Tap any water.
Know the rules,
tide and bite window.

What you get out of the box

• 01

  Daily fishing score

  An at-a-glance 0–100 score for your home water — combining tide, wind, swell, lunar phase, water temperature, pressure trend and barometric change. Recommended target species, peak season tag, bag limits and 'Can I keep it?' answer surface in the same card.

• 02

  Tap any water for the rules

  Per-coordinate zone lookup against official state GIS data — instantly know if a spot is no-take, restricted, rec-only or open. Tier-badge tap surfaces the actual rule, the source URL and the date we last reconciled with the authority.

• 03

  302 species guide

  Every Australian recreational species — bag, size, season, peak weight, ID features, multilingual names (English / 简体中文 / 日本語 / 한국어 / Tiếng Việt). 30 carry venom or ciguatera warnings; 100+ illustrated. Filter by water type, peak season or rarity.

• 04

  Per-coord wind, wave, tide

  Open-Meteo marine model fed by your visible map region — wind, swell, water temp, pressure, gusts and UV plotted as a 24-hour timeline. Sunrise/sunset and lunar phase computed locally; no network needed for the celestial layer.

• 05

  AI fish identification

  On-device Core ML + Vision identifies your catch from a photo. Falls back to Apple's classifier with a fish-only filter when the species is rare. Photos never leave your device. Cross-checked against your state's regulations the moment you save.

• 06

  AR length measure

  Point your phone at the fish and Catchbook measures it with ARKit, then compares against the legal minimum size for the species in your state — green for legal, red for undersized — before you take the photo.

• 07

  Catch journal that pays you back

  Every catch lands on a calendar, every trip rolls into a recap with weather, tides and lunar phase frozen at the moment you logged it. The journal becomes your dataset for next season — sortable, exportable, never deleted.

• 08

  Personal Bests + 12-month chart

  Auto-detects new weight or length records per species. Last-12-months bar chart. Personal-Bests-by-species list ranked by weight. All on-device, no leaderboard upload, no anonymisation tricks — your records stay yours.

• 09

  Achievements that earn themselves

  30+ milestones — Trophy Fish, Species Hunter, Multi-State Angler (gold), Night Owl, Crustacean Hunter, Legend of the Water (legendary, 500 catches). Bronze/Silver/Gold/Legendary tiers, all unlocked on-device from your real catches.

• 10

  Fish Collection progress

  55 / 302 species caught? See it. Filter by Reef, Pelagic, Estuary, Fresh, Crustacean, Cephalopod, Shark, Shellfish — each category tracks its own completion rate. By rarity or by water, your way.

• 11

  Tackle Box + effectiveness

  Track every rod, reel, hook, lure and soft plastic in a searchable inventory. Pro tier rolls 'Tackle Effectiveness' analytics — which gear lands which species, in which conditions, by hit rate.

• 12

  Live Activity + Dynamic Island

  Start a session and your Lock Screen shows the timer, current wind speed and the next tide event. Hands-free with Siri: 'Hey Siri, start fishing.'

• 13

  Look Around previews

  Apple Maps street-level imagery for boat ramps, jetties and headlands — see the spot before you drive there. No imagery for the spot? The card hides itself.

• 14

  Licence Wallet

  Photograph and store every fishing licence, boat licence, marine radio certificate and abalone permit. Expiring-soon and expired badges keep you on the right side of the rules.

• 15

  Community fishing spots

  Live OpenStreetMap layer fills the surf-and-rock coastline gaps that government boat-ramp datasets ignore. Stale-edit gate (3-5 years) keeps the data trustworthy.

• 16

  Emergency contacts on the hazard banner

  000, the Poisons Information Centre (13 11 26), AMSA Rescue, every state's marine rescue line — all one tap from the venomous-species banner. Designed for shaking hands and salt on the screen.

• 17

  Offline-first, privacy-first

  No accounts. No tracking SDKs. No third-party analytics. No advertising network. Catches stay on your phone unless you explicitly share. iCloud sync is optional, uses your own iCloud account.

• 18

  Apple Watch companion

  Your home-water fishing score and the next high/low tide on the watch face. Tap to start a session — the haptic taps you when the bite window opens or a tide change is 30 minutes out. No phone needed at the rocks.

• 19

  iPhone widget for the lock screen

  Today's 0–100 score, the next tide event and your top three target species — all on the lock screen and Home Screen, refreshed by the same on-device engine that powers the app. Lives next to Calendar and Weather.

• 20

  Siri Shortcuts + App Intents

  "Hey Siri, start fishing" begins a session and the Live Activity. "Hey Siri, what's my fishing score?" reads today's number. Spotlight surfaces species, your last catch and tide stations as deep links.

• 21

  What's Biting — smart recommendations

  Cross-references current conditions, your home water, the lunar cycle and the past 12 months of your own catches to rank which species are most likely to bite right now. Tap any recommendation for the gear, technique and pro tip.

• 22

  Trip Planner with 7-day forecast

  Pick a future date and a spot — Catchbook fuses the Open-Meteo marine model, lunar phase and tide model to show the bite-window probability for every day of the next week. Pin the best window to your calendar.

• 23

  Knot & Rig library

  20+ animated knot tutorials (Albright, FG, Bimini Twist, Double Uni) plus a rig library with diagrams (paternoster, running sinker, jig head, float). Practice the knot once, then save the rig to your tackle stack for one-tap recall.

• 24

  5 languages, including 简体中文 / 繁體 / 日本語 / 한국어

  Every species name, every regulation summary and the entire UI ship in English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어 and Tiếng Việt — so an angler new to Australia can use the app in their first language without losing a single feature.

• 25

  Solo Fisher Safety Timer

  Heading out alone? Set a timer at the launch — if you don't check in by your ETA, Catchbook auto-dials your emergency contact with your last known GPS. Designed for night runs and remote estuary sessions.

• 26

  iCloud sync (optional, private)

  Catches, tackle box and licence wallet sync across your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch through your own iCloud account. End-to-end encrypted by Apple — Catchbook (and we) cannot read it. Off by default, on by your tap.

14-day free trial. Cancel any time from your Apple ID.

Common questions

Common questions

• Does Catchbook work offline?

  Yes. All 302 species, regulation tables and the entire Australian zone polygon dataset ship in the binary. Coastal marine data (wind, wave, tide) caches on first fetch and re-uses the cache for 30 minutes, so you stay informed even when service drops on the water.

• How accurate is the no-take / restricted zone map?
• Will it identify any fish I photograph?
• What's free vs Pro?
• Why did the venomous fish warning pop up?
• How do I cancel?
• How is the daily fishing score calculated?
• What about Watch and Widget?
• Do I have to be online?
• What if I cross a state line — does it know?