Beachsafe vs Daymap Companion
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 Companion
Access your child's school information with ease. View attendance records, assessment results, and daily schedules. Stay informed about your child's academic progress and school activities.
- View attendance records
- Check assessment results
- Access timetable
- Monitor academic progress
- Receive school updates
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View your child's attendance, assessment results, timetable and much more in the new Daymap Companion.
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Verdict
Beachsafe and Daymap Companion both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 46% of Beachsafe's written reviews are positive against 8% of Daymap Companion's. Beachsafe also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). Daymap Companion's advantage is update cadence (every 11 days vs every 6 months). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beachsafe against 5.0 for Daymap Companion. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 46% of Beachsafe's written reviews are positive against 8% of Daymap Companion's.
Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, Daymap Companion every 11 days. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Beachsafe | Daymap Companion |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews — better | 7.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Surf Life Saving Australia Ltd. | Loop Software |
Customer experience
Beachsafe
Daymap Companion
In-app purchases
Beachsafe
No in-app purchases
Daymap Companion
No in-app purchases
