Dawn Patrol Surf, Wave Tracker

Name: Dawn Patrol Surf, Wave Tracker
Rating: 4.7 (3948 reviews)
Author: Dawn Patrol Surf Tracking

Surfing, Swell & Forecast App

Free · In‑App Purchases

3.9K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Health & Fitness
Developer

Dawn Patrol Surf Tracking
Language

EN
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Size

277.5
MB

Your Apple Watch is a Surf Watch with Dawn Patrol. The best surf tracker for Apple Watch, with todays Surfline forecast(*) of your favourite beaches right there on your wrist and glancable widgets immediately on your phone. Our basic features are FREE for all surfers and if you subscribe to Soul Surfer you'll get access to all of our PREMIUM features. The basic FREE features are: • Track and Analyse your surf • Record your surf work-outs • Count your waves • View them on a map • Know your top speed • Beat your personal records • Measure your wave time • Know your distance surfed per wave and in total • Measure your heart rate and calories burned in the Health and Activity apps • Relive and share your surf session • Surfline compatible: watch back any wave you ride in front of a Surfline camera Extra Premium Features for SOUL SURFERS (Monthly or Yearly subscription(*)): • Your Watch as a beautiful Surf Watch with the Surfline forecast • Track your paddling, learn about your paddle efficiency • In-depth surf analytics, understand your speed development, learn where to make speed to make that nasty section. • Beautiful state of the art widgets showing a Surfline forecast • Learn to understand your beach better by knowing the tide vs. waves caught and deeper analysis based on that spot • Deeper insights in your performance on different boards • Add photos to your sessions and boards Dawn Patrol integrates with the Health App and Activity App and Surfline Sessions™. It measures your heart rate and calories burned. The first and best surf tracker for Apple Watch. Happy surfing! (*) SOUL SURFER SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS PLEASE NOTE: • The Soul Surfer subscription is available as a monthly or a yearly subscription • Payment will be charged to your iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period • Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period • Subscriptions may be managed by you and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings on the App Store after purchase • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable For the full Terms and Conditions of this service: https://www.dawnpatrol.cloud/terms and https://www.dawnpatrol.cloud/privacy

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

3.9K Ratings

No bad but very easy to make great
Jul 23

Arealperson808
They don’t let u see anything else when ur surfing , including the tide, so u basically have to memorize and guess what it is when ur out IF u checked b4 jumping in. I see the developers response to this same issue from years ago. and they say “please update app” and, it’s a lie bcuz they didn’t change it at all cuz I jus got the app. Also some sessions don’t load so u just wasted ur whole day. I’d have no problem paying for premium if the app was better
No bad but very easy to make great
Jul 23

Arealperson808

They don’t let u see anything else when ur surfing , including the tide, so u basically have to memorize and guess what it is when ur out IF u checked b4 jumping in. I see the developers response to this same issue from years ago. and they say “please update app” and, it’s a lie bcuz they didn’t change it at all cuz I jus got the app. Also some sessions don’t load so u just wasted ur whole day. I’d have no problem paying for premium if the app was better
Highly inaccurate surf tracking
06/07/2021

jgc1515
I’ve had this app for a few years now. I even subscribe to the Soul Surfer forecast because the complication looks cool on my watch. But that’s the only good thing about this app - the complication looks cool on the Apple watch. The surf tracking is horrible. It captures very few waves than the actual number of waves caught. Like seriously way off. Sometimes it even records zero waves. I observe this issue at different surf spots. I contacted the developer a couple of years ago and they told me to set the sensitivity to Slow. Did that, still did not record the waves. Then I tried setting the sensitivity to Medium and Fast, neither helped. I deleted the app from my phone and my watch and reinstalled, did not help. I turned off and on the watch before every session to make sure the watch is reset, did not help. Nothing that I tried helped. And I have gone through two Apple watches - still the same issue. I keep waiting for a fix that never came to this day. If you use Surfline Sessions on your watch, you’ll see Surfline Sessions is even way more accurate than this app. Don’t waste your time on this, and especially your money on the Soul Surfer subscription. It’s total garbage. I’ll just get the Rip Curl GPS 2 instead, which I should have done a long time ago. I wish the developer cared enough to fix this, but it’s been years and nothing has changed. I guess they just don’t care enough once they hook you in with the Soul Surfer subscription.

Developer Response
Hi, thanks for your review. It's good that you have changed the sensitivity settings, this sometimes work, although in 2-4 ft the medium setting should work alright. We use the GPS information provided by the device you use in the water. This works well in general, however on some beaches or some occasions the GPS info could be less accurate than others. With every release we improve the app and the accuracy of the measurements. We keep learning from the data we’re getting onwards. Please continue to use the app and you'll find out it'll also work well in 2-4 ft waves in general. Happy surfing!
Highly inaccurate surf tracking
06/07/2021

jgc1515

I’ve had this app for a few years now. I even subscribe to the Soul Surfer forecast because the complication looks cool on my watch. But that’s the only good thing about this app - the complication looks cool on the Apple watch. The surf tracking is horrible. It captures very few waves than the actual number of waves caught. Like seriously way off. Sometimes it even records zero waves. I observe this issue at different surf spots. I contacted the developer a couple of years ago and they told me to set the sensitivity to Slow. Did that, still did not record the waves. Then I tried setting the sensitivity to Medium and Fast, neither helped. I deleted the app from my phone and my watch and reinstalled, did not help. I turned off and on the watch before every session to make sure the watch is reset, did not help. Nothing that I tried helped. And I have gone through two Apple watches - still the same issue. I keep waiting for a fix that never came to this day. If you use Surfline Sessions on your watch, you’ll see Surfline Sessions is even way more accurate than this app. Don’t waste your time on this, and especially your money on the Soul Surfer subscription. It’s total garbage. I’ll just get the Rip Curl GPS 2 instead, which I should have done a long time ago. I wish the developer cared enough to fix this, but it’s been years and nothing has changed. I guess they just don’t care enough once they hook you in with the Soul Surfer subscription.
Developer Response 11/07/2018
Hi, thanks for your review. It's good that you have changed the sensitivity settings, this sometimes work, although in 2-4 ft the medium setting should work alright. We use the GPS information provided by the device you use in the water. This works well in general, however on some beaches or some occasions the GPS info could be less accurate than others. With every release we improve the app and the accuracy of the measurements. We keep learning from the data we’re getting onwards. Please continue to use the app and you'll find out it'll also work well in 2-4 ft waves in general. Happy surfing!
Bring the tide back please
09/21/2021

