How to use the app

Catch Register is free to download and try: from the App Store on iPhone, from Google Play on Android.

The free plan records four trips a year, and a trip can run for at most two days. To log more than that you need a subscription — or you can watch an advertisement to unlock one more.

Your data lives in the cloud, so signing in is required: you keep your catches when you change phones, and you reach them on the website.

If you still use the old local storage, Data transfer is what saves your data to the cloud.

Email and password, a Google account, or Apple ID on iPhone — all lead to the same account. After signing up with an email we send a confirmation link.

The bar's four items are Sessions, Statistics, Calendar and Menu. The docked + button sits in the middle, and always creates whatever the screen you are on holds: a trip under Sessions, a catch among a trip's catches.

Rows marked PRO need a PRO subscription; your plan is in the settings, and so is buying one. The moon / sun in the title bar is a quick theme switch — following the system is a setting.

With it on, the catch form gets a Mate field for your mates' catches. The icon in the header switches whose numbers the card shows.

Turning the log on asks for the number of rods and where the numbering starts. You then keep your casts under the card's Log button.

Tap the header to fold out Favorite and Featured upload. An accepted photo goes up on the app's website, where everyone can see it.

Edit in the bottom bar opens the form. There the location and weather buttons show whether the catch has that data: empty they fetch it, filled they refresh or drop it.

A missing coordinate can also be set by tapping the map, for both trips and catches.

Drag sideways to move between the catches of the trip; the arrows under the title only show which way there is one. The icon at the top right sorts them by date or by weight.

Copy in the bottom bar opens a new catch with the current one's details — the fastest route when you are logging a run of fish.

You submit a photo from the catch card, on the fold-out part of its main data — one per catch.

We review the photo: approved it goes onto our website, refused the card tells you why.

Your submissions are under Menu → My Featured Photos. That is where you see where each photo stands in the review, and where you withdraw one.

An active entry counts the elapsed time on its own. With a planned end, a bar shows the time left, and you can turn the timer on: it sends a notification at that time.

Open a card and you can close it with one of three outcomes: Catch, Lost fish, No bite. Each asks when the rod came in; Catch also opens the catch form and links the saved catch to the entry.

Re-open puts the entry back among the active ones, but unlinks its catch — the catch itself stays. The middle cell links a catch to the entry, or unlinks it.

The heaviest catch of the year gets its own card, with the weight in the Big Fish colour. Tap the card for the place, the date and the time, and for the way to the catch itself; tap the photo to see it full size.

The ring splits the catches by species; from the fifth on, everything lands in the “Other” slice. The bars are the catches per month — the best month is labelled, the rest answer on a tap.

The chip over the list narrows the records to one species. The same screen also shows the waterbody and bait lists opened from your master data — those you can order by date and weight.

Tap a card for the date and time of the catch, the temperature and the pressure, and the bait. The whole weather set is on the catch itself — the button takes you there; the place opens a map.

A green circle is a day on the bank, orange is the selected day, and a ring marks today. The blue number under a circle is how many catches that day holds.

A full moon fills the circle yellow, a new moon grey. On a day you also fished, the moon stays as a ring around it; press and hold to read the phase.

Under the grid are the catches of the selected day. Opening a card shows the weather, the bait and “Open catch”; their order follows the catch order in Settings.

Items marked with a heart move to the top; the order is only redone when you leave the screen, so nothing jumps out from under your finger. The search narrows a long list.

Swipe left to delete or to deactivate. A deactivated item stays on your old catches, it is simply no longer offered: faded, at the bottom of the list.

The + adds a new item; most types only need a name. In the bait bag the name is assembled from the parts you switch on (maker, type, flavour, size) — the eye takes a part in or out.

These two categories only appear once you switch them on in the settings — and they need cloud storage.

The weather switch in Settings, by the way, only sets the default for a new trip: the trip's own switch has the last word, and a catch inherits it.

Settings shows your plan. “Available packages” is where you buy; “Manage subscription” is where you cancel, restore a purchase or ask for a refund.

The new Pro plans are still awaiting store approval, so they cannot be bought yet.

The photos attached to your catches stay on the phone; Menu → Upload Photos carries them to the cloud as well, so you keep them when you change devices. The number says how many are still waiting.

Keep the app open during the upload, and run it on Wi-Fi if you can. You can stop it: what went up stays up, and resuming picks up from there. Failed photos can be retried.

It fetches the weather your older catches were recorded without. A catch needs both a time and a location for that — “Has GPS” counts the ones that have both. Tap any tile to see exactly which catches it stands for.

A trip with no coordinates cannot be looked up. The map icon gives the whole trip a location at once; the arrow opens the trip so you can set them catch by catch.

The fetch works from a monthly allowance that starts over every month. One job runs at a time: the server works through it in batches, the bar at the bottom shows the progress, and you can close the app meanwhile.

The data in your cloud account is reachable from a browser too: under My page you get your statistics, your personal bests, your trips, your trophies and your featured photos — the same data you see on the phone.

The orange button downloads the spreadsheet for your language. Its Explanation sheet says what belongs in each column, which is the place to start.

Hand in the filled file with the + button. The import runs on the server: the card shows its status and progress, and you can close the app meanwhile.

Rows with errors are left out and the rest are imported. Fold the card open to see what went wrong row by row, fix it in the file and upload it again.

This screen moves your data between the phone and the cloud. From local storage it carries everything up; on a cloud account the data already lives in the cloud — there this carries the original photos from the old phone to the new one.

A transfer overwrites the data on the device, so do not interrupt it: leave the app open until it finishes. Photos are parked in the cloud for the transfer and deleted from there afterwards.

Every screen explains itself behind its own info button; the recordings under Menu → Tutorial videos introduce new features.

The language icon in the title bar switches between the Hungarian and English recordings. Playback can use a lot of data, so we ask first on mobile.

Your account and everything in it can be deleted at any time: Settings → Log out, then Delete account on the screen that appears — you sign in once more to confirm.

Deletion covers the data and photos stored in the app; the pictures in your phone's gallery are untouched.