Pikeworks
Fish Vault
In testing
Every fish, where and when.
Log a fish in a few taps and Fish Vault fills in the place, the time of day from the real sunrise, the season, the moon and the weather. Every fish goes on a heatmap, and your own patterns come out in plain words.
Android, iPhone later
Not out yet. It's in closed testing on Google Play, so you can't download it yet. Help test it and you can. Email me and I'll let you know when it is.
What it does
A catch log that keeps your marks to yourself.
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Logged at the water
Species from a catalogue of 107, weight in pounds and ounces or kilos, length and photos. The place comes from your phone and drops into the spot you're fishing.
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Sessions, live on your phone
Start a session when you arrive and it sits at the top of your phone with a clock, the fish so far and a button to log the next. Blank days are kept, so fish per hour tells the truth about a water, and so is the one that came off at the net: proof the fish are there on a day they gave none up. End it and you get a recap: what came out, the best fish, and any personal best or first of a species.
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Dawn means dawn
The time of day is worked out from the real sunrise and sunset where and when each fish came out, so a 6am pike in June and one in December are told apart.
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A heatmap of your fish
Every fish on one map. The water you catch most in glows hottest, and closing in on a lake turns the heat into the fish that made it.
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Your patterns, in words
Your best season, spot, time of day and species, written plainly. Under eight fish it won't call a pattern at all.
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A tackle box
Rods, reels, lures, flies, rigs, floats, bait and nets, each with a photo if you like. Every fish remembers what it came out on, and each piece shows what it has caught.
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Old catches from your photos
Pick a batch of old photos and the time and place the camera wrote into each one become a fish. Photos taken minutes apart count as one, and it only asks what a photo can't tell it.
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Fishing with friends
Ask friends along to a session and you see each other's fish as they come out, but never where. Whoever has the camera can log a fish for its owner, and it reaches them with its photos to check and keep, and their own phone adds the place.
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Your marks stay yours
Your log lives on your phone. Sign in to a Pikeworks account and it is backed up with it, with every place sealed on your phone first so only your phones can read it. Keep a copy of your places key and a new phone can open them too. Friends are optional, and nothing you share with friends ever says where a fish was caught. Backup with photos and spreadsheet export are free.
What it costs
Fish Vault is free and has no adverts. One payment unlocks the deeper digging, if you want it.
- Price
- Free
- Purchases
- Fish Vault Pro, one payment, not a subscription.
- Adverts
- None, ever.
Logging, photos, old catches from photos, sessions, spots, the tackle box, the heatmap, personal bests and your season, spot, species and time of day patterns are all free. So are backup and spreadsheet export.
Friends are free too, and optional, and so is fishing with them. They need a free Pikeworks account, nothing goes to them until you turn friends on, and the fish you share never say where they were caught.
Fish Vault Pro is one payment for the conditions tables, which moon, pressure and temperature your fish come in, and the baits, lures and methods that have actually caught.
Privacy and support
Your log and your photos live on your phone. Signed in to a Pikeworks account, they are backed up with it, with every place sealed on your phone first so only your phones can read it. The weather is looked up with a position rounded to about a kilometre. A Pikeworks account and friends are optional, and friends see only the fish you share, never where they were caught. The full privacy policy says exactly what is kept and what is sent.