Contents
Welcome
Capturia is your digital fishing log: record your fishing spots, your catches (with photos, weight and the day's conditions) and also those days when nothing bit. Everything is stored on your phone and, if you like, backed up to the cloud. Over time it becomes your own fishing history: which species bites best at which spot, with which tide, with which wind.
This guide grows little by little as the app grows.
Getting started
- When you open the app you'll see the welcome screen, in your phone's language (you can change it later in Settings). Get in with Continue with Google or with your email: Or sign in with email if you already have an account, or Sign up to create a new one. If you already had an account, you go straight to Home.
- If you are new, pick your fishing area by hand (continent, country and, in Spain, region). You can switch between the light and dark theme whenever you like in Settings.
- Choose your username: the app checks right away whether it is free. Once set, it can no longer be changed.
- Your catalogue starts with five species already loaded: Gilthead bream, Sea bass, Squid, Octopus and Salmon.
- You start on the Free plan. Your plan is in the avatar menu > Subscription and plan.
Getting around the app
- Home screen: big buttons for what you use most (add catch, calendar, catches, baits and lures, settings, guide, Aboutā¦). Those your plan doesn't include show a padlock. Your profile is in the avatar menu.
- Bottom bar: Species, Spots, Catches, Blanks, Calendar and Hallelujah! (new catch). The button of the section you are in is marked with a darker border and a lighter background.
- Side menu (ā°): your links, Equipment (baits and lures), Tools, Community, and Help (guide and About Capturia). At the top right it has a shortcut to š Home.
- Avatar menu (your photo, top right): š Home, My profile, Settings, Subscription and plan, and Sign out.
Spots
A spot is a place where you fish: a reservoir, a stretch of river, a beach. From Spots, tap + New and fill in:
- Name and spot type (reservoir, river, sea, etc.).
- Photo, optional.
- Location: you can use your current GPS position.
- Visibility: public or private. A public spot can be seen by anyone who receives a catch of yours made there; a private one cannot.
Each spot shows how many catches and blank days you have recorded there. The card has two icons: the red one opens the spot in your maps app (greyed out if the spot has no location) and the blue one sends it to a buddy (Premium plan). Tap the card to open View spot: at the top you have Edit, Delete and the send icon. If you delete a spot that has catches, blank days or big bites, they are not deleted: they are left without a spot, marked as pending, and you can assign them another one later. With the magnifying glass, next to "All spots", you search a spot by name as you type.
Your own types ā (from the Plus plan): if none of Capturia's types fits, tap + New when choosing the type and write your own (for example, āBreakwaterā). It is marked with ā next to the usual ones, saved with your data and in your cloud copy, and counted in the statistics. With My spot types, in the same picker, you rename or delete them; if you delete one, the spots using it switch to āOtherā. When you send a spot to a buddy, its custom type reaches them by name.
Catches
From Catches, tap +š£, next to the search bar (or Hallelujah! in the bottom bar), to record a fish. You can add:
- Species and spot (required), weight and length.
- Minimum size: once youāve chosen the species and spot, below the length youāll see the minimum size for that area, in red if your fish is below it (see Species).
- Photos or video of the catch.
- Multiple catch: if you caught several fish at once, record them as a single entry; in that case you enter the quantity instead of the length.
- Lure and bait (below the quantity or length): pick the ones you used from your Equipment list. They are optional; if you haven't created any yet, the field tells you to do so in Equipment.
- Day's conditions: weather data (wind, rain, cloud cover and moon phase) is collected automatically with the weather button, from the spot or your location; the rest you note yourself: tide, tide type, water clarity and colour, sea state, rod, reel, bait or lure. Everything is optional, but the more you fill in, the more useful your history becomes over time.
- Visibility: private or public for your buddies.
The bar at the top of Catches has two rows. In the first you filter by species or spot, and with + Filters you get advanced filters (dates, weight, catch type, lure, bait and specific conditions), available from the Premium plan. In the second you have the search bar, which filters by species name as you type, the +š£ button to record a catch and the š„š£ button for your buddies' catches. To share a catch's photo, press and hold its card (or tap ā®) and choose Share.
Your buddies' catches are never mixed with yours, so you can show your list to anyone. To see them, tap š„š£: its border turns red and the list shows only your buddies' catches. The ones they sent you and you saved have a red border on the left; your buddies' public ones (from Premium) have a light blue border and the name of who recorded them. Tap the button again to see yours. Buddies' catches can be viewed (and the received ones deleted), but not edited or forwarded.
