Comparison

PredictCurrent vs Slackwater

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

Head to head
About

PredictCurrent

Navigate coastal waters with detailed tidal and ocean current maps. Access 10-day forecasts for currents, wind, waves, and sea temperatures. Essential for safe marine planning and exploration.

Highlights
  • Ultra-high-resolution 100m tidal current maps
  • 400m and 4km global coastline coverage
  • 10-day animated forecasts for currents, wind, and waves
  • Hourly tide chart data
  • Wind-against-current interaction analysis
  • Sea temperature tracking
Features
Currently charting
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Navigate coastal adventures with precision using real-time tidal current data from PredictWind. PredictCurrent delivers ultra-high-resolution 100m tidal current maps, plus 400m and 4km maps covering 90% of global coastlines. It also includes full ocean current coverage, empowering fishermen, sailors, and coastal explorers with essential tools for current tracking, tide planning, and marine navigation. Developed by PredictWind’s expert oceanographers, trusted globally for industry-leading forecasting, PredictCurrent supports confident and safe coastal navigation for boating, fishing, sailing, and kayaking. Why PredictCurrent - Unrivalled Precision: Ultra-high-resolution 100m tidal current maps provide unmatched detail for coastal tide planning, ideal for fishing, sailing, or paddle sports. Also includes 400m and 4km resolution maps. - Trusted Expertise: Built by PredictWind, pioneers in marine and ocean current forecasting, delivering professional-grade data. - Comprehensive Tracking: Monitor tidal currents, ocean currents, winds, waves, and sea temperatures with animated maps and hourly tide chart data for 10 days. - Coastal Navigation: Join fishermen, sailors, kayakers, and coastal explorers worldwide who rely on PredictWind’s marine weather and current data for informed navigation. Key Features - Ultra-High-Resolution 100m Tidal Current Maps: Visualise intricate nearshore water current movements with clarity, ideal for coastal navigation, route planning, and safety. - High-Resolution 400m & 4km Maps: Access tide and ocean current coverage for 90% of global coastlines, seamlessly integrated with live ocean current data. - Advanced Dashboard: Analyse wind-against-current interactions, wave heights, tide cycles, and directions using accurate ECMWF wind forecasts. - Animated 10-Day Forecasts: View dynamic tidal currents, ocean currents, wind, waves, and sea temperature forecasts on interactive marine maps. - Detailed Data Tables: Access hourly data on current speed and direction, plus alerts for wind-against-current situations. Tailored for fisherman, sailors, kayakers, and coastal adventurers, PredictCurrent offers essential tools for safe marine planning—backed by PredictWind’s proven ocean data and current tracking accuracy. Start with a 14-day free trial. Access ultra-high-resolution tidal current data, tide charts, ocean current forecasts, wind, waves, and sea temperature tools for your next coastal journey. Terms & Conditions: https://www.predictcurrent.com/terms-and-conditions Privacy Policy: https://www.predictcurrent.com/privacy-policy

About

Slackwater

Access tide and current data for thousands of stations worldwide, even without an internet connection. View predictions for rising/falling tides, slack times, and current speeds and directions. Includes sunrise, sunset, and moon phase information.

