Beachsafe vs Daymap Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beachsafe
Discover Australian beaches with real-time information on surf conditions, weather, hazards, and lifesaving services. Find patrolled beaches, learn about safety, and get expert advice on rip currents and marine life.
- Find nearby beaches with GPS
- View surf, weather, and tide forecasts
- Check patrol service information
- Identify beach hazards and warnings
- Access surf safety advice
- Save favorite beaches
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Taking a road trip up the coast? On holiday? Or just looking for the right beach for you? Find your nearest beaches in seconds. Brought to you by Surf Life Saving Australia, the Beachsafe app includes the location, weather, surf conditions and hazards plus the local facilities for all Australian beaches. Importantly, the current lifesaving service for each beach is listed to help you find the nearest patrolled beach. Beachsafe also provides expert advice about rip currents, flags and signs, waves, marine creatures, surf skills and more. SLSA recommends swimming at patrolled beaches, between the red and yellow flags. App Features Find a beach • Find beaches near you with your device’s GPS • Use the map view to quickly locate beaches near you • Search for a town, city, region or beach • Save your favourite beaches Patrol service information • Quickly and easily see if a beach is patrolled by surf lifesavers or lifeguards • Find out when a beach will be patrolled using the future search function Conditions • View detailed weather forecasts • See the tide information • Check the swell and wind forecast • Push notifications - Beach closures and major hazard alerts for Beaches that you follow Hazards • Review a beach’s hazard rating • Read detailed summaries of each beach written by coastal safety experts • See hazard information about a patrolled beach including rip currents, stingers and sharks when these have been entered by surf lifesavers or lifeguards Surf Safety • How to identify and escape rip currents • Lifeguard’s top tips • Read about flags and signs • Waves and weather • Surf skills • Marine creatures • Stingers • First aid advice • And more… The Beachsafe app was produced in conjunction with SLSA's beach safety website beachsafe.org.au. If you find this app useful and you wish to help support Surf Life Saving Australia and our 160,000 volunteers, please visit https://sls.com.au. Be safe at the beach, get Beachsafe.
Daymap Mobile
This application provides access to essential school management features. Users can engage with messaging, submit assessments, and manage roll marking. It offers a convenient way to stay connected with school activities and administrative tasks.
- Messaging
- Assessment submission
- Roll marking
- School administration access
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Access to Daymap Messaging, Assessment, Roll Marking functionality and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beachsafe at 46% against Daymap Mobile's 18%. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, Daymap Mobile every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beachsafe | Daymap Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews — better | 17.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Surf Life Saving Australia Ltd. | Loop Software |
Customer experience
Beachsafe
Daymap Mobile
Bugs and requests
Beachsafe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Daymap Mobile
Reported bugs
53 issues- Cannot sign in / login errors
- App keeps signing out / logout issues
- App is buggy/glitchy
- App is slow/doesn't load
- Companion app doesn't show lessons
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- Notification click leads to wrong user/account
- Cannot find half the features (e.g., attendance)
- App redirects to website
- Pop-ups everywhere on website telling to get app
- Teachers don't mark attendance correctly
- Cannot add comments to assessment tasks
- Page constantly does not load
- Bugs out when accessing class notes
- Functions available on desktop inaccessible on mobile
- Students marked present glitch to 'skipping a lesson'
- Shows older messages first
- Clicking calendar entry gives no info
- Back button not accessible on iPhone 14
- Clicking message notification doesn't go to most recent
- Navigation hidden behind top of screen (iPhone 14 Pro)
- Cannot see school bulletins in app
- Cannot get push notifications
- Hitting back arrow takes out of assessment section
- App logs out daily
- Cannot get past load screen
- Messages won't send
- App stuck in dark ages, dysfunctional, clunky
- Messaging feature hides 'New message' button
- Display layout doesn't respect text properly
- Cannot log in to youngest child's school
- Computer mode not available on app
- App consistently logs out
- Words and numbers overlapping, cannot see whole screen
- App has not worked for days
- Link from message doesn't work
- Cannot accept invitations
- Have to accept each single session spread out months
- App bugs out
- Tasks folder unorganizable
- Server never on for Filr
- Login process is bizarre
- Mobile link on website gives QR code, app has no reader
- Login again after clicking link
- App shows welcome screen and how-to videos without login
- Signs out and doesn't allow access for weeks
- Password is wrong error
- App is barely functional, features cut from PC version
- Horrible UI choices & design
- App is an awkwardly cropped version of the PC webpage
- No point for kids if phones not allowed at school
- App is laggy and doesn't work right
- Takes forever to load
- Cannot log into account on phone as it doesn't load
Requested features
16 requests- Fix login issues
- Improve navigation
- Add more features from desktop version
- Fix bugs
- Improve performance/speed
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- Make app more intuitive
- Fix messaging feature
- Ensure push notifications work
- Improve file storage/access
- Make app more functional for teachers
- Fix back button on iPhone
- Allow staying logged in
- Improve UI/UX design
- Make app respect text display properly
- Fix QR code login process
- Allow users to choose desktop mode on app
In-app purchases
Beachsafe
No in-app purchases
Daymap Mobile
No in-app purchases
