Answered in three seconds, right from your home screen, even with no signal. No dashboard, no ads, no subscription, ever.
Most tide apps make you launch, dodge an ad, and read a marine dashboard to find one number. Tide Buddy does the opposite: five deliberate choices, all pointing at the same thing. Your answer, faster.
The tide belongs on your home screen, not three taps deep. Current level, a rising or falling arrow, the next high or low, and today's curve, live in a glance. Five sizes, from a 1×1 tile to a full 4×4, each cycling through your saved stations and matching your system's light or dark theme. Widgets are part of Pro: $4.99 once, yours forever.
Tide predictions are astronomy: the moon and sun don't need Wi-Fi. Tide Buddy caches days ahead and keeps computing the live tide with zero signal, so you never meet a scary “stale data” banner or a spinner at the beach. Freshness is always shown, never faked.
Core tide checks are free for good. Pro is a single $4.99 unlock: widgets, unlimited favorites, the 7-day outlook, a 30-day offline cache. No ads, no accounts, no dark patterns. Trust is the whole product.
The same authoritative source the pros use, all 3,498 U.S. stations, minus the clutter. Search any beach or town by name for the nearest stations, or use your location to find what's closest.
Tide Buddy has no accounts, no analytics SDKs, and no stored location or personal data. Location is used only for “nearby,” only in the moment, and only if you ask. What was never collected can never be lost.
The Now screen leads with the answer and puts the detail one level below it, never in front. Three things, in order, every time.
Current tide level, hero-scale and full-contrast, readable one-handed in direct sunlight.
Shown three ways at once: the word, an arrow, and where you are on the curve. Never by color alone, so it works in glare and for color-blind eyes.
The next high or low, its height, and a plain-language countdown. Below it, today's full hi/lo timeline for planning.
Pick the size that fits your layout. Every widget follows your system theme, refreshes on its own, and taps through your saved stations, with no launch required.
The last place you have signal is often the trailhead parking lot. That's fine: the tide doesn't need the internet, and neither does Tide Buddy.
Tides follow the moon and sun on a fixed schedule. Once the numbers are cached, your phone works them out locally, with no request, no round-trip, and no spinner.
Enough cache to cover a weekend trip, a week at the shore, or a month of dawn patrols, all without a bar of signal.
“Updated just now,” “Updated 2h ago,” an honest Offline chip: the app tells you exactly how current the data is, and never dresses old numbers up as live.
Check the tide free, forever. Unlock the extras once, for the price of a coffee, and keep them for good.
Pro is a one-time in-app purchase. Buy it once, on one Google account, and it stays unlocked. If it's not for you, everything you need to check the tide is still free.
Get notified at launchTide Buddy reads official tidal predictions published by NOAA, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Same data as everyone else; we just get out of its way.
Download and check the tide. There's no sign-up, no email required, no profile.
No third-party trackers watching how you use the app. We don't build a profile of you because we don't want one.
Ask for “nearby” and your location is used once, in the moment, to find stations, then it's gone. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
The most private data is the data that was never collected. Tide Buddy keeps nothing personal, so there's nothing to lose, sell, or leak. Read it in plain English in the privacy policy.
Tide Buddy is coming to Google Play. There's no signup form here, on purpose: instead of list-building software, your email lands in front of a human who writes back, and who'll send you one message the day it ships.
Email hello@tidebuddy.appOne launch email, then silence. The same respect the app runs on.