UpDn vs BreakFinder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
UpDn
Create and track custom workout routines with an intuitive interface. Design your own exercises or use AI assistance, then run them on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Monitor progress, personal bests, and history to stay motivated.
- Custom workout design
- AI workout generation
- iPhone and Apple Watch support
- Goal and PR tracking
- Workout history log
- Exercise lookup
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UpDn simplifies custom workout routines with a clean, intuitive interface. Design workouts on your own or with the help of AI, and run them on your iPhone or Apple Watch. Track your goals, personal records, and workout history, and stay motivated as you make progress each day. Utilize the app's core features for free, and upgrade with a one-time purchase (no subscriptions). Free Features: - Add unlimited workouts, goals, and personal records - Run workouts on your iPhone - Track your workout history - Share workouts with others - Quickly look up how to do exercises - Set daily workout reminders Premium Features: - Generate workout ideas using AI (requires Apple Intelligence) - Run workouts on your Apple Watch, with Apple Fitness integration
BreakFinder
This app transforms your smartwatch into an automatic surf session tracker, logging wave count, speed, and distance. It also serves as a phone-based hub for surf logs, forecasts for over 9,200 spots worldwide, and a unique take-off spot compass.
- Automatic wave detection
- Cross-platform smartwatch compatibility
- Comprehensive surf log
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Take-off spot compass
- Global surf forecasts
- Offline functionality
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BreakFinder turns your smartwatch into a complete surf-session tracker — and your phone into a surf log, forecast hub, and spot finder. Free for every surfer. AUTOMATIC WAVE DETECTION No buttons. No guessing. A research-validated sensor-fusion algorithm detects every wave you ride and logs wave count, top speed, distance, ride time, GPS track, and heart rate. Choose from three sensitivity modes — White Water, Green Wave, or Performance — to match your style. WORKS ON THE WATCH YOU ALREADY OWN Apple Watch, Garmin, Wear OS, and Amazfit/Zepp. BreakFinder is the only surf tracker that works across all four platforms — with HarmonyOS and Suunto coming soon. Watch face, complications, and tiles included. YOUR FULL SURF LOG Every session syncs automatically to your phone — mapped, rated, and ready to replay. Wave count, top speed, distance, hours in the water, and recent-form stats at a glance. Your complete surf history, all in one place. AT A GLANCE — WIDGETS & COMPLICATIONS Add the Surf Forecast and Last Session widgets to your iPhone Home and Lock Screen, plus Apple Watch complications for swell score, tide, and your live wave count — your surf data without opening the app. TAKE-OFF SPOT COMPASS Lost in the lineup? The Take-Off Spot compass points straight back to where you caught your best waves. SURF FORECASTS FOR 9,200+ SPOTS Swell, wind, and tides for 9,200+ breaks in 140+ countries. 16-day forecasts. Save your home breaks as favorites and check conditions before you paddle out. DISCOVER BREAKS WORLDWIDE Explore the spot map to find waves near you or plan your next surf trip. Every break on Earth, mapped. OFFLINE & PRIVACY-FIRST Works offline on the water. No tracking, no ad cookies. Encrypted in transit (HTTPS). GDPR/DSGVO compliant. Delete your account anytime from inside the app. COMMUNITY & PROGRESSION Rank up, hit streaks, complete weekly quests. Follow the community feed and plan trips with your surf crew. In-app notifications keep you on top of buddy invites, comments, and swell alerts. PLATFORM-INDEPENDENT — YOUR SURF HISTORY IS YOURS, FOR LIFE Switch watch, switch brand, switch country — your surf history stays with you. Whatever hardware you ride next year, every wave you've ever caught travels with you, across platforms and across borders. One account for your watch, this app, and breakfinder.surf — always in sync, no lock-in. Full session analysis and detailed spot guides on the web. Built by surfers, for surfers. breakfinder.surf PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION BreakFinder Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. The price is shown in the app before you confirm. Payment is charged to your Apple Account and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://breakfinder.surf/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: UpDn at 5.0 against BreakFinder's 4.0. BreakFinder's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. UpDn sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BreakFinder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
UpDn holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
UpDn ships an update weekly, BreakFinder every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | UpDn | BreakFinder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jack Edmonds | Philipp Winkler |
Customer experience
UpDn
BreakFinder
In-app purchases
UpDn
- UpDn Premium$9.99
BreakFinder
- BreakFinder Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- BreakFinder Premium Yearly$34.991 Year
- BreakFinder Premium Lifetime$89.99









