The Buoy: Live Marine Weather

Real swell, wind and tides

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

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/

  • 4.5
    out of 5
    2 Ratings

Everything's now in tabs: My buoys, Map, Alerts and Search. New: Stories, the storms as the buoys saw them.

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
    • Usage Data

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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.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 2 more
  • English, French, Spanish
Age Rating
4+
In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Monthly wax supply $2.99
  • Monthly wax supply $8.99
  • Monthly wax supply $3.99
  • Wax supply $8.99
  • Wax supply $3.99
  • Wax supply $2.99
Copyright
© 2026 Thomas Cailhol