Chapadao
Should you surf Pipa today?
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Chapadão answers one question: should you paddle out in Pipa right now?
Not a wall of numbers. A verdict.
THREE BREAKS, NOT THREE THOUSAND
Praia do Amor, Praia da Pipa (Centro) and Praia do Madeiro. Each one scored on live swell, wind and tide — and each one judged on its own terms. Madeiro's headland blocks the trade winds, so when the other two are blown to pieces, it can still be the pick. The app knows that.
IT LEARNS YOUR EYE
The built-in settings are educated guesses. Rate what you actually saw and Chapadão re-tunes each spot to match your judgement — but only with changes it can prove work on sessions it wasn't shown. No overfitting to two good days.
FLAT DAY? PIPA'S STILL OPEN
Plano B ranks the dolphins at Baía dos Golfinhos, the natural pools at Praia do Amor, the Chapadão lookout, the Malembá dunes and the Guaraíras sunset — by what's actually possible right now. Several of them only exist at low tide. It knows which, and what time they open up.
HONEST ABOUT UNCERTAINTY
Most forecast apps show one number and pretend it's certain. Chapadão takes the median of three wave models and shows you how much they disagree. When they don't agree, it says so.
WORKS WHERE THE SIGNAL DOESN'T
The last forecast is saved to your phone. Open it on the beach with no bars and you still get an answer, clearly marked with how old it is.
ALSO
• Home screen and Lock Screen widgets
• Morning reminder, and an alert when a spot comes good
• Português and English
• No account, no ads, no tracking, nothing collected.
Wave data from Open-Meteo (Météo-France, NOAA and DWD models).
Chapadão is not a substitute for looking at the ocean. Check conditions yourself and know your limits.
CHAPADÃO PRO
Chapadão is free. Chapadão Pro is optional: it unlocks ongoing calibration — applying tuning suggestions at every spot, beyond the one free tune — so the verdicts stay matched to your own eyes.
• Chapadão Pro Monthly — auto-renewing subscription, US$1.99 per month, billed in your local currency
• Chapadão Pro Lifetime — one-time purchase, US$19.99
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The monthly subscription 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.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://freddybuilds.io/privacy.html
Ratings & Reviews
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The sky finally looks like Pipa. The Chapadão cliff sits on the real horizon, the sun rises over the open sea and sets behind the land — right on the minute it does at the beach. Centro's score now respects the tide: it needs water on the shelf, not just swell, so a dead-low reading won't say go anymore. Edit a logged session without losing its time. New opening screens. Legal links added. Dedicated Open-Meteo servers.
The developer, Manfred Junior Evald Ferdinand Walter Zedazi, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Manfred Junior Evald Ferdinand Walter Zedazi
- Size
- 15.3 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 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 and Portuguese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Chapadão Pro Lifetime $19.99
- Chapadão Pro $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Manfred Junior Evald Ferdinand Zedazi
