BlindBook vs River Rat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlindBook
Log all your hunting activities, from tracking game and weather to scouting locations and managing your gear. Analyze your season's performance, collect trophies, and share experiences with your hunting crew or club. Offers features for waterfowl identification and club/outfitter management.
- Log hunts with photos and harvest records
- Scout and map hunting spots
- Track wind, weather, and shooting hours
- Identify duck species with camera
- Manage hunting crews and clubs
- Offline mapping capabilities
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BlindBook keeps your whole hunting season in one place. Log every hunt, pin your spots, check the wind and shooting hours, and look back on your season. Track migratory birds, deer, turkey, upland birds, hogs and gators. Free to log every hunt. LOG EVERY HUNT • Hunt log with photos, harvest records and hunt-day weather • Wind vs. your blind or stand, plus temperature, pressure and cloud cover for every hunt • Ducks and geese: harvest by species, blind and conditions • Deer: antler points, inside spread, shot distance and tag number • Turkey: setup, gobbling activity, beard and spurs • Upland: cover, flushes, roosters and hens • Hogs: day or night, method, bait, boars and sows • Gators: waterbody, length, tail girth and tag SCOUT AND MAP • Satellite map with pins for blinds, stands, scrapes, roosts, wallows and trail cams • Sunrise, sunset and shooting hours wherever you hunt • Attach photos to your pins with Solo Pro LOOK BACK ON YOUR SEASON • Analytics: season totals, top species and top locations • Trophy Room with species slams to collect • Hunt Gallery: every photo from every hunt • Doghouse: your retriever's hunts and retrieves • Gear loadouts for every season with Solo Pro FOR WATERFOWLERS • WingID: identify duck species with your camera • Waterfowl U, hosted by Joel Strickland of Surviving Duck Season • Verified waterfowl season dates and bag limits for all 50 US states and Canadian provinces • Field guide with species details HUNT WITH YOUR CREW Same group every weekend? Start a crew: a shared hunt log, photo gallery and properties, with group scheduling, to-dos and a leaderboard. Bring guests along with no paperwork. RUN YOUR CLUB Member management and invitations, property mapping with blinds and scouting reports, a club calendar, s, leaderboards, shared galleries, and equipment tracking. RUN YOUR OUTFIT Client bookings and multi-day hunts, invoicing and payments with BlindBookPay, digital waivers and e-sion, and team scheduling. PLUS • Store your hunting licenses and track expirations • See the guided hunts you've booked with an outfitter • Mapping works offline in remote spots Download free. Solo Pro, crew, club and outfitter plans available.
River Rat
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Montana rivers don't wait. River Rat gives paddlers, fly fishers, and rafters a clean read on rivers across Montana and Idaho – before you load the truck. Know if it's runnable, not just the CFS number. Live readings are automatically classified: too low, bony, ideal, pushy, too high. You see the verdict, not just the number. Plan a trip, not just a day. Save your rivers. Open the Trip Planner, pick a date, and see which runs will be in shape. The weekend digest gives you the one-line read before you open anything. Hatches: type, timing, and fly patterns. Active, approaching, and fading windows by species – salmonflies, PMDs, caddis, and more – with fly patterns and timing notes built around water temperature, not calendar guesses. What's in the detail view: • Real-time water temperature + fish thermal stress alerts (67°F stress, 70°F danger) • Water clarity signal with 24-hour trend • Gage height • Rapids and hazards with class ratings • 7-day weather: air temp highs/lows and precip probability Set alerts. Stop babysitting gauges. Set a threshold – "notify me when the Blackfoot hits ideal" – and let it fire when conditions land. No polling required. Everything saves locally. 39 rivers across Montana and Idaho. Built for the people who actually run them. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BlindBook at every 5 days against River Rat's every 2 weeks. 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
Both are free to download. BlindBook sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and River Rat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BlindBook ships an update every 5 days, River Rat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlindBook | River Rat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 153 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | WaterfowlAI | Evil Twin Enterprises, LLC |
In-app purchases
BlindBook
- BlindBook Pro$9.991 Month
- BlindBook Pro$79.991 Year
- BlindBook Pro + WU$119.991 Year
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- BlindBook Pro + WU$149.991 Year
River Rat
- Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year









