Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log
Surf Tracker for Apple Watch
How much does Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log cost?
Prices are current as of 7 Oct 2026.
2 subscriptions from $2.99
In the United States, Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log has 2 subscriptions priced $2.99 – 29.99. It comes with a 1 month free trial.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Subscription | MonthlyTrial: 1 month | $2.99 |
| Annual Subscription | AnnualTrial: 1 month | $29.99 |
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| Rating / 5 | 3.9 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.5 | 3.5 |
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| Monthly price | $2.99 | $3.49 | $6.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $18.99 | $27.99 | — | — | — | — |
| Annual price | $29.99 | $27.49 | $29.99 | $29.99 | $15.00 | — | $199.99 | — | — | — | — |
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Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log reviews
3.9 out of 5, based on 4,232 reviews.
What people like
- Tracks distance, speed, and paddle patterns well
- Lets you add photos to surf logs
- Watch battery lasts a long time
- Easy to sync with iPad Pro
What they complain about
- Charges a subscription after buying the watch
- Syncing fails and data gets lost often
- Counts fake waves from paddling or duck dives
- App crashes and feels unstable on devices
Rip curl watch
Great piece of tech
Speech less
Wasting money
Hhhhhzeeee
It has intermittent wave recordings. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. The other issue I have is that the people I follow do not update regularly. I have to delete the app and reinstall it to get updated surf sessions on people I follow.
Apple Watch Compatibility Limited
After logging a 2+ hour session at Trestles, the session never synced to the app on my iPhone nor to Surfline. The session was logged and synced to Apple Fitness.
Ok
Really good app, but you have to pay to get info on your watch.
amazing
🏄♂️🤙
Terrible app b
Terrible app. It’s not at all clear how to download sessions, syncing does not work. And being forced to subscribe is akin to robbery. Bad form, RipCurl.
Vai e vem, vamos ver se agora vai
O relógio é muito legal e a pulseira é excelente. No início funcionava perfeitamente, depois começou a dar uns bugs e não registrava onda nenhuma se ficasse muito tempo parado. Quando lançaram o GPS 3, passaram a cobrar para usar o app, sem que tivesse qualquer melhoria. Em agosto de 2025 o relógio travou e pouco depois fizeram uma atualização do firmware que passou a funcionar como era lá no início quando comprei (dezembro 21). Vale a pena? Eu acho que sim, a bateria dura umas 8h gravando a sessão e se não surfar dura uns 30 dias. Legal ter o registro de distância, tempo de sessão, velocidade e ondas surfadas, mesmo que as vezes não marque corretamente.
Is ok but often glitches
The app is not available on Android devices The watch often struggles to find the gps signal early in the morning in Western Australia Some days the watch does not record any waves, but still counts paddles and distance travelled during a session. Other days it just starts counting waves while sitting on your board You have to reset the watch monthly if you surf a lot
Good for surfee’s
Great for active surfers but I simply wanted it for new cool watch faces and info to be displayed Also not a big fan of the health data sharing
Excellent
Accurate and reliable
Pretty bad app
Subs still valid until 15 June but won't sync now - it also only captures maybe half waves in a session
PIOROU TUDO!!!!!!!😡
Piorou tudo, perdi todo o meu histórico, de anos, a Rip Curl, demora para atender e não resolveu o meu problema. E AGORA AINDA É PAGO!!! NÃO VALE MAIS A PENA .
Good motivation
Be great if you could link your surfboard from your profile to your surf so you could work out which board scores more sick rides!
So much unrealized potential…
1) Allow us to delete individual waves. The app picks up too many fake signals - a duck dive on a big one that pushes you back a bit or a wave that you paddled and paddled for but didn’t quite get. Those and other hallucinations count as waves. We should be able to swipe left to delete individual waves or non waves as the case may be. 2) Why are wave lengths shown in feet?Nobody talks about riding a wave for 1180 feet or even 20 feet. Those distance measurements should be in yards. After surfing an epic session at a long point break or reef, we now have to do a bunch of mathematical gymnastics before we know how far we were going. 3) Also, the video playback from the last version of the app was fun. Why take that away? Bottom line, the GPS 3 watch is a good product as were the original versions 1 and 2. Th software functionality has always been the weak link and it really shouldn’t be that hard to bring the functionality into the modern era.
New watch GPS3
Better function buttons / more display area
Only works when it wants to
Hardly works. Watch registers everything then it won’t show up in the app. Surfed 11 session over 7 day period and it only worked twice.
過去のライディング記録が復活！！
使いやすさ、見やすさという点で賛否両論あると思うが、自分が記録をスタートさせた2017年からの369日間のライディング記録が見られるようになった。後は、使い方の日本語解説やユーザビリティの改善が望まれる！記録用のApple Watchへの買い替え、アプリの変更は一旦保留。
Bugs everywhere
When are we going to get a build that is stable? I can’t even sync my watch which is the entire point of this app. Currently useless
Review
The new update is so bad I can not find everything and my surf are not connecting
Works well
So far so good. Clean and not too clunky at all
All they care about is money
We paid about 400 (on sale) to use a gps watch to track my surf, now they making you pay an extra 50 dollars a year just to use the feature you spent that much money on in the first place to use, such a money hungry company now, go back to the way you where
Does what it says on the tin
Great app, does as described. Can sometime be a little slow and the watch itself throws up some interesting data
Watch Sync!!!!!
