Private by design

A fishing app with no account, no tracking, and no cloud

Your catches, photos, and GPS coordinates live on your phone — not on someone else's server.

Short answer

Elevated Fishing is a private fishing log that requires no account and does no tracking. Everything you log — catches, photos, GPS, and settings — is stored in a local database on your device. There are zero analytics SDKs, no cloud sync, and no ads, and shared Brag Cards strip the GPS so your spots stay secret.

What this app deliberately doesn't do

Privacy isn't a setting here — it's the architecture.

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No account. No sign-up, no email, no login. Install and start logging. There's nothing to breach or sell.

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No cloud sync. Your data lives in a local SQLite database on your phone, not on someone else's server.

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No analytics SDKs. No Firebase, Mixpanel, Sentry, Crashlytics, or Google Analytics. We can't see what you do in the app.

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No shared location. GPS stays on-device, and Brag Cards never carry coordinates. A card shows the lake's name if you logged one, never the spot.

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No ads. No data brokers. No social feed. Just you and your data.

The only network calls are anonymous

A truly private app still needs a few outside facts — the weather when you caught a fish, the name of the lake you're on, the map tiles under your pins. Elevated Fishing keeps every one of those calls anonymous and free of your personal data:

  • National Weather Service — US weather for a catch, by coordinates only.
  • OpenStreetMap Overpass — the name of the water body you're fishing.
  • CARTO map tiles — the street imagery on your map.
  • Esri map tiles — the satellite and topo imagery on your map.
  • Google Play — subscription status through Play Billing, and the occasional 'rate this app' sheet through Play's in-app review. Both handled entirely by Google.

None of these requests carry an identity, an account, or your catch history — there's no account to attach them to. For the full legal detail, read the Privacy Policy.

Privacy Questions

Do I need an account to use Elevated Fishing?

No. There is no sign-up, no email collection, and no login. You install the app and start logging catches immediately. Because there is no account, there is nothing to breach, sell, or lock you out of.

Does the app track my location or share my fishing spots?

No. Your GPS coordinates are stored on your device to power your private Catch Map; they are never uploaded to any Elevated Fishing server, because there isn't one. To fill in the weather and the water body name, the app does send a catch's coordinates (nothing else: no identity, account, or catch history) to the National Weather Service and OpenStreetMap; those lookups are the only time a location leaves your phone. When you share a Brag Card, the GPS coordinates are never included, so your honey holes stay yours even when you post a photo. A card shows the lake's name if you logged one, never the spot.

Where is my fishing data stored?

On your device, in a local SQLite database inside the app's private storage. Photos sit alongside it. Nothing is sent to any Elevated Fishing server, because there isn't one. To move to a new phone, use Backup and Restore, which exports everything as a single ZIP file you control.

Does the app contain analytics or advertising SDKs?

No. There are zero analytics SDKs in the app: no Firebase, no Mixpanel, no Sentry, no Crashlytics, and no Google Analytics. No ads and no data brokers. We literally cannot see what you do in the app.

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