Tide Time vs NOAA Tides
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tide Time
This app helps you plan beach activities by providing tide charts and levels. You can set custom usable tide heights for various purposes like beach walks or tide pooling. It allows you to tag current tide levels as low, usable, or too high.
- Tide charts and levels
- Custom usable tide height setting
- Tagging tide levels (Low, Usable, Too High)
- Planning for beach activities
- Seaside run and passage planning
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Beach walk? Tide pooling? Seaside run? Narrow beach passage? Use this app to make tide charts and levels relevant to your beach use. See the time range when the tide will be below a certain height. Teach the app what tide level is "usable" for whatever your beach purpose by tagging the current tide as "Low," "Usable" or "Too High."
NOAA Tides
Get accurate tide predictions and real-time marine conditions for the US coast. This app provides beautiful charts, live weather, and wave data to help you plan your time on the water.
- Precise NOAA tide predictions
- Live marine conditions
- Tide times for US coast
- Beautiful charts
- Live weather data
- Wave data
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Plan your perfect day on the water with precise NOAA tide predictions and live marine conditions. Check tide times anywhere on the US coast. Beautiful charts, live weather, and wave data - all in one app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is chart position: NOAA Tides at #186 against Tide Time's unranked. Tide Time's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tide Time against 5.0 for NOAA Tides. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | Tide Time | NOAA Tides |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #186 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | QUINCY Bock | Vince Becquiot |
Customer experience
Tide Time
NOAA Tides
In-app purchases
Tide Time
No in-app purchases
NOAA Tides
No in-app purchases
