drfty

Check the water before you go for a swim. drfty puts real-time quality grades for every LAWA-monitored swim site in Aotearoa on your Apple Watch, iPhone, and lock screen.

APPLE WATCH
Pin any swim site as a watch face complication. See the water quality grade, tide direction, and sea temperature the moment you raise your wrist — no phone, no app, no fuss.

NEARBY SITES
Open the app and instantly see the closest monitored beaches, rivers, and lakes sorted by distance. Wellington Harbour, Bay of Plenty, Hawke's Bay — wherever you are.

MARINE CONDITIONS
Sea surface temperature · Wave height and period · UV index · Tide state with next high and low tide times — for coastal sites.

SEARCH
Find any of the 900+ LAWA-monitored sites across New Zealand by name.

LOCK SCREEN WIDGET
Pin your favourite beach to your iPhone lock screen. Animated tide fill updates throughout the day.

SIRI
"What's the water like at Oriental Bay in drfty?" — hands-free conditions, any time.

PRIVACY FIRST
No account required. No ads. No personal data stored. Location is used on-device only to find nearby sites — never logged or shared.

drfty is free. If it saves you a swim in dodgy water, you can buy me a coffee or a beer from inside the app.

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Water quality: LAWA (Land Air Water Aotearoa), CC BY 4.0
Tide predictions: NIWA
Marine conditions: Open-Meteo