Bigfatchump
Isn't it ironic that as a paying Soul Surfer, you can access information about what the tide *was* during your sesh, but Dawn Patrol have recently removed that information from the screen when you're actually surfing!? Knowing the tide at a given moment and when it will next turn is, in some spots, a huge determinant re: whether one should stay in the water. Am I in the middle of a very long lull, or has the tide risen and swamped out the spot? The tide number would provide important clues. It's often a major safety consideration too--at some spots I surf, rocks and reef become dangerously close to the surface or start to emerge at certain tides. It's very important for me to know not just where we are in the tide cycle, but the actual number. 2 feet. 5 feet. -1.5 feet. Both for the in-session screen and the watch complications, it has become increasingly difficult to understand what the tide is now and when it'll turn. The charts that currently load look cool but are practically far less useful than the previous setup. because the actual numbers have been left out.Suggestion: I don't care about my total wave time, nor seeing the tide graph complication with unmarked axes showing what it’ll be at 2am. Can you please remove those and give me the tide numbers within the session interface again so I can make important go/no-go decisions in the water and surf more safely? Thank you!

Developer Response
Hi, Thank you for your feedback, this is very useful for us. Would you mind updating the app to the latest version on the App Store? We have done exactly as per your suggestion as clear as possible. Hope this works well for you. Please let us know if this works better for you (support@dawnpatrol.cloud).Happy surfing
Bring the tide back please
09/21/2021

Bigfatchump

Isn't it ironic that as a paying Soul Surfer, you can access information about what the tide *was* during your sesh, but Dawn Patrol have recently removed that information from the screen when you're actually surfing!? Knowing the tide at a given moment and when it will next turn is, in some spots, a huge determinant re: whether one should stay in the water. Am I in the middle of a very long lull, or has the tide risen and swamped out the spot? The tide number would provide important clues. It's often a major safety consideration too--at some spots I surf, rocks and reef become dangerously close to the surface or start to emerge at certain tides. It's very important for me to know not just where we are in the tide cycle, but the actual number. 2 feet. 5 feet. -1.5 feet. Both for the in-session screen and the watch complications, it has become increasingly difficult to understand what the tide is now and when it'll turn. The charts that currently load look cool but are practically far less useful than the previous setup. because the actual numbers have been left out.Suggestion: I don't care about my total wave time, nor seeing the tide graph complication with unmarked axes showing what it’ll be at 2am. Can you please remove those and give me the tide numbers within the session interface again so I can make important go/no-go decisions in the water and surf more safely? Thank you!
Developer Response 01/13/2022
Hi, Thank you for your feedback, this is very useful for us. Would you mind updating the app to the latest version on the App Store? We have done exactly as per your suggestion as clear as possible. Hope this works well for you. Please let us know if this works better for you (support@dawnpatrol.cloud).Happy surfing
Amazing app, a bit buggy with Apple Watch Ultra right now
09/11/2023

mhigginsca
I have been a huge fan of the Dawn Patrol app for a couple years now. It’s been such a great way for me to keep track of my surfing progression over the years. It has historically done an amazingly accurate job with the tracking it does, and I’ve enjoyed the updates they’ve pushed over the past couple of years too, such as being able to take notes about conditions at the break as part of each stored session. Only tempering my rating because I recently upgraded to an Apple Watch Ultra specifically because I was hoping for a more accurate tracking experience, but right now, the app is buggy on the Ultra. While it technically works, it misses most waves and when it does actually record something, it’s very much wrong info - incorrect distance, speed, etc. And I hate coming back from a great session with bad data or even no waves tracked from the app! It also often shows GPS data that bounces around a lot. In addition to fixing the bugs with what waves the app currently captures, it would be amazing to add a feature allowing you to go back and add waves that you actually did catch rather than just being able to delete waves that weren’t real waves.
Amazing app, a bit buggy with Apple Watch Ultra right now
09/11/2023

mhigginsca

I have been a huge fan of the Dawn Patrol app for a couple years now. It’s been such a great way for me to keep track of my surfing progression over the years. It has historically done an amazingly accurate job with the tracking it does, and I’ve enjoyed the updates they’ve pushed over the past couple of years too, such as being able to take notes about conditions at the break as part of each stored session. Only tempering my rating because I recently upgraded to an Apple Watch Ultra specifically because I was hoping for a more accurate tracking experience, but right now, the app is buggy on the Ultra. While it technically works, it misses most waves and when it does actually record something, it’s very much wrong info - incorrect distance, speed, etc. And I hate coming back from a great session with bad data or even no waves tracked from the app! It also often shows GPS data that bounces around a lot. In addition to fixing the bugs with what waves the app currently captures, it would be amazing to add a feature allowing you to go back and add waves that you actually did catch rather than just being able to delete waves that weren’t real waves.

Small fixes, smoother surf sessions. We’ve polished the interface so your surf data looks as good as your last wave. Happy surfing.

Version 6.1.2

Oct 22

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