Questions captains ask
What Bite Intel shows you, what it does not, and what it costs.
It shows you the water: where the edge is, how it moved, where it is going. Your trips show you which water held fish. You read it and you find them.
Free is the newest frame, in every region. Bite Intel Pro is the time bar, the computed layers, the five-minute sea-temperature frame over the Gulf of America, the East Coast and Baja, offline packs, and your trips replayed over the water as it was that day.
The sea-temperature frame refreshes every five minutes over the Gulf of America, the East Coast and Baja. The daily satellite analyses land once a day, when the pass comes in. Every observed layer shows its own age in the list, so you can see how old the picture is before you read it.
A free account costs nothing: every region, no card, no clock. Bite Intel Pro is $999 a year or $119 a month, one region included — bought one region at a time, and it is less than one run of fuel.
Sign in at ripiq.com, open Account, then Manage account, then Billing, and use Cancel Subscription. No phone call and no retention offer. You keep what you paid for until the end of that billing period, and it does not renew.
We do not offer refunds as a rule, and cancelling stops the next charge rather than returning the last one. You buy through Link, a Stripe checkout service, and Link is the merchant of record: your card statement reads LINK.COM* RIPIQ.COM, and Link can refund within 60 days of purchase under its own policy. If something has gone wrong, write to support@ripiq.com and we will look at it.
Your password is in Account, under Change password. Your home region is in there too — it decides where the map opens, nothing more, and every region is open to a free account whichever one you pick. To close the account, choose Delete account in Account, under Security. We erase your name, email and other personal information straight away. Trip and catch records we keep for research have nothing linking them to you, and billing records are kept as the law requires.
Keep it. Open ours next to it before your next trip. Scrub it back a day, a week, a season, and see whether it tells you something your charts did not. Then decide.
That is on the plotter. This is on your phone before you leave the dock, and it scrubs back — the same water a day ago, a week ago, the day you got bit.
Good. Send them the water shot back, with your waypoints on it.
Pro downloads an offline pack before you leave and the map works with no signal at all. Your trips and catches record on the phone and upload when you are back in range.
Gulf of America, East Coast and Baja are live. More are being added, and we do not name one before it is live.
Recording is a switch in Preferences. Your trips, your catches and your waypoints are yours; we do not sell them and we do not share them.
Two reasons, and you can say no to either. It puts your boat on the map. And while a trip is recording it takes a fix every thirty seconds so the track is there to replay afterwards — that is the one that needs to keep working with the phone in your pocket. Recording is a switch in Preferences; leave it off and nothing is recorded.
In development. We are actively working on new ways to read the water, using real trips and catches.
The species map is. The water, the time bar and your trips are not — they are what the app opens on.
It was built on a boat that fishes these waters — Blue Rush, a Viking 72 out of Port Aransas — and every trip she has made is in it. A free account opens every region with no card, so you can read the water before your next trip and judge it on that.
Yes. Bite Intel runs in the browser on a phone, a tablet or the boat laptop. The map is drawn for a phone first, because that is where a captain reads it.