On your catches, š„ Shared with buddies means your buddies can see it (Buddies or Buddies and public visibility) and ā Posted on the map means it appears on the public catches map. Among your buddies' catches, public ones show Posted by and the name of who logged it, and received ones show Sent by. If a buddy sent you a catch they have also posted, it appears only once, with āSent by ā¦ Ā· also postedā. In + Filters, the š„ Fishing buddies card lets you tick which buddies' catches you want to see; with none ticked, you see everyone's. When you send a catch, it goes with its lure (and its type, even a custom one).
Verified photos ā
When you add a photo to a catch, Capturia asks whether you want to take the photo now or choose it from the gallery. Photos you take at that moment with the camera from Capturia are verified: they carry the ā badge in the catch and the card shows āVerified photoā. Gallery photos (and those from Import from my gallery) do not get the badge, because they may come from anywhere or be edited. If you want your companions to know your fish is real, take the photo from Capturia.
Viewing, editing or deleting a catch
Tap a card to open View catch. At the top you have Edit, Delete and the send icon. When you tap Edit, "Edit" becomes Save (enabled as soon as you change something, including photos, the cover or the video) and "Delete" becomes Cancel (discards the changes). Species and Spots work the same way.
When deleting, the "Also delete from the cloud" box (ticked by default) decides whether your cloud copy is deleted too, not just the one on your phone. If you are offline at that moment, the app warns you and does it by itself as soon as you are back online or reopen the app. The same applies to Spots, Species, Blanks and Big bites.
Delete several at once: long-press a card (or tap ā®) and choose Delete several, the last option in the menu. The screen switches to selection mode with that card already ticked: tap any others you want, use All to tick or untick them all and press the red š button with the number. You confirm once, with the same cloud checkbox, and they are deleted with the same rules as one by one. Cancel leaves selection mode. It is available in Catches, Species (with the āAlso delete their catchesā checkbox: if you leave it unticked, species with catches are not deleted), Spots, Blanks, Baits and lures and the rest of Equipment.
Blanks and big bites
Not everything is catches: in Blanks you also keep the days when nothing bit. A blank records the date, the spot, the fishing hours and the day's conditions, just like a catch but without a fish. Over time it helps you learn which conditions do not work at each spot.
A big bite is the one that got away: you felt the pull or your line broke, but the fish never came out. You can note the species you suspect it was and whether the line broke. Both are recorded from the same screen, with the big-bite switch, and the list is filtered with All / Blanks / Bites.
Calendar
The Calendar button in the bottom bar (between Blanks and Hallelujah!) opens a monthly view with a coloured dot for every day you recorded something: catches, blanks and big bites. Tap a day to see what you noted and open that record read-only.
Species
The Species screen shows your catalogue: the species on your phone (the five you start with, the ones you add from the public list and the ones you create yourself). Each card shows the photo, the type, how many catches you have and the minimum size for your area. It syncs with your cloud copy manually or automatically, depending on Settings.
Use the magnifying glass, next to āAll speciesā, to search by common or scientific name. Tap a card to open View species: at the top you have Edit, Delete and the icon to send it to a buddy. Deleting a species shows the same notice as Spots and Catches, with the option to delete it from the cloud too. If it has catches, they are deleted with it: the app tells you how many and asks you to type the confirmation word.
Public species list (official catalogue)
This is Capturiaās official catalogue, reviewed by the team and with a photo of each species. Itās in the menu (ā°) > Data > š Public species list, from the Plus plan.
- Area: the list is filtered by area (European Atlantic, Cantabrian Sea, Mediterraneanā¦). Yours is selected when you open it; you can pick another one or āAll zonesā. You can also search by name and filter by type.
- More information: tap a speciesā name (or the ā¾ arrow) to expand its card, with a large photo, the name, the scientific name, the type, where it lives and the minimum size. š In depth opens its full profile: key facts, how to recognise it, where it lives, what it eats, how it breeds, how to fish for it and a fun fact. If it has no profile yet, the button is dimmed.
- Add to your catalogue: tap ā. You get your own copy, which you can edit or remove whenever you like. Species you already have donāt appear in the list; turn on āAlso show the ones I already haveā to see them marked with ā.
Official species or your own? If the species is in the public list, add it from there: it comes with its photo, its name in your language, its scientific name and its minimum sizes by area, kept up to date by the Capturia team. Only create one yourself if it isnāt there; if you make it public, you propose it for the catalogue and the team reviews it. When you choose an official species in a catch (also with What fish is it?), itās added to your catalogue automatically, without duplicates if you already had it. If the catalogue changes the photo of a species you have, editing it offers Use the official photo: your photo is never changed unless you choose to.
