Every place you've ever fished, on one private map.

Most catch photos taken on a phone carry the GPS position and the exact date and time inside the file. Import them from your camera roll and each becomes a private entry on your map. Here’s the part no shoebox of pins ever gave you: the app computes the tide and moon state for the moment each photo was taken. A snapper from a 25-year-old photo comes in knowing whether the tide was rising or falling that morning. Photo imports run up to 200 photos a day, and everything imported is private to you.

Got locations saved in a fishfinder, a chartplotter, or another fishing app? Export them and feed the file straight in. Fishing Codex accepts GPX, KML, and CSV, and a single file import carries up to 10,000 entries. An account holds up to 10,000 entries in total, captured and imported alike. Importing is free, your entries sync to the cloud, and import is never blocked by any listing rule, so bring in the lot whether or not you ever list a single one.

Some photos simply have no GPS to read. Screenshots never carry location. Photos sent through WhatsApp, Messenger, or social media have their location data stripped by those platforms before they reach you; that’s their privacy behaviour, not a fault. Images downloaded from the web are stripped the same way. And if the camera’s location permission was off when the photo was taken, the position was never recorded at all. Edited or re-exported copies can lose it too. The fix: import the ORIGINAL photos from your own camera roll, not forwarded copies, and turn location on for your camera so every future catch photo carries its position.

Every unit’s menus differ, so check your manual for the exact steps, but the shape is the same across the mainstream brands: most Garmin, Lowrance, Simrad, and Humminbird units can export their waypoints to an SD card or through the manufacturer’s companion app, usually as a GPX file. Since Fishing Codex accepts GPX, KML, and CSV, any mainstream unit’s export comes across. If your unit writes a proprietary format instead, free converter tools such as GPSBabel turn most of them into GPX.

Imported entries aren’t just dots; they join your condition statistics. Because every import carries its tide and moon at the time it was taken, the app can show your real catch patterns, the best tide stages, moon phases, and seasons per species, computed across your whole history, not just what you log from now on. It all lives on one private, offline map, and your entries back up to your account (your photos, clips and tracks share one storage allowance: 200 MB free, 10 GB with App Pro). Twenty years of fishing finally answers the question it always could: when.

Catches captured with the in-app camera can be published any time. During the one-time global 120-day early-adopter window, entries imported from your own fishing history can be published too, with at most 50 of them published at a time. When the window closes, it closes for everyone, forever, and from then on only catches captured in the app can be published. Importing itself never closes and is never blocked; only the publishing of imported entries has a window.