Your best days on the water
deserve better than a camera roll.

No. There is no feed, community map or leaderboard. Your log and exact spot names stay on your phone. A shared card may name a town or area, never the exact spot name, and no coordinate is written into the image. Network services used for weather, flow, maps and place names are detailed in the privacy policy.

The log remains readable and editable without a signal. Tide, range and the sun’s course are computed locally where the place is covered. Wind, sky, swell, some river flow data and place search need a connection; the app says when data are unavailable.

Never. It gives no score out of ten, no “spot of the day”, no prediction. It shows you what your own trips gave in comparable conditions — with the trip count and the blank days, so you can judge how solid the number is yourself.

No. Riseform does not track you and never uses location in the background. Permission may be requested only after an explicit action, for example when you ask to use your current position. You can refuse and continue with photo metadata or a point placed by hand.

You can start with a photo, then add species, length, lure or notes whenever you choose. The time therefore depends on the detail you want; Riseform prefills what it can without inventing what is missing.

Yes. The screen adapts to the water and the data available. On rivers, Riseform first looks for a Hubeau gauge in France, then may use an Open-Meteo hydrological series. On the Mediterranean it emphasises sky, temperature and wind. On lakes, you can also record the water level yourself.

You take your log with you, and it costs nothing. From the Profile, a full backup — trips, catches and photos — goes wherever you choose: your drive, your computer, a stick. The new phone reads it back. Riseform has no server, so your backup never passes through us. The export, for its part, writes everything out as readable JSON: your data is yours, and nothing holds you here.

The catalogue holds twenty-eight species, six of them shellfish and two crustaceans: a clam is recorded exactly like a bass, with its photo, its time and its tidal range. The calendar shows the month’s spring tides, and a spring-tide alert can be armed up to thirty days ahead — an almanac figure is exact three months out, where a forecast wind stops being one past thirty-six hours.

You arm them: pick a spot and a condition, and the app schedules the corresponding reminders. It never decides on its own that a moment deserves waking you, and the message stays factual. Each alert can produce up to two notifications per month. Alerts are free, like the whole logbook — trips, spots, collection, the window's almanac, backup, export and sharing. You can create three trips; photos taken before your first import can still be imported later without counting. Monthly Plus, Annual Plus or lifetime Founder then lifts the limit. Existing entries remain free to read and export.