THE COMPLETE GUIDE

Everything WindFish
puts in your pocket.

31 modules, explained properly. Discover what they do, where to find them and the limits to keep in mind.

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31 modules to explore
⚓Maps & placesDocumented wrecks, rocks and seabedA sourced catalogue, not a catch guarantee.31

Interactive map, clusters, list, search, filters, sourced photos, copyable coordinates, Google Maps links, private favourites and notes. Unlocated sites remain in the list.

Open the spot map
Clock & periodsYour day, on one clockSee the essentials. Open the details.01

A 24-hour dial brings together the selected time, solunar potential, wind, waves and atmospheric pressure. Boat mode gives swell its own reading, separate from total waves.

  • Tap or drag the dial and browse the seven-day strip.
  • Pressure in hPa and its forecast three-hour change in the overview.
  • Separate wind, wave and swell readings in Boat mode.
  • Low, moderate or high solunar potential, with major/minor period details.
  • Tap a reading to inspect its details and sources.
Overview → clock
Clock & periodsSolunar potentialLow, moderate or high, clearly explained.02

WindFish calculates conventional windows from Sun and Moon positions. The badge follows the location, date and time you are viewing.

  • High during a major period; moderate during a minor period.
  • Low outside those windows; unknown when the calculation is unavailable.
  • See the next window and its start and end times.
  • Open a period to compare its timing with available conditions.
Overview → potential / More → Activity
Clock & periodsSun, Moon & daylightPut your outing in the rhythm of the day.03

A dedicated view gathers astronomical events calculated for your selected location, independently of new forecast downloads.

  • Sunrise, sunset and twilight markers.
  • Moonrise, moonset and transits where those events occur.
  • Moon phase and illumination.
  • Times are presented in the app’s Tunisian time context.
More → Sun and Moon
Clock & periodsThe monthly calendarPlan beyond tomorrow.04

The calendar provides a monthly view of solunar references. Explore a date, then return to its detailed periods.

  • Navigate between months.
  • Select a day to inspect.
  • Astronomical references for your chosen spot.
  • A consistent date context across the overview and periods.
More → Calendar
Weather & seaHourly wind & weatherSpeed is only part of the story.05

Wind and gusts stay separate. The overview and forecasts now use an automatic synthesis of the model families received, with no manual provider selection.

  • Median available speed across families; highest gust among family representatives.
  • Combined direction only when angular values are compatible.
  • Land-grid preference in Shore mode and sea-grid preference in Boat mode for the selected point.
  • km/h, knots or m/s; inspect valid time, models and disagreements.
  • The same synthesis feeds the dial, hourly tables and outing report.
Forecast / Overview → wind
Weather & seaAtmospheric pressure & trendThe barometer, directly on the dial.06

Mean sea-level pressure appears in hPa with an arrow showing its forecast three-hour change.

  • Tap Pressure for its graph and numerical change.
  • The trend compares each model with itself, then combines the changes.
  • Original sources, units and times remain available in detail.
  • Pressure is also included in the synthesis and map layers.
Overview → Pressure / Map → Pressure
Weather & seaWaves, swell & sea detailRead the sea beyond the wind.07

Boat mode separates total waves, swell, wind waves and secondary swell. Each block exposes height, period and origin when supplied by the models.

  • Three main dial readings: Wind, Waves and Swell.
  • Four separate sea blocks and a table covering the next 24 hours.
  • Sea-surface temperature, currents, wind, gusts and pressure.
  • Contributing sources and missing values identified; secondary swell is conditional.
  • Significant height, periods and directions retain their own meaning.
Boat → Sea & swell details / Map → Waves or Swell
Weather & seaAutomatic multi-source synthesisOne consistent reading. No provider to choose.08

With default online access, the eight planned point feeds are queried automatically: four weather families, three wave families and one ocean feed. Only valid, available responses contribute.

  • ECMWF IFS, NOAA GFS, DWD ICON and Météo-France ARPEGE weather.
  • ECMWF WAM, GFS Wave, Météo-France Wave and available ocean variables.
  • A family median for continuous readings; the highest family representative for gusts.
  • Circular direction combination; disagreements and provenance remain visible.
  • At most two concurrent requests, caching and provider-limit handling.
Overview / Forecast / Report → Sources
Map & spotsWeather map & spotsYour starting point. Your places. Your choice.09

Explore the coastline on a map with panning, zoom, pinch gestures and full-screen mode. Add forecasts or dated imagery, then tap a point to prepare your outing.

