FishCast — Fishing Forecast
Localized fishing forcast
Only for iPhone
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
New for 2026: smarter solunar predictions powered by real moon transits, plus species-specific scoring for bass, trout, walleye, catfish, crappie, and more.
FishCast tells you when the fish will bite.
Combining real-time weather, tides, lunar science, and species-specific behavior, FishCast generates an hour-by-hour fishing forecast for your exact location — so you can plan your next trip around the windows the fish are actually feeding.
WHY FISHCAST IS DIFFERENT
Most fishing apps just show you the weather. FishCast scores it. Every hour of every day gets a 0–100 fishing score based on what actually matters for the species you're targeting: barometric pressure trends, wind, cloud cover, water temperature proxies, solunar major and minor periods, and tide stage.
SPECIES-AWARE FORECASTING
Pick your target species and the forecast tunes itself:
• Bass — values stable mid-range pressure and calm-to-light chop
• Trout — weighted toward solunar periods and lunar phase
• Walleye — rewards overcast skies and 8–15 mph chop, penalizes bright sun
• Catfish — boosts low-pressure pre-storm feeding windows
• Crappie — balanced moon, pressure, and wind scoring
• Panfish — heavy solunar weighting, light tide influence
• Saltwater — tide-stage dominant, ideal for inshore species
REAL SOLUNAR, NOT GUESSES
FishCast computes solunar major periods from actual lunar transit times for your latitude and longitude, and minor periods from real moonrise and moonset times — not a generic ±6-hour rule of thumb. Combined with sun rise/set and golden-hour weighting, you get the most accurate prediction of when fish are most likely to feed.
ACCURATE TIDE DATA
For coastal anglers, FishCast pulls live tide predictions directly from NOAA Tides & Currents stations near your location. See high and low tides, current tide stage, and how the tide cycle affects your hourly fishing score.
LIVE WEATHER
Hourly weather from Open-Meteo: temperature, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, barometric pressure with trend analysis (rising, falling, steady), and visibility. No subscriptions, no API keys, no ads.
PRIVACY FIRST
FishCast uses your location only on your device to fetch local forecasts. Nothing is sent to our servers — because there are no servers. No account, no sign-up, no tracking, no analytics, no data collection of any kind. Ever.
WHAT YOU GET
• Hour-by-hour fishing score for the next several days
• Current-hour quality badge: Excellent, Good, Fair, or Poor
• Breakdown of every scoring factor: pressure, wind, moon, solunar, tide, cloud cover, temperature
• Conditions tab: live weather with pressure trend
• Tides tab: NOAA tide predictions with high/low markers
• Solunar tab: major and minor feeding periods for today
• Seven species profiles with custom scoring weights
• Designed for accessibility: Dynamic Type, VoiceOver labels, color-blind-friendly status symbols
• Dark mode optimized for early-morning and dusk use
FishCast is built by an angler, for anglers. No fluff, no upsells, no ads. Just the forecast you need to know when to go.
Tight lines.
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Information
- Provider
- JOHN W WILLIAMS
- Size
- 1.7 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 16.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 13.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Coldstart Development