Marine intelligence · Aotearoa
Wind, swell, tides, charts and your catch history — turned into fishing decisions you can see the reasons for. Built for NZ. Works offline.
Android now, iPhone later
The Workup engine
No black-box prediction, no mystery score. Workup combines real inputs with transparent rules and shows the factors behind the result.
Wind, swell, tide, pressure, sea temperature, charts, structure and your catch history — in one place.
Deterministic scoring finds the combinations that matter for fishing your spots, your style.
See the window, the reasons behind it, and what could change before you leave.
Should I go?
Open Workup and your spot's verdict is right there — the window, the bite times, wind and swell, whether you're sheltered, wind-with-tide, pressure trend and water clarity. Plain language, colour-coded, with the reasoning underneath. No more stitching five apps together.
The difference
Most apps hand you a number and ask you to trust it. Workup shows its working — every score breaks down into the exact conditions that built it. Nothing you can't check.
Your moat, not ours
Tap "Fish On!" and Workup records the exact conditions around your catch — wind, swell, pressure, sea temp, tide, moon, bite window, right down to "2h 27m before low, on rising pressure, at last light." Your logbook becomes your own reference.
Automatically — you just tap the button.
When the forecast lines up with your good days, Workup tells you — and shows why.
It's your history, on your phone. Not a stranger's fishing report, not a cloud guess.
One map. The whole picture.
Official LINZ charts, satellite and depth — with wind, swell, sea-surface temperature and currents as layers you stack. Real marine data, on your water. It all works offline on cached tiles.
Everything in one place
Not a pile of features — the right tool at each moment, from the shed to the ramp to the water and back.
The daily verdict for your spot and style — with the reasoning behind it.
When a day lines up with the ones you've caught fish on, and the best days ahead ranked.
Scored offshore water, plus a backup spot when your first pick's blown out.
Crossing conditions, boat-ramp finder and fuel-range planning before you tow.
Wind, swell, tide and sea temp over official LINZ charts. Tap anywhere for a readout.
Cached charts, conditions and spots keep working with no signal — sync when you're back.
The lumpy-water warning, and a heads-up before a rising tide cuts off your spot.
Your projected drift line — with a fence that warns before you drift into a reserve.
One button logs the catch with every condition around it — the logbook fills itself.
Names the species on your phone. No photo ever leaves the device.
Your best tide, pressure, moon, time and bait per species and spot.
Tally against the limits, with species rules cited from official Fisheries NZ notices.
The self-filling logbook
Species, size, method, bait — or just tap "Fish On!" and fill it in later. Workup captures the time, your location and the full conditions automatically, then it all works offline and syncs when you're back in range.
Built around the way you fish
Workup asks your style up front — because the safety logic depends on it. A rock angler needs swell warnings a boatie doesn't.
Charts, hot zones, fuel, drift, bar crossings and everything you need on the water.
Wind, swell, shelter and return conditions — without drowning the screen.
Swell-first safety, tide-cutoff warnings and land-based mode for rocks and beaches.
Sea temperature, chlorophyll, structure and convergence for serious offshore fishing.
Visibility outlook, gathering windows and rules for the coast. · soon
Guided species ID, plain-English cards, coaching and knots.
Anti-spot-burner
Your marks are hard-won, and a lot of apps are built on giving them away. Workup takes the opposite line — the whole app is designed so you never burn a spot by accident.
GPS never appears in URLs · community locations always fuzzed · no behavioural tracking, ever
Built on real marine data
Workup brings together trusted data through one engine — normalise, score deterministically, explain. Nothing claims more accuracy than the source behind it.
On the horizon
Here's what's next — early-access testers get it first.
Beyond your cheat-sheet: how and when you fish best, success rate per spot, and where your time's best spent.
Finer sea-temperature resolution, 2 km chlorophyll and daily surface currents feeding the scoring grid.
Where's sheltered when it's blowing? Workup reads the wind against the coastline and shows the lee-side water.
Every wind, swell and temperature number with a low / medium / high read, from how well the models agree.
Good questions
Marine intelligence for Kiwi anglers. It combines charts, wind, swell, tide, sea temperature and your own catch history into one clear call — when to go, where, and why.
It doesn't just show conditions — it interprets them for your spots and style, and every score shows its working. And it compares today against the days you've actually caught fish, which no data-only app can do.
No. The forecasting, scoring and match alerts are deterministic maths over official data — every result is reproducible. The one exception is the camera fish-ID, and even that runs entirely on your phone, never in the cloud.
No app honestly can, and we won't pretend to. Workup predicts productive zones from the environment and shows when your spots are firing — it doesn't track individual fish.
Always. Spots are private by default, location sharing is off on every share unless you turn it on, community posts are region-fuzzed, and photo location data is stripped before anything leaves your phone.
Yes. Cached charts, conditions, saved spots and catch logging all work with no signal, then sync when you're back. Community features need a connection.
Workup's in testing on Android now. Pop your email in for early access and we'll send one message when a spot opens — free while we're testing. iPhone comes later.
Workup · Aotearoa
Workup's built and heading to Google Play. Get early access, help shape the final build, and be first out when it drops.
10 seconds · one email when a spot opens, no spam · your spots stay private