  • Eight forecast layers and three types of dated imagery.
  • Play/pause and time selection; visible legend and source.
  • Select a point, open its synthesis and save it privately.
  • 32 coastal references plus your spots; Bait shortcut.
  • Maps enabled by default, with bounded foreground loading of the viewed area.
Map
Map & spotsAnimated wind mapSee the movement. Keep the measurement.10

Colours represent available speed and particles show wind travel direction across the viewed area.

  • Automatic loading in the foreground while online, with progress and source-specific errors.
  • Speed and origin at the map centre, with legend and valid time.
  • Animated wind / Fixed arrows controls wind movement; ▶ plays forecast hours.
  • The map follows the dial’s date and time; missing hours stay explicitly unavailable.
  • Panning and zooming trigger bounded, delayed loading with cache and quota protection.
  • Multi-point requests corrected in 1.9.0; no invented readings on failure.
  • Details → Layer diagnostics: last known cause and next allowed retry.
Map → Layers → Wind
Map & spotsYour spot, within a 3 km radiusThe right view from the start.11

The map opens on your selected spot coordinates with a 3 km radius circle — 6 km across. The zoom fits your screen, not the other way around.

  • Use the 3 km button to recenter after panning or zooming.
  • Distance circle and metric scale bar.
  • New spot or selected GPS position: the map centres on that point.
  • Pinch zoom, full screen and panning remain available.
Map → 3 km / 3 km radius
Map & spotsEight forecast layersOne map. Several ways to read it.12

Move from wind to sea conditions, then rainfall and atmospheric variables, without changing apps.

  • Waves/swell: model-specific requests and preferred sea cells. Rain/clouds: requested-layer validation and one bounded targeted retry for an incomplete response.
  • Wind, Waves, Swell and Rain.
  • Forecast clouds, Air temperature, Water temperature and Pressure.
  • A legend matched to each indicator and unit.
  • Time synchronized with the dial; delayed loading after moving to a new area.
Map → Layers
Map & spotsSatellite clouds & natural colourA real image keeps its date.13

The NASA GIBS layer uses daily natural-colour MODIS images and dates announced by the available catalogue.

  • Visible image date and selection among catalogue dates.
  • Satellite background kept distinct from overlaid forecast variables.
  • Explicit errors when the catalogue or images cannot be accessed.
Map → Layers → Satellite — clouds
Map & spotsSatellite-estimated rainfallAnother view of past precipitation.14

NASA IMERG provides precipitation estimates in thirty-minute steps, with their reference time.

  • Read available catalogue images without inventing a current frame.
  • The satellite background and rain image can have different dates.
  • Weather values in the popup stay labelled as forecasts.
Map → Layers → Satellite rain
Map & spotsPast radar imageryReview available frames, not assumed coverage.15

The RainViewer integration uses available historical radar frames with temporal playback and its own legend.

  • Each frame retains its time.
  • Past frames only: no claimed future radar nowcast.
  • Bounded image loading and visible access errors.
Map → Layers → Past radar
Map & spotsGPS & nearby spotsNearest first. Your choice next.16

Use the position returned by your phone to rank available references. Then choose whether to use your actual position or select a listed spot.

  • 10, 25, 50 and 100 km distance filters.
  • Name search and a My spots filter.
  • GPS accuracy and timestamp shown; approximate location accepted.
  • Distinct messages for refusal, disabled location, no fix or timeout.
  • Without a GPS fix, distances explicitly start from the selected spot.
GPS icon → Nearby spots
Map & spotsYour private spotsKeep your own references to yourself.17

Save a place with its name and coordinates to find it again on the map, in an outing or in your logbook.

  • Add and edit personal places.
  • Reuse them for forecasts and planned outings.
  • Local ranking among nearby spots.
  • Inclusion in an explicitly exported JSON backup.
Map → save a spot
Trips & logbookThe outing reportFrom 3 to 72 hours, in one briefing.18

Bring conditions, periods, preparation and sources together for your planned duration. The report keeps the whole outing in view, not just departure time.

  • Four tabs: Conditions, Periods, Prepare and Sources.
  • 37 indicators where data is available.
  • Hourly tables, coverage gaps and older data identified.
  • Personal wind, gust and wave limits kept separate from solunar potential.
  • Text or JSON export with context and a privacy warning.
Overview → Report / More → Outing report
Trips & logbookTrip planningPlace, timing and practical details.19

Organise your next Shore or Boat outing, including a return planned for the following day.