Every other surf won’t sync to the app. It misses waves ( telling me I caught 6 when I know I got more) and for the life of me I cannot get it to sync with the Surfline cameras.
No Strava :(
App works well and enjoy tracking on Surfline but at over £200 for a watch, I didn’t even think to check if it synced with Strava, which felt like a given. Please add this - such an easy API integration!
Gps surf watch
One of my favourite surf equipment pieces other than my board and wetsuit . Having a log of surf trips is great.
Rubbish
New version is rubbish.. and we have to pay for it
Sign up
Having trouble with the app it won’t let me sign up and says something went wrong
Sync issues
Impossible to sync my gps 2 with iPhone!
Okay but needs tide times
Hey team, not a bad app, but it would be cool to have tide times on the watch face when surfing.
Good
It is a good app
Sneaky
I was pretty annoyed to find out you need a subscription after paying for the watch to use the app to access details about your surf session.
デスクトップアプリがいまいちハッキリ働かない
iPhoneバージョンでは不自由を感じないがデスクトップのソフトウェアがいまいち働いてくれない！自分で管理する際にiPhoneと同期してデスクトップで細かく修正管理したい自分にとってはiPhoneにデータをただ溜めておくだけになってしまってあまり使う気にならなくなったのが残念です。デスクトップアプリの方のバグを細かく修正して頂ければもっと使い倒すのに…と思います。
So far not impressed
The app needs work if it can sync to the watch why not show me more info like if I used to record a walk or run it should be able to show me those on the app too I feel like it’s ridiculous having to pay an extra 30 dollars a year since I already paid for the watch and Surfline premium different company but the apps connect. This is not something so amazing that you should charge for the year to use should come free with watch purchase. But again app should be able to control the watch and make it easier to configure settings and see the stats after not only for surfing but other activities too.
One trick pony
This was bought the gps 2 watch as a Xmas present and it is fantastic as an easy to use surfers watch, but the app really limits the functionality to only that. Making it an expensive single purpose gadget. As per previous reviews, the app could be expanded with sort functions e.g locations, top speed, longest waves etc. Plus separate surfs from running, swimming etc. If the watch could be used with other apps (e.g. strava) then it may also appeal to a wider audience. Thank you for reading.
Aloha
I have much fun with this thank you guys 🤙🤙🤙
Not what it was
Used to be a great app but now they charge you for it after you’ve already forked out $400 on their basic digital watch. You want us to pay for the app? Make the watches cheaper!
Great App!
Stoked to be able to log my dream sessions. Track paddling pattern & distance. Assign a surfboard. & even add a correlating image to each surf. I use it in Bali & the latest update has been running smoothly. Thank you, Rip Curl 🙏🏽 The only criticism is sometimes ‘cropping’ can be an issue.
Glitchy
The “new” app seems still be having issues, only access Go Track and not Go Surf. Now need to pay $50 year to access your data it seems🤷🏼♂️
Aye
Keeps crashing. Sometimes register paddles as waves, no option to delete individual waves via app... would be super useful
Siiick
Epic app. Super fun!
Great when It works.
Not the best as it is clunky and problematic. They need To Sort the bugs out!
Gps
Informative and accurate just upgraded to the iPad Pro and its super easy to sync and dissect the sessions Wow
subscription
HELL NAH GET YO MONTHLY SUBSCRIPTION OUTTA HERE. Are you trying to ruin the app? Ripcurl sort this out the app was perfect before the subscription. Please remove subsciption, I already spent heaps just to get the ripcurl watch. Thanks N
Needs improvement!
Needs updating in line with Search GPS 2 Watch. At present all activities are recorded as surfs. Would be nice to see information relating to other activities such as pace, elevation etc. I am trying to sync my watch with the wind units as MPH but won’t change to anything other than knots. Would be awesome to be able to search by location too, to see who else surfs there and how they perform! Ability to export GPS as GPX file data would be extremely useful and is something I’d love to see in the future!
RIP curl gps
Seems to duplicate surfs which improves my wave count but is not a true reflection of my ability otherwise watch is great
Scabs
Why ? Surfers are simple people. Buy a watch, had some fun recording the surf. Simple. Now this multi million dollar company’s wants you to pay to use the app. Why. Keep it simple. Might be only a little subscription but it all adds up. Why ? You don’t need the extra money. Canceled my Surfline subscription also. Thanks Ripcurl for nothing.
Sick app
Sick app for logging your surfs, surf shot photos and stats. Would be awesome if you could add fin types to the boards also when entering surf details. Chur.
