iCTides vs Bathyal

iCTides for the iPhone and the iPod Touch provides predictions of times for high and low tides for over 4400 costal locations around the US, including Alaska, Hawaii and overseas US territories. Times are displayed with clocks that feature beautiful background images of tropical and ocean scenes. Soothing sounds of the ocean play in the background (can be disabled). Features: - High and low tide predictions for 4400 US costal locations. - Tide location can be selected from a list or via points on the map. - Also displays clocks for: - Current Time - Next Sunrise - Next Sunset - Next Moonrise - Next Moonset - Next Full Moon - 55 background images that can be shown individually or as a slide show. - Animated sweep second hand using a fishing pole and hook on the Current Time clock. - Plays soothing ocean sounds in the background (can be disabled). - Can be set to keep the iPhone on continuously for desk displays or to turn off automatically using the current iPhone settings. - Tide and other times are calculated locally (no net access required for predictions). - Watch app with complications available for most watch faces Special thanks to David Flater for developing the original XTide program and to Ann Rucker for porting XTide to Cocoa.

Bathyal is a clepsydra — an ancient water clock — rebuilt for the deep sea. In the bathyal zone there is no day or night. No sunrise, no shadow, nothing to set a clock by. The only light is made by living things. Bathyal is the instrument that keeps time down there: a face of glowing concentric channels where every drop is a second, and time is material. Watch it work: • Each second forms as a drop at the heartbeat and joins the ring • A full ring of seconds distills into one minute — and pours, visibly, down into the next channel • Minutes pour into hours, hours into the day's two halves, days into months — at midnight the whole cascade runs at once • Once a year, the last drop of December sinks past the digits into the abyss, unmeasured Make it yours: • Solid bands or beaded drops, sweeping or pulsing motion • 24-hour or 12-hour time — 12-hour splits the hours at the meridian into a morning ring and an afternoon ring • Calendar rings for the month and year, or a Monday-first week ring whose weeks are spent, not kept • Run the midnight cascade demo any time from the settings On your wrist: • A full-screen water clock for Apple Watch — seconds, minutes, and hours in the same adjacent channels • Add Bathyal as a complication; the live rings sit on any face and rewrite themselves as the day moves. No two times look the same — that is the instrument, not a hand on a circle • Hold the Watch face for settings. Pulse or sweep, 12- or 24-hour time, and an optional Monday-first weekday ring. Hours, motion, and the week calendar also travel from the gear on iPhone On the Lock Screen: • Add Bathyal as a Lock Screen widget — live rings, a different pattern for every minute, the same figure as the Watch complication • Hours, motion, and the weekday ring follow from the gear Quiet by design: • Completely free, no accounts, no ads, no tracking — it never connects to anything • Works fully offline • Keeps the screen awake on a desk or bedside table If the instrument keeps good time for you, you can send a drop — a small tip — and the face answers with the benefactor tinctures: other colors of bioluminescence, and a single grain of sand set on the seabed of the dial. Drops become months.