The Buoy shows you the swell measured at sea by real buoys, live, with the wind and the tide. Not a model's estimate: the measurement.
For everyone who heads out on the water: surfing, kiting, windsurfing, sailing, boating, fishing, diving, paddling or swimming.
Height, period, direction, energy: every reading comes from a buoy published by services like NOAA, Cerema (Candhis), Puertos del Estado, Rijkswaterstaat and MET Norway. Where there's no buoy, satellites from ESA, EUMETSAT, Copernicus and CNES fill the gaps.
LIVE
• Every buoy around you on one map
• Charts from 6 hours to 7 days, measurement and forecast overlaid
• The tide at the nearest station
• Real wind at the nearest weather station
• The reading for any past day
ALWAYS AT HAND
• Alerts: know as soon as the swell changes at your buoys
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
• A Live Activity to follow a buoy while the swell comes in
• Siri: "How's the sea in The Buoy?"
YOUR LOGBOOK
• Save a session with a photo or video, a note and tags
• Tide and wind are added for you
• Find the sessions with similar conditions
• Share a reading as an image
FORECAST
• A forecast map with swell bands and isobars
• Three models to choose from: MFWAM, ECMWF WAM and GFS Wave
Feet or meters, °F or °C. In English, French and Spanish.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
This app shows buoy information over the entire globe. I can easily see multiple buoys in the map view, or look at just my favorites. I love that this app includes wave energy! I'm able to change the wave height to feet, but water temperature is only available in Celsius. It would be great to see it in Fahrenheit as well. Another possible improvement would be the ability to toggle wave energy and water temperature on the map like what is available for wave height and period. Also, I tried to use the Feedback option but it tried to open Apple Mail which I don't have. Perhaps enable Gmail or provide an email address to send feedback to? Otherwise really cool app!
Developer Response
Thanks so much for this detailed review, and sorry for the very late reply! Good news: water temperature in Fahrenheit and the wave energy and water temperature map layers are now in the app, just make sure you're on the latest version. And thanks to you, the next version fixes the feedback button so it no longer needs Apple Mail. In the meantime you can reach me at thomas@thebuoy.app 🙏
Everything's now in tabs: My buoys, Map, Alerts and Search.
New: Stories, the storms as the buoys saw them.
Version 1.2.0
The developer, Thomas Cailhol, 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 Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
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Information
Seller
Thomas Cailhol
Size
100.5 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.