# Urge Surfer: Ride the Wave

> Health & Fitness

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6767003624](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6767003624)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id6767003624`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Abhay Katheria
- **Category:** Health & Fitness
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-11
- **First published:** 2026-08-11
- **Size:** 27 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/urge-surfer-ride-the-wave/id6767003624)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://urgesurfer.app/privacy.html](https://urgesurfer.app/privacy.html)

## Description

Feel the pull? Open the app, name the urge, set a timer, and ride the wave. Most cravings pass in
under five minutes. Private by design — nothing ever leaves your phone.

Cravings are waves. They rise, they peak, they pass. Urge Surfer teaches you to ride them out instead of fighting them.

Most quit-and-recovery apps shame you for feeling the urge — broken-streak alarms, red banners, 
guilt calendars. Urge Surfer does the opposite. When you feel the pull, you open the app, name the urge,
set a timer, and ride the wave. Every craving has a half-life, usually under five minutes if
you don't act on it. That's a mindfulness technique called urge surfing, and this app does one thing well: it helps you wait the wave out.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Pick what you're surfing — 12 presets (cigarette, vape, alcohol, coffee, sugar, weed, social media, shopping, and more), or add your own.
• Set a timer — 1, 3, 5, 10, or 15 minutes. Most waves pass before the bell.
• Ride it out — an animated breathing circle guides a calming 4-7-8 cycle. Adjust the intensity slider mid-surf. The timer keeps running even if you background or force-quit the app.
• Cave without shame — one tap logs it, asks what pulled you under (stress, boredom, habit, after
a meal…), and offers a retry. No judgment.
• Celebrate — capture a victory selfie with five overlay styles, save it to a private album, and s
hare it if you want.
• See your patterns — a heatmap by day and hour, your top triggers ranked, and a success rate for
every urge.
• Honest streaks — days since your last slip, not a fragile "log every day or lose it" counter. Silence never breaks your streak.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account. No sign-up. No backend. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. Everything — your name, you
r urges, your logs, your photos — stays in your device's sandbox and never leaves it. The app does
 not call home.

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE
Urge Surfer is free and fully open source under the AGPL-3.0 license. You can read every line, fil
e an issue, or contribute.

Whatever you're trying to quit — cigarettes, vaping, alcohol, sugar, doomscrolling — the next wave
 is coming. Learn to surf it.

Urge Surfer is a self-help tool and is not a substitute for professional medical or mental-health
care.

## Rankings

- #1,106,549 — Overall

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6767003624)