Built on deck. Not at a desk.

The Catch is built by Munro Hardy, a Darwin charter skipper who has spent his life on the water. He runs Cape Adieu Cruises & Charters off Stokes Hill Wharf and fishes the Top End for a living — the same tides, the same wind, the same long runs with no reception that you deal with.

After enough seasons juggling a weather app, a tide chart, a paper notebook and a camera roll full of unlabelled fish, he decided to build the app he always wanted. One screen for the conditions. One tap to log a fish. Nothing that falls over the moment the signal drops.

That means tides you can trust before you launch, weather that doesn't dress up a guess, and catch logging that works with wet hands, sun glare and a fish still kicking on the deck. Every feature gets tested the honest way — on charters, in the build-up heat, with paying customers watching.

It's made in Darwin by someone who'll be out there tomorrow. If something's not right, tell us — the bloke reading the email is the one holding the wheel.