Comparison

Beachsafe vs ExamLock Teacher

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Screenshots

Beachsafe4 screens
ExamLock Teacher4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Beachsafe versus ExamLock Teacher: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeachsafeExamLock Teacher
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSurf Life Saving Australia Ltd.Andrius Blazaitis

In-app purchases

None

Beachsafe

No in-app purchases

None

ExamLock Teacher

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beachsafe free?
Beachsafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ExamLock Teacher free?
ExamLock Teacher is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beachsafe or ExamLock Teacher have ads?
Neither Beachsafe nor ExamLock Teacher shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beachsafe or ExamLock Teacher?
Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, and ExamLock Teacher every 9 days. Most recently, Beachsafe was updated on September 24, 2026 and ExamLock Teacher on September 13, 2026.

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