Comparison

Fishtechy vs Fly Tying Simulator

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

Head to head
About

Fishtechy

This app uses AI to measure fish length, girth, and estimated weight, identify species, and create a digital journal of your catches. It helps reduce fish handling time and supports conservation efforts by allowing anonymous data sharing with fisheries science organizations.

Highlights
  • AI fish measurement (length, girth, weight)
  • Automatic species identification
  • Private digital catch journal
  • Anonymous data sharing for conservation
  • Online fishing contests and challenges
  • Trip tracking (miles, route, elevation)
Features
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AI measures your catch's length, girth and estimated weight, identifies the species, and creates a private digital journal — all in seconds. Proof, Not Guesswork No board, no tape, no guessing. A Proof Ball or Proof Bar in frame is all the app needs. Snap a photo or record a video and the numbers are waiting when you're done. Reduce Fish Handling Measure it. Release it. Faster. Less time out of the water means a healthier fish and a healthier fishery — a practical addition to any angler's gear, from bass boats to fly rods. The Most Accurate Way to Digitally Measure Fish Proof products give the AI a known dimension to measure against, so length and girth are verified measurements, not estimates. Weight is calculated from length and girth and always labeled as an estimate. Used correctly, nothing on your phone measures a fish more accurately. Support Conservation Every catch can count for science — only if you say so. Choose to share your catch data anonymously, without precise location, with vetted fisheries science organizations like NOAA to help protect the waters you fish. Never automatic, and you can withdraw at any time. Digital Journal & Automatic Species ID AI identifies your fish and logs species, size, location, time and weather to a private digital journal and map of your catches. No manual data entry. All your catch data in one place. Online Contests & Challenges Create or join fishing tournaments using your real catches. Compete privately with friends or publicly with anglers around the world. Catches can be scored as a percent of their world record, so you can compete fairly even when you're catching different species. Real catches. Digital leaderboards. For Your Whole Trip Fishtechy’s Story Mode tracks your entire trip, including miles walked or floated, a map of your route, elevation gained, and fish caught along the way. Track the whole trip with the Fishtechy app Your Data, Your Call Your catch data stays under your control. Nothing is shared with scientists or anyone else without your explicit consent. The proof is in the ball. Download the free Fishtechy app today.

About

Fly Tying Simulator

Design and catalog custom fishing flies in detailed 3D. Explore a vast library of materials and tying styles, or follow guided tutorials to learn new techniques. Share your creations and discover patterns from a global community.

Highlights
  • Detailed 3D fly creation
  • Extensive material library
  • Guided tying tutorials
  • Freeform design mode
  • Save and catalog flies
  • Community sharing and discovery
Features
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Fly Tying Simulator allows you to create new fly patterns, catalog your favorite flies, and share your creations with the community. You create your flies in detailed 3D, choosing from a huge variety of materials, and view your flies from any angle as you create them. Fly Tying Simulator offers guided tying mode, walking through the steps to create many styles of flies, from Catskill dry flies to bead-head nymphs, marabou streamers, married wing wet flies, Tenkara flies and more. In guided mode you choose your materials for each component of the fly in the order you would add them in the real world. It’s a great teaching tool for new fly tiers. In non-guided mode you’re free to add any components of any materials in any order. This gives you the freedom to explore new ideas for countless flies quickly and easily. The material selection is broad: • A large assortment of hook styles • Round and conic beads in metallic and painted colors • Dozens of colors of thread • Dry fly, wet fly and schlappen hackles • More than 20 natural hackle colors • More than 50 dyed solid hackle colors • Grizzly and badger hackles in more than 50 dyed colors • Natural and dyed partridge feathers • Quill feather sections in natural colors and many dyed colors • Other feathers like grouse, guinea hen, pheasant, etc. • Marabou and CDC in over 50 colors • Wire, oval and flat tinsel for metallic bodies and ribs • Chenille and yarn in basic and reflective colors • A wide variety of floss • Stripped hackle stems and peacock quills • Dubbing in a wide variety of natural and dyed colors • Elk hair in natural colors • Deer hair in natural and dyed colors • Bucktail, squirrel tail, calf tail • Peacock and ostrich herl, plus peacock sword As you create flies you’ll pick from a wide assortment of fly components, and different styles for each of them. For example, just within dry fly wings you can choose: • Paired upright wings • Parachute posts • Comparadun hair wings • Down wings • Spent wings • Cripple wings • Caddis front wings Within each you can pick the perfect material and color. You can also customize most components. You can select a different hackle size and a thicker or more sparse application. When adding dubbing you can pick the fiber length, coarseness and shape it in a taper, flat, reverse taper, double taper, etc. You can even combine multiple colors in the same component. That includes mixing any combination of dubbing colors, wedding quill sections for multi-colored wings, stacking layers of bucktail on a streamer, etc. You can save all the flies you create and sort them by name, style, or creation date. You can view the recipe, reload the fly, give them your own star ratings, and even watch the flies get tied again. You also get access to flies created by the community. You can add any published fly to your own collection, and publish the flies you create yourself. Fly Tying Simulator is also available as a feature of the Complete Package in Fly Fishing Simulator HD. There you have all the same features, and can also use your flies to fish in the simulation.

Screenshots

Fishtechy4 screens
Fly Tying Simulator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fly Tying Simulator at 100% against Fishtechy's 39%. Fly Tying Simulator also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.4) and device support (4 vs 2). Fishtechy's advantage is price (Free vs $4.99) and ratings volume (195 vs 1). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fishtechy is free to download; Fly Tying Simulator costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fly Tying Simulator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fishtechy has 195 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Fishtechy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Fly Tying Simulator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fishtechy ships an update every 5 days, Fly Tying Simulator weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Fishtechy versus Fly Tying Simulator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFishtechyFly Tying Simulator
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.4 (195 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings195 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size236 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFutrix, L.L.CPishtech LLC

Customer experience

Fishtechy

All ratings195 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral4.6%
Negative10.8%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive39.0%
Neutral9.8%
Negative51.2%

Fly Tying Simulator

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Fishtechy

No in-app purchases

None

Fly Tying Simulator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fishtechy free?
Fishtechy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fly Tying Simulator free?
Fly Tying Simulator costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fishtechy or Fly Tying Simulator?
Fly Tying Simulator is rated higher. Fishtechy averages 4.4 out of 5 from 195 ratings, while Fly Tying Simulator averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fishtechy or Fly Tying Simulator have ads?
Neither Fishtechy nor Fly Tying Simulator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fishtechy or Fly Tying Simulator?
Fishtechy ships an update every 5 days, and Fly Tying Simulator weekly. Most recently, Fishtechy was updated on November 4, 2026 and Fly Tying Simulator on October 30, 2026.

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