Big Buoy is marine forecasting built for people who actually fish and boat. Not a generic weather app. Not a repackaged government feed. Built from scratch for watermen, by watermen.
YOUR SPOTS
Save every spot you fish. Name them whatever you want. Big Buoy keeps them private with full encryption. Not even we can see them. Check all your spots at once, compare wind forecasts side by side, and know exactly where to be and when.
THE MAP
East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast, and Great Lakes all in one view. Wind overlays, chlorophyll layers for finding bait, water temps, and live buoy data. All on a single map with a 7-day timeline. Your saved spots live on the map, always visible.
THE DATA
Every reading comes straight from the source. NOAA. ECMWF. Copernicus Marine. ESA satellites. Six forecast models. Zero middlemen.
Per spot, you get:
· Conditions - wind, waves, water temp
· Tides - full weekly tide chart with solunar
major and minor windows overlaid
· Nearest Buoy - live NOAA NDBC data
· Solunar - fish activity rating, major and minor
feeding windows, moon phase
· Weather - wind, temperature, pressure,
chance of rain
WORKS OFFLINE
Your saved spots sync and work without a connection. When you're offshore with no signal, your data is still there.
BUILT FOR THE WATER
No expert analysis written for a general audience.
Just the data serious anglers and boaters
actually need, presented cleanly.
Fish smarter, not harder.
big-buoy.com
Why check 2-3 different weather apps, when you can just check Big Buoy.. It’s unheard of to have water temps, waves, wind, solunar, chlorophyll overlay, sea surface overlay, and more; all easily accessible inside of just one app.
Makes life easier
TimTamJam5673
Takes everything that was a pain to check and puts its all in one space
Must Have
Conossss
Awesome for figuring out where to go fish. Even better to pull up when they are biting to see what they are biting.
I NEEDED THIS
dylansupreme
It’s everything I needed in one spot! beats having to keep a bugillion tabs open on my phone
• Smarter Locate — tap the locate button to get a fresh GPS fix and a live "you are here" marker on the map. No more snapping back to where you last had signal.
• Save your current spot in one tap — straight from the Your Location tab.
• Tide chart fix — no longer crashes at stations that report just a single high or low for the day.
• Accurate tide direction on saved spots — your spots now read tide rise/fall from the tide station you selected.
• Cleaner map — the overlay legend and the Change Region / Nautical Chart buttons no longer overlap or get cut off at the top.
• Stability and polish throughout.
Version 1.09
The developer, Relatively Salty, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Location
Contact Info
User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Accessibility
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Information
Seller
Relatively Salty LLC
Size
44.9 MB
Category
Weather
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
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.
