Tide It › Mac
New · Native Mac appTide It for Mac is not the iPhone app on a bigger screen: it is a real Mac window, with a sidebar, a tide curve across the full width and the day in detail beside it. Plan your kitesurfing, wing foiling, sailing or surf session calmly, from your desk.
On an iPhone, you scroll. On a Mac, everything sits side by side: the day's curve, the tide, the current, the measured wind and the week's weather. Press and hold the curve to read any hour; scroll it with the trackpad or drag it with the mouse to move back or forward in time.
A veil colored by wind strength, trails that flow with it, and a timeline to move hour by hour into next week. Drop the water drop on a spot: it reads the forecast wind right there. Finding the windiest beach of the weekend takes a second.
Kitesurfing, kitefoiling, wing foiling, sailing or surfing: Tide It crosses wind, tide, swell and daylight with your settings and skill level, then shows you the whole week at a glance. Click a slot for the hour-by-hour detail, and find it on the curve.
“If all of the following conditions are met”: one line per condition — wind speed and direction, water height, tidal coefficient, time before or after the tide, sunrise or sunset. The 7-day preview updates as you type, and tells you how many times the alert would fire.
Each day carries a thin band in the color of its coefficient, from neap to spring tides, with a dot for each high tide. Pick a day: its curve, high and low tide times, tidal range, sun, moon and the coefficient cycle over two weeks appear beside it. Swipe the curve and the days roll by. As a month or a list.
Your favorites first, then every port and spot in the world by distance. Search by name, region or country with ⌘F, star a spot in one click, and create your own spot by clicking on the map: it takes the tide of its reference port, adjusted to its own high tide.
Hold down the mouse button or the trackpad click on the curve: time, water height and wind appear, like a long press on iPhone. Scroll it with the trackpad or drag it with the mouse, and it glides on with momentum.
⌘1 to ⌘3 for Tide, Wind and Surf, ⌥⌘1 to ⌥⌘5 to switch views, ⌘F to search, ⌘D to add a favorite, ⌘, for settings.
Tides, tides for a chosen port, wind and surf, on your desktop or in Notification Center. One click opens the right spot, in the right mode.
One line per day: sky, rain, temperature range and wind. One click and the day opens in three-hour steps, with the moon, the sea and the water.
The weather station nearest your spot: speed, gusts, direction and the age of the reading, next to the forecast — never blended together.
When the window is hidden or minimized, the app pauses its animations. Tides are computed on your Mac, with no server and no connection.
Tide It was born at the water's edge, for riders. But tide, wind and swell matter to many more people.
Many tide apps simply let their iPhone version run on the Mac. Tide It was rewritten for the Mac.
| iPhone app on Mac | Tide It for Mac | |
|---|---|---|
| Sidebar with spots, favorites and recents | — | Yes |
| Curve across the whole window, details beside it | — | Yes |
| Read values with a press and hold | — | Yes |
| Keyboard shortcuts and menus | Partial | Yes |
| Desktop widgets | — | Yes |
| Freely resizable window | Limited | Yes |
An Android app is in development, with the same curve, the same real wind and the same GO windows. It is not available yet.
Yes. Tides, coefficients, favorites and widgets are free. Premium adds live real wind, the wind map, 7-day GO windows, alerts and the 12-month calendar. The first 15 days are free.
Yes. It is the same app on the App Store: one Premium subscription unlocks iPhone, iPad and Mac. Your favorites, custom spots and settings sync through your iCloud.
macOS 26 or later.
Yes. Tide times, heights and coefficients are computed on the Mac by harmonic analysis. Only wind, weather and swell need a connection.
Closing the window does not quit the app: its alerts keep running. Tide and sun alerts are scheduled in advance; wind alerts are checked while the app is open.
An Android app is in development. It is not available yet.
Free on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. First 15 days of Premium free.
Download on theMac App Store