About Fishing Codex

I’m Misha, a keen angler in New Zealand, and Fishing Codex is the product I personally dreamed of having.

I wanted my whole fishing history to actually be worth something. Every place I’d ever fished, with the real tide, moon and conditions of the day I fished it — worked out for me, not half-remembered or scribbled somewhere I’d lose. Even the photos already sitting on my phone from years back: bring them in and the app works out the tide and moon for the day each one was taken.

Then I wanted it to tell me what to do next — which of my entries are worth fishing right now, when the next good window is, whether I can even get out there, and how rough it’ll be when I do. And I wanted a way to earn from the fishing I was already doing: publishing entries from my own logbook, on my own terms.

Codex means book. This is your fishing one — every location, every catch, every condition, written down and kept. Fishing Codex is a private fishing logbook app for iOS and Android, plus fishingcodex.com, where anglers publish their logbooks and others unlock entries — each entry a real catch with its place, date, tide and conditions. The app is a free offline fishing tool — the private offline logbook, worldwide tides, a free 1-day forecast and catch statistics are all free (App Pro unlocks the full 14-day forecast). Entries unlocked or claimed on the website appear in the app automatically.

A catch logged with its conditions helps another angler fish well — and whoever claims or unlocks an entry receives its exact location, on their private map in the app.