# Swim Guide

> Reference

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id435811871](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id435811871)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id435811871`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Swim Drink Fish Canada
- **Category:** Reference
- **Rating:** 3.60 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.7.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-11
- **First published:** 2011-05-10
- **Size:** 64 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swim-guide/id435811871)
- **Website:** [https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/](https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/](https://www.swimdrinkfish.ca/)

## Description

** As seen on USA Today, CBC, CBC Radio, Radio Canada, Huffington Post, LA Times, Water Canada, ABC News, Men's Journal, National Post, and Mashable. **

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

## Rankings

- #210,931 — Overall

## Review summary

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.

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