Comparison

Surfbreak vs Elseweather

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Surfbreak

Features
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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

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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/

Screenshots

Surfbreak4 screens
Elseweather4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Surfbreak versus Elseweather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSurfbreakElseweather
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size33 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman BogomolovJasper Bel

In-app purchases

None

Surfbreak

No in-app purchases

None

Elseweather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Surfbreak free?
Surfbreak is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elseweather free?
Elseweather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Surfbreak or Elseweather have ads?
Neither Surfbreak nor Elseweather shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Surfbreak or Elseweather?
Surfbreak ships an update every 5 days, and Elseweather every 2 days. Most recently, Surfbreak was updated on October 8, 2026 and Elseweather on October 9, 2026.

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