Comparison

Fish Journal Pro vs Simple Arrows

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

Head to head
About

Fish Journal Pro

Log your fishing catches with photos, species, and location. Get weather-based fishing forecasts and discover new species. Ask an AI fishing guide for tips and advice.

Highlights
  • Photo journal of catches
  • Automatic location tagging
  • Weather-based fishing score
  • 87 fish species collection
  • AI fishing assistant
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Fish Journal Pro helps you become a better angler. LOG YOUR CATCHES Take a photo, add the species, weight, and length. The app saves your location automatically. Look back at your best days on the water anytime. FISHING FORECAST Check the fishing score before you go. The app looks at weather, wind, pressure, and moon phase to tell you if fish will be biting. Plan your trips for the best days. FISH COLLECTION 87 species to discover. Every fish you catch unlocks your collection. Bass, trout, catfish, walleye, redfish, and more. See how many you can get. ASK CAPTAIN MIKE Got a question? Ask our AI fishing guide. Best bait for carp? How to catch bass in summer? Captain Mike knows. Simple answers from decades of fishing knowledge. FEATURES • Photo journal with species, weight, length • Auto location tagging • Weather-based fishing score • Hourly and daily forecasts • 87 fish species to collect • AI fishing assistant • Works offline • Clean, easy-to-read design Perfect for bass fishermen, weekend anglers, and anyone who wants to catch more fish. Download now. Tight lines!

About

Simple Arrows

This archery companion automatically recognizes rounds and tracks your practice sessions. It offers detailed insights into your performance and allows you to manage your bows and share your scores. The app prioritizes a clean, user-friendly experience with minimal setup.

Highlights
  • Automatic round recognition
  • Practice timeline
  • Bow profiles
  • Performance insights
  • Scorecard export
  • Target face selection
Features
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Simple Arrows is a small, quiet archery companion for iPhone and iPad. Pick a target face, place your arrows, and it works out which round you're in on its own. It keeps a calm timeline of your practice and, over time, helps you notice what's changing. There are no knobs to set up before your first arrow, no stats you didn't ask for, and nothing to configure between you and the next end. LESS SETUP, MORE SHOOTING Choose a face and start. Simple Arrows watches how you score and recognizes the round for you, from Portsmouth to the WA 1440 to the imperial rounds and plenty more, without asking you to pick from a list first. It knows the rounds you actually practice, and you stay in control the whole way. Score on the target face or the scoresheet, whichever feels right to you. On iPad in landscape, or iPhone Duo opened up, you get both side by side. Every tap is instant. THE FACES WA full face, 6-ring, vertical 3-spot and 5-spot. Vegas 3-spot. NFAA single spot and 5-spot. Worcester and Worcester 5-spot. And a blank bale for form work. DELIGHT IN THE DETAILS We spent a long time on the small things. Arrows land with a little settle. Hold your finger down and a magnifier opens so you can place a mark exactly where the arrow went. The Finish button gently fills beneath your thumb. None of it is necessary. All of it, we hope, makes scoring a pleasure rather than a chore. We couldn't find the archery app we wanted for ourselves, so we built it. A TIMELINE OF YOUR PRACTICE Every session, note, and milestone lives in a clean, filterable timeline you can revisit years from now. Personal bests appear quietly as you go. ALL YOUR BEAUTIFUL BOWS Keep a profile for each bow you own. Every session remembers which bow it used, gear changes land on a dated history for that bow, and Insights keeps each bow's trend separate, so a new riser starts its own story instead of blending into the old one. JUST ENOUGH INSIGHTS Lightweight, honest reads on your training: trend, consistency, and volume, with enough context to notice what changed after a new string, a new tab, or simply a good week. One clear picture instead of a wall of charts. SHARE THE GOOD ONES Had a round you're proud of? Export it as a clean scorecard image and send it to a friend, your coach, or the club chat. It looks like something you'd want to share, because who wants to share a screenshot of a spreadsheet? The card is free for everyone; Supporters get a few extra styles to play with. YOURS, AND PRIVATE Your training data stays on your device and, if you choose, in your own private iCloud account. Anonymous analytics are off by default, and if you turn them on, they help improve the app and nothing else. Export your whole archive as CSV whenever you like. It's your data. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL THANK YOU The entire app, and every core feature, is free for everyone, forever. Scoring, automatic round recognition, your timeline, insights, import, export, and sync. If Simple Arrows earns a place in your quiver, you can become a Supporter and pick up a handful of cosmetic extras: 3D arrows that catch the light when you tilt your phone, alternate target-face themes, arrow mark colors, and extra export styles. It's simply a way to say thanks. Nothing about how the app works is ever locked behind it. Made by Dabblings, a small studio of archers.

Screenshots

Fish Journal Pro4 screens
Simple Arrows4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fish Journal Pro at none against Simple Arrows's 1. Fish Journal Pro also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Simple Arrows's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Simple Arrows sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fish Journal Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fish Journal Pro against 5.0 for Simple Arrows. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Simple Arrows has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Fish Journal Pro versus Simple Arrows: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFish Journal ProSimple Arrows
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings18 — better
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSergii NesterenkoDLXR LLC

In-app purchases

None

Fish Journal Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Simple Arrows

One-time1
  • Supporter Edition$6.99

Questions

Is Fish Journal Pro free?
Fish Journal Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Simple Arrows free?
Simple Arrows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Fish Journal Pro or Simple Arrows?
Fish Journal Pro and Simple Arrows are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Fish Journal Pro or Simple Arrows have ads?
Neither Fish Journal Pro nor Simple Arrows shows ads.

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