GoOutdoorsVA
Official App of Virginia Dept of Wildlife Resources - GoOutdoorsVA.com
Total ratings
4.53
(Rating count:
1,454)Review summary
Pros
- Great convenience to access all the information on hunting, fishing, and boating regulations.
- Love having the hunting & fishing regulations and lake fish size limits right at my fingertips.
- Easy to check game compared to call-in checking.
Cons
- Frequent app crashes and issues after updates, making it unusable for some users.
- Difficulty syncing licenses and finding information within the app.
- Large, unwieldy PDF regulations instead of a more user-friendly format.
Most mentioned
- Issues with app functionality after updates, including app crashes and loss of profiles.
- Complaints about the large PDF regulations being hard to navigate without good internet connectivity.
- Problems syncing licenses and displaying them correctly.
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Recent rating average:
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All time rating average:
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-01-20 |  | | I can't get my off line tag notches to sync and give me a report number. My deer processor won't accept a deer without the report number and there is no way to get support for this app. |
| 2024-11-10 |  | | Great app! I can't get my Enotch to show up under my license. What can I do to get it on there? |
| 2024-11-05 |  | | Barely useful. Having all the regulations in single huge PDF is a HORRIBLE idea. It's a cop out to make develpers' lives easy, but sucks for users. THINK about it! Users are hunting and fishing, and that doesn't always happen where there is a strong signal that allows you to download a gigantic PDF. And the format of the PDF is not phone friendly. STUPID decision and horrible user experience! Do better. |
| 2024-10-09 |  | | Great app!!! Idea for improvement... put a calendar on the app with all of the seasons, open amd close days. Allow us to receive notifications and program the calendar to send out reminders about upcoming opening days. |
| 2024-10-08 |  | | This is a great app! Just wished they have non resident license to purchase through the app when I have family come into the state. |
| 2024-04-19 |  | | The old version was much easier and more information. This app is dorected to the dgif website, and is much more difficult to find what you want. The only thing that is a good idea, is having your license info here Yes the new version is perfect. |
| 2024-03-08 |  | | This was a 5 star app until they said update available. DO NOT update this app if you like what you have. After the update it has lost my profile completely. When I search for it it say can not be found. When I try to resubmit my information it goes well until I put in my email address then it tells me that it's invalid. No support that I can find to fix this. So I will say again DO NOT update this app. It's a trap. ***Updated review. After talking with the support team it was a very quick fix. |
| 2024-03-06 |  | | I really like it a lot and I love having the hunting & fishing regulations & lake fish size limits right at my fingertips. "BUT" it can be hard to find some things. For example: The age of your black bear, or the document for my grandson's citation bluegill. (Which by the way, I still have not found so I can print it off for him.) There is other thing's that are hard to find too, but you get the idea. Thank for the opportunity to comment!!! Sincerely, Craig Vandergriff |
| 2023-08-06 |  | | Great convenience to access all the information on hunting fishing boating regulations. Love the feeding time chart. Plus being able to have all license in digital form takes some bulk out of the wallet! My only dislike is how much the cost to hunt and fish has gone up in last 30 years not to see a significant management of the waters and forests we hunt. Everything is still as it was 30+ years ago. Mainly in Shenandoah and Frederick Counties. Trout stocking isn't a great as it was either. |
| 2022-10-07 |  | | App freezes on selection of a location on map for either tides or seas. Used to work just fine until after app apparently updated. (Little powerboat symbol in menu on bottom of screen has changed to a sailboat). Clearing data, cache, reinstall does not fix. Please fix, as this is a goto app for me. |
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