Comparison

Beachsafe vs MyStoryWorld.app

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

MyStoryWorld.app

Features
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MyStoryWorld.app helps parents, grandparents, and caregivers create personalised children’s stories, activity books, and keepsakes in minutes. Create a unique illustrated adventure made just for your child or loved one. Whether it’s a bedtime story, a birthday surprise, a confidence-building tale, or a fun rainy-day activity, MyStoryWorld.app makes storytelling personal, creative, and easy. Create stories that can be read together, saved, shared, animated, narrated by loved ones, or turned into professionally printed books. Each book is designed to spark imagination, encourage reading, and make children feel seen in the stories they love. Features: • Create custom children’s stories in minutes • Personalise stories with names, themes, interests, and adventures • Generate illustrated storybooks for reading and sharing • Bring stories to life with animated illustrations • Add narration from loved ones for a more personal experience • Create activity books for creative play and learning • Order professionally printed books as lasting keepsakes • Make bedtime, birthdays, holidays, and learning moments more memorable • Save favourite stories and revisit them anytime MyStoryWorld.app is made for families who want more meaningful screen time, more imagination, and more stories that feel truly special.

Screenshots

Beachsafe4 screens
MyStoryWorld.app4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: MyStoryWorld.app at every 3 weeks against Beachsafe's every 6 months. Beachsafe's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, MyStoryWorld.app every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Beachsafe versus MyStoryWorld.app: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeachsafeMyStoryWorld.app
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSurf Life Saving Australia Ltd.Darren Carter

Bugs and requests

Beachsafe

Reported bugs

15 issues
  • App stuck on loading screen
  • Algal bloom report button does nothing
  • Photo quality makes beaches look clean
  • Search no longer works correctly
  • Beach closure information incorrect
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  • App fails to load anything
  • App stays on loading screen forever
  • Favorite beaches disappear
  • App crashes on opening screen
  • Swell forecast not updating
  • Location is incorrect
  • Water temp inaccurate
  • App changes beach selection automatically
  • Favorites wiped by updates
  • Login button not functional

Requested features

16 requests
  • Integrate beachwatch pollution data
  • Add Face ID authentication
  • Improve photo quality
  • Fix algal bloom report button
  • Provide reasons for beach closures
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  • Add tide times
  • Integrate with BOM for weather warnings
  • Add advice on dog-friendly beaches
  • Add details on rips and water safety
  • Link to clubbie/surf sports events
  • Add webcams
  • Add water temperature
  • Allow offline caching of data
  • Improve search engine sophistication
  • Add a downloadable database
  • Make learning about rips mandatory

MyStoryWorld.app

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Beachsafe

No in-app purchases

None

MyStoryWorld.app

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beachsafe free?
Beachsafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyStoryWorld.app free?
MyStoryWorld.app is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beachsafe or MyStoryWorld.app have ads?
Neither Beachsafe nor MyStoryWorld.app shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beachsafe or MyStoryWorld.app?
Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, and MyStoryWorld.app every 3 weeks. Most recently, Beachsafe was updated on November 6, 2026 and MyStoryWorld.app on October 28, 2026.

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