Catchzone ships an update fortnightly, PNW Trout Stocking every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Catchzone versus PNW Trout Stocking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCatchzonePNW Trout Stocking
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFish Washington LLCJARED TAKHAR MAYHUE

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Catchzone

Subscriptions6
  • Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$7.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Month
  • Monthly Bathmetry7 Days trial$12.991 Month
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  • Yearly Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Bathmetry7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription2 variants$69.991 Year
None

PNW Trout Stocking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Catchzone free?
Catchzone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PNW Trout Stocking free?
PNW Trout Stocking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Catchzone or PNW Trout Stocking have ads?
Neither Catchzone nor PNW Trout Stocking shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Catchzone or PNW Trout Stocking?
Catchzone ships an update fortnightly, and PNW Trout Stocking every 2 days. Most recently, Catchzone was updated on November 3, 2026 and PNW Trout Stocking on October 24, 2026.

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