“Best fishing game out there — This is all you could ever want from a fishing game. It has every mechanic you could think of from boxes, cards, skill trees, and wheels to hook sets, directional changes, and line tightness. Not to mention…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 504 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.8 ★23,635 ratings
—Downloads
12+Age rating
1971 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Fishing has never been so easy!
Hooked on real motion fishing! Everyone can catch monster fish with any cast! Grab your friends and cast a line in famous fishing spots like Key West and Pacific Ocean! Chill out in stunningly realistic nature scenes, catch over 100 species of fish, and become a Fishing Master!
Fishing Master is a 3D realistic fishing game for relaxation that's perfect for everyone. Cast your line and reel in over hundreds of different fish species with intuitive controls. Master various fishing techniques to catch monster fish and hidden golden treasures. Duel your friends for leadboard glory and claim the ultimate rewards!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.8, updated 2026-09-16.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
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
2 themes 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
90% or more five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Progress pauses until you wait or pay
Use is rationed by an energy/hearts/lives meter that runs out and forces a wait or a purchase.
What we saw: Energy / timer gating: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.6% of 504 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Pay to progress
Advancement or competition is gated behind spending money rather than playing.
What we saw: Pay to progress: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 504 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Wow The ⚡️ System — I’d give it 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ but you can literally play for 30min at a time… and have to wait hours for your energy to recharge. But they gotta get that money out of users instead of making an enjoying free to play game…”
“Held Back By Greed — Just another game held back by greed. The energy system makes it so that once you’re invested, they’re hoping that you’ll start paying up to keep fishing. You can spend up to 40 energy per fish, which translates to…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.8.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.