App Profile: Tides Near Me - No Ads

Waterdancer10

Rating: 5/5

Accurate, accessible & essential to my lifestyle. I use the local high, low & slack info all year long for Sea kayaking & open water rowing. This is particularly important when I’m on the water in the colder months. The hours to low tide provides the info I need to find the best time to walk the local shorelines in search of sea glass, shells, stones & other gifts from the sea !

rhavenn2

Rating: 3/5

No Ads version. App is clean and concise and I’ve had / used it for years, but it does NOT work at all when offline / out of cell range. It’s not like tides are weather and will randomly change or moon / sun will change when they set or rise, so it’s kinda crazy that at least for your “favorite” locations it doesn’t just save a week or a month’s worth of data when you open the app or at least have a “offline download” button for your favorites. So, great if you’re at home and want to see if you and the dog can hit the tidal flats. Not so great if you’ve been out in the back waters for a week and want to know when the next tide change is or check low tide ranges for anchoring purposes.

FrustratedRemote

Rating: 4/5

Version two updates ago for free was better but this is an improvement over last version except I had to buy the app to avoid the incredibly onerous ads. Older free version was more quickly informative and easier to read. Downward scrolling without breaking into separate day-pages was more useful for envisioning situations next 36 hours. This version at least will now retain data without network connection; a common situation here; often for more than a week. Next update should include two or three weeks.