Surfbreak — Surf Forecast & Wave Tracker for iPhone & Apple Watch

Features

Two halves of the same morning

Deciding whether to go, and knowing what you got. Surfbreak does both, and nothing else.

Hour by hour, not morning-noon-night

Wave size, period and swell direction for every hour of the next seven days — scrub the day and watch the sky above the numbers change with it.

Wind you can act on

Not just a number: OFFSHORE, CROSS-OFF or onshore, worked out against the way the break actually faces. You know before you get in the car.

The tide, drawn

The whole curve for the day with the level at the hour you're looking at — the thing that decides whether a break works at all.

Waves counted for you

Start a session on your wrist and forget it. Rides are found by speed while you surf — there is nothing to press out there, and nothing to remember on the way home.

Every wave on its own map

Tap a ride and see the line you drew on the water, with its distance, duration, top and average speed.

Sessions that follow you

The watch hands each session to your iPhone by itself. Add an account and they back up to the cloud, then come back on a new phone — or stay a guest and keep everything on the device.

Forecast

The whole day, one screen

Pick an hour and everything moves with it — the tide, the size, the wind, even the colour of the sky behind the numbers. No scrolling through a table to find out when it turns on.

Wave size, period and swell direction, hour by hour
Wave energy in kilojoules — what separates a chest-high wall from chest-high mush
Wind as a compass, labelled the way surfers say it
Water temperature, so you know what to wear
Seven days ahead, refreshed through the day

Surfbreak forecast for Canggu: tide curve, wave energy, size, period, swell direction and sea temperature by the hour

183 spots across Indonesia

7 days of forecast, updated through the day

24 h every hour of it, one at a time

4 languages: English, Indonesian, Spanish, Russian

Satellite map of Bali with Surfbreak spot pins clustered along the coast

Spots

From Bali to the Mentawais

183 breaks across Indonesia — Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Java and the Mentawai Islands. Map or list, both open the same forecast.

Satellite map that stays smooth from island view down to the beach
Search by spot or by region
Star your regulars — favourites sit up top with today's wind and energy
Countries sorted by how close they are to you, nearest first

Wave counting

Start it on your wrist.
Then just surf.

No button in the water, no arguing about the count in the car park. The watch reads GPS and motion for the whole session, finds the rides by speed, and hands you the numbers when you paddle in.

Waves ridden, longest ride, best wave time, top and average speed
Metres riding and metres paddling, measured the same way so they add up
Heart rate and calories, straight into Apple Health
Every wave replayed on its own map, with its own numbers

Session summary in Surfbreak: nine waves with distance and top speed, then longest wave, wave riding, paddling, heart rate and calories

A single wave in Surfbreak drawn on the map with distance, duration, max and average speed

1
Start on the Watch

Nothing to configure. The ready screen already shows your spot and the water level, so the last thing you read before paddling out is whether it's worth it.
2
Just surf

GPS and motion keep running with your wrist down and the screen dark. Rides are found by speed as they happen, and the counter on the watch keeps up while you're still out.
3
Paddle in

The session moves to your iPhone by itself — every wave on the map, the totals underneath, and an honest note if the GPS lost you for a stretch.

Nothing to press in the water Distance measured by Doppler Works with Apple Health

Surfbreak session list: Canggu, Uluwatu and Bingin with waves, longest ride and duration

Session detail in Surfbreak with wave tracks on the map and a note that GPS was silent for part of the session

Sessions

A logbook that fills itself

Every session lands with its spot already attached, its waves already counted and its track already drawn. Nothing to write up afterwards.

The spot is matched from where you actually surfed
Waves, longest ride and duration on every card in the list
When the GPS goes quiet, the session says so instead of pretending
Recalculate the waves on an old session, or export the raw track

Apple Watch

Built for the wrist that's in the water

The watch app is not a remote control for the phone — it is the half that records. Where other apps put speed, Surfbreak puts the tide: between waves you are sitting still, and the water level is the thing that's actually changing.

Water level and the next high or low, right on the workout screen
Live wave count while you're still out there
Complications and ready-made watch faces for the tide at a glance
End the session with the Digital Crown — no tapping a wet screen

Surfbreak watch face complications: sunrise countdown, water level with the tide curve, wave energy and wind

FAQ

Questions, answered

Do I need an Apple Watch?

For the forecast, no — that half is the iPhone app, and it is the whole reason most people open Surfbreak. For counting waves, yes: the tracking runs on the watch's own GPS and motion sensors, because that is the device that goes in the water with you.

How does it tell a wave from a paddle?

By speed, against a threshold that adapts to the session rather than a fixed number — then a ride has to hold that speed long enough, cover enough ground and keep a steady course to count. Foam and fast paddling get thrown out by the same rules that keep the short, sharp rides in.

How is the distance of a wave measured?

From the Doppler speed your watch reports, integrated over the ride — not by joining up GPS dots. At the accuracy a wrist in the water gets, the dots jitter by metres between fixes, which either inflates a ride or throws away real metres along with the phantom ones.

What if the GPS drops out?

Sometimes it does — a wrist underwater is a hard place to hold a satellite fix. When the coverage of a session is poor, Surfbreak says so on the session itself: "GPS was silent for ~N min. Waves in that time couldn't be recorded." A gap that reads as "nothing happened" would be worse than an honest one.

Which spots are covered?

183 breaks across Indonesia: Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Java and the Mentawai Islands.

Do I need an account?

No. Guest mode is the whole app, and it works with the radio off. Sign in with Apple or Google and your sessions back up to the cloud and come back on a new phone. You can delete the account, and everything in it, from inside the app.

Which languages does it speak?

English, Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish and Russian — with the units and compass points translated too. The surf jargon stays in English, because offshore is what surfers say everywhere.

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