Live USGS · NOAA · NWS · NDBC feeds

The operating system for guides & outfitters.

Live water and weather, every waypoint, your whole trip calendar, and the books. One instrument for the people who guide for a living, in the field and back at the truck.

Guide Optik catalog of rivers, buoys and tide stations
Guide Optik home screen with weather, schedule and tracked rivers
Guide Optik offline satellite map with waypoints

// Every reading pulled straight from the source

  • USGS stream gauges
  • NOAA marine
  • NWS weather
  • NDBC buoys
  • CO-OPS tides
  • USGS quads
  • Esri · Maxar imagery

The field

Everything the day asks of you, in the order you ask it.

No tabs to hunt through at dawn. The water, the weather and the run, on one calm screen before you ever leave the truck.

Your water

Live water, never a guess.

Bookmark any river, buoy or tide station and Optik pins CFS, gage height and forecasts to your home screen, banded prime, high or marginal at a glance.

Carried offline,
into the canyon.

Satellite, hybrid and USGS contour layers cached for where the signal drops.

The books, on the ramp.

Log fuel, flies, tags and shuttle fees in seconds. Clean CSV when taxes come.

Hand off the overflow.

Pass a trip to a trusted guide with the details attached. They accept, you're covered.

Private sync, end to end.

Your waypoints, trips, documents and the books follow you across every device you carry into the field, encrypted and yours alone.

01 / The catalog

Bookmark the water you run.

Search every river, buoy and tide station by name or ID, grouped by region. Tap the bookmark and Optik starts tracking it, with live readings pinned to your home screen.

  • USGS, NOAA and NDBC stations in one catalog
  • Filter by rivers, buoys or tides
Guide Optik catalog screen listing rivers and buoys by region

02 / The map

Every layer, into the canyon.

Satellite, hybrid and topographic basemaps with USGS contours, cached for the country where the signal drops. Drop waypoints for ramps, seams and camps right where you stand, then carry them offline.

  • Hybrid, satellite and contour layers
  • Waypoints and basemaps carried offline
Guide Optik hybrid satellite map of the Washington coast

03 / The day

The whole day, in one glance.

Weather, the day's schedule and your tracked water on a single quiet home screen. Book a trip, read the run, and see what the rivers are doing before you ever leave the truck.

  • Weather, schedule and rivers in one view
  • Book and open trips in a tap
Guide Optik home screen with weather, schedule and tracked rivers

One app, two seasons

Fishing by summer.
Hunting by fall.

Flip the domain and Optik re-speaks itself. Rivers become units, CFS becomes game activity, prime stays prime. Same instrument, your language.

Your rivers

Yakima · Cle ElumPrime
Skagit · MarblemountHigh
Hood Canal · buoy 46Marginal

CFS · gage height · marine forecast

I used to check four sites and a paper tide chart before sunrise. Now it's one screen, and it's right.

A working steelhead guide Skagit & Olympic Peninsula

Before first light

The margin between a good day and a blown one is a single glance.

While you sleep, Optik reads every gauge, buoy and forecast on your water. By the time you reach for the phone in the dark, the call is already made.

Your water, right now
Yakima · Cle Elum 1,240CFS Prime
Skagit · Marblemount 9,910CFS High
Hood Canal · buoy 46 2.4ft Marginal

USGS · NDBC · NOAA, pulled live

Carry the outdoors in your pocket.

Free to start. Your waypoints, trips and the books sync privately across every device you carry into the field.