Tide It · Tides & Real Wind
Surf, Kitesurf & Wing Forecast
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
1 month of Premium, free: real-time wind, 7-day GO windows, surf mode and the confidence gauge. Then the app stays free — no strings attached.
Tide It — tides, wind and surf, built around one obsession: precision, honesty and your battery.
Made for riders (kitesurf, wing, sailing, surf) and anyone who reads the sea.
TIDES
• Times, heights and coefficients worldwide, even offline.
• Elegant curve, sunrise/sunset, moonrise/set and moon phase.
WIND (real-time)
• The wind observed by the nearest station — not just a forecast.
• Wind mode: wind and gusts layered over the tide curve.
SURF (new)
• Surf spots worldwide, dominant swell (height, period, direction).
• Tide-aware surf GO windows. Data from a broad (offshore) model — honest, never oversold as a spot-grade reading.
YOUR GO WINDOWS
• The app finds your best slots per sport, crossing wind, tide, swell and sun.
• Rider level (beginner → expert): the app adapts to you.
• 7-day calendar, with the day's best window highlighted.
EVERYWHERE WITH YOU
• Tide, wind and surf widgets. Apple Watch. Live Activity & Dynamic Island.
FREE: create your activities, worldwide offline tides, favorites, iCloud and Apple Watch.
PREMIUM: notifications (perfect sessions + alerts), readable 7-day GO calendar, real-time wind, 30-day forecast, wind & surf mode, Live Activity, PDF/card export.
more What's new:
- The map now opens instantly. A rendering bug made it take about ten seconds to appear in dark theme: fixed.
- And if loading ever drags on, a progress bar now says so, instead of a frozen screen.
Still as precise, honest and battery-light as ever. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.7 1d ago
What's new:
- The Wind widget no longer goes blank: the latest reading is kept (with its age shown) and refreshes as soon as the station responds.
- Reliability and polish improvements.
Still as precise, honest and battery-light as ever. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.6 4d ago
What's new:
- Gusty wind now fully weighs on your GO windows — the steadiness verdict is no longer just displayed, it counts.
- Find Tide It on Facebook and Instagram: links in Settings, to follow updates and share your spots.
- Reliability and polish improvements.
Still as precise, honest and battery-light as ever. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.5 6d ago
What's new:
- Live wind now comes with a verdict at a glance: steady, choppy or gusty — so you know if it really holds.
- App, widgets and Apple Watch fully in your language.
- Reliability and polish improved throughout.
Still as precise, honest and battery-light as ever. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.4 Jul 2
What's new:
- Hundreds of new surf spots around the world (Indian Ocean, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific, Africa).
- The real wind's trend — rising or dropping — now shows right on the curve.
- Smoother navigation in your favorites, plus various improvements.
Still as precise, honest and easy on your battery. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.3 Jul 1
To thank you for being one of the first: 1 month of Premium, free for everyone — enjoy it all, no limits.
New — Confidence gauge: Tide It compares the wind forecast to the wind actually measured near your spot. See whether the model is on point, and correct your GO windows accordingly.
Still as precise, honest and easy on your battery. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.2 Jun 28
To thank you for being one of the first: 1 month of Premium, free for everyone — enjoy it all, no limits.
New — Confidence gauge: Tide It compares the wind forecast to the wind actually measured near your spot. See whether the model is on point, and correct your GO windows accordingly.
Still as precise, honest and easy on your battery. Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.1 Jun 26
Tide It now speaks 7 languages: the app is fully translated into German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.
Also in this update:
- Numbers and units in your local format.
- More reliable live wind: we no longer show a reading with an unknown time.
- Sturdier iCloud sync for your spots and settings.
- Various reliability fixes and polish.
Fair winds and good waves!
5.2.0 Jun 25
SURF MODE IS HERE
• Surf spots worldwide (114 and counting).
• Swell curve: height, period and direction of the dominant swell.
• Tide-aware surf GO windows + a dedicated surf widget.
• Hand-tune your surf conditions (swell, period, wind, tide) + presets.
• Get notified when your spot turns on.
RIDER LEVEL
• Replaces "Strictness": pick your level (beginner → expert) and auto mode adapts — crossing all the data to surface your best window.
THE DAY'S BEST WINDOW
• The day's peak is now crowned on the curve.
SAILING
• Dedicated wind profile (wider, lower range than kite).
ALSO
• Redesigned light mode for real readability.
• Clearer period curve (orange to green by quality).
• Blurred GO-calendar preview for free accounts.
• Fixes and polish.
Fair winds and good sessions.
