Read the break.
Six-tier surf verdicts for every California spot, calibrated to the swell window, the period, the tide, and the wind. Built in Carpinteria. iOS, summer 2026.
Launching summer 2026.
One email at launch.
How it reads
Five facts.
Six tiers, not five stars.
A three-star morning at one break is a different ocean than three stars at another. The verdict is keyed to the spot — swell, period, direction, tide, and wind, against the break's orientation. Six tiers, calibrated per break: Flat, Marginal, Worth a look, Fun, Cooking, ITS ON!
Public buoys. Public wave models. Public tide.
NOAA NDBC buoys. CDIP MOP nearshore wave model from Scripps Institution of Oceanography. NOAA tide predictions. The GFS Wave grid from NCEP. Federally funded. Freely published.
Built in Carpinteria by surfers. Not kooks.
The verdict for each break is calibrated by someone who surfs it. If it reads wrong, it gets retuned.
Honest when it sucks. Loud when it cooks.
Flat is flat. Blown out is blown out. When the chain fills — long-period swell on the window, wind offshore, tide right — the verdict says so. One word, not a paragraph.
Your data is yours. No crowd to sell.
No login. No tracking pixels. Favorites, custom spots, and session logs live on your device. The verdict is calibrated to public buoys and per-spot tuning, not to aggregated user behavior. There is no crowd-sourced anything.
The catalog
Six California breaks.
See all 53 California spots, north to south →
Sources
Four public sources.
Every source above is public, federally funded, and freely published.