Swim Guide

Name: Swim Guide
Rating: 3.6 (39 reviews)
Author: Swim Drink Fish Canada

By: Swim Drink Fish Canada

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Features & Capabilities

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Swim Guide is a website and smartphone app for iPhone®. Swim Guide delivers free up-to-date water quality information for over 8,000 beaches, lakes, rivers, and swimming holes in Canada, the U.S., Mexico, the Bahamas, Australia and New Zealand.

Swim Guide provides you with current recreational water quality information for your favourite beaches and swimming holes. Every beach is marked with a Green or Red icon so you know when the water at your favourite beach is clean for swimming and when the water quality is failed to recreational water quality criteria.

As of 2019, Swim Guide is the most popular beach information service in the world, with over 4-million all time users.

Finding a beach with clean, swimmable water for you and your family is easy with Swim Guide:

Find the cleanest closest beaches to you by browsing the map or by searching
Beach descriptions tell you about amenities, lifeguards, where to park, and everything else you need to know to enjoy a day at the beach.
Green icon tells you your beach passed water quality tests
Red icon tells you the water quality failed water quality test
Date/time stamp tells you when a water quality status was last updated in Swim Guide
Historical status tells you percentage of time that a beach passed water quality tests in the last year
Source information section tells you who samples the water at each beach and what recreational water quality guidelines apply
Discover a wide variety of beaches, ranging from city parks to remote lakes ideal for camping
Get directions to the beach of your choice
Bookmark your favourite beaches for easy access
Use the app to share beaches with your friends and family
Original descriptions of 8,000+ different beaches, so you can learn a bit of history and geography as you explore

Get involved! Use the Swim Guide to report pollution, support your local water organizations, and learn about the issues facing your homewaters.

Swim Guide is the only charity app of its kind, made by Swim Drink Fish Canada (formerly Lake Ontario Waterkeeper).

Visit us online for more info: www.theswimguide.org

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Swim Drink Fish Canada

Rating:

3.60

(39)

Version:

3.7.4 Last updated: 2026-04-02

Version code:

884026766

Creation date:

2011-05-10

Compatible devices:

Size:

51.62MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-05

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 236,481 ▼ 465

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Developed by:

Swim Drink Fish Canada

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swim-guide/id435811871

Website:

https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/

User Reviews

The Swim Guide app provides water-quality data and a helpful beach-finder with pollution reporting, useful for planning trips and avoiding unsafe beaches. However, multiple reviews note UI/navigation problems on newer iPhones, uneven data coverage with many beaches showing gray status, and reliability issues like crashes and connectivity failures. While valued by users, improvements in data completeness and stability are needed to realize its full potential.

Pros

Water quality information for beaches with color-coded status and pollution reporting.
Easy-to-use tool to locate beaches and check water quality for planning trips.
Helpful for avoiding closures due to pollution and staying informed about local water quality.
Longstanding app with updates and broad user adoption.

Cons

UI/navigation problems on newer iPhone models (back button not working, header obscured, touch targets too small).
Incomplete data coverage and gray/unavailable data for many beaches, with regional gaps (e.g., Rhode Island, New Jersey, New England).
Stability and connectivity issues, including frequent crashes and intermittent internet connectivity.

Recent reviews

App claims to provide up to date information but on the locations I sampled on the NC coast have not been updated since July of 2025 even though it reports that the sites are sampled bi weekly.