Comparison

Beach Report vs Elseweather

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

Head to head
About

Beach Report

Get real-time beach conditions, including surf, tides, UV index, and safety flags for over 200 US beaches. Plan your perfect beach day with up-to-the-minute data and helpful safety information.

Highlights
  • Real-time beach conditions
  • Surf and wave height
  • Tide predictions
  • UV index and safety tips
  • Beach safety flags
  • Live beach cameras
  • Offline access
Features
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Planning a beach day? Know exactly what you're walking into. Beach Report gives you real-time conditions for over 200 US beaches — all in one free app, no login required. CURRENT CONDITIONS Check air temperature, real feel temperature, wind speed and direction, humidity, surf and wave height, and water temperature. Everything updates every 5 minutes so you always have the latest picture before you leave the house. BEACH SAFETY FLAGS Beach Report's color-coded flag system gives you an at-a-glance safety rating for every beach — green, yellow, or red. Tap the flag for a full hazard breakdown including storm warnings, dangerous surf, strong currents, cold water, and high UV levels. Make smart calls for yourself and your family before you go. TIDES See the current tide height and whether it's rising or falling, plus the next 4 tide predictions with exact times and heights. Perfect for swimmers, shell collectors, fishermen, and anyone timing their visit around the water. SUN, UV & GOLDEN HOUR Know when the sun rises and sets, and get personalized UV protection tips based on the day's index — including SPF recommendations, clothing advice, and the safest times to be outdoors. A dedicated golden hour tile shows you the exact window for the best beach photography light. FIND YOUR BEACH Search from 200+ US beaches across all coastal states. Enable location and beaches sort automatically by distance. Prefer to keep location off? Popular beaches near you appear by default. FAVORITES Save up to 5 beaches to your home screen and swipe between them instantly. Heart any beach to add it to your list for quick access all season. LIVE BEACH CAMERAS At select beaches, tap through to live webcam feeds so you can actually see conditions before you commit to the drive. WHY BEACH REPORT? Completely free, no subscriptions or paywalls No account or login required Works offline with cached data Auto-refreshes every 5 minutes Trusted data from NOAA, Open-Meteo, and Sunrise-Sunset.org 200+ beaches across all US coastal states Whether you're a swimmer, a surfer, a family with kids, a coastal local, or a tourist visiting the US shore for the first time — Beach Report is your go-to guide before you head to the beach. Download free. Check conditions. Enjoy the beach.

About

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

Beach Report4 screens
Elseweather4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Elseweather at none against Beach Report's shown. Elseweather also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Beach Report's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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

Beach Report ships an update weekly, Elseweather every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Beach Report versus Elseweather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeach ReportElseweather
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDexco, LLCJasper Bel

In-app purchases

None

Beach Report

No in-app purchases

None

Elseweather

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beach Report free?
Beach Report is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Elseweather free?
Elseweather is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Beach Report or Elseweather have ads?
Beach Report shows ads; Elseweather does not.
Which is updated more often, Beach Report or Elseweather?
Beach Report ships an update weekly, and Elseweather every 2 days. Most recently, Beach Report was updated on October 25, 2026 and Elseweather on October 9, 2026.

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