Tick & Tide

The days since you let go…and the good days ahead

Count up from the day you let something go. Count down to the things worth waiting for. One calm place for both, on iPhone and Apple Watch.

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For iPhone and Apple Watch
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The Today screen in Tick & Tide, top to bottom: a spring tide of 95, one of two pledges made, a gentle offer to turn the tide, a featured countdown to Lisbon, Fresh start at 23 days, a marriage at 3 years, Mum’s birthday, and a friend’s shared progress.

Why Tick & Tide

Letting go makes room.
Looking forward fills it.

Tick is the counting. Tide is the ebb and flow: what you let go of, and what’s coming in.

Every day counts

Progress without pressure

Each day adds up, and it’s yours to keep. A hard day doesn’t erase the good ones. You’re allowed to feel proud of how far you’ve come.

The days ahead

Something to look forward to

A trip, a birthday, a quiet weekend away. Good things ahead pull you forward, and letting go makes room for them.

At your own pace

A calmer way with time

This isn’t about fixing yourself. It’s about noticing the good days, celebrating them, and waiting well for the next.

How it feels

Moments along the way

An entry called Fresh start at 23 days, on its full-screen photo: growing the habit, 23 of 30 days.

The first weeks

Every day counts

The start is the bravest part. Each day quietly adds up, and you can watch it happen.

On the harder days, a calm minute is one tap away. And a day that goes wrong never undoes the ones before it.

The + panel, New entry first, with two tiles lifted out: Craving, ride it out, and Breathe, one calm minute.

When it’s hard

Ride out the wave

A craving comes like a wave: it builds, it peaks, and it passes. One tap starts a calm minute of breathing, with your why right there.

Every wave you ride out is a small win, and it counts.

The Journey: a tide rising over three months, and the Turn the tide card with 3 of 5 days kept.

Over time

Watch your tide come in

One number for how it’s going. Good days and cravings you let pass lift it; a slip is a small dip, never a crash.

Look back whenever you like and see how far you’ve come.

A countdown to Lisbon, 11 days to go, on its full-screen picture.

While you wait

Something good is on its way

A trip, a birthday, a first night in a new home. Watch it come closer and get ready a little at a time.

The waiting becomes part of the joy.

A two-month milestone with confetti, and a happy 3rd wedding anniversary.

The day arrives

Worth celebrating. Every time.

A month in. Three years married. The morning you’ve been counting down to.

Each one gets its moment, and you’re allowed to enjoy it. Share it with the people cheering you on, if you like.

What’s inside

Simple, calm and kind

A few quiet things, there when you need them.

  • Count up or downFrom the day you let go, or to the day you’re waiting for.
  • Celebrations worth sharingMilestones and big days, each with its moment and a card to send.
  • Your tideOne gentle number for how things are going, both ways at once.
  • AchievementsMedals for milestones, countdowns and the things you’re working on.
  • A calm place for hard momentsA minute to breathe, with your reason why close at hand.
  • Featured, list or gridKeep close what matters: feature up to three entries at the top of Today and the Timeline, and see your Timeline as a list or a grid of tiles.
  • On your Home Screen and wristWidgets, Live Activities, and an Apple Watch app to ride out a craving, breathe and pledge.
  • Private by designNo account, no ads, no tracking. Your entries stay yours.

Achievements

A medal for every mile

Each habit, moment and countdown earns medals as the days go by: a first day, a month, a year in gold, even ‘1 week to go’.

Special medals celebrate what you’re tracking — First trip, Sweethearts, Clean air, Comeback. They’re yours to keep, and a slip never takes one away.

Free for everyone, at the top of Journey and on Apple Watch. How medals work

  • The Achievements page, at the top of Journey: special medals in hexagons at the top, then the medals for habits, moments and countdowns, the earned ones in colour and the rest still to come.
  • A special medal at its highest tier, ringed by a laurel with three stars, shown large on a dark sheet with its name and how it was earned.

Features

The Apple Watch app: a high tide of 72, rising, with a Craving button.
Apple Watch
The Today screen at night, with a moon over dark water.
Night Tide follows your iPhone
A Live Activity: Lisbon starts in 2 hours, 14 minutes.
Live Activities
No account

22:00–08:00

Quiet hours: nothing buzzes at night

A small widget: 11 days to Lisbon, over a photo.
A small widget: Fresh start at 23 days, in rings.
A new medal: Globetrotter, for reaching the day of 10 trips or holidays, in a gold hexagon with laurels and three stars.
Medals for every milestone
11 themes, each with its own scene

Siri

Log a craving or pledge with your voice or Shortcuts

Your own iCloud
A medium Home Screen widget: Fresh start, 23 days, over a calm sea.
Home Screen widgets

1 minute

To breathe through a craving

No ads, no tracking
Your app icon can match your theme

CSV · PDF

Export your whole story, any time

Face ID lock
Kind notifications, never nagging

Tick & Tide Plus

Go Plus for a little extra

Go Plus · Family Sharing

  • A tide chart rising over three months, with the anchor line beneath it and today’s tide: 95, a spring tide.

    Advanced insights

    Best streaks, trends and a pledge calendar.

  • Cravings over the last 30 days: 26, with 89 % let pass, and the toughest time, Fridays in the evening, with an offer of a gentle nudge.

    Craving insights

    When and where cravings hit, with a heads-up first.

  • A map of your places, marked tricky or good.

    Place nudges

    A gentle note when you arrive somewhere that matters.

  • A two-month milestone: a ring around the number 2.

    Custom milestones

    Add your own, like 100 days.

  • Three small widgets for a Lisbon countdown, 11 days: as circles, as a rising tide and as a big number over a photo.

    Counter styles

    Tide, unit bars or circles, in the app and on widgets.

  • Themes and app icons

    More themes, each with its own scene, and an app icon to match. Still Water stays free.

    The app icon for each theme: Still Water, Dunes, Pine, Coast, Meadow, Urban, Underwater, Mountains, Arctic, Island and Minimal.

  • Extra backup

    A second copy, to a file or a folder.

  • Export

    CSV and a printable PDF look back.

* Plus is sold as an In-App Purchase.

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