Cobia vs Fishidy
Fishidy Premium is $49.99 a year for depth contours, structure layers and forecasts. Cobia gives you depth and habitat layers free, plus a daily briefing and an AI guide Fishidy does not offer.
Android coming soon
Prices and features checked October 17, 2026. Sources at the bottom of the page.
Fishidy is a mapping app at heart, and the map layers worth having, depth contours, structure and vegetation, Fishing Hot Spots coordinates, forecasts and offline maps, are Fishidy Premium at $49.99 a year. It has no AI. Cobia gives you depth contours, habitat layers and Strike Zones free, adds a daily briefing and an AI guide you can talk to, and puts verified catches and a full game layer on top.
$0 against $49.99 a year
Here is what Fishidy Premium puts behind the paywall, next to what you get in Cobia for nothing.
Cobia
$0every feature, today
- Daily briefing with a bite score and the reasoning
- Strike Zones, where fish should be on the map
- AI fishing guide, no message limit
- Depth contours and habitat layers
- Lure picks from the tackle you own
- Verified catches, crowns, Slams and leaderboards
- No paid tier that can see your pins
Fishidy Premium
$49.99a year for the paid tier
- Depth contours
- Structure and vegetation layers
- Fishing Hot Spots coordinates
- Navigation aids
- Forecasts
- Offline maps
Fishidy Premium is $9.99 a month, $29.99 for six months or $49.99 a year. Checked October 17, 2026 on Fishidy’s own pricing page and App Store listing.
Cobia and Fishidy, feature by feature
Read off each app’s own pricing page, App Store listing and help center. Where we could not confirm a feature, the row is left out rather than guessed.
| Feature | Cobia | Fishidy |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Free. Every feature, no subscription | Free tier. Premium is $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year |
| AI fishing guide you can talk to | Free and unlimited, grounded in live conditions and your tackle | Not offered |
| When to go forecast | Free. Daily bite score with the reasoning, plus solunar windows | Forecasts are Premium |
| Where fish should be, on the map | Free today. Strike Zones shades the water in four tiers, fair to hot | Premium, curated Fishing Hot Spots coordinates |
| Depth contours on the fishing map | Free. NOAA BlueTopo and CRM soundings | Premium only |
| Seagrass, oyster and structure layers | Free. FWC habitat surveys, Florida first | Structure and vegetation are Premium |
| Catch verification | Shot live in the Cobia Camera is Authentic. Only Authentic ranks | Not listed |
| Leaderboards and challenges | Free. Crowns at every water, species top tens, weekly boards, Slams | Not listed |
| Location privacy per catch | Exact, general area, or water body only | Logs can be kept private, with a hidden location option |
| Platforms | iPhone. Android in development | iPhone |
Where Cobia pulls ahead of Fishidy
Nothing to subscribe to
All twenty one features are free today. No trial timer, no credit card, no feature that used to be free and now is not.
A forecast map, free
Strike Zones shades the water in four tiers, fair, good, great and hot, by running live conditions, depth, habitat and real catch history through a model. Free today, and the one layer we may price later, so you would hear it here first.
The data others charge for
Depth contours from NOAA BlueTopo, FWC seagrass and oyster layers, named NOAA tide stations and water temperature from more than 6,400 stations, all free.
An AI guide you can actually talk to
Ask it anything. It reads your tide station, the wind, the water temperature, your catch history and your tackle box before it answers, with no credits and no cap.
Leaderboards that mean something
Only catches shot live in the Cobia Camera rank. A three year old photo from another state cannot take your crown.
A game, not just a log
Crowns at every named water, a top ten for each of 605 species, weekly boards, and Slams you build for your own crew.
It knows what is in your box
Snap a tackle shop receipt and every lure is added. Recommendations come from what you own, not from what somebody is selling.
Your pin is not the product
No paid tier shows anyone more of your catch than a free account sees. Share an exact pin, a general area, or just the water, catch by catch.
Nobody pays to see where you fish
Fishidy lets you keep logs private and hide a location, and the coordinates it sells on Premium are its own curated hot spots rather than other users’ catches. That is a fair model. The difference with Cobia is that the map layers themselves, depth and habitat, cost nothing.
- Three choices on every catch, exact location, general area, or water body only
- A point that cannot be reversed, made once on our server from a random seed
- The same view for everyone, because there is no paid tier to see more
- Under 18 accounts cannot share an exact pin at all
Where Fishidy is ahead
A comparison that only lists our strengths is an ad. So here is where we would point you at the other app.
- Fishing Hot Spots coordinates, a long running curated spot database, if you pay for Premium.
- Offline maps on Premium.
Cobia and Fishidy, answered
There is a free tier with local spots, catch and spot logging and waterway information. Depth contours, structure and vegetation layers, hot spot coordinates, forecasts and offline maps are Fishidy Premium, at $9.99 a month or $49.99 a year.
We could not find any AI assistant on Fishidy’s listing. Cobia has a free AI fishing guide that reads your conditions, your water and your tackle box before it answers.
Cobia. Its depth bands and contour lines come from NOAA BlueTopo and CRM soundings and are free. On Fishidy, depth contours are part of Premium.
Yes. All twenty one features are free to use today, including the AI fishing guide, depth contours, habitat layers and Strike Zones, with no trial timer and no credit card. Strike Zones is the one layer that may be priced later, and no decision has been made.
Not yet. Cobia is on iPhone with iOS 17 or later, and an Android build is in development.
How Cobia stacks up against the rest
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CompareCobia vs FishAngler
A free tier with ads, and its FINN AI, bite windows, depth maps and other anglers’ exact catch GPS on VIP.
CompareCobia vs Fishing Points
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CompareCobia vs onWater
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Every claim about Fishidy on this page was checked on October 17, 2026. Prices change, so check the current price before you buy anything. Fishidy is a trademark of its owner and is named here only to identify the app being compared. Cobia is not affiliated with it.
Try it on your own water
Download Cobia, set your home water, and see whether tomorrow morning’s briefing beats what you are paying Fishidy for.
Android coming soon
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Setup takes about a minute.