Tidal Streams App for iPad

[Wandering Star]

Is there a straightforward (standalone) iPad app to cover the English Channel? Specifically covering the stream between the Solent and Falmouth. The only one I can find is Istream which has negative reviews although these seem to be more about the subscription than the actual function of the app.

Just to be clear, I use Navionics on my iPad for navigation but I want an app completely independent of Navionics for passage planning purposes, essentially Admiralty Streams NP 250 but on my iPad!

 

[wonkywinch]

Imray Tides.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

I use Absolute Tides, also gives you total data. £2.99 a year subscription covers all of your devices.

 

[Sticky Fingers]

Example of streams display:

 

[Caladh]

Try Imray Tides Planner. Free app and minimal cost for tide tables and tidal atlas etc

 

[finestgreen]

Imray Tides.

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Imray Tides also has the option to show raster images of the admiralty tide atlas

 

[samfieldhouse]

Another vote for Absolute Tides. Quick, simple, clear and accurate.

 

[kwb78]

TZ iBoat shows tidal streams and heights without you having to purchase any charts. You can scrub back and forth to see how the flow changes. I find it quite useful.

 

[chris-s]

Boatie

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Another recommendation for Absolute Tides.

Works great. Uses the Admiralty Tidal Atlas charts. What I like about it is the convenience. For example, on the tide page for the port you are interested in, it defaults to the current day and time (but also shows the calendar heights and times ahead and in the past). You tap the current day and time and it takes you to the tidal curve, where you select the tidal stream and that takes you to the Atlas page but for the time now i.e. hours ahead or behind HW Dover. On the height graph, if you move the graph at your port of interest to another time, that will also be shown on the Tide Atlas page. Its very easy to use, I make it sound cumbersome.

Visit My Harbour is also a good web site for tide information, I also use that.

Both Absolute Tides and Visit My Harbour I use on my iPad with Absolute Tides running as stand alone i.e. no connection to the internet required.

Where I sail, things like Predict Current, TZi and some others, show the tides as an extrapolation ignoring the impact of land and the tidal gates that are prevalent at the northern end of the Sound of Jura. They don't really work here, where as the Admiralty Tidal Atlas is more accurate. Apart from the tidal gates, they work just as well as others. But beware of limitations.

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Imray.