SurfPick: Best Spot Nearby Now

Don't drive to a flat beach. SurfPick ranks the 10 nearest breaks by wave, wind & swell — Free shows the top 3, Pro unlocks the rest. Tap and go.

You've got an hour. Where do you go?

Surf Pick is a live surf forecast app that ranks the 10 nearest breaks near you right now. No graphs. No browsing. Just the spot — the one to drive to.

Built for surfers who want to spend the hour in the water, not on a forecast site comparing six tabs.

HOW IT WORKS

Open the app. It finds your location, pulls live wave height, period, wind and tide for the closest breaks, and ranks them by quality. Green means go. Amber means maybe. Red means sit this one out. Tap any spot for full conditions, or tap Get Directions to drive there in Google Maps or Apple Maps.

FREE

• The top 3 nearest spots, ranked by quality
• Traffic-light rating — green, amber, or red at a glance
• One-tap directions to whichever spot wins
• Live wave reports and tide charts from Open-Meteo's marine forecast
• Tap-through detail screen with 24-hour tide chart and full swell data

PRO — $4.99 one-time

• All 10 nearest spots, not just the top 3
• Home-screen widget showing today's pick
• Auto-CarPlay widget on iOS 26 — your pick on the dashboard
• One-time payment. No subscription. Yours forever.

WHY THIS APP EXISTS

The #1 spot on the list is the one you should drive to. The whole point of the app is removing the comparison step.

WORLDWIDE COVERAGE

600+ surf spots are bundled in the app, from Bondi to Pipeline to Praia do Norte. If a local spot is missing or in the wrong place, tap Report on the detail screen and the developer fixes it in the next update.

PRIVACY

No accounts. No logins. No analytics. No ads. No tracking.

Your location is used on your device only and is never sent to a server. The only network calls Surf Pick makes are to Open-Meteo's free public weather API, and those calls only contain the coordinates of the surf spots being looked up — not yours.

Built independently in Australia. Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).