FishingRadar vs Guidebox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FishingRadar
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FishingRadar helps you discover the best fishing spots faster and easier than ever. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced angler, FishingRadar gives you the tools you need to improve your fishing experience. Explore new locations, track your activity, connect with other anglers and unlock premium features to take your fishing to the next level. FEATURES: • Discover fishing spots with interactive maps • Track your favorite locations and fishing activity • Simple and clean user experience • Fast and reliable performance • Designed for all types of anglers • Connect with other anglers • Compete with your friends PREMIUM FEATURES: Unlock advanced tools with subscription plans: • Access to exclusive fishing spots • Enhanced tracking and insights • Future premium updates FishingRadar is built to make fishing more enjoyable, more efficient, and more successful. Download now and start exploring new fishing opportunities. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Guidebox
This app offers a private and secure platform for anglers to log catches, bookmark fishing spots, and access real-time weather and water conditions. It generates personalized fishing reports and provides species-specific tactics, even offline.
- Private catch and spot logging
- Offline map and data access
- Real-time weather and water conditions
- Personalized fishing reports
- Species-specific tactics
- Fish stocking data
- Catch analysis and achievements
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Guidebox provides combined maps, reports, weather and catch logs for anglers who want a private and secure platform to track their fishing and current conditions. Spots and catches are never shared with anyone. Log catches, bookmark spots, get conditions, and generate fishing reports tailored to your preferences. Your fishing, indexed, secured, and powered up. KEEPS YOUR DATA PRIVATE Your catches, waypoints, photos, and locations are encrypted, backed up, and shared with no-one—ever. Sign in with email, Apple, or Google. DESIGNED FOR THE FIELD Automatically saves recent forecasts, tides, and reports to take your data off grid! View your waypoints & catches on the offline map. Log everything, anywhere, data will sync when you reconnect. Full Features: • Bookmark spots with target species, method, and water type. Every report and filter uses what you set. • Log catches in under a minute. Pick a photo; location and conditions auto-fill. • Bulk-import your backlog 50 photos at a time, auto-grouped by time and GPS* • Filter waypoints and catches by species, region, more! • High resolution basemaps: hybrid satellite, terrain, satellite, streets. Includes layers for public lands, contours, hydrography (free) and 3D terrain* • See real-time conditions. Guidebox pulls live conditions from USGS, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, NOAA (tides, buoys & water forecasts), the National Weather Service, and Water Survey of Canada — 14,000+ stream gauges, 3,400+ tide stations, wave buoys, NWS flood forecasts, and full US + Canada hydrography from USGS 3DHP & NHN • Fish-stocking data for 37 U.S. states and 7 Canadian provinces — over 27,000 stocking locations — sourced from state and provincial fish & wildlife agencies, refreshed automatically* (data varies by state) • Reports combine weather, pressure, gauges, and tides with your species and water preferences alongside established scientific literature to predict fish behavior and activity* • Get tactics tailored to your bookmark. Species-specific recommendations based on real conditions — not a generic article. • Index your year of fishing. Heatmaps, species collections, personal bests, and 36 achievement medals built from your catch logs. *premium features (available with Angler or Guide subscriptions) — Privacy Policy: https://guidebox.app/privacy EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
FishingRadar and Guidebox are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. FishingRadar sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Guidebox sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | FishingRadar | Guidebox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vid Adam | Michael Wallace |
In-app purchases
FishingRadar
- FishingRadar Premium Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
- FishingRadar Premium3 Days trial$24.991 Year
Guidebox
- Guide - Monthly$9.991 Month
- Angler - Annual$19.991 Year
- Guide - Annual$79.991 Year









