Comparison

Beachsafe vs Herding Caterpillars Lite

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

Herding Caterpillars Lite

Features
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The companion to the book! A short animation, viewed on your smartphone, of the mutual symbiosis of the Chequered Copper (Lucia limbaria) butterfly, bringing the book to real life! Each trigger in the book will also take you to a website where you can see the behind the scenes and making of the Herding Caterpillars experience and other related resources.

Screenshots

Beachsafe4 screens
Herding Caterpillars Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Beachsafe at 13.0 against Herding Caterpillars Lite's 15.0. 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.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Beachsafe versus Herding Caterpillars Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeachsafeHerding Caterpillars Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB165 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSurf Life Saving Australia Ltd.Brewed Engagement Extended Reality Labs

In-app purchases

None

Beachsafe

No in-app purchases

None

Herding Caterpillars Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beachsafe free?
Beachsafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Herding Caterpillars Lite free?
Herding Caterpillars Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beachsafe or Herding Caterpillars Lite have ads?
Neither Beachsafe nor Herding Caterpillars Lite shows ads.

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