Fishing Times vs Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time for "best fishing times"
Fishing Times
Solunar Fishing Times by Fishingreminder.com
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time
Make your fishing and hunting effective with Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time!
Rank
8
For keyword
Rank
2
English (United States)Solunar Fishing Times by Fishingreminder.com
Make your fishing and hunting effective with Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time!
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time wraps every screenshot in a captioned outdoor scene, opening with "Best time for Fishing and Hunting in one app", while Fishing Times ships four uncaptioned device captures including a date-picker dialog and the navigation drawer. Fishing Times' data is genuinely richer on screenshot 2 (Day Rating, Major/Minor Times, tide station, illumination), but a searcher scanning the first impression never reads that far. Neither listing shows a download count, testimonial, or badge.
Scanned screenshots4 a · 4 b
Only the first 4 screenshots from each side are sent to the AI. These are what users see in App Store and Google Play search results, so they carry most of the conversion weight.
App A
App B
Value Proposition
B leadsFishing Times' first screenshot is an unlabelled solunar dial; no caption anywhere states that it predicts bite times.
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time headlines "Best time for Fishing and Hunting in one app" above the very first frame.
Clarity
B leadsFishing Times' second screenshot labels Day Rating, Major Times, Moonrise and Tides plainly, but screenshots 3 and 4 show a date picker and menu drawer.
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time captions each frame by feature: "Low & High Tide Forecast", "Hourly & Daily Weather Forecast", with a visible Forecast/Calendar/Weather/Tides tab bar.
Emotional Hook
B leadsAll four Fishing Times frames are raw captures retaining the status bar and Android navigation buttons; no scene, no outcome wording.
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time sets each phone frame in an illustrated lakeside landscape, though captions like "Peak Fish & Game Activity Times" name capability, not feeling.
Trust Signals
TiedFishing Times shows only "by fishingreminder.com" plus YouTube and Facebook links inside the drawer screenshot; no download count, review quote, or badge.
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time carries no user count, testimonial, publisher attribution, or accuracy claim across any of its four captioned frames.
Reviewers of both Fishing Times and Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time overwhelmingly praise prediction accuracy, with users reporting that major and minor bite times line up with real catches. Fishing Times draws recurring complaints about pop-up ads and about wrong tide, sunrise and moonrise times, plus a few reports of paid upgrades not being recognised. Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time's recurring friction is instead the paywall, specifically paying to add locations, while several of its reviewers explicitly note the absence of adverts.
App A
Pain points
Wrong tide and sun/moon times
MediumIntrusive pop-up ads
LowPaid upgrade not recognised
LowStrengths
Bite times match real catches
HighAll information on one page
MediumUseful for fishing the tides
MediumApp B
Pain points
Pro upgrade required to add locations
MediumTide data disputed by some users
LowStrengths
Accurate best-time predictions
HighMulti-year reliability
MediumNo adverts in the experience
LowFishing Times positions itself as a solunar and tide calendar with candid expectation-setting, telling readers up front that "This app wont catch the fish for you" and that timing is only one skill among several. Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time takes the opposite stance, promising to "Make your fishing and hunting extremely effective" across both fish and wildlife, backed by a checkmark feature list and a PRO upsell. The mismatch is confidence versus caution: one listing sells a bigger claim over a wider activity set, the other sells accuracy about what solunar data can and cannot do.
App A
Positioning
Honest solunar and tide calendar
Target audience
Experienced anglers planning trips around tides and moon
Value promise
Read bite times and tides to improve your odds, not guarantee them
Tone
plain-spoken, instructional, deliberately unhyped
App B
Positioning
Solunar suite for fishing and hunting
Target audience
Anglers and hunters wanting one forecast for both
Value promise
Predict feeding periods of fish and wildlife to maximise trip success
Tone
feature-focused, confident, upgrade-oriented
Gap
Fishing Times leads with calibrated honesty about the limits of solunar prediction, while Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time leads with maximal effectiveness across two activities at once, so the two listings compete on credibility versus scope rather than on the same axis.
Opportunity
A searcher for "best fishing times" who has been burned by overclaiming forecast apps has no listing that visibly owns trustworthy, tide-aware timing, and Fishing Times is one short-description rewrite away from owning it.
Risk
The first-impression copy for Fishing Times spends its strongest real estate on caveats and on what the app will not do, and a store visitor comparing two results in a few seconds may read that as a weaker product rather than as an honest one. The tide charts and the 1-4 fish day rating, which are the concrete reasons to choose it, sit far below the fold.
Strategic advantage
Tide times are integrated into the core calendar view rather than announced as a "NEW Tides charts" addition, which matters to saltwater and estuary anglers whose trip decision depends on the tide window as much as the solunar window.
Missed opportunity
Neither listing frames the app around the decision an angler actually makes: which of a small number of available days is worth the drive. A "pick your day" planning angle, rather than a "see the data" angle, is unclaimed in this category.
App A
35
Fishing Times
Far behind
B wins
App B
65
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time
Dominant
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time holds position 2 for best fishing times while Fishing Times sits at 8, and that gap is earned on first impression rather than on data depth. Fishing Times carries the richer solunar and tide detail, but that evidence sits below the fold where a scanning searcher never reaches it.
Why it wins
Fishing & Hunting Solunar Time captions every screenshot inside an outdoor scene and opens with a wide effectiveness promise across both fish and wildlife, so its listing reads as a complete answer to best fishing times within seconds. Its reviewers also note the absence of adverts, while Fishing Times draws recurring complaints about pop-up ads and about wrong tide, sunrise and moonrise times.
Biggest opportunity
The full phrase best fishing times appears in neither Fishing Times field and its short description currently restates the title plus the domain name, so the clearest gain is moving the integrated tide charts and the 1-4 fish day rating into the first thing a searcher reads.
Next priority
The change worth testing next is a decision-framed short description such as "Best fishing times with solunar bite windows, tide charts and day ratings" (73 characters), which claims the unclaimed pick-your-day angle instead of naming the source site. Pairing it with captioned screenshots that open on the day rating would put the strongest evidence for best fishing times above the fold.
Run your own comparison
Compare more apps, in any market or language.
See AI recommendations on how to beat your competitor.
Track keyword rankings across every store and locale. Free to start.
Try AppTracker free
