The one app for Kiwi anglers · Made in Aotearoa

Know when
it's on.

Official NZ charts with live wind & swell, tides, bite times and a catch log that fills itself — every angler's tools in one app. Stop juggling five apps and a hunch. Just go when the water's right.

Wind14 kn Swell1.2 m Tide↑ 2.8 m Match92%
Workup home screen — tonight's conditions and Fish On!
🇳🇿 Built by a Kiwi angler· Real MetService · LINZ · NIWA data· No AI guesswork· Offline-first
The way we fish now

Five apps and a hunch.

Wind in one app. Swell in another. Charts somewhere else. Tides on a website, spots in a notebook, and the bite times in your head. By the time you've checked the lot, the window's shut.

Workup pulls it all into one place — so the only call left is when to launch.

Wind
app #1
Swell
app #2
Charts
app #3
Tides
a website
Spots
a notebook
Bite
your head
6 places1 app · Workup
See it in action

Tap through the real app.

Actual screens, not mock-ups. Pick one and have a look.

Everything in one place

Built for the way you actually fish.

No fluff. Just the tools that decide whether today's worth the trailer.

Self-filling logbook

Tap "Fish On!" — the log fills itself

One button records the conditions, tide and pressure around your catch. Your logbook builds itself, and every trip teaches it what a good day looks like at your spots.

Moon & Bite

Moon phase, solunar feeding windows and a Best-Days view for the weekend.

Offline-first

Cached charts, conditions and catches with photos — all out of range.

Game-fishing tools

Run timing, range-to-waypoint and an offshore safety range for blue-water days.

Bag-limit counter

Tally the day's catch against the limits and stay on the right side of the rules.

Learn & species

Tips, knots and a species guide — for the first-timer and the old salt alike.

Your spots stay your spots

Spots are private by default. Sharing your location is off on every single share unless you opt in — and you can region-fuzz it when you do. Anti-spot-burner, on purpose.

Three steps

Check it. Go. Log it.

01 — CHECK

Read the water

Scrub the wind, swell and tide over the chart. See your match score and the windows lining up this week.

02 — GO

Go when it's on

Green light, good window, right tide — launch with the confidence you used to only get in hindsight.

03 — LEARN

Log it, learn it

Tap "Fish On!" and Workup records the lot. Every trip sharpens what a good day looks like — for you.

✕ No AI guesswork

Real data.
Shows its working.

Plenty of fishing apps lean on AI to guess. Workup runs on plain, deterministic maths over official data — so when it shows a 92% match, you can see exactly which numbers got it there.

Planning aid only — not for navigation. Always check official marine forecasts before heading out, and check MPI for current fishing rules, limits and closures.

Weather
MetService
Wind, gust, swell & marine forecasts.
Charts & tide
LINZ
Official NZ charts & tides.
Marine science
NIWA
Tides & ocean data.
Models
ECMWF
Global forecast blend.
Workup map layers — wind, swell, depths, model and legend
Workup community bite map — region-fuzzed catch locations
Anti-spot-burner

Your spots stay your spots.

Your marks are hard-won. Workup treats them that way — the whole app is built so you never burn a spot by accident.

  • Private by default — your spots are never public
  • Sharing your location is off on every single share — never silently left on
  • Community posts show an approximate ~11 km region — never your exact mark
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"I got sick of checking five apps and a hunch before every trip — wind here, swell there, tides on some website, my spots in a notebook. So I built the one app I actually wanted on my own boat. No AI hype, no spot-burning, just real data and a log that fills itself."
— The team behind Workup · Auckland, Aotearoa
Good questions

The straight answers.

What's involved in testing?

Use the app like you normally would for a couple of weeks — check it before a trip, log a catch, drop a spot — and tell us what works and what's munted. No homework, just real fishing.

Is it free?

Yep. Free the whole time we're testing. No card, no catch.

When does it start, and how long?

The closed test opens soon and runs about two weeks. Pop your email in and we'll send you one message when it's ready to go.

Do I need an iPhone?

Android only for now — that's the test we're opening. iPhone comes later.

Will my spots stay private?

Always. Spots are private by default, location sharing is off on every share unless you turn it on, and community posts are region-fuzzed to ~11 km — never your exact mark.

Can I use it for navigation?

No — Workup is a planning aid, not a nav system. Always check official marine forecasts before heading out, and MPI for current rules and limits.

Wanted — foundation testers

Help us get it bang on before launch.

Workup's built and heading to Google Play. Before it goes public, we want a small crew of real Kiwi fishos putting it through its paces — on the water, in the dead spots, on a proper winter's day. Get in early, help shape it, and be first out when it drops.

Free early accessThe full app, free while we're testing.
Shape the buildYour feedback goes straight in.
Founding crewFirst in, and you'll know it.
~2 weeks, AndroidAn Android phone & the odd session.

◆ We only need a small crew to open the test — spots are limited.