Live river flows, runnable sections, widgets and Android Auto — for kayakers.
RiverPulse is in testing ahead of its public release. Android 8.0 or newer. Norwegian rivers only — see where the data comes from.
RiverPulse shows live discharge (m³/s) and water level for Norwegian rivers, straight from NVE's official hydrological stations — built for kayakers who decide where to paddle based on flow.
Your favourite rivers as cards: current discharge, a trend arrow, and a 48-hour trace behind the number, so you can see whether the river is rising, dropping or steady.
Define your own stretches with the window they work in — “Canyon, 20–60 m³/s”. Green when it is in range, red when it is too low or too high.
Every card carries its sections as chips, so “is anything runnable right now?” is answered without opening a single river.
7 days, 30 days, 3 months or a full year. The year view shows the whole season — autumn rain, winter low water, the spring melt flood — so you can judge whether today is high or low for the time of year.
A single-river card widget you configure per placement, and a compact list widget with a go/no-go count for every favourite. Both follow your light or dark theme.
One river on the car screen with flow, level, trend and the go/no-go summary. Previous and next step through your favourites, and it reopens on the river you looked at last.
NVE names gauges, not runs. Rename any river to what you and your mates call it, and drag the list into the order you actually paddle.
Two timestamps, never conflated: when NVE measured the water, and when the app last reached NVE. Readings older than 90 minutes are marked outdated rather than dressed up as live.
Scroll sideways. Captured on a phone, at real flows.
Every number in RiverPulse comes from the Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate (NVE) hydrological API. Around 4,900 active stations across Norway are searchable, and you can add any of them. Stations that publish only water level work too, showing level as the headline figure instead of discharge.
River data © NVE, licensed under the Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD). RiverPulse is not affiliated with or endorsed by NVE.
Flow figures describe a gauge, not a rapid. A number in range is not a guarantee that a river is safe to paddle: wood, ice, debris and changes since the last reading are all invisible to a measuring station. Scout, read the water, and make your own call.