Tides Planner

Tides tool for sailors, divers, canoeists, fishermen, surfers and swimmers.

Tides Planner - Essential Tides Tool for Water Sports

"Tides Planner" is an essential app for sailors, divers, and outdoor enthusiasts, offering tide predictions for over 8,000 locations worldwide. With offline access, tidal graphs, and a week-ahead tide table, it helps users effectively navigate and plan their activities at sea. The app includes advanced tools for calculating optimal time windows for entering and leaving, alongside features like sunrise/sunset times and moon phases. Players can enhance their experience through in-app purchases and Hydrographic Office Licences.
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App stats

Version: 1.177 (Last updated: 2024-12-17)
Creation date: 2019-01-08
Permissions
Location: approximate location (network-based), precise location (GPS and network-based)
Photos/Media/Files: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Storage: read the contents of your USB storage, modify or delete the contents of your USB storage
Other:
  • view network connections
  • full network access
  • read Google service configuration

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App summary

Essential TIDES tool for sailors, divers, canoeists, fishermen, surfers, swimmers, photographers and anyone involved with sport or leisure at the seaside. At the push of a button Tides Planner allows you to see tides for 8,000+ WORLDWIDE locations. NO CONNECTION REQUIRED as the app has its own database.

One tap to tides for your favourites. Advanced users can take advantage of extensive tools to calculate time windows for entering/leaving and clearing depths.

FEATURES
- Tidal graphs
- Week ahead tide table
- Minimum/maximum depths
- Chart depth/actual depth
- Standard port information
- World map for rapid location search
- Search by name
- Time of sunrise/sunset, dawn/twilight
- Moon phases, rise/set
- Date of spring/neap tides
- Notepad and copy/paste + email
- Favourites and recents
- Scrolling scales
- Coefficients (France)
- Currents (UK, Ireland, North Sea, Netherlands and parts of the German coast)

GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE
Worldwide coverage. Some countries have time limits from the national Hydrographic Office.

TIME COVERAGE
The app gives access to all its features, but the free initial download is limited to tides for one day. To get future predictions use the Extensions within the app (In App purchase):
- Year on year: use the extensions within the app (In App purchases) to enable future predictions.

- In certain countries get a Hydrographic Licence to remove restrictions.

HYDROGRAPHIC OFFICE LICENCES
During a valid year:
- Italy, USA, Canada (main ports), Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other countries: ANY DAY in the year.
- Denmark, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, Oman, Argentina: SEVEN DAYS at a time.

The following can be extended with a Hydrographic Office Licence to remove country restrictions:
- UK, Ireland, Germany and all UKHO ports: change from seven days to ANY DAY.
- Netherlands: change from seven days to ANY DAY.
- Belgium: change from seven days to ANY DAY.
- France and SHOM ports: from one day to ANY DAY.

Each Hydrographic Office Licence is ONLY PURCHASED ONCE and applies to all Valid Years.

ABOUT US
Imray: publishers of nautical charts, books and apps. Look out for other applications in the Marine Navigation Series from Imray.

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LANGUAGES
English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese

ABOUT PREDICTIONS
Predictions are based on the harmonic method, using constants from the Hydro offices (UKHO, SHOM, NOAA, BOM, CHS etc). There are differences between the app predictions and the official Hydro office tide tables, as these are based on large numbers of constants that are not made publicly available. The Hydro offices consider the harmonic methods used in this product appropriate for navigation.

Always consult tidal curves and take into account local weather (pressure and wind) and swell conditions, which can have a very significant effect on sea water levels.

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Google Play Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Good for predicting tides and finding locations on the map.
  • Excellent customer support mentioned in several reviews.
  • Offers a wide range of tidal information and stations, particularly praised for the French version.
Cons
  • Inaccurate tide data, especially during BST, leading to significant errors.
  • Complicated and non-intuitive user interface, making it difficult to use.
  • Requires multiple licenses for full functionality, leading to unexpected costs.
Most mentioned
  • Bugs and crashes affecting app functionality.
  • Issues with buying and accessing tide tables.
  • Confusion over time adjustments (BST vs UT/GMT).
User reviews
Buggy and confusing. I seem to have paid for tidal atlas rather than tides. I've also had a number of error messages including the famous "object reference not set to an instance of the object" which signifies a coding error. I've only been using it an hour. Get Absolute Tides instead - cheap and simple (but UK only).
by Nick B, 2024-11-28

Would be 5 stars except that you can only rely on it when set to UT/GMT. Summer time works for their standard ports, but custom ports only work in UT. In summer time (+1 hour in UK, for example) the app takes the BST tide time from the standard port and adds another hour adjustment - so applying a summer time adjustment twice. The result in UK is your port will be wrong by 1 hour. I did write to Imray 1 year ago, bit they haven't fixed it. The rest of the app is great.
by Hedley Jones, 2024-05-30

Quite annoying to have to buy two licenses to be able to change the date, only realised after i bought the first one now have to pay another £5.99. Had i known this would not have bought the first one as £12 is too much.
by dave power, 2024-04-19
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