Beach Buddy is a mobile app built to help people make safer, more informed decisions at the beach—before they arrive and while they’re there—using a combination of real-time conditions, personalized alerts, and historical context. It is designed for everyday beachgoers, surfers, divers, families, and coastal travelers who want clear, practical information without sensationalism.
At its core, Beach Buddy acts as a “coastal intelligence” companion. The app brings together key ocean and shoreline factors that typically live in separate places—weather, marine conditions, surf and swell indicators, tide timing, and hazard awareness—into a single, location-aware experience. Users can select and save favorite beaches, view conditions for those locations, and receive alerts tied to the beaches they care about most. This personalized approach helps users make decisions such as when to go, which beach is safer for their plan, and when conditions have shifted enough to reconsider.
A defining feature of Beach Buddy is its historic and global view of shark-related incidents. The app includes the world’s first and only Global Shark Map, compiling years of documented incidents and reports into an interactive map experience. This is not presented as fear-based content; it is intended as historical context and risk-awareness education. By making past incidents visible and understandable in geographic context, Beach Buddy helps users see patterns and consider known risk factors—timing, location, and surrounding conditions—when planning ocean activities.
Beach Buddy also supports community-oriented safety through the concept of favorite-beach monitoring and alerting. When a user saves locations, the app is structured to help them stay aware of changing conditions and nearby risk signals relevant to those beaches. The goal is to reduce preventable incidents by consolidating data into a format that is easy to check quickly and interpret correctly.
What makes Beach Buddy different from traditional weather or surf apps is that it is not focused on a single metric. It is built around the reality that coastal safety is multifactorial: many negative outcomes happen when several known risks converge. Beach Buddy is designed to surface those signals early and present them in one place, so users aren’t relying on fragmented sources, outdated posts, or incomplete information.
Beach Buddy is grounded in a philosophy of informed coexistence with the ocean and marine life. It aims to protect human life without demonizing sharks or promoting harmful narratives. The app’s mission is to promote ocean education, smarter decision-making, and greater awareness of natural systems that affect safety along coastlines worldwide.
Beach Buddy is live on Google Play and continues to evolve based on real-world use, with a clear focus on reliability, clarity, and practical value for anyone spending time near the ocean.