Comparison

Beachsafe vs ReSmart (RecycleSmart)

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

ReSmart (RecycleSmart)

This app simplifies recycling by offering convenient doorstep collection for hard-to-recycle items like soft plastics, textiles, and e-waste. Users can easily book pickups, receive notifications, and track their environmental impact, making it simple to participate in the circular economy.

Highlights
  • Book pickups in one tap
  • Receive pickup notifications
  • Change or cancel pickup dates
  • Track landfill diversion
  • Schedule recurring pickups
  • Doorstep collection service
Features
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The Pickup Company - Off your hands, into the loopx Take the confusion and hassle out of recycling and become a recycling champion… from home! With ReSmart Pickup, we come to your door to collect your soft plastics, textiles, e-waste and a long list of other tricky-to-recycle items like batteries, light bulbs, aluminium coffee capsules, polystyrene, toys, books and many more! This service is available in a growing number of selected councils - we'll tell you straight away if you are eligible. Use the app to: Book your Pickup in one tap Receive notifications Change or cancel your pickup date super easily Track how much you've diverted from landfill How does ReSmart Pickup work? Book your Pickup - Want to recycle regularly? Select our "set and forget" option: we'll come monthly and you'll never worry about those tricky-to-recycle items again! Pack your bags - Use any shopping bag you have at home (those green, blue, yellow supermarket bags? Perfect!). Just fill them with everything we collect. Leave it out - On pickup day, leave your bag at your front door in a safe spot. You don't even need to be home! We handle the rest - Your local driver collects your bag, empties it, returns it for next time, then sorts everything and ensures your valuable resources get recycled properly. Get your items off your hands and into the loop - recycling made easy. Get Australia's most downloaded recycling app and join the circular economy revolution now!RetryClaude can make mistakes. Please double-check responses. [:mav: 9.7.5]

Screenshots

Beachsafe4 screens
ReSmart (RecycleSmart)4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Beachsafe at 5.0 against ReSmart (RecycleSmart)'s 4.0. Beachsafe also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). ReSmart (RecycleSmart)'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (65% vs 46%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beachsafe holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Beachsafe's written reviews are positive against 65% of ReSmart (RecycleSmart)'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, ReSmart (RecycleSmart) every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Beachsafe versus ReSmart (RecycleSmart): the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeachsafeReSmart (RecycleSmart)
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews46.5% of reviews65.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings33
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB155 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSurf Life Saving Australia Ltd.RecycleSmart

Customer experience

Beachsafe

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive46.5%
Neutral2.8%
Negative50.7%

ReSmart (RecycleSmart)

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews72 reviews
Positive65.3%
Neutral4.2%
Negative30.6%

Bugs and requests

Beachsafe

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

ReSmart (RecycleSmart)

Reported bugs

17 issues
  • Photo AI not working
  • Error with photo identification
  • No delete photo function
  • App crashes when selecting items
  • Forced updates without a close option
Show 12 more
  • Wrong pick up day in calendar after update
  • Incorrect bin information after update
  • App freezes when submitting details
  • Address recognition issues
  • Council lookup fails
  • App asks for address and then shows error
  • App crashes on selection
  • Incorrect council area listed
  • Address/council not found error
  • App doesn't display green bin days
  • App crashes every time
  • General waste default on recyclables

Requested features

24 requests
  • Fix photo AI feature
  • Add delete photo function
  • Provide contact details for un-covered items
  • Add bedding section for quilts and pillows
  • Add watch app for schedule reminders
Show 19 more
  • Include ALDI battery recycling info
  • Improve search functionality
  • Clarify paper and cardboard section
  • Fix incorrect item classifications
  • Add query option for unlisted items
  • Allow booking without mobile number
  • Improve app design and booking process
  • Provide information on number of collections per year
  • Allow rescheduling of pickups
  • Improve clarity of written descriptions
  • Add dark mode option
  • Make 'report' button more obvious
  • Fix incorrect image for packaging pellets
  • Allow users to check bin calendar without account
  • Improve address recognition and council lookup
  • Allow users to select bins without account
  • Add option to expand or add to plan
  • Allow users to book without providing mobile number
  • Fix bin day display for green bins

In-app purchases

None

Beachsafe

No in-app purchases

None

ReSmart (RecycleSmart)

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beachsafe free?
Beachsafe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ReSmart (RecycleSmart) free?
ReSmart (RecycleSmart) is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beachsafe or ReSmart (RecycleSmart)?
Beachsafe is rated higher. Beachsafe averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while ReSmart (RecycleSmart) averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Beachsafe or ReSmart (RecycleSmart) have ads?
Neither Beachsafe nor ReSmart (RecycleSmart) shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beachsafe or ReSmart (RecycleSmart)?
Beachsafe ships an update every 6 months, and ReSmart (RecycleSmart) every 5 days. Most recently, Beachsafe was updated on October 15, 2026 and ReSmart (RecycleSmart) on October 17, 2026.

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