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  • Released
  • Updated
  • September 14, 2014
  • August 12, 2026

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Stay informed about shark activity in NSW before you swim. Get real-time alerts on tagged shark detections and drone sightings. Understand shark behavior and assess your personal risk for a safer beach experience.

Real-time shark alerts
Drone and tagged shark detections
Interactive risk assessment
Shark and marine animal identification
Beach mitigation gear locations
Smartwatch compatibility
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What's New in SharkSmart

4.0.6

August 12, 2026

- Adding or removing favourite beaches is faster. The app no longer waits on the network with every tap - Faster startup when the connection is patchy; the app gets you in sooner - Clearer messaging when alerts can’t load, with a Retry option instead of looking like there are simply no alerts - General reliability and performance improvements

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Hate

I hate this app

Please make it work

Almost perfect but sadly it’s the last 1% is what counts. Despite multiple times setting it to my local beach I get notifications from beaches 100s km away and not my beach. All most us want is an alert to our watch in real time to get out of the water?

The core value proposition of a safety app—providing immediate, hyper-local alerts directly to a wrist device for the exact beach a user is standing on—is completely failing.

Currently, the app fails to deliver on its primary utility due to critical functional bottlenecks:

Broken Geofencing & Notification Logic: Custom radius filters ("Around Me") fail to isolate immediate locations, frequently pushing irrelevant regional noise or missing local pings entirely.

Apple Watch Integration Failure: Background syncing and push notifications to watchOS are sluggish, unreliable, or fail to trigger in real time when stepping onto a specific beach.

Cluttered UX: Users are forced to sift through historical logs, data padding, and distant alerts rather than receiving an instantaneous, silent wrist vibration for their immediate coordinates.

To the Designers:
Fix the geofencing logic so it strictly respects tight radius parameters, strip out the background latency on watchOS, and ensure a true, instant push-to-wrist protocol for active local alerts. Right now, as a real-time safety tool on the water's edge, it is non-functional.
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Frustratingly useless

Alerts continually come through as NSW north coast, when I have repeatedly input & saved
my area which is NSW far south coast. It’s frustrating. I am ready to delete as it’s useless for my area.

What’s happened?

I used to be able to access sharks along the East Coast of the US . Now all I hear about is Australia and there’s no way I can see to fix this

I only swim in pools

I am going to buy shares in swimming pool companies

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Reported Bugs

10 issues

App crashes on startup or when opening alerts

Bug

Favorite beaches not saving or reverting to all beaches

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Search function not listing available beaches

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Map hanging when opening away from beaches

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Notifications not respecting location radius settings

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Inconsistent data between map view and list view

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Add beach feature not working on iOS

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Settings menu freezing with spinning wheel

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Notifications continuing after app deletion

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Gallery tab crashing on iPhone 12

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Requested Features

11 requests

Ability to name individual tracked sharks

Feature

Shark size and weight information at tagging

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Historical shark movement patterns and migration data

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Deep links from notifications to specific beaches

Feature

Time-series reporting for shark activity

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Apple Watch app improvements and alerts

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Expand coverage to rivers and harbors

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Better filtering by event type instead of notification source

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Expand geographic coverage beyond NSW

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More receiver stations in underserved areas

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Clearer messaging about beaches without receivers

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FAQ

What does the SharkSmart app do?

The SharkSmart app provides information and resources to help beachgoers in NSW reduce the chance of a close encounter with a shark. It offers real-time alerts on tagged shark detections and drone sightings, maps of shark mitigation gear, and educational information about sharks and marine animals.

What are the key features of the SharkSmart app?

Key features include real-time shark alerts, maps showing shark mitigation gear and incident locations, a species identification guide for marine animals, and an interactive 'My Risk' feature that assesses personal behavior risk when in the water. It also offers smartwatch compatibility for alerts.

Is the SharkSmart app free to use?

Yes, the SharkSmart app is free to download and use. The provided data indicates it is 'free with in-app purchases', suggesting some optional content or features might be available for purchase, though core safety information is likely free.

What kind of information is available about sharks?

The app provides images of dangerous and non-dangerous sharks and other marine animals for educational purposes. It also details the NSW Shark Meshing (Bather Protection) Program and offers insights into shark behavior to enhance user awareness.

How does the 'My Risk' feature work?

The 'My Risk' feature is an interactive tool that creates a personal risk assessment profile. By inputting factors that affect shark bite risk, such as swimming at dawn or dusk, it allocates a 'risky' or 'safer' behavior rating. Adjusting risky behaviors can lower the risk level.