NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast
Skipjack Studios, LLC Weather iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast is a free Weather app for iPhone and iPad by Skipjack Studios, LLC. Rated 4.6/5 from 13,685 ratings. Requires iOS 18.0.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 13.6K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 226 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 6
- 2026 · v5.1.0
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About NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast
Know the real conditions on the water before you leave the dock. On the water since 2017, with 200,000+ downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings from boaters, anglers, sailors, kayakers, and coastal homeowners. Buoycast shows you the wind, waves, and water temperature actually happening out there right now, measured on the water by 1,000+ NOAA buoys, not modeled from a land forecast. Marine forecasts, tides, and NOAA alerts layer on top, organized around your location and your favorite spots. Your closest buoy is on the home screen. Everything else is one more tap away. Free - Real-time wind, waves, temperature, and pressure from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys - NOAA marine forecasts from 300+ coastal and offshore zones - A severity gauge and plain-language summary on every buoy - Current and hourly weather for your location - Tide predictions for today - Sunrise, sunset, and moon phase - Apple Watch app with buoy observations, forecasts, tides, and more - iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Buoycast Pro - Threshold notifications: get pushed when wind, waves, gusts, temperature, or pressure at any buoy crosses the line you set, with AND/OR logic for combined conditions - Deeper detail on every data type: 12-hour history, Forecast vs. Observations, and future predictions - AI condition summaries on iPhone 15 Pro and newer: a natural-language read of what the data means right now, generated fully on-device - Interactive weather maps with animated radar, precipitation, wind, temperature, clouds, and pressure - NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories as push notifications - Apple Watch complications for wind, waves, temperature, pressure, and NOAA alerts - Home and Lock Screen widgets - Custom Layout: section order and visibility across every buoy - No ads Why Buoycast The latest release rebuilds the app around the one thing you came for: the closest buoy, right now, with forecasts and NOAA alerts layered on top. Data in Buoycast Wind speed, gusts, and direction; air and water temperature; atmospheric pressure; wave height, period, and direction; NOAA marine forecasts; watches, warnings, and advisories; tide predictions; sunrise, sunset, and moon phase; UV index; humidity; visibility; and cloud cover. Questions or feedback: [email protected] Subscription Buoycast Pro is available as a 7-day free trial followed by an auto-renewing subscription: $2.99/month, $19.99/year, or $29.99/year with Family Sharing. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Your subscription auto-renews at the same price unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of the free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID Account Settings. Privacy Policy: https://buoycast.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://buoycast.com/terms-of-service
Ratings & reviews
4.6
13.6K ratings
What’s new
Version 5.1.0 · Updated October 6, 2026
What's new in 5.1 A redesigned buoy screen - New instruments for every reading - New Dew Point, Visibility and Salinity sections, and an Hour by Hour table - Redesigned Sun, Moon and Tides screens: the next event up front, every high and low tide labeled with its time, and a moon drawn to its real phase - Pro adds a history grid with a heat map of the last 12 hours, and Forecast vs. Observations charts More of NOAA's network - NOAA PORTS stations join the map and the list, with water level, currents and salinity - Where an NDBC buoy and a PORTS station share a location, you see the latest readings from both in one feed - Your favorites are now highlighted in gold on the map NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories - Watches, warnings, and advisories for your area appear alongside the conditions, with a timeline of when each one starts and ends - Pro also pushes NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories when they are issued Threshold notifications, rebuilt (Pro) - Tap a notification to land on the buoy, with the reading shown against your threshold - See whether each one is working, pause it for the day, or turn it off with a swipe Also - Filter the buoy list by what each buoy reports, with live readings in every row - Bug fixes and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.8 - Bug fixes and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.7 - Updated the built-in list of buoys and forecast zones What's new in 5.0.6 - Fixes a crash when opening the app from a notification - Charts refresh on their own just before readings expire, and no longer freeze when new data arrives - Cleaner, easier-to-read tide charts - Apple Watch: tides show today at a glance with the full list one tap away, and the watch now follows your phone's unit settings - Recovers your default buoy gracefully if NOAA retires it - Lower battery use while the app is in the background - Reliability and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.5 - Bug fixes and reliability improvements What's new in 5.0.4 - Faster, more reliable tide predictions - Behind-the-scenes reliability and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.3 - Smoother buoy details that open without hanging, even on busy buoys - Faster loading with smarter on-device caching - Reliability and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.2 - Faster, smoother app launch - More reliable notifications and Apple Watch complications - Bug fixes and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.1 - Fixes a rare freeze that could occur when opening the app - Reliability and performance improvements Everything new in 5.0 Rebuilt around your buoys - New buoy-first home screen: the closest buoy and your favorites, no setup required - Your existing feeds are automatically migrated to favorites Apple Watch app + complications - Check wind, waves, temperature, and pressure from your wrist - Complications for every data type, plus a Pro NOAA alert complication Conditions at a glance - Every buoy now shows a severity gauge and a plain-language summary, so you can read how it looks out there before digging into the numbers - Pro adds AI condition summaries, generated fully on-device on iPhone 15 Pro and newer Redesigned charts - Cleaner and easier to read at a glance Accessibility - VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support across every observation screen Plus reliability and performance improvements across the app. Want to be notified when your buoy crosses a threshold? Pro unlocks threshold notifications on any observation type, Forecast vs. Observations, AI condition summaries, weather maps, and ad-free browsing. Thanks for 9 years of feedback and support. Keep it coming: [email protected]
App privacy
The developer, Skipjack Studios, LLC, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
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- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
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- Usage Data: Product Interaction, Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Coarse Location, Precise Location
- Identifiers: Device ID, User ID
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
- Purchases: Purchase History
- Usage Data: Other Usage Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising, Analytics, App Functionality
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