Out now · Public beta · App Store & Google Play

Read the water.
Find the fish.

The carp angler's field instrument. Every swim, every spot, every take. Mapped, logged, remembered.

Free to download · public beta, so expect a few rough edges
Yateley · Sandhurst Lake · now
Pressure1014hPa
Water14.6°C
WindSW 8mph
Moon68% Waxing
WindowOptimal
01Tools

Five tools. One instrument.

Each panel a sharpened tool. Spot mapping down to the rock. Conditions: wind, pressure, water temp, moon phase, light hours. Session logging so tight you can replay a bite three years later.

01 · Spot mappingHand-pinned

The lake bed, mapped.

Drop pins for gravel, weed, silt, clay. Tag each with depth, bait history and bite count. Your swim becomes a chart, not a memory.

Gravel · 6ft Silt · 11ft Plateau · 8ft
02 · Watercraft EarsListening

Your bank-side intelligence.

Talk and walk. Ears hears your notes, timestamps them against the swim, and files them to the session. Read them back as a clean write-up.

05:42single bleep, left rod, no indication
06:14wind lifted, small carp priming out at 70 yards
06:23FISH ON, middle rod, spot B. 20lb+ feel.
● Listening4 notes · 31:14
03 · Catch logTimestamped

Every fish, forever.

Weight, scales, spot, bait, time, pressure, moon. Every variable logged against every fish you ever capture all in one place.

FISH #147 · LOGGED
SAT 04:42
24.6 LB SPOT B · GRAVEL KRILL · 18MM
04 · ConditionsWatching

Conditions, on the waters you fish.

Pressure, wind, moon, frontal moves. Watched live, lake by lake. Watercraft pings you when the next good window's forming, early enough to clear the diary.

NEXT WINDOW · 14H
1009 hPa ↘
SW · 8 MPH MOON · 68% ◐ 14.6°C
05 · SessionsReplayable

Every session, on the timeline.

Scrub through a 48-hour session like a timeline. Bite windows, rig checks, bait drops, weather shifts, stitched together, making any patterns or connections as clear as day.

SESSION 047 · YATELEY 31H:14 SAT 04:42 FISH ON FRI 18:00 SUN 01:14 ▶ SCRUBBING 52% · 16:18
From the build

See it work.

Home everything, right where you want it
Lake map The water itself
Swim view Your POV
Patterns The payoff
Out now · v1.0 Public beta

It's out. Try it on your next session.

Download it, add the water you fish most, and start a session when you get there. Free to download, and the first water takes about two minutes.

Free to download · £29 for your first year if you start this month, £39 after · or £4.99 for a single session pass
Public beta: solid enough to fish with, and still a few rough edges. Find one, tell me, and it usually gets fixed the same week.
Works now
Sessions, swims and maps
The core of it. Log a session, mark your spots on the real water, keep it all in one place.
Still settling
Patterns and sync
Working, and getting sharper every week as more sessions go in behind it.
You get a say
A direct line, not a form
Every report comes to me. Early users shape what gets built next, and that is not a marketing line.
The watercraft manifesto
Anyone can cast. Few can read the water. Fewer still remember what it told them.
True watercraft is not given, it's earned.
02Routine

Three phases. One craft.

You've been doing this a long time. The water, the bait, the read. That stays yours. Watercraft just sits alongside the three phases of every session, sharpening what you'd already do.

Step 01

Before the drive.

The session starts before the drive. You're reading the forecast, researching swims, checking your bait. Watercraft holds what's hard to keep in your head: every spot fished here, every fish off it, every condition that's worked.

  • Lake aerials: bars, plateaus, weed, snags
  • Per-spot memory: bait, depth, last take
  • Wind, pressure, fronts for the night ahead
Step 02

On the bank.

Your hands are full. Rods on the rests, eyes on the water, head in the moment. Watercraft is your ears for the rest. Every show, every liner, every take, every passing thought, captured by voice and tied to the swim. Nothing missed.

  • Dictation that runs in the bivvy, offline
  • Photos pinned to the spot and the hour
  • One tap to mark a moment, eyes stay on the water
Step 03

Packed down.

The patterns aren't new. You'd half-noticed them already. Which swim wakes up on a southerly wind. What time the takes come on a falling pressure. Seven sessions in, watercraft just brings them out properly. The hunches you had, now proven.

  • Patterns: pressure, wind, moon, swim
  • Bite-windows, sharpened by your captures
  • Your data, yours, always
03Booking sync

Booked there. Ready here.

Hundreds of thousands of anglers book their fishing through swimbooker. If you're one of them, watercraft is plugged directly into it, so every booking lands here automatically.

  • 01Bookings, auto-synced.Every swimbooker reservation appears in your watercraft calendar the moment you confirm it. No manual entry, no second app to update.
  • 02Sessions, quick-started.Tap a booking in your calendar. The session opens with fishery, lake, swim, dates, and rod count already in place.
  • 03History stays with the water.Last time you fished this peg, every spot, every fish, every note. Ready when you arrive.
  • 04Conditions on arrival.The brief already compiled for your booked date and location. Pressure, wind, moon, water temp.
swimbooker Account · Connected
ID 1000315408 · BOOKED
Orchid Lakes
Orchid Lake · 1 ticket
Fri 18:00 → Sun 08:00 · 1 angler · 3 rods
08
MAY
watercraft Calendar · Imported
SESSION 049 · READY TO START
Orchid Lakes
Orchid Lake
Weekend session · 38 hours · 3 rods
Previous success on SW wind in 'Boards' swim at 07:21am · check live conditions here 7 prior sessions on this water Quick-start ›
08
MAY
Internal · Do not share
Chapter 07 Pattern engine · learning as you log

Your sessions,
answering back.

