Gone Surfing

Gone Surfing turns your Apple Watch into a surf tracker that helps while you are still in the water. Its standout feature is real-time takeoff zone guidance: an arrow on your wrist points you back towards where your waves are breaking, helping you return to the takeoff zone after each ride.

Automatic wave detection uses GPS and motion data and is tuned to pick up slower and smaller waves. After you paddle in, the iPhone app maps each detected wave and your paddling route over satellite imagery. You can inspect the distance, duration and speed of individual rides instead of seeing only a session total.

On iPhone, session details and charts cover both surfing and fitness. See wave count, surfing ratio, time between waves, paddling distance, paddle strokes, paddling efficiency, heart rate zones, endurance and calories burned. Longer-term trends show how those numbers change across sessions. The AI Surf Coach turns the data into a personalized recap with practical tips for your next surf. Sessions save to Apple Health as workouts.

Over 1,000,000 waves were tracked in 2025. Gone Surfing is free to download, with Pro features from $19.99/year. It requires an Apple Watch running watchOS 10 or later and an iPhone running iOS 17 or later.