Comparison

TideApp vs Nautide

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

Head to head
About

TideApp

Access real-time tidal charts and data for over 4,000 locations globally. Plan trips with future tide information and view daily highs, lows, and sun/moon cycles.

Highlights
  • Global tidal charts
  • Daily tide highs and lows
  • Sun and moon cycles
  • Future tide graphs
  • Trip planning tool
  • Updated interface
Features
Currently charting
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TideApp turns your phone into a tide table for 3,486 NOAA stations across the United States — the 1,251 reference stations NOAA publishes full harmonic data for, plus 2,235 subordinate stations derived from them. Drag the chart and the water follows your finger. Predictions are computed on your device from NOAA's published harmonic constants, so once the app has loaded, no signal or connection is needed to read the tide. FREE • Today's tide at any station, with sunrise, sunset and the day's moon • Conditions above the chart — the sky, the temperature, and the day's high and low • Nearest-station lookup from your location, or find any of the 3,486 by name or on the map • Switch between stations any time — starred stations are free, not a Pro feature PRO • Every day, not just today — drag the chart and the day strip as far as you like • Wind and gusts on a compass, pressure and which way it's going, visibility, and the chance of rain • Apple Watch app and complications • Widgets on your home screen • Alerts for high and low tides as well as thresholds The weather needs a connection. The tide does not — it is computed on your phone, so an outage takes the sky off the screen and leaves the water exactly where it was. TideApp Pro is a 4.99 USD/month or 49.99 USD/year auto-renewing subscription with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation; the subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. See Terms of Use and Privacy Policy below. Predictions are computed from published NOAA CO-OPS harmonic constants. They are not official NOAA products, are not endorsed by NOAA, and are not a substitute for official navigational sources — they exclude storm surge, wind, and other weather effects and should not be relied on for navigation. Weather data provided by Apple Weather. Terms of Use: https://tideapp.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://tideapp.com/privacy.html

About

Nautide

Plan your maritime activities with comprehensive data on tides, waves, wind, and weather. Access detailed charts and forecasts for over 25,000 coastal stations worldwide, including fishing activity predictions and astronomical information.

Highlights
  • Tide charts and tables
  • Surf swell height and direction
  • Fish activity and solunar periods
  • Sunrise, sunset, and moon phases
  • Wind speed and direction
  • Coastal weather conditions
  • Marine open water forecast
Features
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All the information you need to know to plan activities at sea in a simple and practical app. More than 25,000 coastal stations around the world. TIDES Daily tide charts and tidal coefficient. High tides and low tides. Tides height. Monthly tide table. Tides for fishing. SURF Height and direction of the swell, wave period, hourly surf table. FISH ACTIVITY Hourly activity chart and solunar periods with the best fishing moments of every day. Monthly activity table with daily fish activity and major and minor fishing periods. SUN AND MOON Sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, azimut, moon phases, eclipses, transits and other astronomical data. BAROMETER Fishing barometer, pressure graph and hourly pressure table with trend indicator. WIND Wind at land and wind at sea: wind speed, wind gust, wind force, land and sea conditions and hourly wind table. WEATHER Weather conditions at coast: Cloud cover, visibility, temperature, precipitation, wind chill, humidity, dew point and hourly weather table. MARINE Open water forecast for marine/sailing. Includes all weather indicators and also the water temp. Hourly marine table. AIR QUALITY Major air pollutants, particulate matter, hour-by-hour forecast. ----------------- Free download with restrictions. Requires suscription to activate all the sections and remove the ads. Terms of use: https://nautide.com/usage-terms © tides4fishing official app

Screenshots

TideApp4 screens
Nautide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: TideApp at none against Nautide's shown. TideApp also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Nautide's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 40%) and ratings volume (3.4K vs 8). On price, in-app purchases, chart position 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

Both are free to download. TideApp sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Nautide sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nautide holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nautide has 3.4K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of TideApp's written reviews are positive against 67% of Nautide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TideApp ships an update every 2 weeks, Nautide every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
TideApp versus Nautide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTideAppNautide
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (8 ratings)4.8 (3.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews67.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings83.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#199#68 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.412.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperForrest GrantIgoox

Customer experience

TideApp

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral12.7%
Negative47.3%

Nautide

All ratings3,393 ratings
Positive94.5%
Neutral2.2%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews371 reviews
Positive67.1%
Neutral6.7%
Negative26.1%

