Comparison

iBobber vs Shot Caddy

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

Head to head
About

iBobber

This app pairs with a wireless bobber to act as a portable fishfinder. It displays fish locations, depth, and water temperature on your smartphone or smartwatch. Log your catches, map underwater contours, and track your fishing trips.

Highlights
  • Fish detection and depth
  • GPS hotspot tagging
  • Waterbed mapping
  • Trip logging and social sharing
  • Lunar calendar
  • Fish and strike alarms
Features
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iBobber can now display fish detection and depth info on your Apple Watch! Love at first cast. The fishfinder that 
syncs with your iPhone or iPad. There’s a lot to love about iBobber™. It syncs via Bluetooth® Smart (Bluetooth Low Energy Technology) with your iOS device up to 100’ away from a boat, shore, kayak, or pier, so you have a fishfinder with a solid connection, that won't deplete your phone's battery like wi-fi does, a fishfinder that goes up to 8hrs on a charge, that's half the size and weight— a fishfinder that’s as mobile as you are. The Bluetooth Smart standard is different from the Bluetooth® used in other fishfinders. Bluetooth Smart is designed for short messages from nearby devices such as temperature sensors, proximity sensors, and medical devices such as heart monitors, and now sonar signals. The iBobber app in conjunction with the iBobber bobber (sold separately) enables you to locate fish up to 135’ under water, GPS Tag favorite hotspots, map the contour o waterbeds, and measure water temperature. You’ll love that you can save all your fishing adventures with the Trip Log, and share them all on social media. You’ll also love the Lunar Calendar, Fish Alarm, Strike Alarm, Bobber Beacon, Weather sync, and the app’s stunning graphics. iBobber is for anyone who loves to find fish, and wants to catch more of them.
 Just cast the bobber (sold separately) and Ping! the iBobber app syncs via Bluetooth Smart and displays where the fish are. 

The iBobber app is designed for one-handed use, and can help make fishing more fun 
than it's ever been. Even if you have a boat-mounted fishfinder, iBobber can free
 you from seeing fish only under your boat.  And finding more fish is always a lot
 more fun than just fishing! iBobber App Features: Sonar Screen Locate Fish at Depths up to 135ft Depth Scale Fish Tagged with Depth Sonar Status Dashboard Battery Status (up to 8hrs of charge) Water Temperature Fish Alarm (on/off) Strike Alarm (on/off/adjustable) Bobber Beacon (on/off) Trip Log Just tap any GPS Tag button on any screen and the Date, Time, and Location of your trip auto-loads in Trip Log. Name your trip, then log conditions and the type of fishing. Log lures the fish are hitting on, and species of fish you've caught. Then share it all on social media with your friends who are stuck back in the office. Date Time Location (GPS coordinates) Title Lure Conditions Type of Fishing Fish Caught (type & number) Notes Share: Facebook, Twitter, Mail, Text Waterbed Mapping Map the contour of the bottom up to 100ft. Just cast, tap Begin, get ready 
to a count of 5, then reel the 
iBobber over the area to map, 
tap Stop, and have a look at the waterbed map, and see the contours of the bottom (up to
135' deep). Lunar Calendar Moonrise / moonset Sunrise / sunset
 The monthly lunar calendar will give you the moon phases by day and date. And you can also get the moon rise and set, and the sunrise and set— just tap today's date to see it. Weather iBobber weather is GPS based and provides current temperature, estimated high and low temperature for the day, the percentage chance of rain, wind speed and what direction it's blowing in from, as well as the barometric pressure. Settings Bluetooth Smart Sync Imperial / Metric Sonar Demo. And Waterbed Mapping speed adjustment. Bobber Specs Sonar Depth: Up to 135ft / 41m Bluetooth® Smart Range: Up to 100 ft / 30m Sonar: Single Beam, 90º, 118 kHz Power: Auto-On in water Units: Imperial / Metric Battery: 3.7V Rechargeable Battery Charge: Up to 8 hours Size: 59mm Diameter Weight: 47gm / 1.7oz

About

Shot Caddy

This training log simplifies recording target sports sessions, allowing users to track progress and identify trends in their performance. It consolidates data across disciplines like rifle, pistol, and shotgun, providing insights into equipment, loads, and shot consistency.

