Today
A single tide that rises through the day
A tap holds an intention and the water answers. The day it names, the hour it catches, and how far in you are.
a small set of daily intentions, held as one tide.
Rituals raise the water. Missed days pull it back — never punish. A calm, daily-rhythm habits app for iPhone and Apple Watch.
Free, with no paywall. English and Čeština. Requires iOS 26.
Tide treats a habit not as a streak to defend, but as a tide to keep rising. The day you miss is the day the water draws back — quietly, without judgement — and waits for you to begin again.
few.
Three to five intentions. Tide is allergic to clutter.
kind.
Missed days pull the tide back; they don’t shame you. Rest days are yours to declare, and they cost you nothing.
quiet.
A few gentle markers a day at most, never inside your quiet hours. Never a coach.
a tide, a thought, a wave.
Three quiet places. Each one tries to do a single thing well — then steps out of the way.
Reflect
A page at sundown, a page at first light
A prompt that changes with the day, a mood if you want one, and a second face for the morning. Only you see this.
Insights
The shape of it, not a scoreboard
Thirty days, the week so far, and every intention with the days you held it. No trophies, and never a mark in red.
what else the water holds.
Tide has been growing quietly since it shipped. None of it shouts for your attention.
Twelve quiet practices
A 4-7-8 breath. A body scan designed to be left unfinished. Grounding for the far-out moments, and a wordless rest that is nothing but haptics and water.
The Almanac
A private field journal Tide keeps about your practice — beginnings, anniversaries, the turn of a season. Written in prose, never in statistics.
Notes back with the tide
Seal a few words for your later self — a week, a season, a year — and they return carrying the tide you stood at the day you wrote them.
Rest, at no cost
Declare a day at rest, keep one weekday always yours, pause an intention, or let every number in the app rest for a heavy season.
On your wrist
An Apple Watch app and complications in three families, a breath you can take from the wrist, and widgets that hold an intention from the Home Screen.
The real sky
Turn it on and the weather where you are leaves a trace on the water — rain on the surface, snow settling, fog across the line.
Health, on your terms
Sleep, bedtime and steps can raise the tide on their own. None of it leaves your device — not to a server, not into a single analytics event.
A tide you both watch
Share your water with one person, or hold one intention together — held only when you both mark it. No follow-through signal, ever.
What the night left
Reflect has a second face for the morning, to catch a dream before it goes. Written down in your words and never interpreted.
The seabed
Your practice as strata — the seasons you kept, settling into layers. Of everything Tide draws, nothing here can ever go down.
No account, anywhere
There is no sign-in and no server. Your words live on your device and in your own iCloud, and nothing you write is ever readable by me.
English and Čeština
Both written by hand, not by machine — the Czech uses its own idiom rather than translating the English word for word.
a friend, not a coach.
Second person, sentence case, lowercase am/pm. Slightly poetic, never preachy.
- “The day is yours. Add an intention to begin.”
- “Your evening walk is waiting. Eight minutes is enough.”
- “The tide pulled back. Begin again — it’s still yours.”
- “The water kept. Nothing owed.”
- “Held.”
begin a small intention.
Tide is free, and there is no paywall waiting further in. A small tip jar sits in Settings for anyone who wants to leave something behind.
iPhone and Apple Watch · iOS 26 or later · English and Čeština
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