# Dawn Patrol — user reviews > 451 indexed App Store user reviews of Dawn Patrol by Dawn Patrol Surf Tracking, rated 4.60/5 from 4,185 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dawn-patrol/id1161014179/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dawn-patrol/id1161014179.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,357 · 4★ 480 · 3★ 162 · 2★ 79 · 1★ 107 ## What do users think of Dawn Patrol? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🚀 Accurate wave tracking - 👍 Useful data and analytics - 🔒 Integrates well with Apple Watch - 💡 Innovative features like Surfline integration - 👍 Aesthetically pleasing interface **Cons** - 🐛 Inconsistent wave tracking and GPS accuracy - 🔋 High battery drain on Apple Watch - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - 🔒 Paywall for basic features like tide information - 👎 Poor customer support responsiveness **Commonly reported bugs** - Apple Watch complications not working properly - Incorrect wind/tide data displayed - Sessions not syncing correctly with phone app - App crashing on newer iOS/watchOS versions **Most requested features** - Add distance paddled metric - Allow manual editing of recorded waves - Improve Strava integration - Provide option to lock app to specific location ## Newest reviews (11 of 451) ### 2/5 — App Stability Still Wonky *2026-07-23, version 6.4.2* Still regularly crashes especially when naming new spots or adding things like ratings for the session, type of board used etc. There are also typos in the app like the word Threshold is spelled “tresold” in the HR section. Hopefully the Surfline acquisition will help stability and Accuracy. ### 3/5 — Crashes watch *2026-07-15, version 6.4.1* Keeps crashing my watch when I use the wheel to end a session. Other than that it tracks sessions quite well. ### 2/5 — Sync is a mess *2026-06-13, version 6.4.1* Constantly loses the board / session settings. After each session it blows away the last weeks worth of changes. Still can’t get such a basic thing right after all these years. ### 2/5 — Loses data *2026-06-13, version 6.4.1* Lost a couple of my sessions. When you try and press fields to access data it glitches and goes back to like you never pressed anything.So irritating. Fix and update. ### 2/5 — 心拍数が測れなくなった。 *2026-05-30* Apple Watch Series 7を使用しています。 仕様変更でしょうか？ 心拍数が表示されなくなった。 紐付けしているStravaに心拍数を含めアップしたいのに出来ない。 心拍数の表示お願いします。 **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that! Please reach out to our support team, they can fix this for you: support@dawnpatrol.cloud ### 3/5 — Inaccurate *2026-03-30, version 6.3.3* The tides are off, it does not record all the waves, it loses reception making it difficult to turn off and water temperature is way off. ### 3/5 — Could be great *2026-01-28, version 6.3.2* But unfortunately with Apple Watch only around 2 of 3 sessions actually register. The others just vanish. You go to look at your session later in the day and it just isn’t there. Still worth the price. ### 5/5 — Excellent suivi du surf, le meilleur depuis le « trace surf track » *2025-12-25* Excellent suivi du surf, le meilleur depuis Trace GPS Ancien utilisateur de « Trace GPS », qui reste à ce jour le système le plus abouti que j’aie connu (angles de rotation, hauteur des aerials, etc.), je n’avais encore rien retrouvé d’aussi complet depuis l’arrêt de ce service… jusqu’à Dawn Patrol. L’application offre un excellent suivi des sessions de surf et se rapproche clairement de ce qui se faisait de mieux auparavant. Elle est aujourd’hui, selon moi, la meilleure alternative disponible. Concernant les bugs mentionnés dans certains avis — notamment les sessions qui ne remontent pas sur le téléphone — il existe des solutions simples : • Il suffit d’être à proximité de l’iPhone au moment d’arrêter la session sur l’Apple Watch. • Sinon, directement depuis l’Apple Watch, ouvrir l’application Dawn Patrol, cliquer en haut à gauche pour accéder aux préférences, puis aller dans Suivi de surf. En faisant défiler tout en bas, on retrouve les sessions manquantes, qu’il est possible de renvoyer manuellement vers le téléphone. Une application très sérieuse, pensée par et pour les surfeurs. Je recommande sans hésiter. ### 4/5 — Última actualización.... *2025-12-01, version 6.2.2* Dejó de funcionar la app en Ultra 1 ### 5/5 — 11/28のアップデート *2025-12-01* 最近アップデートでデーターが消えてしまう不具合が多発している。 今回は日付と場所だけ残って、中身が消えてしまっている。 特に最近余計な機能が足されて、その代償に不安定なアプリになってきている。 余計な事しないでほしい。 4年間使い続けて、そのデーターが消えたらマジで悲惨。 **Developer response:** 私たちのチームは、データの信頼性を非常に重要なものとして真剣に受け止めています。すべてのアップデートの目的は、アプリを改善し、より安定して、誰にとっても使いやすく便利なものにすることです。決してユーザーの大切な情報を危険にさらすことが目的ではありません。このような問題が発生した場合は、原因を慎重に調査し、根本的な問題を修正して再発を防げるよう対応しています。 また、最近追加された機能についてのフィードバックも本当にありがたく思っています。