Built by surfers
for surfers.
Find sessions, join crews, book a lesson, trade gear. The surf industry is growing and the water is busier than ever. Let’s work together to make sure it grows right.
Now building across Australia
Free forever
Connecting the right people
to the right waves.
Waves are limited
There are only so many waves at a peak. One surfer’s wave is a wave another surfer didn’t get. So we’ll never chase the kind of growth that just crams more bodies into the same water.
Learn it
It’s not about how hard you charge. It’s whether you give way, learn the lineup, and look after the next person out. Everyone starts somewhere. Here, showing up right earns your place.
Less screen, more surf
No endless feed, no notifications nagging you, no fake urgency. Check what’s on, then go paddle out.
No one should have to
paddle out alone.
Some sessions you want the water to yourself. Some sessions you don’t. SaltRiders is where you find your people, your lessons, and your gear: one place for everything a surfer needs, first-timer or lifer.
Find your crew
See who’s paddling out near you, request a spot, and never be the only new face in the water. Find sessions by your skill level, vibe, and region. A single tap to say “I’m in.”
Learn from people who look out for you
Book verified coaches and surf schools that teach etiquette and ocean safety, not just pop-ups, so you paddle out confident and clued-in, not anxious. Honest, all-in pricing, plainly cancellable. No surprises.
Get geared up, safely
Buy, sell, trade or rent boards and wetsuits with payment held until you’ve checked the gear in person. Everything stays on-platform, so the usual resale scams have nowhere to hide.
We protect the waves, not expose them.
Broadcasting a break gets it blown up. So we don’t. The map takes you to the region crews are active in. The exact spot is earned, not posted.
No GPS pins. Discovery resolves to a region, never an individual break.
No public heat maps. The solitude is the point. We never visualize crowds.
Spot knowledge is gifted. The exact meetup point is revealed only after a host approves you.
Local veto. If a community asks us to remove their spot, it’s gone. No questions.
© OpenStreetMap contributorsSafe by default, for everyone.
Respect in the water protects every surfer. One-tap blocking, two-tap reporting, women-only sessions, a code of conduct everyone signs: these are built into how SaltRiders works from the start, and they can’t be switched off.
Good surf culture looks after everyone in the lineup, the veterans and the nervous first-timers alike.Women-only means women-only
If a session is women-only, everyone else simply can’t see it, join it, or message it. It’s not a setting we trust people to respect. The app makes sure of it.
Block someone in one tap
Block a person and they vanish completely. They can never see your profile, your posts, or your sessions, and they’ll never show up for you again.
Report in two taps, seen by real people
Harassment, hazards, snaking, scams, spot-burning: two taps sends it to a real person, not a bot. Anything urgent gets looked at within hours.
Me-session
or we-session.
Your session, your call. Paddle out solo, join a crew, or book a lesson when you’re ready. The water’s always on your terms.
Our four nevers.
Four things that would make us bigger and make surfing worse. We will never build them, no matter what.
Paddle out with us.
We’re opening across Australia. Put your name down and help build the surf network the whole community actually trusts.
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- No data-selling
- No leaderboards
- Free forever