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Buranimal Surfline review
Overall pretty good job even though I like giving you guys a hard time online, the reports are pretty on with the occasional early or late call , but appreciate those when I’m on it 🤣🤙🏽
What I could say is putting a few cams that are specifically for people to download clips , people love themselves and I think that would be a lucrative move as far as gaining and keeping subscribers. Ex, if you put a cam on the surf Museum or the roof of the snack shack/bathrooms at the lane guys could get really good evening clips at the slot . Even cameras on the piers themselves, with higher definition so people can zoom in crop and still have good useable content. Evening and morning angles to avoid glare .. etc
Anyway there’s my 14 cents .. (inflation)
Hope it helps 🤙🏽Show lessBuranimal
Go to surf forecasting app
Surfline has been a staple for Surfers for over a decade. As a professional rescuer, I rely on Surfline to gather all surf forecast data the fastest and easiest. From current conditions, to tide forecasts, wind and buoy data, Surfline combines everything you need for a quick and reliable look at the day and upcoming conditions.
An essential service from the occasional beach-goer to the avid surfer, up to professionals and rescuers, Surfline really is the industry standard.
The new app format was a little hard to transition to, but once you’re used to the layout, it makes sense and gives you the data you need.Show lessBeetle Buggy
Current version is a bust
This latest update took something that worked well and made it harder to use, less intuitive, and more time consuming. Once they fix these annoying issues I’ll change this review to a 5 star.
More specifically, before you could learn the current tide, what the tide is going to, and watch current conditions all from the live cam at the same time. Scrolling to different live cams is now a pain as the scroll under favorites starts at your first favorite rather than setting the scroll from the cam you’re on. That and line graphs of the individual swell heights and angles are gone, now we just see bar graphs and numbers, which is lame.Show lessTodos Santos
New version is design over function
Reviewing the latest version, which prioritizes a pretty design over user needs. Surfline used to provide a way to check all the different spots, buoys, wind, and tides to get an idea of where I wanted to surf and when. With the latest update all the visuals have been turned into singular simplified icons of what’s going on right now, which is helpful if i want to surf now…but you can just look at the cam for “now” conditions. 90% of the utility was being able to synthesize the visuals of tide, swell, and wind over the next few hours and know what conditions it would lead to at your spots. That stuff is all fragmented around different parts of the app now and all that utility is gone for me. It’s painful and a lot of effort to get the information I used to get in a few seconds with a quick glance at my spots.Show lessdogetothemfmoon
Great app
I like how it now lets you go to the next saved spot in order. (Before you used to have to scroll all the way back and forth to find the next one in the list). I wish they would fix Doheny state beaches camera. It now shows the river mouth instead of the main beach. It’s also great how you can zoom in as well. The “sessions” feature is cool too, but it could use some tweaking so that it only “records” when you actually catch a wave, instead of every wave out there, so you don’t have to delete most of them. If that is even possible. It’s not the end of the world if it can’t be done.Show lessA Surfguy
Unusable for free users now
I’ve used Surfline for over a decade and I’m sad to say the new update has ruined the experience. What used to be a 5 star free app (and an even better premium app) is now worthless if you want to keep tabs on conditions throughout the week.
Before the update free users had access to non-premium cams at 30 second intervals with ads in between as well as limited forecasts. While premium users had access to more robust and ad free features, both versions of the app worked wonderfully.
Now free users can only use the app 3 times per week meaning the app will often become unusable for days. Also what’s the point of premium and non premium cams now if free users are locked out from accessing anything at all? I’d rather sit through ads than have a useless app on my phone half the week (not to mention you get locked out of the desktop website as well).
Obviously this is an attempt to force free users into a paid subscription (which I have been in the past), but after developers chose to intentionally break their free experience to force subscriptions I have no intention of giving them money. Use magic seaweed instead.Show lessCasey SD
Surf check update is a bust
Once the app updated to this new “surf check” model for free accounts, the app lost is worth for all the free users in Surfline. Before you had unlimited surf checks and could check any surf break you wanted multiple times a day. You could only see a 3 day forecast and couldn’t see premium cams but that was okay. Now you are only given 5 checks per week! But are given a 15 day forecast instead of 3, even though the forecast changes every day. You really need to check for the forecast on the given day you want to see the real forecast. This ruined my experience of the app. I can’t even check the see everyday of the week. I could only check one spot 5 days a week. Completely useless. All surfers know that you have to go “scout” the spots and find the best spot. This app used to be useful for that but now is irrelevant. This update was a huge marketing ploy to get free users to switch to premium by reducing the usefulness of the app to free users trying to coral them into buying the premium version so they could get back the functionality they had before as a free user. Money move by Surfline and not for the people. Give back the functionality for free users to check unlimited spots and remove the whole surf check feature. The app is useless with that feature. I will be using other surf forecasting apps so I can actually check the surf and no be limited to a weekly limit on my “surf checks”Show lessJffjn
Developer Response
Thank you for this feedback. There's one line above that I want to make sure to address: "I could only check one spot 5 days a week". With Surf Checks, you should be able to check unlimited spots in a single session. You must be signed in to get this. I would love to speak on the phone and get more feedback if you write to support@surfline.com and ask for David. Thanks again!Surf Checks=thumbs down
First of all this app is amazing, i love everything about it besides a couple of the new features. I love how the app gives me tides, wave height, forcast, water temp it has everything. The free account treated me well until they added a feature only allowing you to view info 3 times and then you have to wait 2 days for another 3 surf checks. I use this app everyday considering it is the summer time and also the fact that i am a lifeguard at my beach. so the surf check feature, kinda ruins the app for me. if they were to maybe make it so some info is block and can only be seen when you purchase the subscription, it would make the app so much better, instead of the surf check feature.Show lesssurfing lifeguard
Pretty rad!
Surfline is a great resource and I really like it for forecasting and just checking out waves in different parts of the world. Giving it four stars at the time of rating instead of five stars because there are some differences between using the app vs using the web browser in terms of information about scouting new beaces. It would also be nice to have a social aspect to it for rating beaches or arraning meetups. Overall it’s a great app but I would actually like to spend more time on it then i normally do and profiles would help with that. Surfline as a resource five out of five stars.Show lessCoin purse
Great info not always accurate
As we become more reliant on swell models and news to tell us what to expect and when to plan a trip we rely more and more on companies like Surfline, with there forecasting and historic information we can plan trips months in advance and have a much smaller chance of being skunked. That said there local forecasting could use a little boost in accuracy 3-4 and it’s solid 6ft that’s a nice surprise, but 6-7 occ. 8 and it’s 2-4ft? Now that’s a serious disappointment... unfortunately the later has been happening far too often lately and the swells are hitting 1-2 days before or after their predictions forecast. That said conditions change, models are not always accurate, it’s weather so you can’t expect perfection unless you are in a wave pool. That’s said it’s a valuable tool that I use daily. Thank you!Show lessKamran Adlparvar
