Volta
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Where should I paddle out?

And where are my friends going?

Volta puts forecasts, live cams, your surf log and your friends’ sessions in one place, so you answer both questions in one look instead of six open tabs.

What it does

Before

Check the week, watch the cams, see where your friends are heading.

After

Log the session, remember what it was actually like, share it with your crew.

Coming

Recommendations that learn which sessions leave you most stoked, not just where the biggest waves are.

How we think

  1. 01

    The math is on the table. Juice is ft × period^1.7, the same formula everywhere, no secret constants.

    How Juice works →
  2. 02

    Your spots stay yours. We don’t sell your data, and we don’t blow up sensitive breaks.

  3. 03

    Built to be closed. Volta doesn’t try to keep you in the app.

Where the numbers come from

Waves: MFWAM, GFS and NWPS. Wind: RRFS, GFS and ECMWF, matched to each wave model. Tides: NOAA. Live readings: NDBC buoys, NOAA CO-OPS tide gauges and NWS weather stations, including WeatherSTEM. Cams: SurfGuru and local providers, credited on every cam. Place names © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Who makes it

Volta is built by Micaiah, a surfer in South Florida.

Surf culture

Everyone deserves a way into surfing, and beginners deserve help finding places they can actually learn. That doesn’t mean etiquette, ability and local knowledge don’t matter. Learn the place before you take from it.

Core without contempt. Inclusive without dilution.

Check it. Close it. Go surf.

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