Surfbreak vs Elseweather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surfbreak
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Know when to go, then count every wave you ride. Surfbreak is a surf forecast for your spots and a wave counter on your Apple Watch. Covering Indonesia — spots from Bali and Lombok to Sumbawa, Java and the Mentawais. CHECK THE SURF — FREE • See wave height, period and swell direction hour by hour, 7 days ahead • Know whether the wind is offshore before you drive out • Read the tide at any hour of the day • Check the water temperature so you know what to wear • Find spots on the map, and keep up to 3 favourites one tap away COUNT YOUR WAVES — FREE • Start a session on your Apple Watch, then forget about it • Waves are counted automatically — nothing to press in the water • See waves ridden, longest ride, top speed and distance • Replay every wave on its own map • Record as many sessions as you like; the last 10 stay in the app and sync to your iPhone SURFBREAK PRO — PAID SUBSCRIPTION Everything above is free. Pro is an optional paid subscription that adds: • 16 days of forecast instead of 7 • 50 favourite spots instead of 3 • Your full session history, backed up to your account • Season and year statistics Pro is an auto-renewing subscription offered weekly, monthly and yearly; the yearly plan starts with a 7-day free trial. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and it renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Forecast updated through the day. Works with Apple Health. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://surfbreak.gexik.app/privacy.html
Elseweather
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Most weather apps answer what. You name a place, they draw you the sky. Elseweather answers where. Pan the map, set the conditions you’re after, and the cities that match are the ones left on the screen. The map is the search Pan to a region and the largest cities in view pick up a temperature, a condition icon and a fortnight of trend. Set a filter and the ones that don’t match drop away, so what’s left is an answer rather than a picture. Conditions, not just places Pick the conditions you’ll accept, sunny, cloudy, fog, rain, snow, storm, then drag a temperature band, cap the rain chance, the wind or the air quality index. They combine, and they’re read over whichever days you point them at: all of them, or any one. Now, then fourteen days A slider steps from the live reading out to a fortnight ahead. The map redraws for the day you’re on, and a filter can sit on a window of days that isn’t the one you’re looking at. Tap a city for the rest A scrubbable chart, a day-by-day table that unfolds into hours, rainfall in millimetres, wind, humidity and air quality, as far ahead as the forecast actually reaches, and no further. Layers over the top Temperature, precipitation, wind and pressure as raster layers under the annotations. Widgets Add the Here widget to your home or lock screen and it shows the conditions where you are — the temperature, the sky, and the hours coming up with the chance of rain under them. It takes its own reading in the background, so it's current when you glance at it, and a tap opens the full forecast for wherever you're standing. No account, no tracking There’s no sign-in, no profile and no analytics or advertising code. Nothing is watching which buttons you press. Elseweather Plus The first three days stay free for everyone. Plus opens all 14, on the map, in the search filter and in every city you tap. Terms of use Elseweather supplies no licence of its own, so it’s covered by Apple’s standard end user licence agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Elseweather at every 2 days against Surfbreak's every 5 days. Surfbreak's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Surfbreak ships an update every 5 days, Elseweather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surfbreak | Elseweather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roman Bogomolov | Jasper Bel |
In-app purchases
Surfbreak
No in-app purchases
Elseweather
No in-app purchases









