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

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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.

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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.