Comparison

Alertable vs Tide Times Canada

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Alertable

Stay informed about emergencies and daily incidents across Canada. Receive fast, reliable notifications for public safety, severe weather, and local community events. Personalize alerts by type, severity, and location to know before you go.

Highlights
  • Canada-wide public safety alerts
  • Severe weather alerts
  • Customizable notifications
  • Location-based alerts
  • Sharable alerts
  • Local community notifications
  • Workplace alerts
Features
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Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

About

Tide Times Canada

This app provides tide times and heights for all Canadian locations. It displays local times, daylight saving adjustments, and can show heights in meters or feet. Additional features include sunrise/sunset times, moon phases, and offline data access.

Highlights
  • Tide times and heights for Canada
  • Local time and daylight saving adjustments
  • Heights in meters or feet
  • Sunrise/sunset and moon phases
  • Offline data access
  • Favorite locations and map view
Features
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Shows tide times and heights for all locations across Canada. ------------------ Features ------------------ All times are displayed in the local time at the tide location and are adjusted for daylight saving if applicable. Heights can be shown in metres of feet. First/last light times, sunrise/sunset times, moon phases. Select locations from favourites, nearest, map, or list. Uses offline data so an internet connection is not required and you can view data anywhere. An intuitive interface that is a pleasure to use.

Screenshots

Alertable4 screens
Tide Times Canada4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alertable at 4.7 against Tide Times Canada's 4.0. Alertable also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). Tide Times Canada's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 61%) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tide Times Canada sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Alertable asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alertable holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Alertable has 180 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of Alertable's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tide Times Canada's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alertable ships an update every 2 months, Tide Times Canada every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Alertable versus Tide Times Canada: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlertableTide Times Canada
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (180 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews61.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings180 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPublic Emergency Alerting Services IncVERVE TECHNOLOGIES PTY. LTD.

Customer experience

Alertable

All ratings177 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive61.4%
Neutral7.2%
Negative31.3%

Tide Times Canada

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Alertable

Reported bugs

23 issues
  • App not working after update
  • No alerts sent out
  • Misleading and late alerts
  • Old alerts cannot be deleted
  • Confusion with evacuation alert wording
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  • Poor Shuswap updates
  • Unreliable emergency alerts
  • Evacuation alerts too late
  • Garbage app
  • History not deletable
  • High battery drain
  • Alerts not informative enough
  • Too many alerts in a row
  • Early morning notifications
  • Huge drain on battery
  • Very slow to load
  • Not getting audio alerts
  • Cannot select region by panning
  • Alerts don't display properly
  • Useless in BC and most of Canada
  • No cities in California
  • Does not include my city
  • Weak privacy policy

Requested features

14 requests
  • Disable prompts asking to keep receiving alerts
  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of entire city by panning map
  • Remove pointless alert types
  • Ability to silence specific alert types
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  • Option to ignore specific alert types
  • Improve location accuracy for alerts
  • Add wildfire alerts
  • Differentiate evacuation alert levels visually
  • Allow deletion of old alerts
  • Provide more informative alerts
  • Include cities in California
  • Include more cities
  • Strengthen privacy policy for location tracking

Tide Times Canada

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Alertable

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Tide Times Canada

One-time3
  • Generous Tip$2.99
  • Massive Tip$3.99
  • Amazing Tip$4.99

Questions

Is Alertable free?
Alertable is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tide Times Canada free?
Tide Times Canada is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alertable or Tide Times Canada?
Alertable is rated higher. Alertable averages 4.7 out of 5 from 180 ratings, while Tide Times Canada averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Alertable or Tide Times Canada have ads?
Tide Times Canada shows ads; Alertable does not.
Which is updated more often, Alertable or Tide Times Canada?
Alertable ships an update every 2 months, and Tide Times Canada every 3 weeks. Most recently, Alertable was updated on November 11, 2026 and Tide Times Canada on November 11, 2026.

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