Comparison

Mikke Fish ID vs File

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

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About

Mikke Fish ID

Identify fish species using AI-powered photo recognition or by asking a community of experts. Get candidate species suggestions and have answers voted on by users to ensure accuracy. Useful for fishing, water activities, or educational projects.

Highlights
  • AI photo recognition for fish identification
  • Q&A community for fish name questions
  • User-voted answer evaluation
  • Candidate species suggestions
  • Identification by species and groups
  • Focus on fish around Japan
Features
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\ Thank you 500K downloads / [AI Fish judgment app by photo] 【Verify A Fish By Photo】 Mikke is a fish identifier with image recognition AI. What kind of fish is this? As soon as you wonder, take a picture of it and upload it to the photo AI. It will immediately give you a list of candidate fish species. It is useful not only when you go fishing or play in and around the water but also for a summer vacation school project. The identification is based on species and groups. If the species can't be identified, try it again with groups. The app covers fish in the sea around Japan, excluding squid and octopus. 【About fish name Q&A】 The fish name Q&A has closed. You can still browse past Q&A from Info in the app. 【The identification accuracy of the AI is more than 70%】 Identifying fish from photographs is quite difficult even for experts. Given that, Fish Search has a high accuracy of 70%(*1) out of 80 suggested species. Furthermore, its accuracy goes up to 90%(*2) when it comes to groups. Please note that the accuracy will change depending on the species or how the photo is taken. Roughly, you would get three right answers out of four by the species identification. *1, *2 The numbers are based on an experiment covering 200 kinds of fish that are popular in the sea around Japan. 【A tip to improve the identification accuracy of the AI】 A picture taken under the following conditions improves the identification accuracy. ●Take a picture of only one fish ●Place the head on the left and take the picture from its side, except for the flatfish group. ●Take a picture of the whole fish, from the tail to the head. ●Choose a simple background ●Take a clear picture A picture under the following conditions is not good. ●There are 2 or more fish. ●There are things other than fish, such as a person's hand. ●A long fish such as an eel. ●Only the head or only the tail is in the picture. ●Only the back of the fish is visible because it was taken from above. ●It is difficult to distinguish the background from the fish. 【For all who love fish】 This app has been developed based on the "WEB Fish Encyclopedia", which has data of about 50,000+ photos of fish. In order to improve the accuracy of the app, we made the best use of inventiveness in the back end system. Because of how the system works, it does not have 100% accuracy. We hope you will understand that and enjoy this app as a simple and easy tool to identify fish.

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File

Features
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【File Picker(A)】  このアプリは、iPhone内のMP3,JPEG,PNGファイルを再生、画面表示するアプリです。このアプリの外でダウンロードしたファイル等を対象とするものです。[cell 追加]ボタンを押すとTitle入力枠が表示され入力後[File選択]ボタンを押すとドキュメントPickerが起動するのでaudioまたはimageファイルを選択してください(拡張子で判断)。ユーザーが入力したTitleはiボタンを押して編集できます(ファイル名は変更できません)。左スラッシュで行削除もできます。行タップで音声再生、再度の同一行タップで停止します。また、画像のピンチ操作で拡大縮小できます。 [File選択] ボタンを押したときに 「File選択」または「写真選択」(Album) を選べるようにしました。 【Image Resizer(B)】  タブBに画像サイズを変更(拡大縮小)する機能を追加しました。[Pick Image]→[Resize]→[Save to Photos]の順に操作します。画像のフレームサイズは幅と高さをピクセル単位で指定してください。また、画像ファイルはjpegまたはpng形式で保存することができます。なお、画像サイズを指定した後キーボード以外の部分をタップするとキーボードが消えます。

Screenshots

Mikke Fish ID3 screens
File3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: File at none against Mikke Fish ID's shown. Mikke Fish ID's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.2). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mikke Fish ID versus File: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMikke Fish IDFile
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews28.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerzukan.comyoot

In-app purchases

None

Mikke Fish ID

No in-app purchases

None

File

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mikke Fish ID free?
Mikke Fish ID is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is File free?
File is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mikke Fish ID or File have ads?
Mikke Fish ID shows ads; File does not.
Which is updated more often, Mikke Fish ID or File?
Mikke Fish ID ships an update every 6 weeks, and File every 6 weeks. Most recently, Mikke Fish ID was updated on October 26, 2026 and File on October 7, 2026.

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