One glance.
The right call.

The water doesn't send a calendar invite. RipCat Pro puts the tide on your wrist, your Lock Screen, and your nav desk — so the decision is made before your coffee is.

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For surfers

Dawn patrol starts before the sun.

You already know the feeling: forty minutes of driving, and the tide drained the sandbar an hour before you got there. The swell was real. The window wasn't.

RipCat draws the whole morning on one dial — the low, the push, first light to last — so you know whether your spot needs the drain or the fill, and exactly when it gets it. Not a surf score. Your tide, your read.

  • The window on your wrist. Watch complications put the tide next to the time. Glance mid-session, stay in the lineup.
  • Every spot you check, favorited. Rincon, the harbor sandbar, that reef up the coast. Unlimited favorites, one swipe apart, synced by iCloud.
  • Lock Screen widgets. The 5 a.m. decision, answered before you unlock your phone in the dark.
  • Share the call. Export the chart straight to the group thread. Be the friend who knew.

We won't score your waves or rat out your spot. You know your break better than any algorithm — RipCat just tells you what the tide's doing when you get there.

Go Pro on the App StoreUnder $2 a month — less than one parking meter at Rincon.
RipCat Today screen: current tide 2.07 ft falling, next low countdown, and the Solar Tide Dial showing daylight and tide in one ring

The Solar Tide Dial — daylight, the low, the push, one ring. Real capture.

For anglers

Fish the moving water.

Slack tide is dead water, and every angler on the beach knows it. The question was never if the water will move — it's whether you'll be standing there when it does.

RipCat marks the swing on a curve you can scrub with a thumb, backs it with water temperature from the buoy you actually fish near — with a 7-day trend, so you know if the bite's been building before you burn the gas — and wraps it all in a dark UI that won't torch your night vision at 4 a.m.

  • Water temp on every buoy pin. Tap the NDBC buoy off your spot: 61°F right now, the week's trend, wind and wave history.
  • Moon, solunar, and the swing. Moonrise and moonset with bearings, phase, and the tide movement — the whole picture, one screen.
  • Every spot in your rotation. Unlimited favorites: the jetty, the flats, the pier, the secret one. Synced to your iPad at home.
  • The calendar on the tackle-shop counter? That's us. Print a month of tides with sunrise and sunset, and tape it to the garage fridge.
  • No bars, no problem. Tide and buoy data are cached for the spots where cell service goes to die.

No app catches fish. But moving water beats slack water, and you deserve to know which one you're driving to.

Go Pro on the App Store$19.99 a year. About the price of four sandworms.
RipCat buoy detail for NOAA buoy 46053 off Santa Barbara: 61°F water, swell rose, wind, pressure, and 12 hours of wave history in dark mode

Buoy 46053, East Santa Barbara — water temp, swell, wind. Real capture.

For boaters & sailors

Everything you'd check, before you drop the dock lines.

You know the drill: one government site for tides, another for the marine forecast, a third for the buoy — all in tables built in 1997, on a phone with one bar at the harbor mouth.

RipCat puts the same official data on one screen: NOAA tide predictions you can scrub to the minute you actually transit, NWS Small Craft Advisories painted on the map with a day-by-day timeline, and live buoy wind, waves, and pressure from outside the harbor.

  • Small Craft Advisories, on a timeline. Scrub the week and watch advisories sweep in and clear, day by day — before you promise the family a Wednesday sail.
  • The full marine forecast, one tap away. Outlook by day at a glance, then every period — winds, seas, wave detail — in the NWS's own words.
  • Your harbors, in order. Home slip, the fuel dock, the island anchorage — unlimited favorites, synced across iPhone, iPad, and the Mac at the nav desk.
  • Works past the breakwater. Cached tide and buoy data keep answering where cell coverage doesn't.
  • A calendar for the chart table. Print the month's tides, ink-friendly, and clip it next to the logbook.

RipCat is planning data, not navigation gear. Predictions are not navigation advice — carry your charts, mind your keel, and make the seamanship calls yourself.

Go Pro on the App Store$19.99 a year. The cheapest thing you will ever put on your boat.
RipCat marine map animation: the Small Craft Advisory timeline stepping through the week — advisory zones painted across the Santa Barbara Channel, then clearing
RipCat marine forecast for PZZ650: Small Craft Advisory banner, outlook-by-day strip flagging today AM, PM, and evening, and the full daily forecast text

The week sweeping the chart, and the full forecast — outlook by day, then every period. Real captures.

Free vs Pro

The data is free. Pro is the glance.

Every tide, buoy, and advisory in RipCat costs nothing. Pro is for people who check the water every single day — it moves the answer to wherever your eyes already are.

What you getFreePro
NOAA tide predictions, charts & Tide Dial✓✓
Station search, map & nearest station✓✓
Live buoys, water temp & marine advisories✓✓
Sun, moon & solunar times✓✓
Favorite stations1Unlimited
Apple Watch complications—✓
Lock Screen widgets—✓
Share & export charts—✓
Printable tide calendars—✓
iCloud sync across devices—✓

Pricing

Throw your credit card at the ocean.
It's cheaper than you think.

One price, every platform: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac.

Pro Monthly

$2.99/mo

Try it for a season. Cancel anytime.

Start monthly
Save 44%

Pro Annual

$19.99/yr

Under $2 a month. Less than one parking meter at Rincon.

Go annual

For reference, as of July 2026: Surfline Premium runs $119.99/year. RipCat Pro is $19.99 — with no ads, no account, and no algorithm deciding what your home break is worth.

Subscriptions are billed and managed through your Apple account — cancel in Settings anytime, no hoops. Coverage is United States tide stations, buoys, and marine zones (NOAA · NWS · NDBC). Predictions are predictions, not guarantees, and never navigation advice.

The tide turns whether you're ready or not.

Be ready. Free download — Pro when you're hooked.

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