Comparison

AyeTides vs Make the Ferry

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

Head to head
About

AyeTides

Access tide and current data for over 13,400 global locations without an internet connection. Plan your coastal activities with detailed daily events, interactive graphs, and station search options.

Highlights
  • Offline tide and current data
  • 13,400+ global locations
  • Interactive tide graphs
  • Station search by map, name, or location
  • Daily events in tabular form
  • Regular updates with new stations
Features
Currently charting
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Never be without the tides again! You too can carry the tides in your pocket (or now, on your wrist!) as you walk along the shore, fly into a harbor, or sail off into the sunset. AyeTides displays tides and/or currents for over 13,400 locations worldwide and unlike many other tide apps, it does not require a network connection. With AyeTides you will never see those annoying ads or be asked to pay for additional features! Sailors, harbor pilots, beachcombers, nature photographers, and more use AyeTides to plan their outings on or around the world's oceans. And there are NO ads and NO subscriptions! Here are some of the things people are saying about AyeTides... "AyeTides is a quality professional product” "Your support has been the best I have experienced!" “As a harbor pilot in New York I’ve been using your excellent tide and current app” "I really appreciate the effort that you put into making AyeTides as accurate as it can be. It is a great program that has been very useful to us. I think we have 60 pilots using iPhones and iNavX and your app links in so well." "I am a ships Pilot in BC and use Aye Tides a lot and it has become invaluable.” You can see the day’s events in tabular form, or you can rotate the phone for an interactive graph that shows you the tide’s value at any point during the day. You can find a station on a map, by name, or based on your current location. AyeTides is updated regularly and stations are added whenever we find new data. We encourage our customers to contact us if you hare having any issues with the program so that we can help you. This app is designed to run on your iPhone or iPod Touch. While it will run on your iPad, it does not offer the additional features available with AyeTides XL, which was designed specifically for the iPad. If you have multiple devices, you may want to consider our bundle. You get both apps at a discount! This is the only place to install AyeTides. Other websites may look like they have AyeTides, but they do not. We only support iOS, any other version of AyeTides is not ours.

About

Make the Ferry

This app predicts your chances of making a specific ferry sailing based on live traffic, boat capacity, and filling speed. It provides an exact departure time and real-time vessel tracking to eliminate guesswork.

Highlights
  • Will-I-make-it predictions
  • Exact leave-by time calculation
  • Live vessel map
  • Terminal camera views
  • Delay detection
  • Leave-by reminders
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Will you make the ferry? Make the Ferry answers the one question every Washington State Ferries rider actually has. Not "when's the next boat," but "if I leave now, will I make this sailing before it fills up?" Most ferry apps show you the raw WSDOT numbers and leave you to guess. Make the Ferry does the math. It combines your live drive time, the boat's real vehicle space, how fast that space is filling, and known delays into one clear answer: your odds of making the sailing, and the exact time you need to leave. Built for how you actually ride the ferry: Will-I-make-it predictions. A real probability for a specific sailing, from where you are right now, in current traffic. Not a schedule. An answer. Leave-by time. The app tells you the exact minute to head out, so you're not sprinting to the dock or leaving an hour early. Live vessel map. Watch every WSF boat move across the Sound in real time on a clean nautical chart. Know where your ferry actually is, not where the schedule says it should be. Terminal cameras. Live views of the holding lanes and approaches, so you can see the queue before you commit to the drive. Delay detection. The app reads the fleet's real positions and flags when a boat is running late, often before the official bulletin catches up. Leave-by reminders. Arm a reminder for a sailing and get a push when it's time to go, or when conditions shift and your window changes. Routes covered: Seattle–Bainbridge, Seattle–Bremerton, Edmonds–Kingston, the full Fauntleroy–Vashon–Southworth triangle, and Point Defiance–Tahlequah. Made by a ferry rider. Make the Ferry comes from a Bainbridge Island native who got tired of missing boats and staring at numbers that didn't mean anything. It's free, it's fast, and it gives you back the time you'd otherwise spend guessing. Stop guessing if you'll make it. Know if you will.

Screenshots

AyeTides4 screens
Make the Ferry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Make the Ferry at Free against AyeTides's $7.99. Make the Ferry also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and review sentiment (100% vs 87%). AyeTides's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (4.9K vs 11). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Make the Ferry is free to download; AyeTides costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AyeTides holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AyeTides has 4.9K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of AyeTides's written reviews are positive against 100% of Make the Ferry's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AyeTides ships an update every 3 weeks, Make the Ferry weekly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
AyeTides versus Make the Ferry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAyeTidesMake the Ferry
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (4.9K ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews87.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.9K — better11
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
Best chart rank#24 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHahn Software LLCThe Big Board LLC

Customer experience

AyeTides

All ratings4,859 ratings
Positive97.2%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews169 reviews
Positive87.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative10.1%

Make the Ferry

All ratings11 ratings
Positive81.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

AyeTides

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Crashes on latest iOS versions
  • Incorrect tide data for some locations
  • Landscape mode issues on iPad

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more detailed current/flow data
  • Improve graphical tide charts
  • Integrate with weather/marine forecasts
  • Enhance Apple Watch app functionality

Make the Ferry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

AyeTides

No in-app purchases

None

Make the Ferry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AyeTides free?
AyeTides costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Make the Ferry free?
Make the Ferry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AyeTides or Make the Ferry?
AyeTides is rated higher. AyeTides averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.9K ratings, while Make the Ferry averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do AyeTides or Make the Ferry have ads?
Neither AyeTides nor Make the Ferry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AyeTides or Make the Ferry?
AyeTides ships an update every 3 weeks, and Make the Ferry weekly. Most recently, AyeTides was updated on October 24, 2026 and Make the Ferry on October 24, 2026.

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