The more you put in, the more it gives back. Every swim you pin, every take you log, every spot you save. Watercraft watches the shape of it. Then it starts showing you the patterns you were already feeling, just sharper, sooner, and backed by your own data.

It doesn't know anything I didn't already teach it. It just remembers all of it, at once.

Seven sessions in, it told me what I half-suspected. That's the bit that got me.

Scott Lloyd
Your patterns · 42 sessions in
Angler #0047
Your best swimC · gravel
Your best baitKrill · 18mm
Pressure you hit on1012 ↘ mb
Your bite windowxxxxxxx
Pattern strengthStrong · 7/10
Next likely takexxxxx
Learning from you 42 sessions · 6 waters · your data only
Claim founder spot
Founders from session 1 · Patterns sharpen from 10 sessions · Out now in public beta
A long practice

Some fish live as much in record as in water.

  1. 01
    Mary 1996
    Wraysbury 1 · 55lb 13oz · Terry Hearn
  2. 02
    Two Tone 2001
    Conningbrook · 61lb 2oz · Gary Bayes
  3. 03
    The Burghfield Common 2006
    Burghfield · 52lb 12oz · Nigel Sharp

Names that travelled because somebody took the time to write everything down. Carp angling's whole memory is built that way.

Watercraft is a place for yours.

Pictured · Mary Wraysbury 1 · Nov 1996
Founding members · Capped at 100 04Founder's Lifetime

Be one in a hundred.

The app is out and anyone can download it. This is something else. One payment, once, and you never pay for watercraft again. It is a commitment to fishing the next ten years properly, and it comes with lifetime access, a real say in what gets built, and a numbered metal card engraved with your watercraft ID. One of a hundred in existence. When the hundred are gone, the offer closes.

001 OF ONE HUNDRED FOUNDER · LIFETIME WC · 001 · MMXXVI
ANGLER · 001 / 100 · MMXXVI FOUNDER COHORT · I PROOF · MMXXVI

Final design to be confirmed

Live Founder's Lifetime · numbered 001–100
0 / 100 claimed
0 100 founder slots
Inclusion 01

Lifetime access.

One payment. Lifetime access to watercraft, including all future updates and features. No recurring charges or annual renewals. Your access remains active for the lifetime of the product.

Inclusion 02

A say in the build.

The app is live and still being built. The hundred break it, shape it, and tell us what is missing. Your feedback lands in the next build, and the one after.

Inclusion 03

Numbered metal card.

A physical identity card, engraved with your watercraft ID. Numbered 001 to 100. Yours to keep. One of a hundred in existence.

£179one-time

A founder's commitment to watercraft, and ours back.

One payment, never another. No annual fee, no usage caps, no upgrade fees as the app evolves.

Secure it now. Pay in stages.

How to pay in stages

Select Klarna at checkout to split your £179 into 3 interest-free monthly payments.

  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
  • Klarna
Claim founder spot

14-day refund, no questions asked. UK statutory rights apply.

When the hundred are gone, this offer closes. Everyone else pays £39 a year, every year. There is no second cohort, and there will not be a lifetime tier again. This is the only way to own watercraft outright.

05Questions

Before you commit.

A few things worth saying plainly.

01

What is watercraft?

A precision logging instrument for carp anglers, and a place to learn the practice. Map the swim, record the session, watch the patterns surface across the year. It also teaches you the conditions, observations, and patterns that have helped anglers throughout history capture their target fish.

02

It says public beta. What does that actually mean?

It means the app is out, it works, and you can fish with it on your next session. But it is version 1.0 and it will not be perfect. Some things are still settling. If you hit something odd, tell me and it usually gets fixed within the week. That is the trade: you get it early and rough, and you get a say in how it ends up.

03

Who is it for?

Carp anglers serious about the water, at any stage of the practice. Some already keep notes, watch the conditions, and record every session. Others are just starting, knowing they want to fish this way but unsure where to begin.

04

Who's building it?

Built by Alfie Tilley and Keanu Griffin (co-founders of swimbooker), in partnership with Scott Lloyd (professional carp angler) and Tom Wilshaw (professional angler & creative), alongside several other anglers and industry stakeholders who've spent years fishing seriously without a tool fit for the way they fish. The team is deliberately small; the relationships with the anglers shaping it are deliberately deep.

05

What does "lifetime" actually mean?

One payment. Lifetime access to watercraft, including all future updates and features. No recurring charges or annual renewals. Your access remains active for the lifetime of the product.

06

Why is the cohort capped at 100?

100 is small enough that we can know who you are, hear your feedback, and let you shape the build. Bigger than that and the founder relationship becomes a mailing list. The cap isn't a tactic. It's the number we can actually engage with.

07

It's out. What happens now?

watercraft is live on the App Store and Google Play, in public beta. From here it is weekly builds: fixes first, then whatever founders and early users ask for most. Founder's Lifetime members get a direct line to the team rather than a support form.

08

When will I receive the metal card?

Engraving begins once your founder ID (numbered 001 to 100) is assigned. Expect a more specific arrival date shortly after purchase.

09

Will it work offline at the bank?

Offline access is included with Founder's Lifetime and Pro. Maps, swims, dictation and session logging all work without signal. Anything you record syncs the moment you're back in coverage.

10

What platforms does watercraft run on?

iOS and Android, both live now. Web access will follow. The app is designed mobile-first because that's where session work actually happens.

One in a hundred.

Claim founder spot £179 · Lifetime · Numbered 001–100
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