Dawn Patrol 4+

Great app for the Apple Watch

Can’t believe how good this is to say it is free. Really easy to add your spots to the app, which you can do in advance. Took me about 2 minutes to add 6 of my most surfed locals. As soon as you push start gps picks up where you are and that’s it. Was really impressed as it even picked it up accurately under my 5mm winter wetty. Info you get it’s pretty good, number of waves, each wave stats length, speed and time. Even tells you how many waves you paddle for and did not catch. The only thing missing is the total distance paddle in the session, which would be nice to know. It also automatically writes the data to your activity app for those that want to include it. Cracking app

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Love it. When those rip curl watches cMe out I was pretty jel, so super-stoked to have this on my Apple Watch. It’s brilliant. So much data, inc heart rate graphs etc, but also so much fun. A bit inaccurate sometimes, but the developers are really on it and I’m sure will fix this in due course. Meanwhile they must be gathering incredible data about surf breaks. Can’t wait to see where they goes. I agree with another review saying it would be great to add total distance paddled.
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Cool idea and nice looking app. Doesn’t work in practice.

Ambitious idea and a really smart looking app. I was wondering how it can accurately count waves and sadly the answer is it cannot. I just tried it out down at my local break - sloppy 3ft winter waves into a shore break. I caught 7 waves in my hour surf, the app thought I caught 31 waves and 15-20 seconds ride each, in reality no single wave I caught was more than a about a 5-8 second ride. I would hope that some of those 31 recorded waves include the actual 7 but I’ve no idea which they may be (and they’re all too long) so sadly all the data is garbage. Shame because it looks nice and would be a good way of tracking surfs but I’ll go back to the proprietary Apple activity app I think.

Developer Response ,

Thanks for your feedback. We are aware of some cases with decreased accuracy. We’re working hard to resolve this. Would you want to help us providing more info and beta testing? Please let our support team know: support@dawnpatrol.cloud. It would be very helpful if you could also share more about the equipment you’re using to the support team. Happy surfing.