CatchStat is a tournament tracking utility for competitive anglers and event organizers on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Sports
Sentiment
4.6
14 reviews
Nemesis
Fishing Points: Map & Forecast
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire CatchStat to access verified, real-time tournament standings and payout data that crowdsourced apps cannot provide, ensuring competitive integrity.
For Competitive fishing tournament participants, event organizers, and fans following live tournament standings.
What does it look like?
Key features
Real-time tracking of tournament standings, payouts, and team data.
Real-time alerts for fish boated or released events.
In-app photo and video capture for catch verification.
How much does it cost?
The app functions as a free utility for participants, while the developer generates revenue through B2B tournament management services.
Velocity
Maintenance developmentperformanceUX improvementsShow more...
CatchStat currently operates at a maintenance cadence, averaging approximately 0.08 releases per week over the last six months. Development is characterized by infrequent, minor updates focused exclusively on bug fixes and performance improvements. The last major feature release occurred in July 2025, and there has been no evidence of live-ops or seasonal content since that time. The development trend is stable but minimal, with no significant feature additions in the last nine months.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
Not enough recent reviews to extract reliable themes yet.
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Competitive landscape for CatchStat
How's the Sports market?
CatchStat holds the #178 position in the Sports category (DZ). The lack of daily-utility features relative to Fishing Points limits its chart velocity to event-driven spikes.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By Fishing Points d.o.o.
Fishing Points dominates the recreational fishing market by providing comprehensive mapping and forecasting tools that capture the same outdoor-enthusiast audience as CatchStat.
- Offers advanced nautical map layers and fish activity forecasts that CatchStat currently lacks entirely.
- Maintains a massive, active user base providing a significant data flywheel for catch predictions.
- Provides a robust, multi-year catch logbook that encourages daily app engagement beyond tournament windows.
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Key takeaways for CatchStat
Where is it heading?
The competitive fishing market is consolidating around apps that provide year-round utility, shifting user expectations away from event-only tools. CatchStat remains stable in its niche, but it must integrate environmental intelligence to prevent further user migration to daily-utility rivals.
- Fishing Points' daily-utility flywheel drains active users, which forces CatchStat to rely solely on event-based spikes for engagement.
- The latest release maintains stable tournament data pipelines, ensuring the core B2B value proposition remains intact for event organizers.
The SWOT
- Organizer-backed data integration ensures leaderboard accuracy
- Tournament-specific payout tracking provides unique value to competitive anglers
- Integrate solunar activity data to increase daily app utility
- Expand B2B tournament management to include automated registration workflows
Next best moves
Ship offline score tracking because remote tournament areas lack connectivity → increase user retention during events
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
CatchStat's tournament-only focus is a strategic asset, not a weakness…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Offline score tracking (available in Scores Jungle) +1
Since the last report: CatchStat shifted its strategic focus from general maintenance to addressing the retention gap caused by its lack of daily-utility features.
Bottom line
CatchStat holds its category lead through verified tournament data but bleeds casual users to daily-utility fishing apps, so revenue growth hinges on adding non-tournament environmental features to retain users between events.
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