Salt Strong: Fishing Spots App

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1. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t sign up. In a constant loading loop when trying to sign up on app, multiple tries

2. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Doesn’t work :/. Was ready to pay for a subscription after hearing good thing online but the app doesn’t even get you past the sing in page (from multiple devices) Guess I’m stuck with Fishbrain

3. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Can’t sign up. I’ve been trying and trying to sign up. For a couple of weeks now. It just stays thinking and never allows me to sign up.

4. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Don’t bother. Not free or worth the money.. $100 a year or $12.99 a month. Doesn’t do anything for you. Downloaded the Simrad or Garmin if you want good stuff. Simrad is $39.99 a year and it gives you everything. This app signs me out each time and makes me reset password every time I try to sign back in. Garbage.

5. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Satellite images don’t load. This app was great, but now there are weekly updates to improve tracking or other issues, but they refuse to fix the biggest issue which is the google earth layer not loading. I’ve quit using the app for most searches and now just go straight to Google Earth. It’s faster and cheaper

6. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

   Will not let me create account. Says bad email address when that is not true. The little circle thing just spins and spins

7. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

   Junk app/Rip off. This is nothing more than money grabbing gimmick. If you don’t know where a good fishing spot would be, pay for one month of this app, take a snap shot of everywhere you might fish, and then cancel it. The alleged “hotspots” apparently never change, despite water temperatures and wind directions changing. Heck, they can’t even tell you where to fish depending on what time of day it is, and believe it or not, that matters. You can get tidal information, predicted and current wind speed/temps from free weather apps. Solunar tables? Easy to find, free, and still not useful if you don’t know how to plug in other info. Need to read “local reports”? Well, I kid you not… there are generic, common sense reports from alleged locals that I’ve never heard of or met and my family has been in this area for many generations. But if you still think that’s useful, just be prepared to learn those reports are on average more than 2 years old. Now think about that. What good is that to you? It ought to be a crime to sell such garbage.

8. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

   Slow app. Takes forever to work with or without internet. Useless garbage

9. ★★★★★a needed feature is missing

   Honestly Unnecessary. You probably already know most of what is on here, so unless you need the pat on the back for your own validation I would just keep my money…..

10. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Click trap. Very expensive, almost $100/year. They want all your data in advance before they even show you the prices. Fishy App.

11. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Not upfront. I really hate apps that trick you into giving them all your contact info first before presenting that they require you to pay them to use it. Why should I trust anything from you when deceptive practices is how you start things off.

12. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Has become useless. App used to function without lag issues but with each update, the lagging has gotten to the point where there’s no benefit to using it. Same issue on 2 phones and one is brand new.

13. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    So far…. Trash. Signed up tonight. Can’t log in after creating account as it says I don’t exist. Can’t reset password because it says invalid email. Received two emails welcoming me to the address they say doesn’t exist. App doesn’t play well with Apple Passwords and Autofill. This is basic developer stuff. $13 a month and I can’t even access it. Less than impressed so far.

14. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    No free options.. This is insane that for a fishing app yall charging 13 to just use the app. Screw that

15. ★★★★★excessive or broken notifications

    Notification Spamming. Devs seem to be smapping the app with test notifications.

16. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    May have been useful but probably not. Requires you to create account before use which probably does require adding a payment method for a subscription

17. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    App isn’t like ad shown. I wouldn’t waste my time with the app. Hard to navigate , tools don’t function properly, and is missing key features that TikTok ad showed . Not worth $13 a month to use and is misleading

18. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I click sign in and nothing happens. I sit there and click sign in and only like 10% of the time does it actually work. This app doesn’t work 90% of the time I try it. It’s junk. And no it’s not my phone or anything I’m doing. App is just junk. Please fix this issue. So many times I’m out on boat and can’t use this thing

19. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Issues logging in. Great app but I am occasionally logged out of my account. When I attempt to login back in it tells me wrong email password combination. I do the password reset and none of the options/links work. Pretty frustrating when I pay to use the app.

20. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Not fr. Tell me why this app is subscription based? Quickly

21. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    Waste. Waste of money. Wish someone else wrote this before I wasted $100. Terrible and outdated information. Last thing anyone needs is another paid subscription that does not keep up with accurate information.

22. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    I want to like this app. This app is pretty much unusable. I have an iPhone 17 and high speed internet but these maps will not populate at a reasonable rate. Even when I adjust settings to reduce information. It also superheats your phone and drains battery at a ridiculous rate. I’m talking like 1% every minute on the app.

23. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Tutorial. Every time I open the app, I have to do the tutorial, even though I complete it over and over again.

24. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Eh?. This may be good in Fl, but not too impressed with the data offered in VA beach area. Smart spots are pretty generic, the obvious to anybody that fishes spots. And that’s fine. An obvious lack of data point is the layer that shows boat ramps…..the major city boat ramp in Lynhaven that everyone uses for bay access doesn’t even show up, on top of a handful of others I commonly use. Needs some work.

25. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Update fatigue. It feels like the app updates daily for things you wouldn’t even notice. Make them a monthly thing. I shouldn’t have to update every time I open the app

26. ★★★★★negative experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Disappointed. Gives water depth and tide. That’s the only useful part. Smart spots are useless. Fished 2wice trying smart spots and your better off following the birds. Over priced for sure.

27. ★★★★★mixed experience without a specific reason· unspecific

    Great app. Great app and gives you lots of hot spots in fishing and helps me improve to catch more fish. I only give it 3 stars for now because when I’m using the app in my phone, my phone battery depletes more faster than usual. It depletes more than playing a game on my phone. Hope you can improve it. Thanks

28. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Constructive criticism. The app is nice but… why can i not change the time for all the spots, currently i have to click on every individual spot and change the time. It takes forever to load… and my internet is fast for everything else so i know its not me.

29. ★★★★★subscription and paid restrictions

    App laggy and freezes up smart spots not great. I have found the app to be extremely laggy, to the point of not being useable. I have tried a 2020 iMac with 64gb ram using multiple browsers, to iPhone 15 pro and iPads. All behave the same way. The information the app displays is impressive, though I have found the 1ft contours inaccurate, possibly due to recent hurricane activity. Smart spots this winter have been somewhat laughable. Upper mobile bay many of the red and yellow areas are in 3 inches of water with no way to access area. Membership has been great, but I don’t get all the love for the app.

30. ★★★★★slow performance and long loading times

    Maps slow. Sometimes the maps can be slow to load, if they fixed this, would be 5 stars