5.1.0 Jun 23
Tide It 5.0.1 — free trial and refinements.
One-week free trial: try all of Premium for a week, no commitment — notifications, 7-day GO calendar, real-time wind, 30-day predictions, wind mode, Live Activity and export.
Wind stations worldwide: real-wind stations now show on the map wherever you look, not just in France. Zoom in on a coast to see them appear.
Quick access to your latest spots: your three most recently viewed ports are one tap away in the main menu.
Notification marker: a bell shows at a glance which spots have their GO-window alerts turned on.
Fixes: the 7-day weather strip now updates correctly when switching ports, notifications are no longer sent for a spot you have deleted, a loading bar appears while map data is being fetched, plus assorted display and performance polish.
5.0.1 Jun 17
Tide It steps up: tides meet the wind.
- Real-time wind on the map: every anemometer station around you, shown as discreet dots (Pioupiou, Holfuy and FFVL, METAR, NDBC buoys).
- Worldwide station coverage, automatically picking the most reliable one nearest your spot.
- Your GO windows per sport, on a 7-day calendar, based on YOUR conditions.
- A smart "wind is building" alert driven by a real station: we ping you only when it actually holds. (Premium)
- A curve that fuses observed wind with the forecast.
- Redesigned map, real wind direction shown, clearer settings.
- Many unit (metric/imperial), performance and stability fixes.
Have a good one.
5.0.0 Jun 16
Bug fixes. Preparation for adding new features and a complete overhaul.
4.1 Jun 13
Perfect Outings: the app combines wind, tide and weather to find your best windows (kite, wing, foil, surf, tidal foraging and more) near you, and alerts you when conditions are spot on.
Real-time wind (Premium): live wind from the nearest station, in the app, on Apple Watch, and in the new Wind widget (wind + tide combined). Expanded worldwide coverage means almost every port is now within reach of a station, and the closest, most complete one is picked automatically.
Tidal foraging: 58 illustrated species, filtered to your stretch of coast (no crab where there are none), with habitat, season, minimum size and tips.
Custom spots: create your own spots with a long press on the map, already geolocated, with usable water depth and shore side.
Redesigned Apple Watch: a denser, more elegant home screen showing coefficient, height and real-time wind at a glance, plus wind on complications.
Redesigned Alerts tab, streamlined Settings, and many performance and battery improvements.
4.0.1 Jun 7
Tide It 4.0 — our biggest update yet.
Perfect Outings: the app combines wind, tide and weather to find your best windows (kite, wing, foil, surf, tidal foraging and more) near you, and alerts you when conditions are spot on.
Real-time wind (Premium): live wind from the nearest station, in the app and the new Wind widget. Expanded worldwide coverage means almost every port is now within reach of a station. The closest, most complete station is picked automatically, with failover if one goes offline.
Tidal foraging: 58 illustrated species, filtered to your stretch of coast (no crab where there are none), with habitat, season, minimum size and tips.
Custom spots: create your own spots with a long press on the map, already geolocated, with usable water depth and shore side.
Redesigned Alerts tab, streamlined Settings, and many performance and battery improvements.
4.0.0 Jun 5
Accurate local times, everywhere. Overseas and distant ports (French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna, Reunion, Mayotte, the French West Indies, French Guiana, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Kerguelen, and more) now show tides, coefficients, and sunrise and sunset times in the port's exact local time, not your phone's.
What's new in this version:
Fixed opening tides from the map: the "View tides" button now works reliably, including for ports worldwide.
The Today view now fully refreshes when you switch ports, including weather and forecasts.
Expanded iCloud sync: your favorites and your settings (appearance, units) follow you across all your devices.
Noticeably faster app launch.
Smoother lists and calendar.
Improved reliability and stability.
3.4 Jun 1
v3.3 — Going international
NEW
• Tide It is now available in 9 languages: French, English (US, UK, Australia), Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil).
• Spring-tide calendar with colour-coded coefficients on the home screen.
• Cockling mode improvements: exposed foreshore size now computed for 200 sites.
PERFORMANCE
• 30% faster map pan/zoom.
• Faster app launch.
• Live Activity battery optimisations.
Happy tides!
3.3 May 29
What's New
Depth effect (new)
An ambient particle field rises or falls with the tide direction, with a sense of depth and gyroscope parallax. See what the tide is doing at a glance the moment you open the app. Can be turned on or off in Settings.
Redesigned weather
Weather is now gathered into a single scrollable 7-day band, with color-coded condition, temperature, wind, precipitation and waves, plus a per-day mini tide curve.
Cleaner calendar
Lighter, frameless interface aligned with the Today screen for easier reading.
