Boardcall: Surf Briefing
Which board to bring today
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Your morning surf read in plain English — plus the one board from your quiver that actually fits today's conditions.
Every surf app shows you twelve numbers and leaves the decision to you. Boardcall gives you one answer.
Each morning, Boardcall reads the swell, wind, and tide at your break and tells you what it's actually doing out there — in the way a friend who already checked would tell you. Waist high and clean. Blown out by ten. Worth the drive.
Then it looks at the boards you actually own — your quiver, by real dimensions and volume — and tells you which single one to grab today, and why.
WHAT YOU GET
• A plain-English briefing every morning — no jargon, no charts to decode
• A board recommendation from your own quiver, with the reason why
• A straight verdict: fire, fun, marginal, or skip
• Six-day forecast with the right board for each day
• Wetsuit call based on real water temperature
• A daily reminder at whatever time you actually wake up
BUILT AROUND YOUR BOARDS
Add your quiver once — length, width, thickness, type. Boardcall works out the volume, weighs it against your size and skill, and matches it to the day. Short-period wind swell and a 5'10" shortboard don't mix; Boardcall knows that and says so.
HONEST BY DEFAULT
If it's bad, Boardcall says it's bad. No hype, no notifications engineered to get you to open the app. The whole point is to save you the drive on the days that aren't worth it.
NO ACCOUNT REQUIRED
No signup, no email, no password. Your quiver, your spots and your profile live on your iPhone rather than in an account, and Boardcall never uses your location — you pick breaks from a built-in list.
Writing the briefing does send something, so here it is plainly: that day's conditions, your skill level and weight, and the boards it's choosing between go to our server and on to the AI that writes the prose. That request isn't logged or stored. Along with it goes a random, anonymous ID — the one thing we do keep — used only to stop abuse of the briefing feature. It isn't tied to you, and there are no analytics, ad trackers, or crash reporting anywhere in the app.
BOARDCALL PRO — OPTIONAL
Everything above is free, uncapped: every board pick, the whole map, all 193 breaks, the six-day forecast. The only thing Pro changes is the weekly limit on AI-written briefings. Four a week are free; past that you still get a real briefing, written on your phone instead of by the AI.
• Boardcall Pro — $6.99 per month, or $54.99 per year
• Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase
• The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Manage the subscription or turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase
Privacy Policy: https://zachweston123.github.io/boardcall/privacy
Terms of Use: https://zachweston123.github.io/boardcall/terms
Covering every US coastline — West Coast, East Coast, Gulf, Alaska, and Hawaii — plus Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, and marquee breaks worldwide, from Mexico and Costa Rica to Portugal, France, Indonesia, and Australia.
Wave and wind data from Open-Meteo. Tide predictions from NOAA.
Ratings & Reviews
Boardcall now works on iPad, with the same clean, uncluttered layout as iPhone.
This update also adds the app's first App Store rating prompt. It asks once, ever, and only after you've actually gotten some use out of the app — either your second board added or your third AI briefing used. Never during setup, never more than once.
The developer, Zachary Weston, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Zachary Weston
- Size
- 2.8 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Boardcall Pro $54.99
- Boardcall Pro $6.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Zachary Weston