Comparison

WindSpots vs Tide It

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

Head to head
About

WindSpots

Features
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The application provides access to data from WindSpots weather stations, mainly installed around Lake Geneva. It offers real-time images alongside current weather information, enhancing user experience by allowing detailed weather monitoring and analysis. Additionally, this data is available on the website www.windspots.org

About

Tide It

Track your watersports sessions with real-time wind data and tide charts. Relive your rides with detailed session analysis and historical condition tracking. Plan your next adventure with comprehensive spot information and forecasts.

Highlights
  • Session recording and analysis
  • Real-time and forecast wind data
  • Worldwide tide charts (offline)
  • Spot database for kitesurf, wing, surf
  • Session history and import/export
  • Apple Watch integration
  • Déjà Vu condition recall
Features
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Tides, real wind and your sessions, in one app. Tide It is the rider's full cycle: you plan, you check the wind that's really blowing, you ride, and you relive your session. Kitesurf, wing, windsurf, surf and shore fishing. With one obsession: precision, honesty and your battery. NEW: SESSION MODE • A wheel to pick your sport, with the real wind and the forecast wind around it, and today's GO windows for your level. • "Ready?": the tide, the water and your wetsuit, the light, and the kite, wing, foil or board from your quiver for this wind. • GO: your iPhone or Apple Watch records on its own. Your start and breaks are detected automatically, and a session is never lost. • On Apple Watch, a screen for each sport: your speed when kiting, your time foiling in wing and foil, every wave in surf, and your jumps with your airtime. RELIVE YOUR SESSIONS WITH THE REAL WIND • Your track lights up on the satellite view, with the real wind animated around you: scrub through time, with your speed and the wind in the same bubble. • In surf, every wave is numbered and replayed: left or right, duration, speed. • Your records in gold and your story ready to post. Your start and finish points stay hidden. • Relive all your sessions, even without a subscription: recorded in Tide It or imported from your GPS watch (GPX, FIT, TCX, Apple Health). DÉJÀ VU • Tide It remembers the conditions of your best sessions at each spot, and lets you know when they come back. TIDES • Times and heights worldwide, even offline; tidal coefficients on mainland France coasts. • An elegant curve, the sun, the moon, and 12 months of tides in the calendar. REAL WIND • The wind measured by the nearest station, with its age — not just a forecast. No station nearby? Nothing, rather than a reading taken too far away. • Wind mode: wind and gusts on the curve, and a verdict for your sport and your wind range. • Wind map: the forecast wind over 7 days, animated, all around you. SURF • A rating for every hour matched to your level, wave size on the body scale and the best slot of the day. • The spot view: every incoming swell, with the wind. SPOTS EVERYWHERE • Over 1,100 kite, wing, windsurf and surf spots in France, the world's great kite spots and surf spots worldwide. EVERYWHERE WITH YOU • iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad and a true Mac app — one subscription for all. Your sessions move between them via iCloud, and you can relive them on the big screen of your iPad and Mac. • Widgets, Live Activity and Dynamic Island. FREE: worldwide offline tides, spots, favorites, recording and reliving all your sessions, story, import and export, Apple Watch, Apple Health, iCloud. PREMIUM: session analysis (best efforts, real-wind polar, maneuvers, wave details), records, déjà vu, GO windows and notifications, real wind from stations, wind and surf modes, wind map, 1-year predictions, Live Activity. Analysis is free on your first 3 recorded sessions. If you cancel your subscription, your sessions stay. Terms of Use: https://tideit.app/en/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://tideit.app/en/privacy.html

Screenshots

WindSpots4 screens
Tide It4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WindSpots at none against Tide It's 2. WindSpots also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Tide It's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 months). On price, ads 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. Tide It sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. WindSpots asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WindSpots ships an update every 10 months, Tide It every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
WindSpots versus Tide It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWindSpotsTide It
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWindspots SàrlSebastien Maublanc

In-app purchases

None

WindSpots

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Tide It

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Mensuel$2.991 Month
  • Premium Annuel$17.991 Year

Questions

Is WindSpots free?
WindSpots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tide It free?
Tide It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do WindSpots or Tide It have ads?
Neither WindSpots nor Tide It shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WindSpots or Tide It?
WindSpots ships an update every 10 months, and Tide It every 2 days. Most recently, WindSpots was updated on November 4, 2026 and Tide It on November 5, 2026.

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