If you create a species by hand and its name matches one in the official catalogue, the app warns you: Use the official one adds it to your species with its photo, sizes and fact sheet, and Create mine carries on with yours. If you propose as public a species that was already in the catalogue, the team will let you know instead of verifying it.
Minimum size for your area
The same species can have different minimum sizes depending on where itās caught (for example, the axillary seabream: 17 cm in general and 25 cm in the Cantabrian Sea). Thatās why official species have a size for each area, and the In depth profile shows all of them, with yours highlighted.
- Your area comes from the country and region you chose when you started. Change it in Settings > My fishing area.
- In a catch, below the length youāll see the minimum size for the chosen spot (its area is worked out from the spotās location). If the length or weight is below it, the notice turns red.
- The area is worked out on your phone and is not sent anywhere.
Sizes are a guide only: always check the current regulations for your area. Species you create yourself have a single size, the one you type.
How many species you can have in your catalogue depends on your plan (see Plans). Official catalogue names are shown in your language when a translation exists; species you create are shown as you wrote them.
What fish is it? AI identification
Caught a fish and don't know what it is? Take a photo and the AI tells you which species it is. The tool is on Home (the What fish is it? button, which you can hide in Settings > Top buttons), in the menu (ā°) and inside New catch and New species, next to the species field.
Take a photo with the camera or pick one from your gallery and tap Identify species. In a few seconds you see up to 3 possible species, from most to least likely, with the % confidence, your photo next to the official catalogue one, the features it looks at and the approximate minimum size for your area (always check it against current regulations). For better results: the whole fish, side-on, in good light, with the fins clearly visible.
From a catch, That's it fills in the species and, if it is from the official catalogue, adds it to your species. When creating a species, Use this species fills in the name, scientific name and type. From the standalone tool you can share the result with a friend. If you're not convinced, Try Google Lens gives you a free second opinion.
Identifications per month: Free 2, Plus 10 and Premium 50. The counter resets every month and, if an identification fails because of an error, it isn't counted. The photo is sent reduced and without hidden data (EXIF) only to analyse it, and it isn't stored; for the minimum size your approximate area is used, never your exact location. It needs an internet connection.
Advanced statistics
Advanced statistics (Premium only) analyse your catches to tell you when and in which conditions you catch the most. They are in the menu (ā°) > š View statistics.
At the top you choose the species (all or one) and the period (last year, last 3 years or all). The summary shows the number of catches, different spots, average weight and heaviest weight, and When they bite most tells you what repeats most often (time, moon, tide, windā¦) when there are at least 3 catches with that data.
Below you have catches by month (the best month highlighted), by time of day (morning 6ā14 h, afternoon 14ā21 h, night 21ā6 h) and two collapsible sections for weather and sea: wind, rain, clouds, moon phase, sea state, swell, wave period, tide, water clarity and colour. The more data you record in your catches, the more accurate they get. All users mode shows statistics for everyone's public catches around your location, a point on the map or one of your spots (10 to 100 km, official catalogue species only). The data is anonymous, with no names or exact points, and you need to contribute at least 3 public catches to see it.
By spot type and By lure type show how many catches you have and their average weight for each type (beach, rocks, harbourā¦; soft plastic, jig, minnowā¦), including your own types ā . Only catches with a lure count in the lure one.
Equipment
In the side menu (ā°), the Equipment section gathers what you take fishing: baits and lures, rods, reels and lines, and Other.
Baits and lures
Here you keep your own catalogue of baits (worms, sardine, squidā¦) and lures (soft plastics, minnows, jigsā¦). The button at the top switches the filter between All, Lures and Baits, and next to it + New creates one:
- Choose whether it is a lure or a bait (this can't be changed later).
- Name and description (colour, size, weight, how you use itā¦).
- For a lure, its type (popper, soft plastic, spoon, jig, minnowā¦), optional.
- Photo, optional.
Each card shows the photo, name, description and in how many catches you've used it. When you record a catch, pick the lure and/or bait you caught it with (both optional) and, over time, you'll see which one works best for you. If you delete one you've already used, your catches are not deleted: they simply no longer have that bait or lure.
Limits: 5 baits and lures in total on Free, 100 on Plus and unlimited on Premium.
Your own lure types ā (from the Plus plan): if your lure doesn't fit any type, tap + New in the type picker and create your own (for example, āSquid jigā). With My lure types you rename or delete them; if you delete one, the lures using it switch to āOtherā, which is also among Capturia's types.
