Beachsafe vs FlagMingo

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.

Ready for a flag-tastic trip around the globe? FlagMingo turns world geography into quick, colourful quiz rounds for curious students. CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE • Single Player — build your flag knowledge through unlimited ten-question rounds. • Multiplayer Pass & Play — gather 2–4 players around one device for private turns and a shared reveal. • Browse Flags — search and explore a pocket atlas of 195 national flags. TWO WAYS TO PLAY • Find the flag: read a country name and choose the right flag from five. • Name the country: spot a flag and choose its home from five country names. LEARN AS YOU PLAY Start with familiar flags, then meet less familiar countries and trickier look-alikes. Questions and answers are freshly shuffled, so players learn the clues instead of memorising an order. Clear feedback explains every answer, and interesting flag facts make the journey memorable. KEEP THE ADVENTURE GOING • Unlimited rounds that grow more challenging. • Five choices for every question. • Replay completed rounds with a fresh shuffle. • Practise the flags you missed. • Explore the world or focus on one continent. • Save an unfinished solo round and continue later. • Track accuracy and answer time on your device. • Compare local scores by accuracy, with time breaking a tie. MADE FOR CURIOUS LEARNERS FlagMingo is designed primarily for students aged 9–12, with large flag artwork, colourful controls and untimed questions. Quizzes, Pass & Play, the leaderboard and the complete flag catalogue work offline. There are no accounts, ads, in-app purchases, analytics or advertising trackers. Player names, scores and progress stay on the device. The catalogue covers the 193 UN member states and two observer states. Some flags have multiple variants; the library explains the Afghanistan variant used in this catalogue.