Know when to go. Remember every session. Find what you need around the break.
Built by surfers, for surfers. Private by default.
Follow a break. Alani learns your best days there and taps you when they're coming back.
No forecast rabbit hole. No hype. Just a heads-up when it's worth paddling out.
Buoys and models for your breaks, checked against the sessions you rated highest there. When a morning lines up with your best ones, the Sun comes up on that break and you hear first.
Say it straight. Never a percentage, never red. The Sun marks the days that look like yours.
Your mornings come to you early, in plain words. No blast to everyone. No spot blasting.
Rate it, add a photo, done. Conditions are already filled in.
Over time, it becomes the story of your life in the water.
Share a session with your Lineup, the crew you actually paddle out with, or keep it to yourself.
Where it was is a separate setting, and sensitive spots stay vague unless you say so. No audience to perform for. No spot blasting.
Pick a break. See everything around it in minutes from the water.
A surf trip doesn't start with a town. It starts with a break. Coffee, food, stays, rentals, repairs and good times, measured from the wave.
Recommended shows the count and the moment. Sponsored is marked and never cuts the line. Recommending a place never gives away when or where you surfed.
Find coffee before and food after, pinned by surfers who just stopped there.
Coffee before dawn patrol. Tacos after. A cold one at sunset. Alani asks right after you log: "Where'd you eat?" One tap. The place shows. You never do.
Filter stays by minutes to the break, board storage, outdoor showers and early parking.
Not just the nearest hotel. Booking sites re-sorted from the wave, plus the houses that never make it onto any platform, added by surfers and claimed by hosts.
Rent, repair or restock. Message the shop from the car park.
Rent a board. Fix a ding. Grab wax. Find a guide. Local shops measured from the break, with live rental counts and the stuff you need to get back in the water.
Messages land in the shop's WhatsApp. Auto-replies only use what the shop has approved, then the owner takes over.
Find tonight's sunset beer, band or board swap near where you surfed.
Sunset beers. Live music. Board swaps. Contests. Beach fires. Bring your crew.
Protect the wave, the people and the knowledge around it.
Follow the swell.
Remember why you surf.
Add your shop free. Hours, rentals, repairs. Messages land in WhatsApp. Already pinned by surfers? Claim it.
If you rent boards, fix dings, pour coffee, host surfers or make the trip better, Alani helps surfers find you from the break. Your Alani page is your website, your front desk and your map pin, in one.
A page that's always right: hours with "open now," what you sell, minutes from each break, what surfers say. Your own URL.
Messages to your WhatsApp with approved auto-replies. Live rental counts and holds. Who found you, and from which breaks.
Paid holds for boards, lessons, guides and storage. No monthly fee.
Top of the list for your break, always labeled, never above a better-recommended place.
The same rules that work in the water should work here.
Yes, for surfers. Following breaks, the heads-up, the log, your Lineup and the map around the break are free and stay free. Shops and hosts pay only if they want Pro.
Follow a break and rate your sessions there. Alani reads buoys, models and tides against the days you rated highest, and when a morning lines up you get one quiet heads-up. No feed. No blast to everyone.
No. Log the ones you want to remember. Conditions are already filled in, so rating one takes ten seconds. The more you log at a break, the sharper your heads-up gets there.
You, unless you share one with your Lineup. Where you surfed is a separate setting: exact break, general area, or hidden. Sensitive spots are vague by default.
No. Recommending a coffee, a shop or a house shows the place, never your session. Nobody can work backwards from a burrito to a break.
Coffee and food (Sip), somewhere to sleep (Stay), rentals, repairs and gear (Shop), and what's on tonight (Stoke). All measured in minutes from the wave, all pinned by surfers who've actually been.
NOAA buoys, global wave models and tide tables, read against your own rated sessions at each break. Every reading shows its source.
Adding your shop is free: hours, rentals, repairs and your pin on the map. Pro is $299 a year, less than a rental a week, and adds messages straight to your WhatsApp with auto-replies you approve, live rental counts, and who's finding you. Reservations take 10% and have no monthly fee.
Hotels, hostels and camps from booking partners, re-sorted by minutes to the break and flagged for board storage and early parking. Booking happens on the partner's site. The houses and rooms that never make it onto any platform are added by surfers and claimed by hosts.
In the ways we can keep today: repair and rental before new, walkable before drivable, and sensitive breaks kept vague so they don't get loved to death. Bigger commitments go in The Code only when we can keep them.
iPhone first, Fall 2026. Join the waitlist below and you'll hear the day it lands.
Surfr App became Alani Surf. Same idea, bigger vision. The story is on the About page.
Know when to go, remember the days that mattered, and find your way around the waves.
