Tide Time vs Tide Live
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."
Tide Live
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Tide Live turns the forecast into a living beach scene. The water rises and falls with the tide, waves follow the marine forecast, clouds drift with the wind, and the sun and moon cross the sky in real time. WHAT YOU GET • Tides for 14 days: high and low water, times and heights • Hour-by-hour weather: temperature, clouds, rain, humidity, pressure and UV index • Wind speed and direction • Wave height, period and direction • Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and moon phase • A living scene: golden sunsets, moonlight on the water, rain and thunderstorms with haptic thunder • Play a whole day in seconds or scrub to any hour • Any coast in the world: search by name or coordinates, or use your location once PRIVACY FIRST No account, no ads, no tracking. Your location is used only when you tap the button, and only to get the forecast for that place. GOOD TO KNOW Tides are modelled sea-level forecasts, not official harbour tide tables. Do not use Tide Live for navigation or safety decisions. Weather and marine data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tide Time at 12.1 against Tide Live's 16.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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.
| Parameter | Tide Time | Tide Live |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | QUINCY Bock | Marat Zykov |
In-app purchases
Tide Time
No in-app purchases
Tide Live
No in-app purchases









