Surfs vs Rockets
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Surfs
This app provides worldwide surf forecasts, helping you find the best spots for surfing, SUP, kitesurfing, and other water sports. Get free daily forecasts for wind, weather, wave height, and temperature at beaches globally.
- Worldwide surf forecasts
- 4-day forecast
- Wave forecast
- Wind direction and strength
- Wave height
- Water and air temperature
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Surfs App is an easy to use worldwide surf forecast app with features that allow you to instantly find the closest and best spot to surf. Surfs App lets you to enjoy your outdoor activities like surfing, SUP, kitesurfing, windsurfing, fishing, sailing and more. Free daily surf forecasts, wind and weather conditions at all the best beaches throughout the world. Features: 4 day surf forecast wave forecast wind direction wind strength wave height water and air temperature With Surfs App you don’t have to worry about anything but enjoying surfing, SUP, kitesurfing, windsurfing, fishing, sailing and more.
Rockets
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Rockets is a personal launch-day companion for spaceflight fans who want to know what is worth watching, what changed, and what to do next. Today highlights the next relevant mission and source freshness. Explore keeps the 3D globe, search, Mission Planner, and Launch Pulse. My Missions saves a complete local journey, while Launch Room combines the countdown, status, source details, change history, Calendar, Live Activity, and alert controls. Mission Control is the existing optional EUR 4.99 one-time purchase. It unlocks unlimited watched missions and advanced enthusiast tools forever. There is no subscription, trial, recurring billing, account, or Rockets-operated backend. Existing Mission Control buyers receive the Rockets 2 paid capabilities automatically after StoreKit restoration. Explore launch sites on a 3D globe, search pads and missions, compare recent and upcoming launches, and use Mission Planner to filter missions by provider, orbit, status, timing, and weather or hold concerns. Add selected launch windows to Calendar and start a Live Activity for upcoming missions. Rockets uses Launch Library 2 for launch schedules and launch pad data. If launch-site data is temporarily unavailable, the app may use OpenStreetMap Overpass as a fallback for public launch-site map data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Surfs at none against Rockets's 1. Surfs also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). Rockets's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 months). On price, ads 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. Rockets sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Surfs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Surfs ships an update every 4 months, Rockets every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Surfs | Rockets |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Ran Mor | Mirco Schoepf |
In-app purchases
Surfs
No in-app purchases
Rockets
- Mission Control$3.99









