iPhone · closed beta · invite only

Every break has a
recipe. Dial yours in.

locals.surf isn't another forecast. It's your own record of what your break does when it's good, and one ping the next time the ocean lines up.

Forecasts are for tourists. Locals know.

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Alerts 06:12
New Malibu Pier · 06:10

This one's on

Swell, energy, tide and wind have all lined up with your recipe.

Swell
1.4 m · 14 s
From
212° SW
Energy
274 kJ
Wind
6 kt Offshore
Tide
0.8 m rising
Recipe
Dawn left
Recipe confidence High

Example alert. Numbers are illustrative.

How it works

Three moves. No pins.

Nothing here scrapes a forecast site or drops your spot on a public map. You teach the app your break, one good session at a time.

  1. Add your break

    Drop it where it is and call it whatever you call it. Add Spot is place-only. The map stays yours.

  2. Freeze a session

    Just surfed it and it was pumping? Freeze it. The app keeps one real snapshot: swell height, period, energy and where it came from, plus the wind and the tide. That snapshot is your recipe.

    Not in the water? Dial It In from live data instead and save the exact ocean facts.

  3. Get the ping

    When the ocean lines up with your recipe again, you get one alert. Not a feed. Wind is the only gate that can hold it: calm passes, your offshore side passes, onshore or strong side-shore waits. A near miss says so and names the wind.

    • Malibu PierToday's window · 06:00 to 08:30
      Go
    • The leftOcean's right. Wind's the hold.
      Wait
    • BackupNo swell on the recipe's bearing
      No

    Example board.

Recipe confidence

A recipe has to earn it.

Every recipe starts out Learning. Six pumping sessions and five confirmed good calls later, it's High. Edit the recipe and the proof starts over.

Forecasts never count. Only real sessions at your break do.

Recipe confidence High
Learning High
Pumping sessions
6
Confirmed good
5 of 6
Forecast evidence
0
locals.surf Your recipe's on

Malibu Pier just matched your High recipe. Swell, energy, tide and wind lined up.

Example readout. Numbers are illustrative.

Crew

Share with your crew, not the internet.

There's no public map and no feed. You share a break or a recipe with named people you trust, and they can share theirs back.

Post I'm out there and your crew sees it for six hours. Then it's gone.

Crew 3
JF
JFMalibu Pier · shared 2 breaks
Malibu Pier
TK
TKThe left · shared 1 recipe
The left
MR
MRRivermouth · request sent
Pending
TK I'm out there! · The left 5h left

Example crew. Initials only.

Get in

Invite only, on purpose.

locals.surf is in a closed TestFlight beta while the recipes prove themselves at a handful of breaks. Invites come through the crew.

Know someone in? Ask them. Don't? Say hi and tell us where you surf. A nickname's fine. We don't want the pin.

Ask for an invite
hi at jimifrew.com iPhone only, for now