いただいたご意見はとても貴重で、今後アプリを改善していく中で、安定性や信頼性をより優先していくための大きな参考になります。 もし可能でしたら、どのような状況で問題が発生したのか（ご利用の端末やアプリのバージョンなど）もう少し詳しく、サポートチームまでご連絡いただけますでしょうか。そうすることで、より詳しく状況を確認し、失われた内容の復元などお手伝いできることがないか調査することができます。 改めて、長年にわたりアプリをご利用いただき、また今回ご不安な点を共有してくださり本当にありがとうございます。皆さまに安心してご利用いただける、より良く信頼できるアプリにしていくため、これからも努力を続けてまいります。 ### 5/5 — Ótimo app! *2025-11-30* O melhor app para fazer uma agenda de sessões e ter contabilizado vários dados legais, mas as funcionalidades pagas são um tanto quanto "caras", para se ter somente por 1 ano. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Excellent suivi du surf, le meilleur depuis le « trace surf track » mais ne fonctionne plus 😔 *2026-08-27* Excellent suivi du surf, le meilleur depuis Trace GPS Ancien utilisateur de « Trace GPS », qui reste à ce jour le système le plus abouti que j’aie connu (angles de rotation, hauteur des aerials, etc.), je n’avais encore rien retrouvé d’aussi complet depuis l’arrêt de ce service… jusqu’à Dawn Patrol. L’application offre un excellent suivi des sessions de surf et se rapproche clairement de ce qui se faisait de mieux auparavant. Elle est aujourd’hui, selon moi, la meilleure alternative disponible. Concernant les bugs mentionnés dans certains avis — notamment les sessions qui ne remontent pas sur le téléphone — il existe des solutions simples : • Il suffit d’être à proximité de l’iPhone au moment d’arrêter la session sur l’Apple Watch. • Sinon, directement depuis l’Apple Watch, ouvrir l’application Dawn Patrol, cliquer en haut à gauche pour accéder aux préférences, puis aller dans Suivi de surf. En faisant défiler tout en bas, on retrouve les sessions manquantes, qu’il est possible de renvoyer manuellement vers le téléphone. Une application très sérieuse, pensée par et pour les surfeurs. Je recommande sans hésiter. ### 1/5 — Needs a lot of work before they ask for this kind of money. *2026-08-12* I had my fingers crossed I tried using the free version and nothing worked, so I got the subscription and I can barely get this app to work with the paid subscription on. I’ve had it work how it should once. Other times it stops before I start surfing, or it closes after one wave, or it records the first wave and then it freezes. Some of my sessions don’t upload to the app. I have to make sure I start the app on my phone, along side starting it on my watch to have any chance of it recording anything. The app needs a lot of work before they are asking this kind of money to use it. I really want this app to work, and will keep an eye on it and hopefully one day they will improve it. **Developer response:** Thank you for leaving a review. We’d really like to look into what’s happening here and see if we can get you up and running properly. If you’re happy to, please drop us a message at support@dawnpatrol.cloud with your device/watch model and any details you can share about the sessions that failed to record. Our team will take a look. Thanks for giving Dawn Patrol a chance, we genuinely appreciate you sticking with us, and we’re committed to making the experience better. Stay stoked, team Dawn Patrol. ### 1/5 — Won’t Reliably Sync With Garmin *2026-08-12* The Dawn Patrol app seems to have significant issues syncing with Garmin. My Garmin Forerunner 970 successfully records the activity, and Garmin Connect receives it, but Dawn Patrol often takes a long time to import the session or fails to sync it at all. Unfortunately, the Forerunner 970 does not have Garmin’s native Surf activity, so I purchased a full year Dawn Patrol subscription specifically to record my surf sessions. Based on my experience, I would recommend getting a Garmin watch with the native Surf activity rather than relying on Dawn Patrol for Garmin integration. I paid for the full year subscription but have been disappointed with the reliability of the app. I’m now considering buying a Garmin Epix so I can record my surf sessions natively and no longer need to rely on Dawn Patrol. ### 1/5 — Doesn’t work *2026-07-19, version 6.4.1* Scam app isn’t accurate. Surfline charges over $100 and doesn’t include this? Wtf. I’m not paying another $15 on top of that. ### 1/5 — このアプリは故障の原因 *2026-06-15* 過去2年以内、本日までApple Watchが5台も故障した。 因果関係が分からないが、このアプリを使い終わってからApple Watchが故障する。 アプリ使用中に浸水もあった。 このアプリが原因としか言いようがない。 幸い、AppleCAREのおかげで数千円の支払いや、無料で交換に至る。 他の方はこんな事ないでしょうか？ **Developer response:** Hi, thank you for the review, Dawn Patrol accepts no responsibility for damages to your Apple Watch. Please let us know if you have App feedback or if you experience any issues, please reach out to support@dawnpatrol.cloud ### 1/5 — Way Off *2026-06-10, version 6.4.1* This app says I caught 10 times more waves than I did and that I served hours longer than I did. ### 1/5 — Great, when it works. *2026-05-26, version 6.4* I have missing sessions and even though I pay $28 yearly my “premium” status isn’t unlocked for some reason. ### 1/5 — Nao utiliza dados de batimento cardíaco e não atualiza no Apple fitness *2026-03-01* Nao utiliza dados de batimento cardíaco e não atualiza no Apple fitness **Developer response:** Hi, Dawn Patrol is definitely available in Brazil, hopefully this is all working for you now. Please let us know if our support team can assist via support@dawnpatrol.cloud ### 1/5 — Tracking quality degrading *2026-02-20, version 6.3.3* Heaps of waves uncounted even in slow waves mode, quality of recording has been degrading a lot in the last 3 weeks ### 1/5 — Better alternatives *2025-11-26, version 6.2* It crashes all the time and misses half the waves. There’s better apps out there in 2025 ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great Session Tracking *2026-07-14, version 6.4.1* Use it to track my sessions. Trying to progress my surfing and this helps. I think. It's cool to review your waves and your misses. ### 5/5 — A must app for every surfer! *2026-06-16, version 6.4.1* Great surfing app, integrates perfectly with Garmin to record and Surfline to get the videos of my sessions. Good job guys! A+ / 5 stars! ### 5/5 — Great for Progress *2026-06-14, version 6.4.1* I’ve been tracking rides for several years and it’s been easy to track progress and use the videos from Surfline to improve. Improving ride lengths and speeds alone is useful when trying different boards or tracking progress at frequented spots. ### 5/5 — Fun app *2026-06-06, version 6.4.1* I like it! Question for the dev, any ways to merge two sessions or more into one? Sometimes I need to check something so I remove the Water Lock, but because it’s all wet it happens many times where it either pauses or stops the session. Pause is okay but when it stops, I have to restart a new session… but I want it to be the same session, not 2 différents sessions. Thanks! 06/09/26 new request for devs: an incredible update would be to be able to switch between sessions when reading the insights. right now, once you’re inside a session, you cannot easily switch to the previous day (maybe an arrow or simply allow with finger swipe, could be great!) ### 5/5 — Love it! *2026-06-06, version 6.4.1* I love the app, been subscribed for a couple years now and enjoy all the tracking features. I also love the badges for accomplishments! The only issue I have is with adding photos - it force closes app occasionally and I have to fiddle around a lot to get the photo I want to be the first one. There doesn’t seem to be a way to rearrange the three photos so the one I want is the first. For instance I always upload a photo of a wave from session which I want to be first photo, followed by screenshots of the surfline conditions. But almost every time, one of the screenshots is first photo and I have to delete and re-add a few times until the wave photo shows first. One feature I would love to see is a playable timeline of location like Surf Watch does. ### 5/5 — Love it, but last update has issues *2026-05-31, version 6.4* Hey I love the app, been subscribed for a couple years now and enjoy all the tracking features. I’m having issues since last weeks update, sessions do not sync to phone app Andy session today claimed no waves but I caught some. I also can’t leave feedback from app, it just force closes when I click button hence me putting feedback here. Also, I have always had trouble adding photos it force closes app occasionally and I have to fiddle around a lot to get the photo I want to be the first one. Can’t figure out what order to load them to get the cover photo I prefer. Don’t want to leave poor review because I love it, but it’s not functioning well after this update for whatever reason. Apple Watch Ultra 3 iPhone 14 Pro on IOS 26.5 ### 5/5 — ウォッチの画面が戻らない。 *2026-05-06* Apple Watch Series 7を使用しています。 ライドした時、距離が表示された画面が出てから、 ライド数が表示されているメイン画面に戻るのが普通だと思っているのですが、 ライド距離が表示されている画面がそのままになり、メインの画面に戻らなくなります。 波の合計獲得本数がわからない状態に成るので不便です。 修正お願いします。 課金してます。 よろしくお願いします。 **Developer response:** Sorry to hear that! Please reach out to our support team, they can fix this for you: support@dawnpatrol.cloud ### 5/5 — Mike *2026-04-18, version 6.3.3* It’s good ### 5/5 — AMAZING APP *2026-02-08, version 6.3.2* Very reliable and legit on all the datas!! Loving knowing how I surf and how many waves I get🤙🏻🤙🏻 ### 5/5 — More than surfing - also motorcycle racing *2026-01-16* This app records and visualises speed beautifully over the top of your location - which is usually a beach. However, it also does a wonderful job with dirt track racing!! Congratulations Dawn Patrol. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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