Tide Forecast is a marine weather app for surfers, anglers, and boaters that provides tide, wave, wind, and solunar data on iOS and Android.
Product velocity
Maintenance
Daily rank 🇺🇸
#144
▲28Weather · grossing
Sentiment
4.5
408 reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this app to plan coastal activities around ocean rhythms, seeking a single source for tide and wind conditions to maximize their time on the water.
For Coastal outdoor enthusiasts including surfers, anglers, sailors, and beach visitors.
What does it look like?
Key features
Predicts major and minor feeding periods based on lunar cycles.
Provides tide times, wave height, and wind speed.
Uses device GPS to display nearest coastal forecast.
How much does it cost?
The app currently relies on an ad-supported model with no paid tier to remove advertisements, which is a primary source of user friction.
Velocity
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The app maintains a maintenance-level cadence, shipping approximately 0.33 releases per month. The latest release provides only generic performance and bug fix improvements, with no evidence of new features or live-ops content. Development appears focused exclusively on stability rather than iterative growth. The current release pattern has remained stable over the analyzed period.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
Review voice lately leans excited. Users appreciate visual tide display provides a clear and accessible way for users with dyslexia to plan beach visits and lightweight application design provides a reliable and efficient tool for checking local tide information.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Visual tide display provides a clear and accessible way for users with dyslexia to plan beach visits
- Lightweight application design provides a reliable and efficient tool for checking local tide information
- Lack of a paid option to remove advertisements forces users to view intrusive mid-screen banners
21 of 21 recent reviews analyzed · moderate confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Tide forecast: Waves & Wind
How's the Weather market?
Tide Forecast maintains visibility in the Weather category across multiple international markets, including France and the UK. The current lack of a paid tier creates a monetization gap relative to category leaders who leverage subscription models to sustain development.
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Key takeaways for Tide forecast: Waves & Wind
Where is it heading?
The marine-weather category is consolidating around apps that provide proactive alerts and widget-based data access. Tide Forecast remains in maintenance mode, which leaves it exposed to rivals that offer a more seamless daily-habit loop.
- The absence of a paid ad-free tier forces users to view intrusive banners, which triggers negative sentiment and churn risk.
- Recent updates focused on stability, but the lack of feature expansion leaves the app vulnerable to more active category rivals.
The SWOT
- Visual tide layout simplifies interpretation for users with dyslexia
- Lightweight architecture ensures fast load times for quick coastal checks
- Implement a subscription tier to remove ads
- Develop home screen widgets to increase daily retention
- Refine location detection algorithms to improve data accuracy for coastal users
Next best moves
Ship custom tide alerts because they are the top-requested feature → increase daily active usage
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of a paid tier is…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Custom tide alerts (missing here, standard in marine-weather rivals) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has shifted to a 'mixed' outlook as the lack of feature development and ad-supported monetization creates increasing friction with power users.
Bottom line
Tide Forecast captures interest through its accessible visual design, but the ad-only monetization and lack of proactive alerts limit its long-term retention, so the PM should prioritize an ad-free subscription tier and custom alert notifications to secure the power-user segment.
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Access the full report for freeFAQ
Is Tide Forecast good for fishing?
Does Tide Forecast have an ad-free version?
Can I get alerts for high or low tide?
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