Updated · By the Cobia team in Jupiter, Florida
Cobia scores your water overnight and names the best window to fish. It shows you the bottom, ranks the lures you already own, and checks your catch in the Cobia camera. Every verified fish fills your Fishdex and moves your Slams, crowns and Strike Points. It's one free app, and the morning read takes about a minute.
Free on iPhone and Android · Fresh, brackish and salt water
Four things are waiting when you open the app. The score, the hour, the water and the lure.
You don't open Cobia and ask it to think. It ran overnight. Tide predictions from your named NOAA station, solunar math, the pressure trend, the water temperature at your gauge and what's been caught nearby this week, all scored into one number with the reasoning under it.
Solunar majors and minors sit on the real tide curve, with sunrise, sunset and a live now line. Then the app names the single best window in plain words, so you aren't reading a chart at five in the morning.
Most fishing maps stop at the shoreline. Turn on depth contours and the bottom shows in six bands from federal survey data. Turn on habitat and the seagrass and oyster bars appear where the survey put them. Stack the catch heatmap and the pattern jumps out.
Cobia knows what's in your tackle box because you scanned a receipt and it read the line items. So the pick is never an ad. It ranks your own lures against the species, the season, the tide and today's wind, then names a top pick.
The fish is the easy part to remember. Cobia keeps the record, the reveal and the rules for you.
Shoot the fish in the Cobia camera and the photo, the GPS, the time and the live conditions lock together at the shot. Cobia names the species from the photo and you confirm it. That's what earns Verified.
Film the fight and you get a Bite. The species and weight stay behind a mystery card until the fish comes over the rail, then the card opens. You pick the exact reveal frame before you post, and a Bite counts just like a photo catch.
Regulations follow where you're actually standing, so crossing a county or state line changes what you see. Slot and bag limits, seasons and permits sit next to the species, not in a booklet in the truck.
SnookCommon
TarponRare
JackCommon
SailfishLegendary
SnapperCommon
PikeUncommonConfirm the species and the entry fills with your photo, the date, the water and the conditions at that moment. The gray ones are the reason you go again on a day you weren't going to. Rarity runs from common to mythic.
A verified catch moves everything at once. Your Slams, the crown at that spot, your Strike Points and the feed on your water.
The catch moves your Slam if you were inside its area. It takes the crown at that spot if you have the most verified catches there. It moves your weekly Strike Points and your league. Slams and crowns only count Verified catches, which is the whole reason verification exists.
The feed is people fishing your water, with the species, the place and the conditions attached. Messages are gated on who follows you, and Slam invites turn a solo grind into a group thing. No ads in the feed.
Hold the most verified catches at a spot and you hold the title there. The one you pick follows you everywhere you rank.
How crowns workReading the briefing and the window takes under a minute, because the work already happened overnight. Logging a catch is one tap on the shutter plus confirming the species. Everything else happens on its own: the Fishdex entry, the Slam progress, the crown and the Strike Points.
No. Plenty of people use Cobia only as a briefing and a catch log and never look at a board. The competitive side is there when you want it and stays out of the way when you don't.
The data underneath is national, so tides, weather, water temperature, regulations and the species catalog work anywhere those sources reach. The parts that sharpen with local catch history, like the heatmap and spot ranking, get better as anglers log catches on that water.
Set your home water, pick a drive radius, and wake up to a plan.