  • Separate departure and return dates and times.
  • Technique, location and preparation notes.
  • Create an outing from a solunar period.
  • Add a stop at a bait supplier.
  • Edit a previously planned outing.
More → Trips
Trips & logbookYour fishing logbookA record of real outings.20

Start a session or add a past outing. Zero-catch sessions belong here too: they give meaning to recorded fishing effort.

  • Start time, duration and number of anglers.
  • Shore or Boat mode, technique and target species.
  • Catch count, optional weight and notes.
  • Edit an entry and keep it locally.
  • Explicit zero-catch recording.
Logbook
Trips & logbookStatistics from your logbookResults, with their sample.21

Analyse recorded sessions while keeping duration and angler count in the calculation. The report can focus on records around the selected location.

  • Effort expressed in angler-hours.
  • Catches per angler-hour and share of sessions with at least one catch.
  • Separate Shore and Boat data, with technique or target filters.
  • Local report analysis of saved sessions within 25 km.
  • An explicit empty state when relevant records are absent.
More → Statistics / Report → Prepare
Bait & shopsBait nearbyPlan the stop before the outing.22

Discover mapped businesses around a fishing spot, town or your position, then build your own supplier directory.

  • Search around the chosen point with 10, 25 or 50 km radii.
  • Supplier cards, favourites, private contacts and source links.
  • Live, fresh, frozen and artificial filters where information is recorded.
  • Prepare a call in the dialer, visit a website or open external directions.
  • WhatsApp only when an explicit contact is provided.
More → Bait / Map → Bait
Bait & shopsShop publicationsTurn an announcement into dated information.23

Search a shop’s name and town on Google or Facebook. Then add post text, its link and publication date to review an interpretation before saving it.

  • Recognition of selected French, English and Tunisian Arabic bait expressions.
  • Advertised available, sold out, expected delivery, unclear or expired statuses.
  • Prices and quantities only when explicitly present in the text.
  • Original text, link, publication date and your source review retained.
  • Conflict detection and re-evaluation for the planned outing time.
Bait → shop → Find shop posts
Bait & shopsAvailability checksA catalogue is not live stock.24

Keep what you actually learned from a call, message or visit, without confusing a personal check with certified merchant data.

  • Dated private checks and an information source.
  • Expiry of older confirmations.
  • A prepared enquiry, never sent on your behalf.
  • An optional authorised HTTPS feed, manually refreshed in the foreground while online.
Bait → shop → Check availability
Everyday essentialsLocal remindersA quiet nudge, on your phone.25

Android reminders are optional. Choose the periods or planned outings you want to remember, with adjustable advance notice.

  • Major or minor periods and planned outings.
  • Lead-time and quiet-hour settings.
  • A test notification button.
  • Weather-threshold reminders based on a recently downloaded forecast.
Bell → Reminders
Everyday essentialsConnection & backupsOnline by default. Your records stay yours.26

WindFish automatically opens forecasts and maps. When the phone reports it is offline, a dedicated page offers a retry; the logbook and saved spots are not erased.

  • No Internet connection page in French and English.
  • Retry after enabling Wi-Fi or mobile data.
  • Backup export remains accessible without a network.
  • An HTTP rejection or quota is not treated as proof the phone is offline.
Connection screen → Retry / Backup
Everyday essentialsLanguages, units & appearanceMake the app work your way.27

Use the same modules in French and English, with units that suit your fishing and a light or dark appearance.

  • Wind in km/h and online operation by default; a one-time upgrade keeps personal thresholds intact.
  • French and English views, forms and reminders.
  • Wind in km/h, knots or m/s.
  • Light and dark themes.
  • Automatic model synthesis and configurable personal thresholds.
  • GPS refresh on reopening only when you enable it.
More → Settings
Everyday essentialsVisible privacy choicesYour places are not a public feed.28

The supplied edition requires no account and does not publish catches or spots. Network access and location are separate from saved personal records.

  • Foreground location subject to Android permission.
  • Explicit activation of forecasts and supplier searches.
  • No advertising tracker or connected push server in this edition.
  • Sharing and exports only after your action.
More → Privacy
Everyday essentialsDiagnostics & continuityInvestigate a problem without publishing your logbook.29

Android diagnostics prepare a technical summary that you choose to share. Edition 1.6 retains the native 1.4.2 hotfix host: corrected startup method, GPS and WebView recovery.

