Comparison

Tide Tracking vs Perigee Tides

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

Head to head
About

Tide Tracking

Features
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Discover the best times for your beach plans, fishing trips, and water sports with Tide Tracker, the ultimate app for tide and marine forecasting. Accurately track real-time tides and conditions with an intuitive interface that makes planning your ocean adventures easier than ever.

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Perigee Tides

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Perigee Tides turns NOAA-sourced data into a clear, personal daily read of your coast. Pick your home NOAA station and what you care about — fishing, boating, surf and paddle, beachcombing, photography, or coastal living. Perigee combines tide chart timing, water level, wind, water temperature, daylight, and moon phase into planning windows that show you the reasoning instead of hiding it. TIDE CHARTS AND TIDE TIMES • 60-hour tide chart drawn from 6-minute NOAA predictions • High and low tide times and heights for the day • Measured water level plotted against forecast, with the difference charted • Explore 3,000+ NOAA stations by map or list, including Great Lakes water level • Home Screen and Lock Screen tide widgets PLANNING WINDOWS • Scored windows for your activity, with wind, tide stage, and daylight shown • Compare dates on a calendar to find the better day • Source labels and freshness stamps on key data views. • Save an outing, keep the original reasoning, and set a reminder • Tune your own limits: wind, gust, water temperature, tide stage, daylight ALERTS THAT MEAN SOMETHING • King tide and minus tide alerts • High water, wind, gust, water temperature, and daylight thresholds • Live National Weather Service advisories for your station • 72-hour lookahead with quiet hours and a unified inbox SUN AND MOON • Moon phase calendar with illumination for any day of the month • Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, golden hour, and day length • How the current moon phase is affecting your local tidal range Free includes 3 saved stations, 1 active alert, a 7-day planner, and 3 saved outings. Tides Plus adds 24 saved stations, 24 active alerts, a 30-day planner, 100 saved outings, and daily briefs. Monthly and annual plans are purchased and managed through your Apple Account. Eligible new subscribers can start either plan with a 7-day free trial. The free app stays useful without a purchase. Sign in with Apple or email. Dark mode, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and reduced-motion support throughout. Account deletion is available in the app; data export is available through your Perigee web account. Perigee Tides is an independent app from Cardin LLC. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA, the National Weather Service, or any government entity. Predictions and interpretations are planning context and are not for navigation. Always consult official forecasts and use your own judgment before coastal activity. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://perigeetides.com/privacy

Screenshots

Tide Tracking3 screens
Perigee Tides4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tide Tracking at none against Perigee Tides's 2. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Perigee Tides sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Tide Tracking asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Tide Tracking versus Perigee Tides: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTide TrackingPerigee Tides
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnbox Venture LLCRyan Cardin

In-app purchases

None

Tide Tracking

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Perigee Tides

Subscriptions2
  • Tides Plus Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Tides Plus Annual7 Days trial$64.991 Year

Questions

Is Tide Tracking free?
Tide Tracking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perigee Tides free?
Perigee Tides is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tide Tracking or Perigee Tides have ads?
Neither Tide Tracking nor Perigee Tides shows ads.

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