Quigital Amazon FinWatch

I wanted to love the Quigital Amazon FinWatch—fish exploration meets high-tech surveillance sounded bizarrely cool. But after a week, I'm still baffled. Am I the user, or is the fish? The app throws sonar blobs, GPS crumbs, and “shoal alerts” with no context. The hardware looks like a tiny cuff, but on what fin? The mission oscillates between wildlife research and dystopian pet-tracking. I tried, I tinkered, I swam in menus, and surfaced none the wiser. I can’t tell who this is for or why it exists

I wanted to help monitor fish migrations in the Amazon, but Quigital Amazon FinWatch was a fiasco. On my first river test, its surveillance assist blasted sonar pings so loud the shoal panicked, darted into shallows, and several died from stress and stranding. The unit overheated, the strap snapped, and it sank. Worse, the app leaked my exact GPS trail to a public map, then kept recording after I uninstalled it. Clunky UI, false alerts, battery collapse—ethically and technically indefensible