Highlights
  • Offline tide and current data
  • 4,700+ tide stations worldwide
  • Currents across US and Canada
  • Sunrise, sunset, and moon phase
  • Apple Watch app
  • Home screen widgets
  • Siri integration
Features
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The tide and currents app that works without signal. Tides for more than 4,700 stations worldwide and currents across the US and Canada, already on your phone — on the water, on the beach, in the anchorage, with no bars and nothing to load. No spinner. No "no internet connection". You open it, and the answer is there: rising or falling, flooding or ebbing, and how long until the next high, low or slack. And it does the part most tide apps skip. Heights are the easy half. The harder question is the current: when does the pass go slack? How hard is it running at max? Can you get through before it turns? WORKS WHERE THERE IS NO SIGNAL Predictions are made on your phone, not fetched. Down a dead-end road, out at the point, in an anchorage, or with the boat's electronics down — you get the same answer you would have got at the dock. The map for your area and your favourite stations stays on your phone too. CURRENTS, NOT JUST TIDES Slack, max flood and max ebb on one curve, with speed and direction. Drag your thumb across the week to read any moment. Every current station links to the tide at its reference port. SUN, MOON AND THE TIDES THEY DRIVE Sunrise, sunset and twilight, the moon's phase, spring and neap tides explained, and solar and lunar eclipses, for every station. ON YOUR WRIST, HOME SCREEN AND SIRI An Apple Watch app that works without your phone: turn the Digital Crown to scrub the day. Home screen widgets for the next event and today's curve. Ask Siri for the next low tide, high tide or slack window. On iPhone and iPad, in 14 languages. FREE, NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS Every station and every date is free and stays free. No account, no ads, no tracking, and the app is open source. Slackwater Premium is optional and funds development: lock screen widgets, Apple Watch complications, alerts before the tides and currents you care about, and station calendars. Choose a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Tides for more than 4,700 stations across a hundred countries are built in, from NOAA, the Canadian Hydrographic Service, Norway's Kartverket and the TICON-4 global tide-gauge catalogue, and checked against each station's published tidal datums wherever it has them. Currents cover the United States and Canada: more than 2,500 NOAA current stations, plus 22 Canadian passes from the Salish Sea to Haida Gwaii and Cape Breton. Canadian stations download their data from the Canadian Hydrographic Service once, then work offline. A few Canadian passes sit in water the on-device model cannot predict; those fetch predictions when you are online, and say so. Where we cannot publish numbers we trust, the station is listed but blank instead of guessed. Predictions are not observations — conditions vary with weather and river flow. Not for navigation. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://slackwater.xyz/privacy/

Screenshots

PredictCurrent4 screens
Slackwater4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Slackwater at 5.0 against PredictCurrent's 4.5. Slackwater also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). PredictCurrent's advantage is ratings volume (268 vs 1) and chart position (#94 vs unranked). On price, ads, 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

Both are free to download. PredictCurrent sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $15.00 per month. Slackwater asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Slackwater holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PredictCurrent has 268 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
PredictCurrent versus Slackwater: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPredictCurrentSlackwater
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (268 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews56.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings268 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#94 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB53 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPredictWind LimitedOpen Water Software LLC

Bugs and requests

PredictCurrent

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Unable to add location error messages despite valid coordinates
  • Location setup fails to respond or complete
  • Password not saved correctly in database, preventing login
  • Account creation fails with character handling errors
  • App crashes when setting locations
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  • Free trial access inconsistent across devices
  • iPad version blocks access to charts despite iPhone trial access
  • Data unavailable errors at valid deep water locations

Requested features

9 requests
  • Extended forecast data for full 24-hour next day coverage
  • Smaller time increment stepping (sub-hourly) for racing
  • Exact tide turn time information beyond hourly data
  • Legend/symbol guide for app indicators
  • Improved coastal and estuarine modeling
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  • Better 100m resolution coverage beyond UK Solent region
  • Cross-platform synchronization between iPhone and iPad
  • Offline access to saved locations
  • Multi-language support (German, French, etc.)

Slackwater

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

PredictCurrent

Subscriptions5
  • PredictCurrent Pro 1-Month14 Days trial$15.001 Month
  • PredictCurrent Pro 3-Monthly14 Days trial$29.003 Months
  • PredictCurrent Pro 3-Monthly3 Days trial$29.003 Months
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  • PredictCurrent Pro 3-Monthly7 Days trial$29.003 Months
  • PredictCurrent Pro Annual14 Days trial$99.001 Year
None

Slackwater

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PredictCurrent free?
PredictCurrent is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slackwater free?
Slackwater is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PredictCurrent or Slackwater?
Slackwater is rated higher. PredictCurrent averages 4.5 out of 5 from 268 ratings, while Slackwater averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PredictCurrent or Slackwater have ads?
Neither PredictCurrent nor Slackwater shows ads.

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