Cobia vs Fishing Points
Fishing Points shows you today for free and charges $49.99 a year for the rest of the week. Cobia gives you seven days, depth contours and an AI guide, free.
Android coming soon
Prices and features checked October 17, 2026. Sources at the bottom of the page.
Fishing Points is a solid private logbook and forecast tool, but the free tier shows forecasts, tides and weather for today only and caps you at five saved spots. Longer forecasts, unlimited spots, nautical charts and lake depth are Fishing Points Premium at $49.99 a year, and there is no AI. Cobia gives you a seven day lookahead, depth contours and an AI guide free, plus verified catches, a community and the game layer.
$0 against $49.99 a year
Here is what Fishing Points 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
Fishing Points Premium
$49.99a year for the paid tier
- Forecasts past today, up to three months ahead
- More than five saved spots
- Nautical charts
- Lake depth, in six states
- River data
- An ad free experience
Fishing Points Premium is listed at $49.99 a year after a seven day trial. Checked October 17, 2026 on Fishing Points’s own pricing page and App Store listing.
Cobia and Fishing Points, 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 | Fishing Points |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Free. Every feature, no subscription | Free tier with ads. Premium is $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 | Today is free. Further out is Premium |
| Multi day outlook | Free. Seven day lookahead | Today is free. Further out is Premium |
| Depth contours on the fishing map | Free. NOAA BlueTopo and CRM soundings | Premium. Nautical charts and lake depth in six states |
| Leaderboards and challenges | Free. Crowns at every water, species top tens, weekly boards, Slams | No public feed or leaderboards |
| Who can see exact catch pins | Only what the angler chose to share. No paid tier shows more | Your logbook is private |
| Location privacy per catch | Exact, general area, or water body only | Private logbook. Share spots with friends |
| Ads | None in the feed | Ads on the free tier. Removed on Premium |
| Platforms | iPhone. Android in development | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web |
Where Cobia pulls ahead of Fishing Points
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Fishing Points keeps your logbook private and has no public feed, which is a clean answer to spot privacy if you never want to share anything. Cobia gives you the same control per catch, so you can keep a spot to yourself and still post the fish, compete for a crown or run a Slam with your crew.
- 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 Fishing Points is ahead
A comparison that only lists our strengths is an ad. So here is where we would point you at the other app.
- It runs everywhere. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android and the web.
- Private by design. If you never want a social side at all, there is none.
- Nautical charts for subscribers.
Cobia and Fishing Points, answered
It has a free tier with ads that shows forecasts, tides and weather for today and lets you save up to five spots. Longer range forecasts, unlimited spots, nautical charts and lake depth are Fishing Points Premium, listed at $49.99 a year.
Not that we could find. Cobia has a free AI fishing guide that knows your tide station, your water temperature and the lures in your tackle box.
Cobia’s seven day lookahead is free. On Fishing Points the free tier covers today, and anything further out is 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.
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Every claim about Fishing Points on this page was checked on October 17, 2026. Prices change, so check the current price before you buy anything. Fishing Points 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 Fishing Points for.
Android coming soon
iPhone, iOS 17 or later. Setup takes about a minute.