Buddies
From the Premium plan you can add buddies (side menu > My buddies, searching by username) and send them, with the Send button on each record, catches with all their information (including weather and sea data), spots, species and big bites. Users on Plus or higher can receive them.
- When you receive something, the app tells you when you open it (or right away, if it is already open). You can save it or discard it. If you already have that species or spot, yours is reused instead of creating a duplicate.
- When someone adds you as a buddy, you get a notice right away (even with the app open), with the option to Add them too if your plan allows it.
- Hide from public search by turning off āVisible to other usersā in My profile (at the bottom of the My area card) if you want to use Capturia just as a fishing log: nobody will be able to find you to add you.
- Remove (X): they stop being your buddy.
- Block (padlock, under the X): besides removing them, they can no longer add you or send you anything. Items they had not accepted from you yet are cancelled, and the catches and big bites they already accepted are deleted from their cloud and from their phone the next time they open the app. If someone sends you something you don't want, you can also block and report them from the notice itself.
- Unblock: in the expandable "Blocked users" card. They don't become your buddy again automatically, and what was deleted when blocking is not recovered.
What you share: in My buddies, each row has a share icon. Tapping it shows two tabs: You share, your catches with Buddies or Buddies and public visibility (all your buddies see them), and Shares with you, the ones that buddy lets their buddies see. What you have sent each other directly still appears when you tap the row.
Groups
Groups are chats between anglers. From the Plus plan you can search public groups and join them (up to 2 public and 2 private at a time); from Premium you can create public or private groups (the eye next to Private/Public also switches the visibility) and invite whoever you want.
Plans
Capturia has four plans. These are their main limits:
| Plan | Spots and species | Catches, blanks and big bites | Photos per catch | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 5 of each | 10 of each | 1 | No cloud |
| Plus | 250 spots / 200 species | 500 of each | 3 | 500 MB |
| Premium | Unlimited | Unlimited | 8 + video | 2 GB |
| Pro | Coming soon, for professionals only | |||
Plus also adds groups, the official catalogue, app backgrounds and backup; Premium adds advanced filters, sending to buddies, creating groups and using your own background photo. Your plan and the details of each one are in the avatar menu > Subscription and plan.
Offline, the app respects your plan until the date your paid or gifted period ends (for up to 30 days without connecting); as soon as there is a connection, the server has the final say.
Settings
From your avatar menu you open Settings, where you can change:
- The app's language and theme (light or dark).
- Colour customisation: colour of the header and bottom bar, bar icons in white or black (all plans) and card colour (from Plus). "Restore original colours" brings back the usual ones.
- App background: predesigned backgrounds or a colour (from Plus), or your own photo from the camera or gallery (from Premium). The predesigned backgrounds come from Pixabay.
- Automatic upload to the cloud (from Plus). If you don't turn it on, you can save and restore your copy manually from the side menu > Tools or from Home.
- My fishing area: the area used to show minimum sizes. By default itās āAutomaticā, based on the country and region you chose when you started. Itās only saved on this phone.
Notifications: they have their own card in Settings (tap it to expand it), with a main switch and, below it, one switch per type of alert. Everything is on by default. Your phone alerts you even when Capturia is closed when your best fishing hour starts (days rated 3ā or more at your main Forecast spot; all plans) and, from Plus, when a buddy sends you something (catch, spot, species or big bite), you get a private note or a meetup, someone adds you as a buddy or invites you to a group, or one of your species is reviewed. From Plus you choose which of these alerts you want; that choice is saved to your account and applies to all your phones. If you turn off the main switch, you get no alerts at all, not even the best-hour one. When you sign out, that phone stops receiving them.
About Capturia
In the side menu > Help > š§ About Capturia (or the About button on Home) you'll find the installed version, what's new, the privacy policy, credits and licences, and how to write to us, rate the app or share it with your friends.
Frequently asked questions
Do I lose my data if I delete the app or change phones? No, as long as you have your copy in the cloud: your data is saved on your phone first and, with the backup, in the cloud too. On a new phone, sign in and use Restore data (side menu > Tools or Home).
If I delete a catch that is already in the cloud, is it deleted there too? Yes, if you leave the "Also delete from the cloud" box ticked when confirming the deletion.
Can I use Capturia offline? Yes, to record and look up your data. Syncing with the cloud (uploads, backups and pending deletions) happens by itself as soon as you are back online.
What does the ā on a photo mean? That the photo was taken with the camera from Capturia when the catch was recorded, not uploaded from the gallery. It is not absolute proof, but it is a good sign that the photo is genuine.