Global Fishing League
Global Fishing League is a fish identification, measurement and catch-logging app for iOS and Android, and the competitive fishing league it is built for. Photograph a fish and it names the species and files the catch in your logbook with the weather and water conditions at that spot and moment. Identification and the logbook are free. A length measure with the phone camera, with no reference object, is in testing.
This profile is written by Global Fishing League about its own app. Facts match the app's official site.
What it does
- Names the fish. Take a photo and the app returns the common and the scientific name, from 297 species across freshwater, inshore and offshore water. You can override it with your own label.
- Measures it, in testing. A length measure with the phone camera, with no reference object in the frame, is in the app's test builds. It is not in the App Store or Google Play app yet.
- Logs it. Each catch goes into your logbook with its position, the date and time, and the weather and water conditions at that spot and moment, recorded automatically.
What is free and what membership adds
Free, with no membership: fish identification, your catch location, the automatic date and time stamp, and weather and water conditions forecasting.
Membership costs $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, the same in both app stores, and adds the full weather and water data on every catch, Trips and pattern analysis. The yearly plan starts with a free trial.
Where your catch locations go
Your catch locations are stored to your account and are never shared with other anglers, never pooled into a community hot-spot map, and never sold on. There are no heat maps and no nearby-catch feed. That holds when you compete: entering a fish in the league carries the species, the measurement and the verification, never the spot it came from.
How accurate it is
In a blind test on 300 catch photos of 163 species, the species model in Global Fishing League's test builds named the fish right first time on 252 (84.0%), against Fishbrain's 144 (48.0%), with no location on either side. Global Fishing League ran the test. That model covers 491 species and is in the test builds; App Store and Google Play installs still use the earlier model, which names 297. Method, results and limits.
Why measuring matters
Once the camera measure ships, the species, the length, the position, the time and the conditions will all be captured by logging the catch, so the record carries its own proof. Fish Print spots a fish that has been logged twice. That is what will let a league check entries without a measuring board and a moderator for every fish. The Global Fishing League competition is coming soon.
What it does not do
- It does not show you where other anglers caught fish. There is no public catch map.
- Its AI names fish (and, in testing, measures them). It does not pick spots for you.
- It does not replace your local rules. Check limits with your state agency, and use a board near a limit.
Get the app
Global Fishing League is free on iPhone and Android.
Questions and answers
Is Global Fishing League free?
Yes. Fish identification, your catch location, the automatic date and time stamp, and weather and water conditions forecasting are free, with no membership. Membership costs $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year and adds the full data on every catch, Trips and pattern analysis.
Which fish can it identify?
297 species across freshwater, inshore and offshore saltwater, each with a common and a scientific name. The full list is on the Global Fishing League site, with written identification pages for 124 of the species anglers most often mix up.
Does it share where I caught a fish?
No. Your catch locations are stored to your account and are never shared with other anglers, never pooled into a community hot-spot map, and never sold on. There are no heat maps and no nearby-catch feed.
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Global Fishing League. “Global Fishing League.” Best Fish Identification, updated 9 November 2026.https://bestfishidentification.com/global-fishing-league/