Monowai

BeachDaze · iPhone and Apple TV

Golden hour
meets low tide.

My grandfather checked tidal charts, cut from the newspaper and hanging on the shed wall, before he'd go fishing. He wanted the picture on a page. So did I.

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Free of accounts, ads and tracking. Works offline.

BeachDaze golden hour countdown: golden hour in 49 minutes, this evening's window 6:04 PM to 7:02 PM, and a bar chart of the light with golden bars giving way to blue
The next golden hour running into blue light. Taller bars, better light - on your Home Screen as a widget, and on the Lock Screen as it gets close.
  • BeachDaze Cards view: UV index, the Light card with golden hour running into blue light as a bar chart, the best light marked, and the next high tide

    Conditions at a glance

  • BeachDaze on Apple TV, the Now screen: golden hour in 49 minutes with the light chart, the next high tide on a tide curve, and a waning gibbous moon

    Now, on Apple TV

Sun, moon and tide - an almanac for the digital age.

Golden hour? There's an app for that. Low tide? There's an app for that. UV index? There's an app for that. Three apps, two of them wanting an account or a credit card, none of them talking to each other.

That's how BeachDaze came about - a single view of the beach environment right now. Golden hour, tide state, UV, moon phase. No accounts. No keys. It works offline too, which turned out to matter when I was testing it in remote parts of New Zealand with no signal. Humans have been doing this stuff for centuries, so it had to be doable, right?

What it does.

Tides for 6,000+ places worldwide
High and low tide times with a chart you can scrub through. Picks the nearest station for you, or choose your own. Handles remote spots and other time zones.
Sun, moon and the light
Sunrise, sunset and daylight hours. Golden hour and blue hour with reminders, so you're there when the light is. Moon phase, moonrise and moonset. On iOS 26, a countdown alarm for the golden hour.
UV at a glance
UV index through the day with a peak forecast. Tell it how cloudy it is and it adjusts.
When the good stuff lines up
The convergence finder tells you the next time low tide falls in golden hour, or a king tide meets a full moon. Plus what's in tonight's sky.
Your day, your way
Cards for a quick look, or a Timeline of the whole day. Show, hide and reorder what matters to you. Get a notification before the events you care about.
Works with no signal
Everything is worked out on your phone. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to configure, and nothing you do leaves the device.

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Available now

BeachDaze on Apple TV.

The room's instrument panel: the light, the tide and the sky, calculated on the Apple TV itself and kept current all day. Golden hour counts down in large type; after dark the whole screen dims and warms so a glance costs a stargazer nothing.

Download on the App Store

Search for BeachDaze in the App Store on your Apple TV.

BeachDaze on Apple TV after dark: tonight's moon, the next high tide and the blue light window, in warm dimmed tones

Help and policies

Support & FAQ Location, choosing a tide station, UV index, the two views and offline use - plus how to get in touch. Privacy policy Works offline. No account, no personal data collected, no third-party tracking.

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