Where surf lives forever.
SurfVault connects surfers with local photographers, shapers, and businesses by their breaks. Whether at home or on a surf trip, find your shots and relive every session. Free to start.
Free plan · No credit card · Your photos stay secure
Built for everyone in the lineup
However you experience surf — riding it, shooting it, shaping it, or backing it — SurfVault has a place for you.
Photographers
The surfers in your shots are already searching for them — SurfVault surfaces your work by break and date. Get discovered and paid for the waves you already shoot, every frame auto-watermarked and delivered securely.
Explore → Free to startSurfers
Track your home break, get pinged the moment a photographer's shooting it, and find your waves tagged and ready — every session organized automatically.
Explore → Free to startShapers
Show off your quiver. Build board galleries, get discovered by surfers at your local breaks, and field inquiries straight from the people who'll ride your boards.
Explore → Free to startAdvertisers
Reach surfers exactly where they ride — target specific breaks or the global Discover feed, local-first. Start free with monthly credits; add prepaid packs only when you want more reach.
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The latest from real surfers, photographers, shapers, and businesses on SurfVault.
The whole vault, on iOS & Android
Upload from the beach, find your tagged waves, message photographers, and relive every session — wherever you are.
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Born from a mess of scattered surf photos.
Every surfer knows the feeling: you paddle in lit up from the best wave of your session — and it's already gone. Maybe someone on the beach got the shot. Maybe you'll never see it.
I've been on both sides of it — the surfer who could never track down his waves, and the photographer who couldn't get surfers their shots, with no easy way to share any of it. So I built the place I wished existed: where every session is saved, every wave is findable, and the people who make surf happen — photographers, shapers, the whole lineup — are all in one spot.
It's bigger than storage. It's about never losing a good wave, or the community around it, again.
— Logan, founder
Your old surf footage is doing nothing on that hard drive.
Years of photos and clips — swells nobody's seen since the day you shot them, just taking up space. Upload them to SurfVault and we'll put that archive back to work: pushing your old sessions to the surfers who were there, surfacing them across Discover, and pulling standout work into SurfVault films and edits — with your name on it — to get you noticed. Old footage, new discovery.
- Instantly findable Every session sorted by break and date — the surfers in your old shots can finally find them.
- Featured in our films Standout sessions get pulled into SurfVault films and edits — putting your work, and your name, in front of a far bigger audience.
- Always yours You own every frame. Featured only with your permission, and always credited.
Free plan · No credit card · Your photos stay secure
Built with you, for you.
We're still early — and that's the point. SurfVault is shaped by real feedback from the people who use it. Surfer, photographer, shaper, or local business: if something's missing, clunky, or could be better, we want to hear it. The best ideas come from the water, and they go straight onto what we build next.
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Frequently asked questions
Is SurfVault free?
Yes — every core feature is free to start with 15 GB of storage, no credit card required. Paid plans add more storage and a verified badge, with pro photographer tools like a custom watermark logo.
How do I find photos of myself?
Sessions are organized by surf break and date, so you can browse to your spot and day and find your waves — even if you never caught the photographer's name. Photographers can also tag you, so shots land right in your feed.
Who is SurfVault for?
Surfers, photographers, shapers, and advertisers. You choose your role when you sign up, and one account discovers, follows, and messages across all of them.
Are my photos private?
Your uploads are yours. Keep your profile public, or make it private — a private profile blurs your gallery so people have to request access before they can see your shots.
Can I keep a surf spot secret?
Yes. You can hide a session's location so the break stays under wraps, while your photos still appear in feeds and can be shared by a private link.
What devices does it work on?
iOS, Android, and any browser at app.surf-vault.com — your vault stays in sync across all of them.
Your next session is worth keeping.
Join surfers and photographers around the world. Free to start.
Free plan · No credit card · Your photos stay secure