Kayak Flow
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Know when to paddle.
Invite someone along.
Know when to paddle.
Invite someone along.
Kayak Flow combines tides, currents, wind, and weather into a single 10-day picture, matched to your comfort level, at your launch site. Built by and for Pacific Northwest paddlers.
Stop cross-referencing tide tables, weather apps, and current maps to figure out which days will be right for you. Kayak Flow tells you which hours over the next 10 days are genuinely good, not just passable.
When a run of gold stars is forecast for an upcoming Saturday morning, you'll know it before you've had your coffee. Text a friend. Make a plan. Have a great day on the water.
Set your limits.
Find your window.
Set your limits.
Find your window.
Set your own comfort thresholds for temperature, wind, gusts, rain, and water current speed. Kayak Flow checks the forecast conditions for every hour of the next 10 days and marks the good ones with a gold star.
In the tide chart, you can see at a glance how conditions stack up against your preferences. Tap any hour to see the full picture: tide height, current speed and direction, wind, gusts, cloud cover, and precipitation — plus high/low tides and sunrise/sunset for the day.
If your launch site has a beach that turns to mud at low tide, or loses access at high water, set those limits and the app factors that in as well.
Tailored for the
Pacific North West
Tailored for the
Pacific North West
Quickly add the sites where you like to paddle to get the conditions that matter to you.
If you are at the water, create a new launch site and the app will search for tide and current locations near you. Planning ahead? Enter a location in advance and it will get the nearest stations to that site to give you the best data.
Tide and weather data are available for any NOAA-covered coastline in the US. Set up as many launch sites as want — each one links to a nearby NOAA tide station, with an optional current station for speed and direction data.
Current speed data is most reliable in Puget Sound area of the Salish Sea, where NOAA's gauges are numerous and well-positioned for surface paddlers. Outside Puget Sound, tide and weather data remain fully available — current data may be less precise or unavailable at some locations.
See all conditions
at a glance
See all conditions
at a glance
The main tide chart gives you a quick view of all the conditions that matter to you. The best times are starred. The challenging conditions are highlighted in red.
We let you know the
good times.
We let you know the
good times.
Opt into a morning notification and Kayak Flow will check conditions at your launch site and tell you when good windows are coming up. If the forecast looks promising, it tells you which days and times are best.
It's the nudge that gets you out of the house and onto the waters you love.
We don't overdo it with notifications. If you stop using the app, the notifications will stop automatically.
The notifications are specific to you. We let you know when conditions at your launch sites match your comfort settings.
Your data never leaves
your phone.
Your data never leaves
your phone.
No account required. No login.
No one harvesting your preferences or selling your paddling habits. Everything you enter, your launch sites, your comfort thresholds, your settings, lives only on your device.
The app pulls tide, current and weather data comes from NOAA and Apple WeatherKit using public services that don't require any of your personal information.
Kayak Flow puts it all together and stores everything locally, only on your device.
Please note:
Kayak Flow uses forecast data from NOAA tide, current, and weather sources to provide general planning reference only. It does not provide navigation guidance or safety recommendations. Conditions change rapidly and may differ from forecasts. Always verify official sources and exercise personal judgment before launching.
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