TIDE: Sleep, Focus, Meditation

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1. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

   Once great... They took free features I relied on put them behind a subscription. Things I used for free previously are no longer so. Sad to have to stop using this app, but I refuse to pay to change the breath frequency, that's absolutely ridiculous. Thanks for giving me a reason to redownload Calm :)

2. ★★★★★other

   衷心建议. 打开闹钟，打开网易云或b站，选择潮汐声音单集循环播放，睡觉^_^ 任何花里胡哨要注册的，为了睡觉十五分钟设置不好还要坐起来设置的app都不应该存在你的手机里!!!

3. ★★★★★other

   大部分都是女性声音，可选择范围很少。. 用户多半是女性用户，几乎每个冥想都是女性声音，想换个沉稳的男声都没有可选，设计师，你们是怎么想的，做过用户调研吗？ 一帮理工男哎

4. ★★★★★other

   Quotations. I have used this app for daily inspirational quotations for a few years or so, but today's quote (July 31, 2025) caused me to pause and do some research. Not only does it begin oddly, but it seems to not be an authentic quote from the noted author, Alfred Adler. This is a bit disturbing, but I was a free version user. How many other times has this happened?

5. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

   It’s broken now. App is not opening at all

6. ★★★★★forced phone number signup

   SORRY! I’m NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU MY PHONE NUMBER TO SIGN UP. PASS.. IM NOT GIVING YOU MY PHONE NUMBER TO SIGN UP. PASS…

7. ★★★★★forced phone number signup

   Even a simple white noise app forces me to log in with a phone number. As title says.

8. ★★★★★forced phone number signup

   Can’t Log In!!. Been using the app for 4 years now and recently had to factory reset my phone as it has been buggy. When I redownload the app, it won’t let me log in! it allows me to do it at first then demands a phone number be attached and when I try to it says I’ve reached the digit limit and cannot log in. I’ve even tried going onto my iPad where I’m logged in and manually entering information there but it won’t work. Really sad as I’ve been using this app for years now

9. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

   调节音量收钱逆天. 什么时候开放免费音乐融合，j这都要收钱逆天，安卓免费的功能，ios就要收钱，什么逆天开发者，刚发现隔壁家小睡眠免费能单独调节音量

10. ★★★★★update made navigation worse

    太烂了. 新版操作复杂，找不到想听的声音，弱智一样

11. ★★★★★focus timer and pomodoro sessions

    Best pomodoro app out there, could have a few improvements. Update: 2025-02-03 I have used this app since 2019. Loved it. Until today when I launched a focus session and then it completely blocked off all of the apps and did not allow me to open any of them. I don’t recall setting this up this way but it’s super creepy and so I have deleted it. I will be searching for another app that doesn’t feel quite as big brother-y and intrusive.

12. ★★★★★other

    非常失望. 7年前就下载该软件使用，软件越做越差，越来越臃肿，一些有的没得的乱七八糟的东西都加入进来。实在是受不了，注销账号，卸载软件了。第一次在app store写评论给差评，国产中文软件都一个德行，用户就是待宰的羔羊，毫无用户体验度可言。再见，再也不见，潮汐，一款用了7的软件。

13. ★★★★★sounds help sleep and relax

    How do I contact customer service?. How do I contact customer service? The Website and Support links in the App Store go to a page in Chinese that Google Translate can't translate. My iPhone app now makes an ocean noise on the Home screen. I can't figure out how to turn the background noise off. How do I turn it off?

14. ★★★★★update made navigation worse

    So many notifications. I don’t want notifications every two seconds about your faulty assumptions of my mood. You know why I’m stressed? Because this app notifies me every 2.4 minutes that I’m stressed. 🙄😒 I turned all notifications off in the app and I kept getting them. Eventually had to disable notifications for this app entirely in my iPhone‘s settings.

15. ★★★★★other

    سمسم. كلش حلو هذا البرنامج دا يفيدني اني و دا ادرس ب ال فوگس 💗💗🦋🥹

16. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    Terrible Changes. I’ve been with TIDE for four years (with paid subscription) and it went from an amazingly simple sound app to a horrendously complicated bloated application. You can do breathing exercises, you can do meditation, you can sleep, you can do HRV, you can connect to the new Apple Watch (btw loved that little commercial that you all programmed in there - NOT!) you can do this, you can do that!!! At some point, I’m sure they’ll even get it to do my laundry! Oh my gosh! I loved the simplicity and quickness of the app. But the changes over the past year have not only slowed the app (about 3 to 5 seconds to load each screen) but the latest update includes so many options that it’s ridiculous. If I wanted an insanely complicated app I would’ve signed up for Calm. Even with all this I put up with it, until now. I just needed some music to focus with and that process was just an absolute nightmare to accomplish. Not only do I have to wait 3 to 5 seconds for each topic in the sound section to load but it takes about 2-3 seconds to load the audio as it slowly fades in with a background. And now, if you realize that’s not the sound you want, and you decide to go back and choose another one, you have to confirm on a pop-up that Yes! I want to replace the currently playing audio with the new audio I just selected!!! Please stop with the Microsoft “are you sure you’re sure?” popup screens. I opened the app so I could get some nice serene music to focus and calm me down because work/computer had me mad. Only it did the opposite and brought to a new level of anger I can only describe as livid! Absolutely completely livid! Something that was supposed to be relaxing, simple, and useful is completely DREADFUL! I am done with this app! I’m done! I am canceling my subscription!

17. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

    The app is frozen. Please fix it.

18. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    Tide. Expensive! Plenty of choices. No way to set timer.

19. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    Very buggy and expensive. My experience is that if an app is more expensive, it will have more bugs. This app reinforces this experience. It can easily frozen your phone with one or two sound. Other sounds are very very expensive. Thinking about how simple to develop such app, this is really ridiculous.

20. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

    It’ll mess up your phone. The app caused my brand new phone to crash.

21. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

    开发者是怎么了？. 前一阵子更新后闪退，再更新后恢复；今天更新后又闪退，你们开发技术团队真可以开掉了。

22. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

    genuinely heartbroken. I am devastated by the current version of this app. I have used this app since the very beginning of its life. I remember the interface when it wasn’t even fully translated yet. I love this app, and I use it to sleep every night. But now I cant. Although the listing states Tide is compatible with my device and any device running iOS 12 or later, when I try to open the app I seea blank white screen and then it crashes. My iPad is getting old, I know, but it does work and I intend to get as much life out of it as I can. Using this old ipad for sleeping saves battery life on my newer devices. It is my hope that the next update will resolve this issue and I can return to using this wonderful, beloved app which has been a serene, peaceful part of my life for so many years. Thank you to the developers for your beautiful work. I hope you will see this as a worthy problem to fix.

23. ★★★★★app crashes and won't open

    Does not open. On my phone it works perfectly, but it does not work on my mac: it opens and immediately closes.

24. ★★★★★sounds help sleep and relax

    Great, when it works. This app is great when it works. I like the sound options and the smart alarm. BUT these features only work maybe half of the time. I always have to remember to set a second alarm because sometimes this alarm works and sometimes it just doesn’t. Also, if you set a sleep timer for nature sounds to help you fall asleep, sometimes it just goes right on playing all night long. I would rate it highly if it worked, but it just doesn’t do what it is supposed to do.

25. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    New Update. 03/09/2020: I’ve been using the app for years and even pay for membership. However, the app no longer opens and crashes every time I try to open it. Please fix. 03/27/2020: I love this app because it really helps me focus but it still doesn’t open. I pay for the annual membership, it’s a little upsetting that I’ve basically wasted my money on an app that I can’t use. 04/20/2019: I’ve contacted customer service and they told me to delete the app and reinstall. I did that but the app still opens to a black screen and then crashes less than a second later. I emailed customer service on the 1st of April and got a response the next day (April 2nd). I replied to them and they didn’t respond to me until I sent another email on April 10th and didn’t get a response until April 12th. I emailed back on the 13th, asked for a refund on the 14th and then again asked for a refund on April 18th. I haven’t heard from anyone since the 12th. I haven’t been able to use the app for months yet they don’t reply to my emails and it seems like they are refusing to give me a refund on my annual membership. Great app (when it works) but terrible customer service.

26. ★★★★★update made navigation worse

    New update is awful. The old design was a lot better.

27. ★★★★★sounds help sleep and relax

    Ruined. Used to be great. All the previously downloaded ambient sounds for focus time have been taken away, only to be restored for the price of sharing private information.

28. ★★★★★update made navigation worse

    They screwed it up. Loved this until latest update at the beginning of March. No longer intuitive. Harder to find the controls I want and had previously set. I’m on AppStore now looking for a replacement.

29. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    Loved it...until the latest update. I’ve been a Tide Plus member for around a year. I became one because the app was AMAZING and the additional sounds I could get were totally worth it. I use this app to focus daily and I use it to sleep every night. BUT this last update is killing me to the point where I’m wondering if it’s worth keeping my membership or if I’m better off finding another app. The new layout is touted as simpler but it’s way more difficult to get to stuff and especially to change the sound. I used to be able to change the sound in like two clicks when I was in the middle of a focus session. Now it’s five clicks AND it’s super easy to accidentally stop the sound when trying to change it. Plus it’s super easy to accidentally START the sound when I DONT want sound on yet. If I’m debating between two sounds before I start a focus and decide on one, I then have to turn the sound OFF before I start the focus or the sound doesn’t end when the focus does. 😑 It’s a massive pain. Not to mention it used to save the last sound used for focus, nap or sleep as in, a different sound for each and defaulted to that when entering a new session of that kind. Now I have to change the sound every single night and then again every morning when I use the focus. Why make it so difficult? Seriously, I hate it. Then there’s the “let me send you notifications” notification that pops up every single time I start ANY kind of session. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. 😡 I turned notifications off for a reason: I don’t want or need them. ITS A MASSIVE PAIN. Oh, and it’s now harder to see the daily pictures and quotes which was something I looked forward to every time I opened the app. I LOATHE this update Tide. Do you hear me? It’s utter crap. (Note I will be happy to update my review and rating if these issues are fixed. If not, you may end up losing a customer.)

30. ★★★★★paywall removed free features

    Exceeded the maximum time limit for restor. Really enjoyed the app but can no longer restore my purchases subscription. The error message is “exceed the maximum time limit for restore”. Will gladly change my review when my subscription works.