BiteGrade vs FishCast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BiteGrade
This app provides a real-time fishing score from 0-100 based on weather, pressure, moon phase, and tides for your location. It offers detailed breakdowns, conditions at a glance, species-specific tips, and smart advice tailored to current environmental factors.
- Real-time bite grade score (0-100)
- Detailed score breakdown
- Current conditions overview
- Species guide with tips
- Smart, tailored fishing advice
- Saltwater and freshwater support
- Customizable score weighting
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Know before you go. BiteGrade scores fishing conditions from 0-100 using real-time weather, barometric pressure, moon phase, and tide data for your exact location. REAL-TIME BITE GRADE Get an instant letter-grade rating based on current conditions. See exactly what's helping and hurting your chances with a detailed score breakdown. CONDITIONS AT A GLANCE Temperature, barometric pressure, wind speed, and tides — all in one view. Track pressure trends and tide movement to time your trips perfectly. SPECIES GUIDE 24+ saltwater and freshwater species with condition-specific tips. Learn what each species prefers and how to adjust your approach for current conditions. SMART TIPS Get tailored advice based on what's happening right now — tide direction, pressure changes, wind, and weather. No generic tips, just what matters today. SALTWATER & FRESHWATER Full support for both. Saltwater mode includes live tide data with next high/low predictions. Freshwater mode emphasizes time of day and weather factors. Tide data currently available for US coastal areas. International users get full scoring from weather, pressure, moon, and wind. BITEGRADE BASIC — $2.99/month or $19.99/year Live Bite Grade, Species Guide, Smart Tips, and full Salt & Freshwater support. BITEGRADE PRO — $4.99/month or $49.99/year Everything in Basic plus 5-Day Bite Grade Forecast with best fishing times, Personal Fishing Log with photo capture, Interactive Catch Map, and Location Search. Start with a 1-week free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Privacy Policy: https://hidden-term-e08b.talexander1123-ta.workers.dev/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://hidden-term-e08b.talexander1123-ta.workers.dev/terms.html
FishCast
This app provides an hour-by-hour fishing forecast tailored to your location and target species. It analyzes weather, tides, and lunar cycles to predict optimal feeding times. Designed for anglers, it offers detailed insights into factors influencing fish behavior without ads or tracking.
- Hour-by-hour fishing score
- Species-specific forecasting
- Real solunar period calculation
- Accurate NOAA tide data
- Live hourly weather
- Detailed scoring factor breakdown
- Privacy-focused, no data collection
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FishCast tells you when the fish will bite. Combining real-time weather, tides, lunar science, and species-specific behavior, FishCast generates an hour-by-hour fishing forecast for your exact location — so you can plan your next trip around the windows the fish are actually feeding. WHY FISHCAST IS DIFFERENT Most fishing apps just show you the weather. FishCast scores it. Every hour of every day gets a 0–100 fishing score based on what actually matters for the species you're targeting: barometric pressure trends, wind, cloud cover, water temperature proxies, solunar major and minor periods, and tide stage. SPECIES-AWARE FORECASTING Pick your target species and the forecast tunes itself: • Bass — values stable mid-range pressure and calm-to-light chop • Trout — weighted toward solunar periods and lunar phase • Walleye — rewards overcast skies and 8–15 mph chop, penalizes bright sun • Catfish — boosts low-pressure pre-storm feeding windows • Crappie — balanced moon, pressure, and wind scoring • Panfish — heavy solunar weighting, light tide influence • Saltwater — tide-stage dominant, ideal for inshore species REAL SOLUNAR, NOT GUESSES FishCast computes solunar major periods from actual lunar transit times for your latitude and longitude, and minor periods from real moonrise and moonset times — not a generic ±6-hour rule of thumb. Combined with sun rise/set and golden-hour weighting, you get the most accurate prediction of when fish are most likely to feed. ACCURATE TIDE DATA For coastal anglers, FishCast pulls live tide predictions directly from NOAA Tides & Currents stations near your location. See high and low tides, current tide stage, and how the tide cycle affects your hourly fishing score. LIVE WEATHER Hourly weather from Open-Meteo: temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, barometric pressure with trend analysis (rising, falling, steady), and visibility. No subscriptions, no API keys, no ads. PRIVACY FIRST FishCast uses your location only on your device to fetch local forecasts. Nothing is sent to our servers — because there are no servers. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. Ever. WHAT YOU GET • Hour-by-hour fishing score for the next several days • Current-hour quality badge: Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor • Breakdown of every scoring factor: pressure, wind, moon, solunar, tide, cloud cover, temperature • Conditions tab: live weather with pressure trend • Tides tab: NOAA tide predictions with high/low markers • Solunar tab: major and minor feeding periods for today • Seven species profiles with custom scoring weights • Designed for accessibility: Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels, color-blind-friendly status symbols • Dark mode optimized for early-morning and dusk use FishCast is built by an angler, for anglers. No fluff, no upsells, no ads. Just the forecast you need to know when to go. Tight lines.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FishCast at none against BiteGrade's 1. FishCast also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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. BiteGrade sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year. FishCast asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BiteGrade against 5.0 for FishCast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
| Parameter | BiteGrade | FishCast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Alexander | JOHN W WILLIAMS |
Customer experience
BiteGrade
FishCast
In-app purchases
BiteGrade
- BiteGrade Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
FishCast
No in-app purchases









