Fantastic
Charging 15$ for free trial
Response from developer
Sorry you’re having trouble. This doesn’t make sense to us as the free trial is truly free and the price you’re seeing is not the price of the full app either. There is nothing in the app that costs $15. Many people start a free trial every day (for free) and this is the first we’ve heard anyone say that the app tried to charge for the free trial. Please reach out to support if you need more help.
Stopped working
Update: Started working again?!?! There appear to be gremlins in my phone, but not an app issue after all…
Response from developer
Can you reach out to support? We haven’t seen any issues with it not working. https://tinyoctopus.net/Contact
Free Trial not available
Response from developer
Please email support@tinyoctopus.net and we’ll try to help. We have not seen or heard of this happening to anyone else.
Great app, more accurate than print version
Out of Date
Response from developer
The data comes directly from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and is the official licensed source for the current atlas. That data is updated regularly. It is the best available. That said, local conditions (wind, rain, extreme tides, higher than normal river outflows, etc…) can lead to variances. If there is a specific issue you’re having please reach out to support and we’ll help. Note: if you are comparing the tides around a current pass which as Dodd or Active Pass, etc…. this app is not a replacement for a tide table - it is an atlas and as such it is not applicable for timing a current pass.
Costs money
Response from developer
FYI, this app replaces commercially available reference tables which cost about $9 a year. Our goal was to make the app both easier to use and not a yearly subscription like most other marine apps.
Interesting app
Response from developer
Hi. Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately the source data is not geographically precise enough to have cross hairs and read a value. As for a GPS current location, the base charts are also not geo encoded either. This is because the source data is essentially those paper versions, now digitized. However the original source data was never precisely geo referenced to begin with. So we are hesitant to try and show something that is not there in the original source.
NOT a PNW ATLAS
Response from developer
Sorry that you are disappointed. The app description lists all the areas that the app supports. The free trial also allows you to see which areas are covered. Unfortunately the types of current charts this app shows do not exist for anywhere else in Puget Sound - that is why there is no coverage for east of Whidbey Island. We wish they did exist and we could add them.
Great tool
Ok
Response from developer
Thanks for the review. We just wanted to let you that the PNW Current Atlas fully corrects for daylight savings time. Internally the data sources are in UTC and all dates/times shown in the app are converted to the local time zone that your iOS device is set to. This conversion is fully PST and PDT time zone aware. If you are having issues, please reach out to support.
Cannot cancel trial!!!
Response from developer
Hi. The app is NOT a subscription - you will not be charged anything. When the trial ends the app simply stops working, unless you choose to continue (by making an in-app one-time purchase - nothing is automatic billed). So if you don’t want to continue to use the app there is nothing you need to further do.
Current App
Date and time widget could be better
Other than that, this app is quite functional and definitely easier to use than the hard copy.
It seems incomplete
Great App, times seem to be off
The currents seem to be off by an amount of time. (1hr late?). Navionics is correct for the points they report out on, comparing to exact places.
Response from developer
Yes the app is fully DST aware. Internally everything is in GMT/UTC and converted to the timezone your device has set, i.e. your local time. Current atlas charts are not appropriate for timing current passes like Dodd, Gabriola, Active Pass, etc. As an atlas, charts were never designed for predicting restricted areas but rather large scale patterns. In fact the closest current “arrow” on charts near a pass is likely outside the actual pass as defined by a current and tide table. Always use an official current table for transiting passes. As for the chart time spacing between pages, there is no standardized length of time between chart pages because the time duration between each low and high tide varies for each tide cycle. There are a set number of charts for each cycle and the time is divided to space out the charts to match the cycle duration. Hope this helps. And thanks for the info on the support page not working. We’ll get it fix asap.
Excellent tool
Fantastic App
Are times corrected for Daylight Savings Time?
Response from developer
Yes it is corrected for daylight savings time and that information is available on the app support page. We will add it to the app description in the next update.
One page of the book
Response from developer
Sorry that you feel that the ease of using this app when compared to the book and then having buying to buy yearly reference tables is not of value. It is more than one page of the chart atlas, not to mention having official CHS reference data for life for a one-time price of an app that is cheaper than the book (which is now out of print).
