Surf Report Buoys by Buoywatch 4+
NOAA Marine Weather & Surfing
Pablo Paciello
Designed for iPhone
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
▶ Buoy readings made easy for surfing
▶ New iOS widgets!
▶ Swell size notifications to score the best surf
▶ Historic charts
▶ New watchOS wind and wave complications
Surf reports in real-time by checking nearby marine weather buoys.
Real-time surf reports at a glance through the weather buoy stations (wave sizes, direction, period, wind speed/direction and more).
Buoy readings made easy for surfing. Get aware if the surf is good in advance.
Too often swell arrives later than predicted, checking the buoy waves data you can determine if the swell has arrived. If not, go back to bed =)
▶ Over 400 NOAA & worldwide buoys.
▶ iOS Home and Lock screen widgets!
▶ Waves size notifications to score the best surf.
▶ Favorites buoys.
▶ New watchOS complications.
▶ Historic charts.
▶ Dark or Light mode support.
▶ HOW IT WORKS
Set your nearest or preferred buoy as your main one and your are ready to get real-time updates, 24-hour chart data, buoy alerts and much more.
You will be able to set Modular, Graphic and Circular complications that will display buoy data at a glance.
If offline, lastly marine buoys observations will always be available for your main buoy.
Buoy readings include swell size, direction and period. Some buoys provide weather information, such as wind direction, wind speed, air and water temperature.
Buoy data is provided by the National Data Buoy Center of NOAA (http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov), Candhis (https://candhis.cerema.fr/), Meteo-France (https://donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr/), Puertos del Estado (https://puertos.es) and other public services.
Please check that there are wave buoys in your area before purchasing.
Covered Areas:
- North America:
US Pacific: Washington to California
US Atlantic: Main to Florida
Alaska
US Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
US/Canada Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
- Hawaii
- Australia
- Europe
- Caribbean
- Samoa
- Guam
- Marshall Islands
- Pohnpei, Micronesia
- Palau, Micronesia
Terms of service:
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 2.3.0
▶ Support for new languages.
Ratings and Reviews
PLEASE ADD watchOS WIDGET!!
edit: received developer response. amended rating. hoping to see continued progress :^)
i’ve had this app for a long time. for a while i thought it’d been abandoned, but recently it has been getting better fairly consistently. i recently paid for the Pro version and, while i have no idea what exactly that entitles one to, i will note that the data refreshes seem more immediate and snappy. is that Pro? dunno. the developer needs to follow Apple’s lead with watchOS 10 and pivot the app to a “Widget first” functionality, which massively improves background refresh while minimizing battery impact. PLEASE ADD watchOS WIDGET!! the improvements are welcome. hope to see more
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the review.
The app is constantly being updated. Apart from adding new buoys, latest watchOS updates included Wind and Wave complications for the buoys that have this data.
watchOS Smart Stack WIDGET is on the pipeline, however I’ve been holding on it as it’s a fairly medium size task and I might need to drop older watchOS support.
Please bear in mind that I am a solo developer so adding a three star review will push me more to abandon the app than to get new features implemented.
There is a "contact support" button in the app directly send me an email with questions, feedback, feature requests, etc.
Best regards,
Pablo.
Amazing for surfers
But it’s stopped working with the latest watch update. Anyway you can fix? I love having this on my watch!
Developer Response ,
Thank you very much for the review 🙌
Sorry to hear that there is an issue with the watchOS app.
Could you please contact us through iPhone app support form and indicate watch model/ watchOS version/ describe the issue in more detail so we can identify and release a fix? Thanks in advance.
——- Update Dec 10th, 2023:
Found the issue. It should be fixed in version 2.0.4
Thank you very much for the report 🙌
Do not hesitate to contact me in the future.
Regards,
Pablo.
Best Buoy App for Surfers
This is by far the best buoy app for surfers. All the right info, clean interface, and includes an Apple Watch face and Widgets for your iPhone Home Screen. Great jobs guys — thank you!!
Developer Response ,
Thanks for the review, we really appreciate it. Keep tuned as we have some cool updates coming soon 👍
Cheers.
App Privacy
The developer, Pablo Paciello, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
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Information
- Seller
- Pablo Paciello
- Size
- 22.4 MB
- Category
- Weather
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 7.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Basque, French, Portuguese, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Pablo Paciello & Rafaela Sinopoli
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Buoywatch Lifetime $14.99
- PRO Subscription 1yr $9.99
- PRO Subscription 1yr $14.99
- PRO Subscription monthly $4.99
- PRO Subscription weekly $1.99