User reviews

TideApp

From 8 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Used to be great
  • 👍 Phenomenal for timing slack tides
  • 👍 Useful for planning activities
  • 👍 Good free app
  • 👍 Comprehensive location listings

Room to improve

  • 😞 App is dead
  • 😞 Stopped working
  • 😞 Startup ad issues
  • 😞 Now terrible
  • 😞 Full screen ads

Nautide

From 3.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Accurate information
  • 👍 Comprehensive data
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 👍 Helpful for fishing/boating
  • 👍 Great app overall

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Requires paid subscription to access full features
  • 💸 Expensive subscription fee
  • 🔍 Confusing navigation
  • 🐛 Inaccurate weather/tide data
  • 🔋 Excessive ads in free version

Bugs and requests

TideApp

Reported bugs

41 issues
  • Startup ad forces browser launch
  • Cannot get past opening ad
  • Full screen ads that can't be closed
  • Ads fill entire screen
  • Full screen adds one after the other
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  • Screen to install a game that can't be bypassed
  • Update ruined app
  • Deleted useful functionality
  • Blank colored screen or lock up when working with favorites
  • App needs to be forced quit
  • Tide waveform does not allow scrolling
  • Full screen ad on opening blocks tide info
  • Ad can't be closed without downloading something unrelated
  • Cannot drag line on tide graph
  • New version doesn't list things in order
  • Doesn't tell next high or low tide
  • Screens don't move to reveal information
  • App does not get past opening ad
  • Not possible to scroll down graph
  • Does not load
  • Previous version opened in an ad that could not be closed
  • No way of seeing data for any day other than current
  • Changing a date does nothing
  • Crashed frequently
  • App crashes
  • Graph part of application quit, immediately closing the app
  • White banner and a black screen
  • Dates back on track (temporary glitch)
  • App crashes when surfing other locations
  • Freezing
  • Washington, D.C. sites listed under Washington state
  • Tolerable work-around needed for launch
  • App can be launched when no network connection is available
  • Latest app deleted, old version synced back
  • App takes too much memory
  • Advertisement needs WiFi connection sometimes
  • App says it needs WiFi, cellular is fine other times
  • Totally failed
  • Undo the upgrade and give back old version
  • No time zone correction for tides
  • Base time zone appears to be US Eastern Time Zone

Requested features

21 requests
  • Make a version I can buy and go ad free
  • Bring back scrolling through chart waveform
  • Bring back future date chart view
  • Bring back ability to scroll waveform
  • Add tide time offset feature
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  • Add option to offset time for specific location
  • Add moonphase percentage to moon rise
  • Add a black (or red) line at 0 ft mark in chart mode
  • See chart for one week at a time
  • Get favorites loaded offline
  • Include CURRENTS
  • Date picker in calendar format
  • Graph scrollable for 7 days
  • Support switching to landscape
  • Search for minus tides
  • Add option to use GPS location to find tide stations nearby
  • List locations under actual geographic state
  • Update icon to match other apps
  • Add bookmarks/default to often-used locations
  • Go straight to last port viewed when opened
  • Add time zone correction

Nautide

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Paid subscription issues (e.g. not working, no access to content)
  • App freezing or crashing
  • Incorrect data display (e.g. water temperature)

Requested features

4 requests
  • Landscape mode support for tablets
  • Ability to link forecasts to specific weather stations
  • Integration with Apple Watch
  • Offline access to data

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TideApp

Subscriptions2
  • TideApp Pro Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • TideApp Pro Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Nautide

Subscriptions2
  • Nautide PRO Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Nautide PRO Annual7 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is TideApp free?
TideApp is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nautide free?
Nautide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TideApp or Nautide?
Nautide is rated higher. TideApp averages 4.5 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Nautide averages 4.8 from 3.4K ratings.
Do TideApp or Nautide have ads?
Nautide shows ads; TideApp does not.
Which is updated more often, TideApp or Nautide?
TideApp ships an update every 2 weeks, and Nautide every 3 months. Most recently, TideApp was updated on October 10, 2026 and Nautide on October 14, 2026.
Which is more popular, TideApp or Nautide?
TideApp currently peaks at #199 in the App Store charts, and Nautide at #68. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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