Comparison

Fish Mapping vs Navigate the Past

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

Head to head
About

Fish Mapping

This app provides detailed fishing recommendations and environmental data to help anglers find the best spots for bait and game fish. It displays information like plankton strength, sea surface temperature, and ocean currents to optimize fishing trips.

Highlights
  • Fishing Recommendations
  • Weed Lines
  • Plankton Front Strength
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Sub-Surface Temperatures
  • Sea Surface Height Anomalies
  • Ocean Currents
Features
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The Fish Mapping App delivers advanced, science-based fishing intelligence directly to your mobile device or desktop, helping you plan smarter and fish more efficiently. With the latest upgrades, the App now offers an enhanced experience with powerful new tools and expanded data layers designed to help anglers quickly identify fishing areas where conditions are best for bait fish to gather and where game fish are most likely to hunt. With the Fish Mapping App, anglers can view the following features on their mobile or desktop devices: • AI Hot Zones (updated daily) • Oceanographer Fish Recommendations (updated twice weekly) • Ocean data layers – Sea Temperatures, Plankton, Currents, Salinity, Thermocline (updated daily) • Altimetry & True-Color imaging (updated daily) • Bathymetry TWO WAYS TO GET FISH MAPPING • Download and then subscribe in the app for App-Only plan. Choose Annual Mobile, Annual Mobile + Desktop, or 1-Week Mobile + Desktop. • Already a SiriusXM Marine Fish Mapping satellite subscriber? Download and then activate the app with your receiver's Radio ID. The app is included with your satellite subscription. Note: SiriusXM Marine weather features are not available on the Fish Mapping App. Download the Fish Mapping App now and start using it on your Mobile or desktop devices to help plan your next fishing trip! App requires internet access. Learn more at siriusxm.com/fishmapping -------------------------- APP-ONLY PLAN OFFER DETAILS Choose either a 1-week or annual Fish Mapping App subscription plan. The 1-week plans do not renew and will end at the end of the stated term. If selecting an annual plan, service will AUTOMATICALLY RENEW each year at the then-current annual rate plus appl. tax, until you cancel. Cancel at least 24 hours before your renewal date in your Apple account (Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions) to avoid future charges. Cancellation is effective at the end of your then-current term. No refunds/credits unless permitted by Apple. App-only plans do not include satellite service. Internet access required. All fees, content, and features are subject to change. Service not available in AK or HI. SATELLITE SUBSCRIBERS Access to the app may take up to 24 hours from subscription activation to process. Satellite subscriptions require a compatible satellite-enabled device. App subscribers on a Mobile-only plan are limited to two (2) mobile devices. App subscribers on a Mobile + Desktop plan are limited to two (2) devices in any of the following combinations: 2 mobile devices, or 2 desktop devices, or 1 mobile and 1 desktop device. Changing to new devices can take up to 24 hours. Internet access is required for the Fish Mapping App. Data rates may apply. The SiriusXM Fish Mapping® App is administered by OceanBytes Holding LLC. Fish Mapping App Privacy Policy: www.siriusxm.com/fish-mapping-privacy-policy Terms of Use (SiriusXM Customer Agreement): www.siriusxm.com/customer-agreement

About

Navigate the Past

Explore historical topographic maps of the United States overlaid with modern map data. Track your location, record routes, and compare old trails with current landscapes. Ideal for outdoor adventures where cell service is unavailable.

Highlights
  • Historical topographic map collection
  • GPS tracking and route recording
  • Offline map downloads
  • Overlay historical maps on modern views
  • GPX export for recorded tracks
  • Timeline view of map printings
Features
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The USGS has been mapping the same ground over and over since the 1880s, and every printing survives as a scan. Navigate the Past puts all of them in one stack, oldest at the bottom, and hands you a GPS so you can go and stand on a trail that stopped being drawn in 1957. EVERY PRINTING, NOT JUST AN OLD MAP Pick a spot and the timeline shows one tick per printing, in lanes by series: 7.5 minute, 15 minute, 1:100,000 and 1:250,000. Some quadrangles have fifteen printings between 1900 and 1975. Drag across the lane and they run as a flipbook, so the contours hold still while everything people built moves. A PRINTING IS NOT A SURVEY The card tells you which. "Printed 1959 from the 1954 plate, 5 years on. Nothing here was checked in the field after 1954." That is the difference between a trail that existed in 1959 and one that existed in 1954 and was still being reprinted for another decade. WALK IT Follow mode, heading up, your position in degrees and minutes, and track recording that keeps going with the screen off so a long day comes back as one continuous line. Export it as GPX. OFFLINE MAPS, PLURAL Save as many as you like. Each one keeps the printing you are looking at over the ground on screen, several zoom levels deep, and appears in a list with its size and its own delete button. The backcountry has no signal, which is rather the point. IS IT STILL THERE Tap the eye and the old paper lifts away to the modern map or satellite imagery, so you can see whether a route someone drew in 1911 is still a line in the trees. Tap it again and the sheet comes back. Sheets come from the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection. Reference layers are Apple Maps and the USGS National Map. Coverage is the United States.

Screenshots

Fish Mapping4 screens
Navigate the Past4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Navigate the Past at 5.0 against Fish Mapping's 4.2. Navigate the Past also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3). Fish Mapping's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). 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. Fish Mapping sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $199.00 per year. Navigate the Past asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Navigate the Past holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fish Mapping has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fish Mapping versus Navigate the Past: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish MappingNavigate the Past
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperOceanBytes Holding LLCRyan Sajdak

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Fish Mapping

Subscriptions2
  • Annual Mobile$199.001 Year
  • Annual Mobile + Desktop$299.001 Year
One-time1
  • 1-Week Mobile + Desktop$24.99
None

Navigate the Past

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fish Mapping free?
Fish Mapping is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Navigate the Past free?
Navigate the Past is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fish Mapping or Navigate the Past?
Navigate the Past is rated higher. Fish Mapping averages 4.2 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Navigate the Past averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fish Mapping or Navigate the Past have ads?
Neither Fish Mapping nor Navigate the Past shows ads.

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