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FishAngler: Fishing App

Fish AI, Maps, Spots & Tides

FishAngler, LLC
No findings published
App Store rating4.8★13.9K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age12+Store age rating
Size349 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 15 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 5.2.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-15 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 5.3.0, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 5.2.3, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Target the Fish. Master the Waters.

FishAngler is your AI-powered fishing guide — the fishing app that gets smarter with every catch you log. Personalized game plans. Verified spots. Real-time weather forecast. Built for anglers who want to master the waters.

Meet FINN™ — your personal fishing guide. Every catch you log feeds FINN™ with data about your spots, species, and local conditions. FINN™ analyzes that history alongside real-time fishing weather to generate personalized game plans for every trip. Not generic advice. Your data. Your patterns. Your edge.

FREE WITH EVERY ACCOUNT

FIND YOUR FISHING SPOTS

Explore fishing activity at lakes, rivers, streams, inshore and offshore waters across the US and worldwide. Community-driven fishing spots near you.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (5.0% of 101 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

101 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

101 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

My opinion on this app — Fun for tracking your catches and seeing what other people catch. You can also see what fish people have caught in certain areas. However there are certain features locked behind a subscription but overall a fun…

4★ · App Store · 2026-10-05

Used to use religiously — They want to charge for the core function of this app now?!? I get having advanced features to offer at a premium, but to take the basic function of this app and lock behind a paywall is ridiculous. Such a shame.

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-09

App was good now its not. — The whole point of this app was free fishing forecast and now you gotta pay for it. And everything else you can get on google.

2★ · App Store · 2026-04-20

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 15 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 5.2.3 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-15 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 5.3.0, updated 2026-10-15.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 5.2.3, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 5.3.0 · 2026-10-15
Put a name to every catch. FINN now identifies fish from your photos. What's New in FishAngler Meet FINN Fish ID - Identify Fish with FINN Snap or pick a photo of your catch and FINN suggests the most likely species, with a confidence level for each match. Choose one and log your catch with the photo and species already filled in. - A New Home for FINN One FINN screen now brings Game Plans and Fish ID together. A floating FINN button sits above the main navigation so it's always a tap away. - Fresh Look, Simpler Navigation Feed is now Community, the + button is cleaner, and the app has a refreshed brand look. - Simpler Find Anglers Find Anglers is now a single, clean list of…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 5.3.0 · 2026-10-15
Put a name to every catch. FINN now identifies fish from your photos. What's New in FishAngler Meet FINN Fish ID - Identify Fish with FINN Snap or pick a photo of your catch and FINN suggests the most likely species, with a confidence level for each match. Choose one and log your catch with the photo and species already filled in. - A New Home for FINN One FINN screen now brings Game Plans and Fish ID together. A floating FINN button sits above the main navigation so it's always a tap away. - Fresh Look, Simpler Navigation Feed is now Community, the + button is cleaner, and the app has a refreshed brand look. - Simpler Find Anglers Find Anglers is now a single, clean list of…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Version 5.2.3 · 2026-09-17
A smarter way to find your fish, plus a lot of behind-the-scenes cleanup. What's New in FishAngler - Species Search, Rebuilt for the Map Filtering by species on the map is now a proper search. Browse by Category, check what's biting Nearby, or jump straight to your Favorites. Pick as many species or categories as you like, mix them freely, and clear them all with one tap. - Smoother VIP Management Managing a VIP membership no longer asks you to log in again, and Navionics charts now behave correctly until you've picked a region. - Stability and Polish We tracked down a long list of random crashes across the map, photos, comments, species search, and My Tackle Box. You'll also…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
fishangler-apple-1073941118
Assessment date
15 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
101
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-15 from 101 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-15 Version analyzed: 5.2.33 independent signals101 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.77 ★ · 13,885 ratings
Version
5.3.0
Updated
15 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
12+
Size
349 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
FishAngler, LLC
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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