Buoycast: NOAA Buoys & Weather
Marine Forecast, Waves & Tides
Free · In‑App Purchases
Rebuilt around your closest and favorite buoys. Pro adds threshold notifications, AI condition summaries, and Apple Watch complications. Start your free week.
The fastest way to check what the buoys are doing right now.
Buoycast gives you real-time observations from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys, plus forecasts, tides, and marine warnings, organized around your location and your favorite spots. Tap the closest buoy 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
Since 2017, Buoycast has been the NOAA buoy app boaters, anglers, sailors, kayakers, and coastal homeowners trust. The new release rebuilds the app around the one thing you came for: the closest buoy, right now, with forecasts and 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: hello@buoycast.com
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
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: hello@buoycast.com
Subscriptions
The developer, Skipjack Studios, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Skipjack Studios, LLC
- Size
- 184.5 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 26.2 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Buoycast Pro $19.99
- Buoycast Pro Monthly $2.99
- Buoycast Pro Upgrade $14.99
- Buoycast Pro (Family) $29.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Skipjack Studios
