Comparison

C4ST vs Fishare

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

Head to head
About

C4ST

Features
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C4ST is the coastal forecast tool built for Australian surfers, swimmers, and fishermen who demand more from their weather app. Combining tide predictions, swell forecasts, and wind data into a single unified chart, C4ST gives you the complete coastal picture at a glance — no switching between apps, no digging through numbers. KEY FEATURES • Unified tide + swell + wind graph across 7 days • Tap any day for a detailed breakdown — tide times, swell height & period, wind speed & direction • Conditions rating: Glassy, Clean, Choppy, or Blown Out • Moon phase & sunrise/sunset times • Shark activity alerts for your local beach • 73 beaches across all 6 Australian states • Locate your nearest beach or search by name • Save your favourite spots for quick access • Light & dark mode • Metric & imperial units, 12h & 24h time Powered by real forecast data from Open-Meteo, updated continuously. C4ST cuts through the noise and puts what matters front and centre — exactly the way serious ocean-goers need it.

About

Fishare

Features
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EVERY SATELLITE SST PASS, WITH THE BREAK ALREADY DRAWN Fishare draws every satellite sea-surface temperature pass of the last 72 hours as the satellite saw it, over every coast we cover, checked for new passes every hour. Clouds stay as holes, and the temperature break is found and labelled on the pass for you, so the edge where bait stacks up is marked before you start reading color. • 24-hour and 72-hour cloud-free composites for the days the passes don't line up • Hourly geostationary frames from GOES and Himawari-9 • Up to 30 days of pass history per region • Chlorophyll by satellite day, with a 3-day composite • Sea-surface height with labelled contours • Modelled surface salinity, daily • Water temperature at 25, 50, 75, 100, 150 and 200 m, each depth checked against Argo float profiles • A 5-day SST forecast on the same map as 7 days of playback • The classic spectral ramp in °F or °C, with a drag range and isotherm spacing • Your waypoints pasted or imported as GPX; every mark becomes a GO TO with bearing, distance and ETA, and your marks stay on your phone • One tap to share the pass you are looking at with your crew • A per-species habitat score on the same map, re-scored every hour on the freshest pass ONE SUBSCRIPTION, EVERY REGION Fishare Pro is every layer in every region we cover: the Northeast canyons, the Gulf, Southern California, Baja, Hawaii, the whole Australian coast and New Zealand. No per-region licence, no buying the coast one piece at a time. WHEN AND WHERE TO GO, FREE Under the offshore layers is the full Fishare forecast, free, no account needed to browse: an hourly bite score for the next 14 days, tides, wind, swell and pressure, and a catch log. FISHARE PRO (AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTION) • Price: US$8.99 a month or US$79.99 a year in the US (A$12.99 / A$119.99 in Australia, NZ$14.99 / NZ$129.99 in New Zealand); the exact price for your country is always shown in the app before you subscribe • New subscribers get a 7-day free trial; payment is charged to your Apple ID account when the trial ends • The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions Privacy Policy: https://fishare.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

C4ST3 screens
Fishare4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: C4ST at none against Fishare's 2. Fishare's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fishare sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. C4ST asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

C4ST ships an update monthly, Fishare every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
C4ST versus Fishare: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterC4STFishare
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB362 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSol DaveyOli-Mikael Vaittinen

In-app purchases

None

C4ST

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Fishare

Subscriptions2
  • Fishare Pro7 Days trial$8.991 Month
  • Fishare Pro7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is C4ST free?
C4ST is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fishare free?
Fishare is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do C4ST or Fishare have ads?
Neither C4ST nor Fishare shows ads.
Which is updated more often, C4ST or Fishare?
C4ST ships an update monthly, and Fishare every 2 days. Most recently, C4ST was updated on October 15, 2026 and Fishare on October 24, 2026.

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