Fishing Points - Fishing App

Review by eFreeware

A fishing trip usually fails or succeeds before the first cast. Water levels, tide timing, wind direction, the moon and the hour of the day all shape whether fish are feeding, and most anglers end up juggling several sources to piece that picture together. Fishing Points, from developer Fishing Points d.o.o., is built to put those signals on one screen alongside the places you fish.

It is a free app in the Sports category, and a well-established one: more than 10 million installs and a 4.4 average from 217,822 ratings. The developer describes it as an all-in-one companion for both saltwater and freshwater anglers, covering open seas, lakes and rivers. What interests me is the breadth of that claim, so the rest of this review looks at what each part actually does and where the edges are.

Who gets the most from Fishing Points

The app is aimed at people who treat fishing as a planning problem rather than a spur-of-the-moment outing. If you check tides before deciding when to launch, or you keep notes on which stretch of river produced fish last spring, the combination of forecasts and a personal log is the point of the app. The developer also pitches it at boat owners, and the nautical side supports that: worldwide charts, offline marine maps from NOAA, and a catalog of more than 50,000 boat ramps.

Freshwater anglers get a fair amount too, particularly around lakes. Lake depth and contour data is available in Florida, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota and Washington, which is useful for planning around drop-offs, channels and shallow flats. River anglers have current water levels and flows for more than 35,000 stations, and those who chase bass, trout, snapper, snook, drum, grouper or catfish will find species information to read through.

The fit is weaker for someone who wants a simple tide table and nothing else. There is a lot here, and the value comes from using several parts together: forecasts to pick the day, maps to pick the spot, the log to remember what worked. Anglers who fish the same small pond every weekend may find the marine and river layers irrelevant to them, even though nothing stops them using the feeding-time and weather sections.

Feeding times, weather and the solunar layer

The forecast core is a feeding-times model. It gives hourly windows with major and minor intervals, a daily activity read, and a calendar of good days that the developer ties to bass and other popular species. You can set notifications for days with feeding times, which is the sort of thing that either fits your routine or does not. Around that sit the conditions: current weather with an hourly outlook for humidity, precipitation probability and UV index, wind speed with gusts and direction, and a barometer with hourly air pressure.

Solunar data fills in the astronomy. Sunrise and sunset times, sun position through the day, moonrise and moonset, moon position and moon phase are all here. For anyone who already plans around moon phase, having it next to the wind and pressure readings saves a step. The developer also includes severe weather alerts and a rain radar, so you can see what is moving in rather than only what is forecast.

Tides get their own treatment. There are hourly tide charts with the next high and low, prediction charts that include tidal current detail, and a daily overview of the highest and lowest water. Offshore anglers get a marine forecast with hourly wave data covering waves, swell and wind waves, plus sea surface temperature and sea and ocean current information. It is a comprehensive set, and the practical question is whether you would rather read it in one place or keep using separate sources you already trust.

Maps, spots and saved locations

Where to fish is handled with four map types. Satellite imagery, nautical charts and lake contour layers each serve a different job, and the developer has added lake depth visualization for the states listed above. You can save fishing spots, locations, hotspots and waypoints, record trolling paths and trotlines, and mark favorites with a choice of more than 40 icons and 10 colors. Saved places can be found again with GPS, and there is a compass and a distance-measuring tool for working out how far a mark sits from your position.

Offline mode includes the nautical charts provided by NOAA, which matters if you are boating somewhere without a reliable signal. Import is supported for kmz and gpx files, so tracks and marks from GPS devices or other software can come across, and locations can be shared with friends. The recent update list adds location search, boat ramp directions and popular baits for species, all of which smooth out the everyday use of the map side.

The lake depth and contour layer is the piece I would watch most closely, because it covers a named set of states rather than everywhere. If your home water is in one of them, the contour view is a genuine planning tool; if it is not, you are working from the other map types. That is not a flaw so much as the current reach of a feature that is clearly still expanding, with Michigan, Illinois, Oklahoma, Ohio, Massachusetts and Iowa now covered.

Logbook, fish rules and sharing

Each logged catch can hold photos, weight and length. Weather, solunar and tide information is attached to a catch automatically, which is the part that makes a log worth keeping. Over a season those entries turn into a record of what conditions produced fish, and you do not have to remember to write any of it down yourself.

Rules and regulations are covered for selected states: Florida, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana, with bag limits and open seasons. Species information covers bass, trout, snapper, snook, drum, grouper, catfish and others. If you fish across state lines, checking the local rules is still your responsibility, but having the reference inside the same app as your spots is convenient.

Data syncs across computers and mobile devices, and there is a web app for planning and analyzing trips on a larger screen. The recent changes mention an account screen for managing your account. Sharing extends to locations with friends and catch photos with other anglers, so a group planning a trip can pass marks around rather than describing them.

What it costs and what comes with it

Fishing Points is free to download, and it contains ads. It also offers in-app purchases. Those terms are worth knowing before you commit a season of spots and catches to the app.

The app has been on Google Play since June 2013 and was last updated in September 2026, so this is a long-running project rather than a recent arrival. That history shows in the number of installs and ratings, and in the steady stream of new features. For a free app with ads and purchases, the sensible approach is to use the forecast and map tools for a while, see whether they match the waters you actually fish, and decide from there.

How it compares with other ways of planning

The obvious alternative is a weather app you already have. General forecasts give you wind and rain, but they do not give feeding windows, tide charts, solunar positions or a place to keep your marks. If your planning currently consists of a weather check and a paper tide table, Fishing Points replaces both and adds the map and log layers on top.

Dedicated marine chart software is the other comparison, and there the app's strengths are the NOAA offline charts and the worldwide coverage. What it does not replace is a full navigation suite for serious offshore work; it is a fishing companion with chart access rather than a helm instrument. For lake anglers, paper contour maps or a depth finder cover some of the same ground, though neither keeps your spots, forecasts and catches in one synced place.

Then there is the notebook-and-memory approach. A catch log with automatic weather, tide and solunar context is more consistent than notes written from memory at the end of a day, and it syncs to a desktop web app where you can look at patterns over time. The trade-off is that you are relying on the app's data for the conditions it records.

A planning tool for anglers who fish by the conditions

Fishing Points makes most sense for anglers who already think in terms of tides, moon phase and wind, and who want those signals beside their spots and their catch history. The feeding-time forecast, the solunar and marine layers, the four map types and the automatic log context all point the same way: plan the trip, fish it, record what happened. The developer's expansion of lake contours and river station coverage suggests that side will keep growing.

It is free, it carries ads and it offers in-app purchases, and it has the install base and rating history of a mature app. If you fish lakes or rivers in the covered states, keep a boat on coastal water, or simply want your forecasts, marks and catches in one place that syncs, this is worth installing and trying against your own waters. If you only ever need a quick tide reading, the breadth here will be more than you asked for.

What's new in version 4.7.3

- Location list search - Identify Fish from photo - Boat ramp directions - New account screen to manage your account - New import kmz and gpx files - Popular baits for species - Lake depths of selected lakes in FL, MN, ND, NE, NH, WA, MI, IL, OK, OH, MA, IA - Rain radar - Water levels & flows for 35k+ river stations - Take advantage of a bigger screen with Fishing Points Web App Thanks for using Fishing Points! To make our app better for you, we bring updates to the Play Store regularly.