Smoother
Optimized scrolling and rendering, and fixed tide curve alignment.
3.2.2 May 25
Bug Corrections
3.2.1 May 21
NEW — Shellfishing mode (Premium)
Find the best low-tide outings over the next 3 weeks, ranked by tidal coefficient. For every big low tide: your exact uncovered-foreshore window, the time the water returns for your safety, and the shellfish in season with minimum sizes and gathering tips.
Reliability
- Wind alerts fixed: your thresholds in knots, mph or m/s are now saved and triggered correctly.
- All values (wind, temperature, height) finally display in your chosen units, everywhere in the app.
- Editing alert conditions: a single tap now opens the right screen directly.
Performance
- Faster, smoother port picker (3,800+ ports).
- More responsive map and optimized widgets.
- Widgets and Apple Watch complications now accessible with VoiceOver.
Happy tides!
3.2 May 21
Version 3.1.2 — Unit consistency and alert reliability
ALERTS (full overhaul)
• Fixed: a 15 kn wind alert was being saved as 28 kn (km/h ↔ user unit mixup). The slider now operates in the displayed unit, while internal storage remains canonical.
• Fixed: editing a condition could accidentally add a different one — the save closure now uses the condition's own id directly instead of relying on stale state.
• Wind speed slider is now native to each unit (kn, mph, m/s, km/h) with appropriate ranges and steps.
• Tide height slider native in feet for imperial-system users.
• Sensible default values in each unit.
• Saved condition summaries now display in the correct unit.
• Preset alert descriptions decoupled from km/h (e.g. "Strong wind (force 6+)").
NAUTICAL ACTIVITY SCORES
• 58 hardcoded "km/h", "°C", "m" strings replaced with formatters that respect your unit preferences.
• Surfing, Fishing, Kitesurfing, Swimming, Boat launch: every description now shows your native units.
CLEANUP
• Dead code removed from TideService (three properties that would have sorted 3500+ ports on every refresh had they ever been wired up).
3.1.3 May 19
Real-time wind is here.
Tide It now shows you the wind ACTUALLY measured at your port by the nearest anemometer — not just a weather model forecast.
• Enhanced map — a small animated windmill marks every port covered by a live station
• Observed vs forecast — a new card compares real measurements with Apple Weather's forecast, with live delta
• Smarter alerts — wind alerts now prioritize measured wind, with automatic fallback to forecast if no station is nearby
• Expanded coverage — community anemometer networks and official airport stations combined across French coasts and beyond
Other improvements
• Map view much smoother while panning and zooming
• General stability and minor fixes
3.1.2 May 11
Real-time wind, at last.
Tide It now displays the wind ACTUALLY measured at your port by the nearest anemometer—not just the weather model forecast.
• Enhanced map—a small animated windmill indicates ports covered by a real-time station.
• Observed vs. forecast wind—a new map compares the actual measurement to the Apple Weather forecast, showing the real-time difference.
• More reliable alerts—your wind alerts prioritize real-time measurements, automatically falling back to the forecast if no station is nearby.
• Two combined networks—Pioupiou (paragliding/kitesurfing) + METAR (official airport stations): expanded coverage across the entire French coastline and beyond.
Other improvements:
• Much smoother map panning and zooming.
• Overall stability and minor bug fixes.
Data credits: Pioupiou (CC-BY license) · METAR / NOAA.
3.1.1 Apr 29
Real-time wind is here.
Tide It now shows you the wind ACTUALLY measured at your port by the
nearest anemometer — not just the forecast from a weather model.
• Enhanced map — a small animated windmill marks every port covered
by a live station
• Observed vs forecast — a new card compares real measurements with
Apple Weather's forecast, with live delta
• Smarter alerts — wind alerts now prioritize measured wind, with
automatic fallback to the forecast if no station is nearby
• Two networks combined — Pioupiou (paragliding/kitesurf community)
+ METAR (official airport stations): expanded coastal coverage in
France and worldwide
Other improvements
• Map view is much smoother while panning and zooming
• General stability and minor fixes
Data credits: Pioupiou (CC-BY license) · METAR / NOAA.
3.1.0 Apr 20
Bugs Corrections
3.0.4 Apr 16
Bugs Correction
3.0.3 Apr 7
What's new:
- The map now opens instantly. A rendering bug made it take about ten seconds to appear in dark theme: fixed.
- And if loading ever drags on, a progress bar now says so, instead of a frozen screen.
Still as precise, honest and battery-light as ever. Fair winds and good waves!
more Version 5.2.7 1d ago
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