The green window
Every beat carries a window around it — about ±360 ms on the first holes, closing to ±150 ms at the ridge. Land inside it and the pull counts.
Ice-fishing rhythm game
iPhone & iPad · Free
JigBeat
Tap the beat, lift the catch.
She is already on the hook, resting on the bottom floor of the hole. A ring closes on your jig once per beat — meet it, and she comes up one pull at a time. Four pulls to a floor, five floors at the deep end, and a beat that will not wait for you.
How to play
One tap, on the beat
No casting, no waiting for a bite. The fish is hooked from the first second — the whole game is whether you can keep time long enough to lift her out.
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She is already on the hook
Every fish starts hooked on the bottom floor of the hole. Your only job is to lift her out.
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Tap when the ring closes
A white ring shrinks onto the jig once per beat. Meet it inside the green window and you land a pull.
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Four pulls lift a floor
Fill the meter and she rises to the next floor. Clear the last one and she comes up through the ice.
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Off the beat is a slip
A tap outside the window empties the floor you were filling. Three slips and she shakes the hook — you get three fish per hole.
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Three stars a hole
One for the catch quota, one for losing no fish at all, one for landing eighty-five percent of your taps on the beat.
Why it hooks
A metronome you can catch fish with
Everything in JigBeat hangs off one thing — the beat. Land on it and the whole lake pays you back.
Floor by floor
Four clean pulls lift her one floor. Two floors on the first ice, three and four in the current, five in the deep end of the bay.
Rhythm streak
Land a fish without a single slip and the streak climbs — x2, then x3, then x5 on every coin the outing pays.
Four pickups
Chum lifts her a whole floor. Glowbead hands you free pulls. Thermos widens the window for ten seconds. Hush forgives your next slip.
Weather of the day
A Hard Frost costs an extra pull per floor. A Thaw runs the beat fifteen percent easier. A Blizzard hides the ring but forgives one more slip.
Three stars, every hole
One for the catch quota, one for losing no fish, one for keeping eighty-five percent of your taps on the beat. Stars open the next water.
Ways to play
Seven pages in the logbook
A campaign to work through, a ladder to climb, trials to survive — and a daily rhythm that is different every morning.
Waters
36The campaign map. Frozen Lake, River Polynya and Ice Ridge Bay — twelve holes each, unlocked by the stars you bring back.
Levels
30A numbered ladder in three tiers — Shallow Ice, Under the Current, The Deep. Cleared in order, up to six floors and a beat past a hundred.
Trials
12Holes with complications stacked on top. Short Line gives every fish a fixed number of pulls. Others narrow the window, cut the pickups, or speed the beat with every catch.
Endless Jig
∞No quota and no map. Just one hole, a beat that keeps going, and however long you can stay on it.
Today's Tune
DailySixteen beats, a fresh tempo and depth every day, three attempts to clear it. Plus three daily quests off the same desk.
Logbook
10Ten species, from a polite little roach to the Ridge Mother Pike. Each one keeps a keeper's note, a tally and your personal best on the scales.
Tacklebox
5 + 9Five upgrade tracks — Nod, Jigs, Line, Metronome, Stove — five steps each, and nine trinkets to repaint your jig, your tent and your logbook ink.
The catch
Three waters, ten species
Each water is a little deeper and a little quicker than the last, and each one has its own fish waiting on the bottom floor.
Frozen Lake
Shallow, quiet ice. Two floors to lift a fish, a slow steady beat.
12 holes2–3 floors60–70 bpmOpens at 0 ★
River Polynya
Deeper water in the current. Three or four floors and a brisker beat.
12 holes3–4 floors72–88 bpmOpens at 18 ★
Ice Ridge Bay
The deep end of the bay. Five floors and a beat that will not wait.
12 holes4–5 floors90–104 bpmOpens at 42 ★
Perch
Bold little striper from right under the lid of ice. Comes up almost politely.
Roach
Silver and light. Keep the beat steady and she rides it straight up.
Elder Ruffe
Spiny, grumpy and heavier than he looks. Every floor costs one extra pull.
Young Bream
Flat as a saucer. Rises in calm, even steps if you keep time.
Zander
Glass-eyed hunter of the seam. Digs in halfway up and makes you work.
Burbot
Comes off the bottom like a wet rope. Slow, stubborn, worth it.
Ridge Trout
Fast and bright. Miss the beat and she uses the slack against you.
Whitefish
Travels in polite little crowds and rises without a fuss.
Grayling
Sail-finned show-off of the ridges. Loves a fast, clean rhythm.
Ridge Mother Pike
Older than the bay itself. Two extra pulls a floor, and she is worth every one.
A quiet lake, a loud metronome
Lantern light on the snow, a stove ticking behind you, a hole cut in the ice and one bright jig hanging in the dark. JigBeat keeps the whole world that small — a tent, a hole, and the next beat coming whether you are ready or not.
"Bold little striper from right under the lid of ice.
Comes up almost politely." — the logbook, on the perch
Contact
Missed a beat somewhere?
Bug reports, a hole that felt unfair, a species you would like to see under the ice — send it over. Every message is read by the person who made the game.
suechavez197@gmail.com
The hole is cut. The beat is running.
Free on the App Store. Two floors and sixty beats a minute is all it takes to start — the ridge can wait until you are ready for it.