Buoycast: NOAA Buoys & Weather

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.

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