Your phone becomes the tracker — and because your hands are busy, you talk to it instead. Call your wife, reach your instructor, ask what the wind is doing, or trigger SOS, all through a headset without touching a screen.
This is where SmartSurf is heading — the app will be the main way most people start. The hardware Tracker is the reliability layer you add when a phone in a pocket isn't enough: on the board, in the water, all day, phone-free.
Where this stands: the app is in active development — not on the store yet. Everything on this page is the plan, not a shipped feature list. Right now my focus is the hardware Tracker; the app beta follows. Register interest and you'll hear when the first build is ready to test.
Not another social feed or performance tracker. A digital safety system for the rider, their family, their instructor, and the school.
A pre-session brief for your sport, gear and level — conditions, sunset, connectivity, battery, spot risks.
The session records your route and speed, a live map link lets trusted people see you're fine — and you run the whole thing by voice.
Trigger by voice or one tap. Trusted contacts get an alert and a live map. Never paywalled, and it works without the AI.
Track, speed, distance, duration, key events — and a safety timeline explaining what the system knew and why it warned you.
On the water you can't hold a phone, unlock it, or tap a screen. So the app runs in the background through a Bluetooth headset, earpiece or intercom, and you just speak — call your wife, reach your instructor, tell the group you're heading in, ask what the wind is doing, or trigger SOS.
Anyone can sell a GPS box. Being able to talk to your own safety system mid-session is the part that doesn't exist yet — and it's what the whole app is built around.
You can already feel the wind and your own speed. What you can't calculate while sitting in the water is the return window — distance, drift, current, remaining daylight, and your own level combined. That's the Return Home Monitor, and it's the one answer only a system with real environmental context can give you.
Fact → trend → what to do. Never a raw number dump.
Calls confirm to avoid mis-triggers. "I'm OK" and SOS never do.
Voice SOS is recognised locally on the phone — it works with no signal, no cloud, and no model. Because wind noise can cause false triggers, a voice-activated SOS opens a short spoken cancel window; a button or on-screen SOS fires instantly with no window at all.
SOS, calling a contact, "I'm OK", "repeat that", battery and GPS status. Recognised on-device, so they work with no coverage and no cloud — even in airplane mode.
"Is the wind getting stronger?", "Can I make it back?", free dialogue and explanation. If the cloud drops, this degrades away — the local core keeps running underneath.
Voice is in development and is the hardest part to get right — wind noise, wet hands, headset dropouts and battery all have to be solved in real field conditions. It follows the first app beta rather than blocking it, and ships only once command recognition holds up on the water.
Weather apps give you numbers and leave the decision to you. The brief combines the live conditions with your sport, your gear and your skill level — then says go, caution, or no-go, and tells you what to watch.
Matches your gear and level, data is trustworthy, hazards clear.
Rideable but something's moving — go smart, set limits.
Beyond safe margins for this spot, gear and level.
The context comes from Senlay, SmartSurf's physical-world layer — and the app always shows where a value came from and how fresh it is, so you can judge the judgement. Try that engine live →
Family or friends get a live link — they don't need the app to see you're fine. On an SOS they get alerted with your position, not a silent void.
An assigned instructor sees student status, sends a spoken message, or calls — and knows whether it was delivered, played, and acknowledged.
Riding as a group? Ask where everyone is, send the whole crew one message, or hear if someone falls behind — all by voice, without stopping.
A rule I won't bend: SOS, messaging and core commands never depend on the AI. If the cloud or the model fails, the app degrades to a local safety core that still tracks and still sends an SOS. Safety can't have a single point of failure.
Each stage only ships once the one before it holds up in real field conditions — battery, GPS, message delivery, command recognition.
Plan contents are indicative and will change before launch; no pricing is being offered yet. Manual and voice SOS will never sit behind a subscription, and receiving a critical message from a trusted contact or your instructor stays available on the free tier.
Register interest and tick "Phone app beta" — I'll come to you when there's something real to install. If you'd rather start with hardware, that's the Tracker.