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What’s New Version 1.5
Widgets! You can now add Beachfinder widgets to your Home Screen to keep an eye on the tide and quality ratings of your favorites beaches.
Favorites now also sync between your devices to keep all your favorite places nicely organised.
Description
Water quality, weather and tides for all designated swimming areas in England and Wales.
Find the best beaches, check the tides and the weather, and swim in confidence and safety, with Beach Finder!
• View the latest UK Environment Agency data for swimming waters in England and Wales.
• Each location is colour coded on the map - see at a glance the best beaches!
• Location photo, local map, and travel time are shown.
• Weather forecast for each location, with wind direction and sea state.
• Tides for the current day and the week ahead.
• Wind direction and waste water outlets are shown on the location map.
• Charts for water-borne bacteria for up to 5 years (where available, England only)
• Extensive and informative reports about the water quality in every swimming area.
Ideal for families, surfers, dog walkers, horse riders, wild swimmers and holiday makers.
Also includes designated inland swimming areas.
(Please note - Scotland and Northern Island data is not currently available)
Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Version history 14 versions
Build 885807888v1.52026-05-18 21:41:33
Widgets! You can now add Beachfinder widgets to your Home Screen to keep an eye on the tide and quality ratings of your favorites beaches.
Favorites now also sync between your devices to keep all your favorite places nicely organised.
Build 884165923v1.42026-04-05 23:46:30
Pro features are now free to use.
Build 878041977v1.32025-09-12 16:37:36
This update adds support for the latest system software appearance and features.
Thank you for supporting BeachFinder
Build 875259180v1.22025-06-04 06:58:44
Adds the filter control to the map view - now you can filter down by water quality from the map view, for a more visual understanding of where the good beaches can be found.
Adds inland water filter control - show only coastal beaches by filtering out inland swimming locations.
Build 874471275v1.1.22025-05-02 17:39:14
Improves the way the news feed is refreshed and cached. Improved image quality for BBC news feed items.
Fixes for tidal information displaying at some inland locations.
Build 874343016v1.1.12025-04-28 16:42:48
BeachFinder News - a special news feed of all the important pollution and beach related stories for the UK from around the Web. Available for all users.
Filter by rating - find only the best (or the worst?!) beaches near you
Fixes for some images having an adverse affect on the news feed layout
Build 874217798v1.1.02025-04-23 20:07:48
BeachFinder News - a special news feed of all the important pollution and beach related stories for the UK from around the Web. Available for all users.
Filter by rating - find only the best (or the worst?!) beaches near you
Build 873247067v1.0.72025-03-14 21:11:29
Adds additional compatibility with the latest system.
Adds the ability to sort locations by proximity as well as name.
Remembers which tab of the app you had open, and whether you were viewing favourites or all items.
Tapping a point if interest on the map will open additional information about that location.
Build 865893705v1.0.62024-05-13 22:51:31
Good news: the Environment Agency has added new designated inland swimming waters! Hooray!
Bad news: they also changed the data format, which prevented Beach Finder from loading data. Boo!
Please install this update to fix the data loading issue, and get the new inland swimming locations.
Build 860618690v1.0.42023-10-12 17:59:42
Gallery view - more photos of each location* from Flickr
* including a few random seagulls, coaches and people in anoraks.
Build 860482645v1.0.22023-10-10 08:37:40
Surf's up!
New Pro feature: Predicted wave and swell heights and intervals, with an animated graph to visualise them.
Build 860540793v1.0.32023-10-10 16:01:55
More fixes and tweaks to support linking and sharing locations.
With this release, you should be able to share a location to friend using the share button, and they will see that location in the Beach Finder App Clip even if they don't have Beach Finder installed. Get sharing!
Build 860125116v1.02023-10-06 07:58:27
Build 860452433v1.0.12023-10-06 09:18:27
Adds promo code redemption button.
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Availability 1 of 1 storefronts
| Region | Language | Price | Ratings | Avg | Version |
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US | en-US | Free | 0 | — | 1.5 |
Change log 18 changes · US
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releaseNotes updated
Widgets! You can now add Beachfinder widgets to your Home Screen to keep an eye on the tide and quality ratings of your favorites beaches.
Favorites now also
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description updated
Water quality, weather and tides for all designated swimming areas in England and Wales.
Find the best beaches, check the tides and the weather, and swim in c
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subtitle updated
Tides, weather & water quality
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name updated
Beach Finder UK
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Version 1.5 released
Widgets! You can now add Beachfinder widgets to your Home Screen to keep an eye on the tide and quality ratings of your favorites beaches.
Favorites now also sync between your devices to keep all your favorite places nicely organised.
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Version 1.4 released
Pro features are now free to use.
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Version 1.3 released
This update adds support for the latest system software appearance and features.
Thank you for supporting BeachFinder
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Version 1.2 released
Adds the filter control to the map view - now you can filter down by water quality from the map view, for a more visual understanding of where the good beaches can be found.
Adds inland water filter control - show only coastal beaches by fi
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Version 1.1.2 released
Improves the way the news feed is refreshed and cached. Improved image quality for BBC news feed items.
Fixes for tidal information displaying at some inland locations.
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Version 1.1.1 released
BeachFinder News - a special news feed of all the important pollution and beach related stories for the UK from around the Web. Available for all users.
Filter by rating - find only the best (or the worst?!) beaches near you
Fixes for some
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Version 1.1.0 released
BeachFinder News - a special news feed of all the important pollution and beach related stories for the UK from around the Web. Available for all users.
Filter by rating - find only the best (or the worst?!) beaches near you
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Version 1.0.7 released
Adds additional compatibility with the latest system.
Adds the ability to sort locations by proximity as well as name.
Remembers which tab of the app you had open, and whether you were viewing favourites or all items.
Tapping a point if i
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Version 1.0.6 released
Good news: the Environment Agency has added new designated inland swimming waters! Hooray!
Bad news: they also changed the data format, which prevented Beach Finder from loading data. Boo!
Please install this update to fix the data loading
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Version 1.0.4 released
Gallery view - more photos of each location* from Flickr
* including a few random seagulls, coaches and people in anoraks.
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Version 1.0.3 released
More fixes and tweaks to support linking and sharing locations.
With this release, you should be able to share a location to friend using the share button, and they will see that location in the Beach Finder App Clip even if they don't ha
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Version 1.0.2 released
Surf's up!
New Pro feature: Predicted wave and swell heights and intervals, with an animated graph to visualise them.
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Version 1.0.1 released
Adds promo code redemption button.
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Version 1.0 released