My Tide Times - Tables & Chart

Review by eFreeware

If you plan your days around the water, knowing when the tide turns matters more than a general weather forecast. My Tide Times is built for that narrow need: surfers timing a session, anglers picking a window, sailors and anyone heading to the beach who wants to know what the water is doing. The app covers tide tables, charts and forecasts, with data for more than 9,000 tidal stations in over 30 countries.

What I like about the premise is how little it asks of you. The app is free, and the core job is answering a question rather than keeping you inside an ecosystem. It has been on Google Play since early 2014, and with over a million installs and a 4.8 average from more than 27,000 ratings, it clearly has a settled audience. The September 2026 update also brought improved support for tablets and foldable phones, which suggests the developer still tends to the app.

Finding your nearest station without hunting for it

The feature the developer leads with is location matching. When the app opens, it looks for the tidal stations closest to you, so you can pull up tide times wherever you happen to be rather than scrolling through a list of ports to find the right one. For anyone who moves between beaches, harbors or fishing spots, that saves a small but repeated bit of friction.

Coverage is the other half of that story. The station list spans the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Australia and New Zealand, among other countries. If you regularly visit the same stretch of coast, you will likely find it represented; if you travel, the same lookup works from a new location. I would expect this to be the part of the app people rely on most, because it removes the guesswork from a task that is otherwise all about precision.

Forecast length, moon data and currents

Once you are on a station, the app shows forecasts stretching five to seven days for all locations, and locations outside the UK get charts covering up to 30 days. That difference is worth noting if you plan trips well ahead: the longer outlook is not uniform across the world. For the average weekend trip, the shorter window is plenty; for a holiday booked weeks out, the extended charts are the more useful view.

The supporting data goes beyond the tide itself. You can check the moon phase along with moonrise and moonset times, which matters if you care about how light or dark the water will be. Basic wind speed information is included for every tidal location, giving you a second signal about conditions before you commit to a plan.

There is also a currents feature for selected stations in the US. The app shows the slacks, ebbs and flows for each day, and you reach it the same way you would look up tide times — if a currents station is nearby, an extra tab labeled Currents appears. It is a genuinely specialist addition, and the kind of detail that separates a tide app built for casual beachgoers from one built with people who work on the water in mind.

What the app asks of you

The practical requirements are light. My Tide Times is free to install and supported by advertising, and it does not offer in-app purchases, so there is no tier structure to decode before you start.

On connectivity, the app is more considerate than many. Saved data stays on the phone, so tide information remains available offline. That matters on a coastline where signal is patchy, on a boat, or anywhere you would rather not burn mobile data to check a tide table. The app also handles keeping the data current on its own, so you are not expected to remember to refresh anything.

The other thing it asks is a little patience with coverage gaps. With more than 9,000 stations, most popular stretches of coast are represented, but a station list is never universal. If your local spot is not among them, no amount of polish will help, so it is worth confirming your area appears before you build a routine around it.

Getting the most from a tide app

My advice is to treat the nearest-station lookup as a starting point rather than the final answer. Automatic matching is convenient, but the closest station to your position is not always the one that best reflects the water where you are actually going. If you fish or surf the same spot regularly, it is worth checking which nearby station lines up with what you observe and sticking with that one.

For trips planned well in advance, lean on the longer charts where they are available and fall back to the five-to-seven-day view elsewhere. Pairing the tide times with the moon phase and the wind speed reading gives you a fuller picture of a day than the tide alone, and it costs you only a moment's glance.

The offline storage is the feature I would build a habit around. Downloading the data while you have a connection means the tables are there when you are standing on a jetty with one bar of signal, which is exactly when you need them. It is a small thing, but it is the difference between an app that works in the field and one that only works at home.

A dependable reference for coastal planning

My Tide Times does one job and does it with a depth that is hard to argue with: global station coverage, forecasts from a week to a month depending on where you are, moon data, wind speed and currents at selected US locations, plus offline access once the data is saved. The developer calls it the most beautiful tide app on the market, which is a matter of taste, but the substance behind the claim is real.

Forecast length varies by region, with the longest charts reserved for locations outside the UK. And it is a tide tool first and foremost — it will not replace a full marine weather service for anyone planning serious offshore work.

For surfers, anglers, sailors, kayakers and anyone whose beach day depends on the state of the water, this is an easy recommendation. It has a long track record, a strong rating from a large number of users, and a feature set that covers the questions people actually ask before heading to the coast. Install it, find your station, and let it handle the arithmetic.

What's new in version 26.3.3

- Improved support for tablets and foldable phones. - Bug fixes and performance improvements.