New: Brand new UI, tide alerts, satellite radar view, updated station map, updated Apple Watch app, updated tidal forecasts, and more!
Finally a beautiful and simple way to view tides on your mobile device! In addition to worldwide tidal estimates at tide stations, you can see the lunar data, weather forecast, and current radar making your next outdoor adventure as easy to plan as possible.
By default, the application will pick the closest tide station to you, but picking a different tide or weather station is as easy as viewing a map of your current location. You can also setup and quickly switch between many stored favorite stations if you need to.
No internet access while outdoors? No problem. This app has been designed to give you tidal and lunar predictions without internet access!
Tides at a glance
• A clear chart of the whole day, with the current height marked and daylight hours shaded (lunar rise and set is the small gray bar on the bottom)
• The times and heights of every high and low tide
• Swipe left or right to move through the days, or pick a date on the calendar
• Swipe down to see sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and the phase of the moon
• Subscribe for tide alerts that notify you before a chosen high or low tide
• Home Screen widgets with today's tides and the next tide
Worldwide Tidal Stations
• Nearly 8,000 stations, from the coasts of the United States and Canada to Europe, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, South America and the Pacific islands
• Find the nearest station with one tap, search by name, or browse the map, with satellite imagery when you want it
• Keep your favorites one tap away
Adjustable Height to Match Your Local Tide Table
• Heights use the datum your local charts and tables use: MLLW in the United States, chart datum in Canada, Japan and Korea, LAT in Europe and Australia, MLWS in Peru and Ecuador (or you can choose your own from Mean Sea Level, MLLW, MLW, MLWS or LAT)
Weather and Radar
• Weather forecast is included for the station's location, with wind, temp, precipitation, and the day's high and low
• Animated rain radar with a scrubber, so you can see what is coming
Apple Watch
• A full-screen tide chart on Apple Watch: turn the Digital Crown to step through highs, lows, sunrise, sunset and moon times, or drag to scrub through the next 30 days
• Complications for every watch face, from a tide gauge to a chart of the next 24 hours, in the color you choose
• Your favorite and nearby stations, with the current height and the next tide
Tides is free with ads, however we do offer a one-time purchase to remove them if you would rather a clean distraction free experience.
Give back the “tide clock” on Apple Watch Face, please
LizardCarp
UPDATE: I am THRILLED to have the tide clock back. I would like to say it is NOT clear in the Apple Watch app that the 2nd color option (or the second Automatic option) belongs to the tide clock versus the new option. I’d have never figured that out on my own. Hopefully a future update will make it clear for new users. Back to 5 ⭐️ review. Thank you!!The tide status on the Apple Watch face is AWFUL!!! We’ve had it for a few days now and absolutely HATE the presentation. PRETTY PLEASE give back the “tide clock” as I think of it. The previous Apple Watch face presentation was simple, easy to quickly read, no squinting to try and figure out what the heck the tide actually is. Who needs the number details…? If I want that detail I will click on the icon and go into the app itself. I rarely use the iPhone app but I ALWAYS (like 10 times a day, AT LEAST) look at the tide status on my Apple Watch face. Please consider reverting the Apple Watch face presentation. I use the Infograph presentation with the tide app at the Subdial Right position with the ability to ALWAYS, EASILY and with just A GLANCE at my watch face, determine the current tide status. This is no longer possible post upgrade. Thank you.
Developer Response
❤️ Thank you for updating your review!!Apple decided to make their own "Tides" app and I think that is where some of the confusion comes from. If there is anything else you need please let us know!
Used Daily. Love This App!
Shore Dweller
I use this app to plan my 8-mile beach walks and to plan when I will swim in the ocean. This app is more useful than my paper tide calendar for daily use. I love that it tells me the exact feet and inches at the moment with a little arrow pointing up or down for rising or falling tide. I love how clear the graph is, showing me how the tide will be rising and falling throughout the day and night, and clearly showing me sunrise and sunset as well. This helps me plan my walks and swims so I do not get clobbered with waves crashing against cliffs or rocks while walking, and can float over rocks while swimming, and to plan for sunlight or starlight. I still use my paper tide calendar to see future tides more than a week or two out, yet if need be, I can scroll over to see future tides on the app as well. When I am not working and have free time, I probably use my tide app about four times or more and that is nearly everyday. I love this app!!!
I used to like this app until it got spammy
cprphd
This was a very simple and useful app for a long time until recently, when I started to receive a lot of annoying and unprofessional advertising on it. I don’t really mind ads in general, as I know they need to make money, but the way they are implementing advertising on this app results in an unacceptable use experience. Two recent examples come to mind: (1) I received a survey invitation in the app to weigh in on building the wall between the US and Mexico. The survey itself was strongly biased toward one particular point of view, and wasn’t really a scientific survey or poll intended to get true public sentiment, so I found it annoying to go through, knowing the results would not be used fairly. And (2) Today, I received an interstitial ad with uninitiated audio, which means that music started to play for an ad as I open the app without any ability to control to stop it for a period of time. This is totally unacceptable advertising on any digital platform, except perhaps if you’re visiting a site or app where you expect uninitiated audio, like a movies review site/app. I am an expert in user experience, advertising online, and design, and I can tell you from years of experience and tons of data that this will make users extremely annoyed. It does not work as an effective form of advertising in the long run. Therefore, I am deleting this app from my phone and seeking alternatives.
So far so good
Bernie Fyre
I'm a long term user of a different tide app called TideApp. A bit ago their update took away a lot of functionality making it no better then a tide table. A new search for a better app lead me here. So far so good. Accuracy is good and there are a bunch of other thinks like moon phase and local weather in this app. Although this app lacks the ability to know the height of the tide at any time, (so I can know when its deep enough to put my boat in) not just at high and low, the graph is moveable to line up with the edge of the screen so you can figure it out. Overall this has easily replaced my prior app for tides. Glad they are there. If they put in functionality of using you'd finger to move along the graph to see height at any time I would even go pro and pay $ to remove ads or whatever.
• The status bar, with the clock, signal and battery, is back at the top of every screen
• The calendar builds its months in the background, so it opens at once and stays smooth while you scroll
• The tide chart's scale now follows the station's tides through the seasons
• Faster and more stable, with a fix for a crash during background refresh
Apple Watch
• "Tides Classic" brings back the original complications in every slot: the H/L dial with the next tide around the bezel, the next tide's level and time in the corner and one-line slots, and the three-line station view
• The standard complications show the next tide's height again, not just its time
• The current level now matches the app right after the complication refreshes
Tide data
• Portugal: heights are now above the Zero Hidrográfico, matching the Instituto Hidrográfico tables (they were about 0.25 m low)
• All 19 Portuguese main ports now follow the official Instituto Hidrográfico predictions, and Setúbal (Tróia) is a new station
Version 3.2.1
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Information
Seller
7th Gear
Size
108.9 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
