Comparison

Fins vs Red Sea Creatures

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

Head to head
About

Fins

Instantly identify marine life from photos or guided searches. Log your dives, track sightings, and build a personal species collection. Engage with trivia games, earn badges, and plan liveaboard trips while contributing to ocean conservation.

Highlights
  • AI Marine Species ID
  • Guided Search
  • Dive Logbook
  • Marine Trivia Games
  • Badges & Achievements
  • Liveaboard Planning
  • Community Sharing
Features
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Fins identifies fish, nudibranchs and other invertebrates from a photo or guided step-by-step search, in seconds, wherever you are in the world. Whether you're logging a dive in Raja Ampat, snorkeling the Great Barrier Reef, or just curious about something you spotted at the beach, Fins brings the ocean's species to your fingertips. AI Marine Species ID Upload or snap a photo and let Fins identify the species instantly. Or use guided search to narrow it down step by step, no photo needed. Dive Logbook & Snorkel Tracker Record every dive, log your sightings, and build your personal life list. Your ocean story, beautifully kept. Marine Trivia & ID Games Test your reef knowledge, earn points, and climb the leaderboard. Learning the ocean has never been this fun. Badges & Achievements Unlock badges for new species, dive milestones, and rare finds. Spot a rare nudibranch? There's a badge for that. Liveaboard & Travel Planning Browse and book liveaboards across the world's top dive destinations, all inside the app. Join the Movement Every sighting you log contributes to ocean awareness and conservation. You're not just exploring, you’re helping. Community Share sightings, solve marine mysteries together, and connect with a growing global community of ocean lovers. Who Fins Is For Divers & Snorkelers — Log dives, ID species, relive every underwater adventure. Underwater Photographers — Name your shots and build your own species collection. Liveaboard Travelers — Make the most of every surface interval. Students & Educators — A modern, visual marine field guide for the classroom or the reef. Citizen Scientists — Every sighting you log matters. Curious Explorers — Discover the ocean from anywhere on earth. Fins is your companion for exploration, learning, and conservation. Download Fins and dive smarter.

About

Red Sea Creatures

Identify marine life from photos or videos with this comprehensive Red Sea field guide. Explore hundreds of species, dive sites, and get essential information on dangerous creatures and local dive centers. Features include weather forecasts and a glossary.

Highlights
  • Photo and video-based species identification
  • Extensive catalogue of Red Sea marine life
  • Dive site information and maps
  • Red Sea weather forecasts
  • Dangerous marine life guide
  • Search by description
Features
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Red Sea Creatures is a field guide to everything that swims, hides and stings in the Red Sea: hundreds of species, the sites where you meet them, and a way to settle the argument on the boat about what that orange thing was. On iPhone, iPad and Mac. FISHID: HAND IT A PHOTO. OR A WHOLE VIDEO. - Feed it an underwater shot and it tells you what you saw, matched against photographs taken here, in this sea - not stock images of aquarium fish. - Feed it a clip and it chews through the lot on your phone, finds where the picture changes and hands you the frames worth arguing about. Tap one, get a name. - Blurry, backlit, half a fish behind a coral head? Send it anyway. That is what our photos look like too, and the answer is often still right. - It knows one sea and nothing else, which is exactly why it gets them right. Show it your cat and it will say so. - Five identifications a month are free. Packs that never expire, or a subscription if you dive most weeks - and what you buy belongs to your account, not to the phone in your hand. THE CATALOGUE - Hundreds of species - fish, sharks, rays, turtles, corals, nudibranchs - sorted by family, and in the big groups by genus, so the lookalikes stand together. - Every card: photographs, scientific name, size, habitat, depth, behaviour, danger and venom, conservation status. - And one fact per animal that actually sticks. Not a database dump. THE REST OF THE KIT - Dive sites with maps, depth, conditions and what lives at each. - Dive centres across the Red Sea, filtered by city and country. - Dive weather for your city: air, water, wind, waves and tide hour by hour, the days ahead and the two behind you, and whether you want the 5 mm. - Dangerous marine life: what stings, what bites, what to do about it, who to call. - Glossary: every technical word in the guide, in plain language. - Blog: guides, species spotlights and stories from the reef. - Search that understands a description, not just a name. Try "white fish black stripe yellow tail". - Widgets on the Home and Lock Screen, the guide inside Messages, sticker packs for Telegram and WhatsApp. - App Clip: scan a code at a dive centre and it opens without installing anything. - Built for iPad and Mac too, light and dark. - Optional account (Apple, Google, Facebook, Discord, X): save favourites, share your own photographs, review sites and centres. CONSERVATION The Red Sea is unique and it is fragile. Every card carries the conservation status of the animal on it. Look, photograph, and leave the reef the way you found it. Free to explore. FishID gives everyone five identifications a month; packs and a subscription are there if you need more. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://redseacreatures.com/privacy redseacreatures.com

Screenshots

Fins4 screens
Red Sea Creatures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Fins at 14 against Red Sea Creatures's 1. Fins also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Red Sea Creatures's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Fins sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Red Sea Creatures sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Fins against 5.0 for Red Sea Creatures. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fins has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fins ships an update weekly, Red Sea Creatures every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fins versus Red Sea Creatures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFinsRed Sea Creatures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB40 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developerevan fosterYevgen Sukharenko

Customer experience

Fins

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Red Sea Creatures

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Fins

Subscriptions2
  • Fins Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Fins Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
4 purchases

Red Sea Creatures

One-time4
  • Nudibranch Friend$2.99
  • Octopus Friend$4.99
  • Turtle Friend$9.99
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  • Shark Friend$19.99

Questions

Is Fins free?
Fins is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Red Sea Creatures free?
Red Sea Creatures is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fins or Red Sea Creatures?
Red Sea Creatures is rated higher. Fins averages 4.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Red Sea Creatures averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fins or Red Sea Creatures have ads?
Neither Fins nor Red Sea Creatures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fins or Red Sea Creatures?
Fins ships an update weekly, and Red Sea Creatures every 4 days. Most recently, Fins was updated on October 13, 2026 and Red Sea Creatures on October 7, 2026.

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