The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced in a news release that its new MyWDFW mobile application is now available for free download in the Google Play and Apple app stores.
The MyWDFW app is a comprehensive mobile licensing tool for both hunters and anglers. It supports license purchases, displays active hunting and fishing license privileges, and enables electronic tagging for a wide range of game species, including deer, elk, turkey and black bear. App users can also report migratory bird harvests and submit end-of-season harvest reports.
Other functionalities incorporated into MyWDFW — and also available in the newly updated Fish Washington app — include catch record cards for select fish species and an Enforcement View for WDFW officers, along with access to customer licensing (WILD) profiles.
People can choose between paper licenses and mobile licenses for the upcoming 2026 license year. To enroll as a mobile license holder for 2026, customers should log into fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov, verify their WILD licensing account and select Mobile License Holder for the 2026 license year. Once customers select this option, they will use mobile licenses only for the 2026 license year. Then they should download the MyWDFW app from the Google Play or Apple app stores and log in to the MyWDFW app using their WILD username and password.
App users who opt to become a mobile license customer will have valid mobile license products at the start of the new license year on April 1, 2026.
With the launch of the MyWDFW mobile app, people with existing 2025 licensing products will remain paper license holders through the 2025 license year and then will have the option to switch to mobile for the 2026 license year, the release stated. For the rest of the current calendar year, 2025 licensing products will also be available exclusively in paper.
MyWDFW’s launch is the first step in the department’s long-term plan to phase out durable-paper stock licenses in favor of mobile licensing, with an option for an 8.5-by-11 available at each customer’s preference. The department will share more information about this transition as it becomes available.
The app’s creation follows rulemaking and a public comment opportunity the department conducted in 2023 to allow electronic licensing, electronic tagging or e-tagging, and catch reporting using mobile applications. More information is available at https://tinyurl.com/3fwtubun.
More information about the MyWDFW app is available at https://tinyurl.com/h3tutywc, as well as information about both apps, their differences and tips to help guide users to their preferred app.
