Amaru Surf
Pixel-art surfing with a dog
$1.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
One wave, a barrel you can actually get inside, and Amaru the yorkie riding the nose of your board. Pay once: no ads, no in-app purchases, no data collected.
Amaru Surf is a pixel-art surfing game about one wave. You see it front-on as it peels, it has a barrel you can actually get inside, and Amaru, a yorkie in a necktie, rides the nose of your board.
The wave takes the screen
Every heat starts with the whitewater at the left edge. While nobody is in the barrel it creeps across, and by half-time it has taken five-eighths of the screen, and the room for aerials with it. Riding fast does not stop it. Only the barrel pushes it back.
The barrel is real
Ride close to the foam and the wave opens a cavity around you, with spray pouring over you while you are in. Every second inside wins back four seconds of the wave's creep. Come out clean and the tube pays you in speed; launch off the lip while that boost lasts and you go over the wave.
Land it
The stick rotates the board and you always travel where the nose points. You get airborne by riding up over the lip, spin for the score, then straighten up before you touch down. A hint in the top bar tells you which way to push, and flattens into a bar when it is safe to land.
Six heats, three lives
Each heat has a clock and a target score, and every heat runs a faster wave and a busier face: buoys and driftwood at first, then more sharks each time. Miss the target and it costs a life.
Keep Amaru dry
When Amaru rides with you, finish the heat without a single wipeout and it pays +50%. Wipe out and he dives clear, safe, and swims off. He is never hurt. The stake is a bonus, not a dog.
Five judges, one of them useless
After every heat, five pixel faces hold up cards from 0 to 10. Four of them grade what you did. The fifth gives you a 10 no matter what.
Play it your way
• Practice: the solo run, six heats against the table
• Versus the computer, at easy, normal or hard
• Two players on one screen, with two controllers
• Head to head over Wi-Fi with other phones and tablets on the same network: up to six in a room, two riding at a time. No servers, no accounts, no internet.
• Touch controls, or pair an Xbox, PlayStation or MFi controller
Pay once
No ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription, no account and no data collected. It plays offline; the only network feature is local multiplayer.
In English and Spanish. Every number the game uses is in the guide at amaru.surf/how-to-play
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Amaru Surf is now on Apple TV too, and one purchase covers both. On iPhone and iPad:
• A new look: redrawn backdrops and a new app icon.
• Game controllers do everything: answer a join request, mute a heat, and B or Circle goes back on every screen.
• A new game-over sting that I recorded myself.
• Small fixes to the name picker and the multiplayer menu.
The developer, Ignacio Moreno, 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
- Ignacio Moreno
- Size
- 19.7 MB
- Category
- Sports
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple TV
Requires tvOS 14.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Infrequent
Contests
Contains
Messaging and Chat
- Copyright
- © 2026 Ignacio Moreno
