Swim Guide
Swim Drink Fish Canada Reference iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Swim Guide is a free Reference app for iPhone and iPad by Swim Drink Fish Canada. Rated 3.6/5 from 39 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 21, 2026.
- Rating
- 3.6
- 39 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 64 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 21
- 2026 · v3.7.9
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About Swim Guide
** 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
Ratings & reviews
3.6
39 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.7.9 · Updated October 21, 2026
Blue Flag beaches now show their water quality too. - Beaches with the Blue Flag designation display a Blue Flag badge next to their latest water quality status, instead of replacing it. - The badge appears on the beach page and in beach lists. - Blue Flag beaches are easy to spot on the map. - Bug fixes and improvements.
App privacy
The developer, Swim Drink Fish Canada, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
- Location: Precise Location, Coarse Location
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
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