Compared
Fishbrain and Rivus
Fishbrain is the biggest fishing app there is, more than 20 million anglers logging every species that swims. It and Rivus hardly compete. One’s a social network for all of fishing. The other reads a single trout stream and tells you how to fish it.
What Fishbrain does well
Fishbrain is a massive all-species platform, maps and depth data, a BiteTime forecast that predicts peak activity from millions of logged catches, weather and tides, catch logging, licenses and regs for dozens of states, and a huge crowd sharing what they’re catching nearby. If you fish a lot of species and want a community and a log, it’s the one with the most people in it.
Where the two apps split
Fishbrain is a mile wide across all of fishing, and its forecast is about when fish bite in general. Rivus goes deep on one thing, reading a trout stream on the fly.
What Rivus does that Fishbrain doesn’t
Rivus takes today’s flow, water temperature, weather, and hatch for your exact stretch and tells you the play and the fly to tie, with a picture, from your own box, then adjusts through the day. That live, per-stretch trout read isn’t what a broad social app is built to do.
Use both
Fishbrain to log catches and tap the crowd across every species. Rivus to read the trout water in front of you and fish it well.