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Know before you go.

Down the Cove is the app for a day on the UK coast — casting off a pier, taking the kids crabbing off a harbour wall, or smoking what you brought home. Tide times, a day-by-day score, and a logbook that does the remembering.

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It runs in your browser today and installs to your home screen in two taps. The App Store and Google Play versions are on their way.

The Coast screen showing today's conditions for Padstow with fishing, crabbing and smoking each scored

Should I go?

Every day for the next week is scored for three things — sea fishing, family crabbing, and food smoking — from wind, gusts, rain, pressure trend and daylight, plus official tide predictions. It always shows the reasons, and it will tell you plainly when a day is not worth it.

The seven-day conditions screen with high and low water times

Tides you can trust

High and low water from the UK Hydrographic Office's ADMIRALTY service, for 607 stations around the coast. Pick your spot once and every screen follows it — the scores, the sun times, the lot.

The catch log showing totals, personal bests and logged catches with the weather stamped on

A logbook that fills itself in

Log a catch in seconds and the app stamps the day's conditions on it. After a few entries it starts showing what your best sessions had in common. It lives on your phone and works with no signal at all.

A catch-to-plate species guide for mackerel

Catch to plate

Eighteen species followed from the water to the table in our own voice — when and where, how to handle them, and what to do with them once they are home. Guides and recipes read in the app and save for a day with no signal.

Putting it on your home screen

There is nothing to download from a store yet. Open the app in your phone's browser and add it — it then opens full screen, like any other app, and keeps working when the signal goes.

iPhone & iPad

  1. Open the app in Safari
  2. Tap the Share button
  3. Choose “Add to Home Screen”

Android

  1. Open the app in Chrome
  2. Tap the menu (three dots)
  3. Choose “Install app” or “Add to Home screen”

Straight answers

Does it cost anything?
No. The app is free and there is nothing to unlock. We sell fishing tackle, crabbing kits and smoking woods, and the shop is in there — but nothing about the app depends on you buying anything.
Do I need an account?
Only for order history and to enter the monthly competition. Tides, scores, guides, recipes, the planner and your logbook all work signed out.
Where do the tides come from?
The UK Hydrographic Office's official ADMIRALTY service, for 607 stations. Weather comes from MET Norway. Both are guidance for planning a day out, never a substitute for looking at the water in front of you.
Is my logbook private?
It is stored on your own phone. It only leaves it if you sign in and choose to back it up, and you can export the whole thing or delete it in one tap from Settings.
Will there be a proper App Store version?
Yes. The store release is being prepared. Installing it from the browser now means you keep everything when it lands.
Open the appJust the tide times