An ice fishing log app that works out on the lake

Five seconds, then gloves back on

On open water, a five-second log is a convenience. At ten below with the wind coming across the lake, it's the whole point. Snap a photo and the AI names the fish while GPS and the time fill themselves in, then tap Save. Length and weight are optional, so skip them when the fish needs to go back down the hole. And when the perch turn on, Quick Add copies your last catch's tackle with one tap, so doubles and triples take seconds.

An Ice method that speaks ice

Pick Ice as your method and the tackle fields change to match: jig, spoon, tip-up, tip-down, or soft plastic for the lure, and jigging, dead-sticking, tip-up, or pounding for the technique. Add the depth if you know it. Rod & reel, fly, bowfishing, and spearfishing each get their own fields too, so the log fits however you fished that day.

Fish ID that doesn't need a tower

The AI that names your fish runs entirely on your phone — three neural networks, 770+ species, no internet. On a lake where the bars come and go, that's the difference between an answer and a spinning wheel. It knows what comes up through the ice:

• Walleye, sauger, and yellow perch — the bread and butter of a day on the ice
• Northern pike and muskie — what's on the other end when the tip-up flag goes up
• Black and white crappie and bluegill — the panfish crowd
• Lake trout, burbot, cisco, and lake whitefish — the deep, cold-water bunch
• Brook, brown, and rainbow trout — for the stocked ponds and trout lakes

A geographic reranker uses your GPS so the fish that actually live in your lake rank ahead of saltwater look-alikes. How the AI works →

What waits for a signal

Three things need coverage: the weather, the lake name, and the map's satellite imagery. Log with no bars and the catch saves anyway. The next time you open the app with a signal, it fills in the lake name and pulls the weather from the National Weather Service reading closest to when you caught the fish — never today's weather on yesterday's walleye. NWS keeps about a week of readings, so open the app sometime that week.

Snap it now, log it in the fish house

Too cold to fill anything in? Take the photo and get your hands back in your pockets. Later, pick it from your camera roll: the AI names the fish, and the date and time come from the photo, as long as the photo kept its timestamp (pictures straight from your camera do; screenshots don't). Log it within about six hours and the weather comes along too; older photos get the date, time, and moon phase. The same trick logs last summer's fish while you wait on safe ice.

Built for glare

Sun on fresh snow is about the brightest light you'll ever fish in. The Outdoor theme is a high-contrast palette built to stay readable in glare. Light, Dark, and System are there for the fish house.

Your spot stays yours

Ice anglers guard a good spot like a family recipe. Elevated Fishing has no account and no cloud: your catch log lives on your phone, and the app's only network calls are anonymous — the weather and lake-name lookups for a catch's location, and the map's imagery. Brag Cards show the lake's name if you logged one, never the spot. And when the whole fish house is catching, Friend's Fish logs a buddy's fish under their name without touching your personal bests. How privacy works →

State-record alerts, in case it's the one

Give a catch a length or weight and a GPS spot, and the app checks it against the state record. Walleye, northern pike, and yellow perch are covered in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and crappie, bluegill, lake trout, and muskie in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Come within 95% of a record and the app tells you the moment you tap Save — time to find a certified scale. Fishing in North Dakota? The North Dakota page →