Beachsafe vs ExamLock Teacher
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.
ExamLock Teacher
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ExamLock Teacher empowers educators to create, manage, and proctor exams with confidence. Monitor student devices in real-time, detect violations instantly, and maintain exam integrity — all from your iPhone or iPad. KEY FEATURES: • Create & Schedule Exams — Set up exams with subject, date, duration, and exam type. Generate secure JWT-signed QR codes automatically. • Start Sessions via NFC or QR — Tap a registered NFC tag or go QR-only to launch a live exam session. • Real-Time Student Monitoring — See every student's check-in status, phone lock state, and violations on a live dashboard with countdown timer. • Violation Alerts — Receive instant alerts when a student attempts to leave the exam app or when their device goes silent for 30+ seconds. • Remote Phone Control — Temporarily unlock or re-lock individual student phones during an exam. Mark students as finished. • NFC Tag Management — Register, list, and manage NFC tags for quick session starts. • Subject & Exam Management — View assigned subjects, manage upcoming and past exams from one dashboard. • Privacy-First Design — No student personal data is collected. Students identify by student number only. ExamLock Teacher works with the ExamLock Student app to create a complete exam proctoring ecosystem. Teachers sign in with their school-issued credentials via secure Supabase authentication.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: ExamLock Teacher at every 9 days against Beachsafe's every 6 months. Beachsafe's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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, ExamLock Teacher every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beachsafe | ExamLock Teacher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 46.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 100 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Surf Life Saving Australia Ltd. | Andrius Blazaitis |
In-app purchases
Beachsafe
No in-app purchases
ExamLock Teacher
No in-app purchases