  • App version, Android version and selected WebView provider.
  • Most recent technical event kept locally.
  • A native recovery screen for selected WebView renderer failures.
  • An update using the same package and original certificate.
  • Weather-layer diagnostics: API refusal, known cause and next retry.
  • Voluntary sharing of a summary without GPS coordinates or logbook.
More → Settings → Android diagnostics
Everyday essentialsYour personal limitsUnderstand a threshold, without guessing.30

The banner identifies the variable, forecast value and your saved limit. Open it for the model, time and details of the exceedance.

  • Wind, gusts and waves are checked separately.
  • A recent model’s higher value remains visible even when the median is lower.
  • Your preferences are never automatically raised or disabled.
  • Missing and stale readings are distinguished from current exceedances.
Overview → Personal limit exceeded / More → Settings

THE CONDITION DETAILS

37 indicators.
Each with its context.

The engine supports these fields. A field is shown only when a compatible source supplies it; periods and units retain their meaning.

Atmosphere

10 m wind
kn / km/h / m/s
10 m gusts
kn / km/h / m/s
Wind origin
°
Air temperature
°C
Feels-like temperature
°C
Relative humidity
%
Precipitation probability
%
Precipitation
mm
Mean sea-level pressure
hPa
Cloud cover
%
Weather condition
WMO
Visibility
m
UV index
UV

Waves & swell

Wave height
m
Wave origin
°
Wave period
s
Swell height
m
Swell origin
°
Swell period
s
Wind-wave height
m
Wind-wave origin
°
Wind-wave period
s
Wave peak period
s
Swell peak period
s
Secondary swell height
m
Secondary swell origin
°
Secondary swell period
s

Ocean

Sea-surface temperature
°C
Current speed
km/h / kn / m/s
Current destination
°
Modelled sea level
m / MSL

Wind and waves: origin direction. Current: direction of travel.

Hourly gust maxima and rainfall totals are not the same kind of value as an instantaneous sample.

MSL: global mean sea level, not a local harbour chart datum.

THE ACTUAL SCOPE

What is in the app.
What is not connected.

INCLUDED IN THIS EDITION

The modules presented here

Clock and pressure, Open-Meteo synthesis, detailed sea views, animated weather map, satellite/radar request paths, GPS, logbook, reports, bait and reviewed publications. Weather and maps are online by default; GPS and supplier lookup retain separate permissions. Data availability depends on the service.

EXTERNAL SETUP REQUIRED

Optional feeds and relays

An authorised supplier feed or NOAA/MET relay can be configured separately. None is supplied as a hosted or connected service by default in this download.

NOT INCLUDED / NOT CONNECTED

Not a claim about future features

No navigation bathymetry, remote push, continuous GPS tracking, live merchant inventory, stock-image interpretation, direct Copernicus ingestion or connected INM warning feed.

TAKE WINDFISH WITH YOU

Your next outing
starts here.

The Android app, in your pocket. The Tunisian coastline, at your fingertips.

Get it on Google Play
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WindFish is available on Google Play. Install the app and get its updates through the store.

Direct APK 1.9.4 · File details and checksum. For existing direct installations. This file is separate from the version distributed by Google Play.

Release details, installation and file integrity
01

Open Google Play

Open the WindFish listing on your Android phone.

02

Install WindFish

Tap Install in Google Play, then open WindFish.

03

Choose your spot

Select a location, then Shore or Boat. Online access and wind in km/h are the defaults.

QR code to the Android download instructions
From desktop to phone.

Scan to open the instructions. The download starts only after you tap its button.

All useful links

Already installed? Back up your logbook, then install as an update. Do not uninstall WindFish or clear its data.

Ratings & moderated reviews

WindFish and spot ratings, public averages, private drafts pending moderation, reporting and account controls.

Open community reviews

Your full WindFish workspace, on the Web

The same functional clock, weather and marine maps, detailed sky, local logbook, statistics, trips, bait, documented spots and moderated reviews as the shared Android interface. Private browser data are not automatically synchronized to your phone. Background Android reminders remain Android-only.

Cloud coverage, low/mid/high layers and forecast sunshine help distinguish cloudy intervals from a completely overcast sky. Temperature stays visible in °C. Forecasts are not local measurements.

Google Play installations receive updates through Google Play. Direct APK installations retain their website update channel. Back up your logbook before updating.

Open detailed sky Updates and settings