Highlights
  • Effortless session logging
  • Consolidated log for all disciplines
  • Automated performance analysis
  • Track equipment and ammunition
  • Monitor group size and trends
  • Data validation and clean logs
Features
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Shot Caddy is a training log for target sports, built on one idea: the less effort it takes to record a session, the more sessions you'll actually record — and the more you record, the more your own data can tell you. Most range notebooks die the same way. You fill in a few pages, skip a session, and never open it again. Shot Caddy is designed to survive that. Logging takes seconds, the app carries forward what it already knows, and the analysis happens whether or not you feel like doing arithmetic at the bench. MINIMUM ENTRY, MAXIMUM ANALYSIS Every screen is built to reduce typing. Shot Caddy remembers your equipment, your loads, your usual distances and your typical sessions, then offers them back instead of asking you to enter them again. What you supply is the part only you know: what actually happened downrange. ONE LOG FOR EVERY DISCIPLINE Rifle, pistol, shotgun, air. Shot Caddy keeps them together instead of scattering your history across a notebook, a scoring app and a camera roll full of targets. Move between disciplines without moving between apps, and see your whole practice history on a single timeline. SEE WHAT IS ACTUALLY CHANGING One good group tells you almost nothing. A hundred logged sessions tell you a great deal. Shot Caddy turns your entries into trends: how your groups are tightening, which distances you have quietly stopped practicing, whether that new load is genuinely better or simply had a good afternoon. These are the patterns that stay invisible in a paper log. DATA WORTH TRUSTING Analysis is only ever as good as what goes into it. Shot Caddy helps you keep the log clean while you build it, catching gaps, flagging entries that look out of place and prompting you for the details that make everything else more useful. The habits are built into the workflow, so you are never cleaning up a year of sloppy records after the fact. WHAT YOU CAN TRACK - Sessions by date, location and conditions - Equipment, optics and the exact setup you used - Ammunition and load details - Distance, target and shot count - Group size and scoring - Notes on what you were working on that day QUESTIONS IT HELPS YOU ANSWER - Is my group size actually trending down this season, or does it just feel that way? - Did that change to my setup do anything measurable, or did I imagine the difference? - Which distances and positions have I quietly stopped practicing? - Is this load genuinely better, or did it get lucky over a small number of rounds? - How does this month compare to the same month last year? BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO PRACTICE ON PURPOSE Competitive shooters measuring progress against a scorecard. Handloaders working up a load who want evidence rather than impressions. Hunters confirming a setup before the season opens. Coaches following a student across months instead of sessions. And anyone who has ever packed up at the end of a range day thinking "I think that was better" with no way to prove it. FROM YOUR FIRST SESSION You do not need a year of history for this to be worth doing. The first session gives you a baseline, and every one after it sharpens the picture. There is no backlog to import and no setup ritual to get through — enter what you did today, and the app starts working immediately. Log the next ten sessions and you will already be seeing things you could not see before. WHY IT EXISTS There is a strange gap in this sport between how carefully we choose our equipment and how casually we record what it does. We will spend an entire season chasing a tighter group and keep the evidence on the back of a target and in memory. Shot Caddy closes that gap with the smallest amount of work it could possibly ask of you. Start with your next session. Log it in under a minute and let the picture build itself. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Shot Caddy Terms: https://www.shotcaddy.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.shotcaddy.com/privacy

Screenshots

iBobber4 screens
Shot Caddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Shot Caddy at 100% against iBobber's 47%. Shot Caddy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). iBobber's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (255 vs 2). 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. Shot Caddy sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. iBobber asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shot Caddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: iBobber has 255 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of iBobber's written reviews are positive against 100% of Shot Caddy's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iBobber ships an update every 5 months, Shot Caddy every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
iBobber versus Shot Caddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriBobberShot Caddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (255 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews47.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings255 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size96 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperReelSonar, Inc.Precision Sports Ai LLC

Customer experience

iBobber

All ratings254 ratings
Positive74.8%
Neutral4.3%
Negative20.9%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive47.2%
Neutral9.7%
Negative43.1%

Shot Caddy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

iBobber

Reported bugs

39 issues
  • Screen auto-locks during waterbed mapping
  • App crashes upon connecting
  • iBobber disconnects frequently
  • False readings (fish in swimming pool, incorrect depth)
  • Purchase date pop-up appears repeatedly
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  • Cannot register for an account (server problem)
  • Device stops supporting phone after purchase
  • App closes when connecting
  • iBobber not connected after app reopens
  • Device only connects indoors, weak signal outdoors
  • Depth readings are inaccurate
  • Shows ghost fish
  • Shows ledges that don't exist
  • iBobber won't connect to phone
  • Connection lasts only for a second
  • App crashes all the time
  • Does not give audible 'ping' when fish is located
  • Screen doesn't update often
  • Marks fish at multiple depths simultaneously
  • Tries to sell Netfish on app start
  • Apple Watch app requires phone
  • Connection issues
  • Latest app update resolved previous issues
  • App doesn't fill iPhone X screen
  • Bluetooth connection uses lots of phone battery
  • Cannot update firmware from iOS
  • App won't let user update to new version
  • Display issues on iPhone X
  • Fish setting (beeps) does not come back on after disconnect
  • Bobber light difficult to turn back on after reconnect
  • Firmware won't update
  • iBobber won't connect
  • Trip logs disappeared after new update
  • Long screen update delays
  • Requests to update firmware repeatedly
  • Firmware update hangs
  • Won't connect to iPhone
  • Device won't charge or work after first use
  • iPhone 4s not Bluetooth LE ready

Requested features

15 requests
  • Keep screen from auto-locking during mapping
  • Toggle sensitivity and range for flasher mode
  • Add more fish types to log (walleye, crappie, trout)
  • Allow editing of trip log entries (date, time, weight, etc.)
  • Add a 'don't ask again' option for purchase date prompt
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  • Improve Bluetooth connection stability
  • Add audible 'ping' for fish detection
  • Allow offline profile creation/skip profile step
  • Add a trouble section/PDF manual
  • Alert when device is fully charged
  • Add three categories for fish sizes (small, medium, large)
  • Different color for different fish sizes
  • Depth reader starting at 1 ft
  • Different color for s/m/l fish
  • Raw sonar mode availability

Shot Caddy

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

iBobber

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Shot Caddy

Subscriptions2
  • Shot Caddy Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Shot Caddy Pro Yearly7 Days trial$99.991 Year
One-time2
  • 50 AI Credits$4.99
  • 250 AI Credits$19.99

Questions

Is iBobber free?
iBobber is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shot Caddy free?
Shot Caddy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, iBobber or Shot Caddy?
Shot Caddy is rated higher. iBobber averages 4.0 out of 5 from 255 ratings, while Shot Caddy averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do iBobber or Shot Caddy have ads?
Neither iBobber nor Shot Caddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iBobber or Shot Caddy?
iBobber ships an update every 5 months, and Shot Caddy every 3 weeks. Most recently, iBobber was updated on November 1, 2026 and Shot Caddy on October 29, 2026.

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