BlindBuddy vs Inshore
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BlindBuddy
This app uses federal band recovery data and AI-driven weather analysis to predict optimal duck hunting conditions. It maps public lands, boat ramps, and provides legal shooting hours. Capture and share your successful hunts with detailed condition logs.
- 1M+ band recovery records on interactive map
- AI-powered weather analysis for hunting conditions
- Public lands and boat ramp mapping
- GPS-precise legal shooting hours
- Hunt camera with condition logging
- Supports all four flyways
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BlindBuddy reads the morning before you leave the truck. THE READ Every blind you save gets one score built from the conditions that actually move birds: wind speed and direction against your blind's facing, front timing, pressure trend, temperature swing, moon, and migration traffic. Tap the score and it decomposes. Every factor shows its number and its pull on the total. And when something was not measured that morning, the app says so instead of faking it. THREE DAY MATRIX Dawn and evening windows for the next three days, scored per blind. Pick the morning worth burning a vacation day on before the front gets here. THE LIVING MAP Scout mode surfaces hot areas computed from live bird sighting traffic and public hunting ground, anywhere in the country. Drop a pin, vet the spot against wind history and sightings, save it. My Ground keeps your blinds, pins, and field notes in one place. BAND HISTORY 3.1 million real USGS band recovery records on a map. See what was banded near your spots, where those birds came from, and how far they traveled. Sixty plus years of recoveries, not a sample. TIDES NOAA tide stations with the day's curve, in the station's own time zone. For the coastal crowd that hunts the moving water. SCOUTBUMP Pre-season scoring for new ground. Point your blind, set the wind you expect, and see how the spot grades before opening day. YOUR LOG Log hunts, birds, and bands. Season stats and personal bests are kept and counted, season over season. BUILT FOR EVERY FLYWAY Pacific, Central, Mississippi, Atlantic. Nothing in the app is hardcoded to one state. Some features require a BlindBuddy Pro subscription with auto renewal. Payment is charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel in your Apple account settings. Data sources: Open-Meteo, NOAA CO-OPS, USGS Bird Banding Laboratory, eBird. Privacy policy: https://www.blindbuddyapp.com/privacy Terms of use: https://www.blindbuddyapp.com/terms
Inshore
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Inshore is the offline-ready, privacy-first fishing app built for guides and serious inshore saltwater anglers who want to remember what actually works, not just where they caught a fish. Logging takes split seconds so you can focus on fishing, not taking notes. It is ALWAYS fast, because every second matters on the water. Save your spots with GPS precision, track every visit, and record every catch, all in one place. Every log automatically captures the tide phase, height, and direction from the closest NOAA station, plus wind, air temperature, pressure and water temperature, so you can look back and see what conditions produced at each of your spots. No typing, no lookups, no forgetting. Log's can be taken in real time or at the dock. FEATURES - Save and organize spots with structure type, bottom type, custom tags, and a photo gallery - Filter and search for spots by conditions, species caught or harvested, tide cycles, water temperature and month. - Log visits in seconds, with tide, wind, and temperature conditions captured automatically - Record catches by species, length, and weight, from a quick tally to a full detailed entry - Record harvests by type like shrimp, crab, scallops - See every spot you have logged on a map, with a satellite toggle - Plan around a dedicated Tides tab with a 24 hour tide curve, sunrise and sunset, moon phase, and station lookup near any saved spot or location - Check what is in season and what the rules are on the new Intel tab, for twelve coastal states from Texas to New Jersey INTEL: SEASONS AND RULES FOR THE WATER YOU FISH Set your spot and Intel shows what is in season near you now, what is changing soon, and the whole year at a glance. Every species page carries the season, the size and bag limits, the best conditions and baits, and the dated source behind each rule. Shrimp, crab, oyster and clam too. It works offline from the data on your phone, and Home shows what is in season near you. Use it as a reference, not as the law: rules change between our checks, so confirm with your state agency before you keep a fish. WORKS WHERE THE SIGNAL DIES Marshes, backcountry, barrier islands. Your spots, logs, and catches are always available. Losing signal never means losing a log or pinning a new spot in real time. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your spots are nobody's business. Inshore has no public profiles, no shared heatmaps, and no social discovery. Your data never surfaces to another angler, and we do not sell it, ever. Privacy is not a setting you switch on. It is how Inshore is built. Free for Inshore Anglers Log unlimited catches, save up to 20 spots, view three days of tides, and use all of Intel at no cost, automatic condition capture included. The free tier is not a demo, you get full conditions captures and offline features. INSHORE PRO, FOUNDING RATE Go Pro for unlimited saved spots and full tide day navigation, past and future. Founding members keep the launch rate for as long as they stay subscribed - it never goes up. If you ever step back to free, everything you logged stays yours. Built by anglers, for anglers who put in the early hours. Stop juggling a tide app, a notes app, your fishfinder, and a paper logbook. Put it all in Inshore. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Inshore at 5.0 against BlindBuddy's 4.2. BlindBuddy's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. BlindBuddy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $89.99 per year and Inshore sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Inshore holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BlindBuddy has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
BlindBuddy ships an update every 3 days, Inshore every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BlindBuddy | Inshore |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 199 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ROBERT ANTHONY HANSEN | Technical Angler, LLC |
Customer experience
BlindBuddy
Inshore
In-app purchases
BlindBuddy
- BlindBuddy Pro3 Days trial$89.991 Year
- BlindBuddy Pro Lifetime$299.99
- BlindBuddy Pro Lifetime$399.99
Inshore
- Inshore Pro Founding Monthly$1.991 Month
- Inshore Pro Founding Annual$11.991 Year