Sync
Was enjoying the watch/ app until 3rd day in g-land stopped syncing
Rip Curl gps 2 app review
App from a glance appears great however, its doesn’t automatically sync and update surf forecasts. You have to manually log in ever time which to me is point less as you may as well just view the condition on a alternative app.
Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log price by country
A monthly subscription costs $2.74 in Indonesia and $4.55 in Hungary — 1.7× more for the same thing. Below is the going rate for each plan in every country that sells it — the middle price of what the app charges there, in the country's own currency with the dollar equivalent beneath it.
| Country | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Algeria | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Argentina | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Armenia | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Australia | A$4.99$3.47 | A$49.99$34.72 |
| Austria | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Azerbaijan | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Belgium | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Bolivia | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Botswana | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Brazil | R$14.90$2.97 | R$149.90$29.86 |
| British Virgin Islands | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Brunei Darussalam | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Bulgaria | €3.49$3.91 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Cambodia | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Cameroon | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Canada | CA$3.99$2.79 | CA$39.99$27.97 |
| Chile | CLP 2,990$3.02 | CLP 34,990$35.39 |
| Croatia | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Cyprus | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Czech Republic | CZK 79.00$3.62 | CZK 799.00$36.63 |
| Denmark | DKK 29.00$4.35 | DKK 249.00$37.33 |
| El Salvador | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Estonia | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Fiji | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Finland | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| France | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Gambia | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Germany | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Greece | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Guatemala | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Honduras | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Hungary | HUF 1,490$4.55 | HUF 12,990$39.63 |
| Iceland | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Indonesia | IDR 49,000$2.74 | IDR 499,000$27.89 |
| Ireland | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Italy | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Japan | ¥500$3.16 | ¥5,000$31.65 |
| Jordan | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Kazakhstan | KZT 1,490.00$3.27 | KZT 14,990.00$32.85 |
| Kenya | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Kuwait | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Kyrgyzstan | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Lao Peoples Democratic Republic | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Latvia | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Lebanon | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Liberia | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Libya | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Lithuania | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Luxembourg | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Madagascar | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Malaysia | MYR 14.90$3.64 | MYR 129.90$31.76 |
| Maldives | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Malta | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Myanmar | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Namibia | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Nepal | $3.99 | $34.99 |
| Netherlands | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| New Zealand | NZ$4.99$2.79 | NZ$49.99$27.93 |
| Nicaragua | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Norway | NOK 39.00$4.07 | NOK 399.00$41.61 |
| Oman | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Pakistan | PKR 900$3.25 | PKR 7,900$28.51 |
| Panama | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Papua New Guinea | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Paraguay | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Peru | PEN 12.90$3.75 | PEN 129.90$37.76 |
| Poland | PLN 14.99$3.83 | PLN 149.99$38.36 |
| Portugal | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Romania | RON 14.99$3.15 | RON 149.99$31.51 |
| Seychelles | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Singapore | SGD 3.98$3.11 | SGD 39.98$31.23 |
| Slovenia | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| South Africa | ZAR 59.99$3.60 | ZAR 599.99$36.04 |
| South Korea | ₩4,400$3.28 | ₩44,000$32.77 |
| Spain | €2.99$3.35 | €34.99$39.23 |
| Swaziland | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Sweden | SEK 39.00$3.88 | SEK 399.00$39.74 |
| Switzerland | CHF 3.00$3.61 | CHF 30.00$36.10 |
| Tanzania | TZS 9,900.00$3.75 | TZS 89,900.00$34.03 |
| Thailand | THB 99.00$2.94 | THB 999.00$29.65 |
| Tonga | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Turkmenistan | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| United Kingdom | £2.99$3.96 | £29.99$39.67 |
| United States | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Uruguay | $2.99 | $29.99 |
| Venezuela | $2.99 | $29.99 |
Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log FAQ
- Is Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 88 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $2.99 (US), across 2 subscriptions.
- How much does Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log cost per month?
- Monthly Subscription is $2.99 (US). The annual plan works out cheaper per month: $29.99 a year.
- Does Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log have a free trial?
- Yes — a 1 month free trial (US).
- Where is Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log cheapest?
- A monthly subscription costs IDR 49,000 (≈$2.74) in Indonesia and HUF 1,490 (≈$4.55) in Hungary, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log?
- Dawn Patrol (4.6 from 11,991 reviews, premium from $3.49), Paddle Logger: SUP & Kayaking (4.7 from 10,961 reviews, premium from $6.99) and Waterspeed: Track Watersports (4.6 from 6,041 reviews, premium from $2.99).
Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log download
Last updated 10 days ago.
Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log sells in 88 countries. It was released 12 years and 4 months ago, on 15 May 2014. It holds a 3.9 rating from 4,232 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does Rip Curl Search GPS: Surf Log make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- Monthly 84%
- Annual 16%
Revenue by country
- Australia 32%
- United States 31%
- Japan 7%
- France 5%