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Shooal

Log the marine life you discover on every dive

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Turn your dives and snorkeling trips into a collection of marine life. Shooal helps you identify species from photos, log sightings, and build your personal underwater life list. Explore species by region, save the creatures you hope to see, and compare discoveries with friends. Available on iPhone.

PH · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 1 view

Niche: plant and nature identification apps · 69 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Workflow automation
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Commercial product
  • Travel

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More like this: all 69 launches in plant and nature identification apps →

Could you build this?

Yes The app consists of standard mobile logging CRUD paired with multimodal vision APIs (such as GPT-4o or iNaturalist) to identify marine life from photos.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #31 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 241 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Cachalot · ph · 2026-11-08 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • abyssal-garden · github · 2026-11-12 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • DiveDocket · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • DiveGrade · ph · 2026-11-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • DiveHub · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • BirdWatch.info · ph · 2026-10-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Trawl · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Nestory: Memory Map · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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