WRACKLINE

Features

One prediction, four ways to use it.

Wrackline starts from the same thing for everyone: the height of the water, minute by minute. What changes is the question you bring to it.

Rigging and a side deck on a yacht under way, blue water beyond

For sailors

Plan a passage around the tide

Find the window over a bar or a drying mooring, and see how the stream turns before you slip lines.

  • Window finder for any drying height
  • Hours of flood and ebb, marked on the curve
  • Surge watch when a low is sitting on the coast
An angler in waterproofs casting from a weed-covered rock ledge into rough water

For anglers

Be on the mark for the flood

Alerts for the hours that fish, whether that is the first of the flood or slack high water.

  • Alerts at any point in the tide
  • Moon phase and springs or neaps at a glance
  • Dawn and dusk overlaid on the curve
A surfer in a wetsuit on the sand, watching a wave break, seen from behind

For surfers

Know when your break switches on

Save the height band your spot works in and see it shaded on the curve and on your lock screen.

  • Height bands per saved spot
  • Pushing or dropping, shown with the height
  • Lock-screen widget for the next session
Two walkers far out on wet sand flats under a dark sky

For walkers

Get back before the water does

For causeways, tidal islands and long beaches: a "turn back by" time that leaves a margin.

  • Turn-back time with a safety margin
  • Low-water walks planned days ahead
  • Works on a cliff path with no signal

The full list

Everything in the app

Free covers today and tomorrow with no adverts. Pro adds the year ahead and the tools that act on it.

Free

Today’s curve, with a live now marker

The height of the water through the day, with highs, lows and where you are on it right now.

Pro

Times and heights, a year ahead

Every high and low water for 365 days, to the minute and the centimetre.

Free

Works with no signal

Every prediction is computed on the phone. Nothing is downloaded while you are out.

Pro

Tide alerts

At any point in the tide: an hour before low, two hours into the flood, slack high water.

Pro

Window finder

Enter a drying height and a depth; see every window when the water clears it.

Pro

Surge watch

Reads the pressure and wind forecast and flags days the water will run 20 cm or more off.

Pro

Widgets

Current height, rising or falling, and the next turn on your home and lock screens.

Free

Sun, moon, springs and neaps

Dawn and dusk shaded on the curve; every day labelled from neaps to springs.

Pro

Printable tables and calendar export

A clean monthly table for the chart table, or the tides in your calendar.