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Marine forecasts, tides, and NOAA alerts layer on top, organized around your location and your favorite spots. Your closest buoy is on the home screen. Everything else is one more tap away.\n\nFree\n- Real-time wind, waves, temperature, and pressure from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys\n- NOAA marine forecasts from 300+ coastal and offshore zones\n- A severity gauge and plain-language summary on every buoy\n- Current and hourly weather for your location\n- Tide predictions for today\n- Sunrise, sunset, and moon phase\n- Apple Watch app with buoy observations, forecasts, tides, and more\n- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch\n\nBuoycast Pro\n- 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\n- Deeper detail on every data type: 12-hour history, Forecast vs. Observations, and future predictions\n- AI condition summaries on iPhone 15 Pro and newer: a natural-language read of what the data means right now, generated fully on-device\n- Interactive weather maps with animated radar, precipitation, wind, temperature, clouds, and pressure\n- NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories as push notifications\n- Apple Watch complications for wind, waves, temperature, pressure, and NOAA alerts\n- Home and Lock Screen widgets\n- Custom Layout: section order and visibility across every buoy\n- No ads\n\nWhy Buoycast\nThe latest release rebuilds the app around the one thing you came for: the closest buoy, right now, with forecasts and NOAA alerts layered on top.\n\nData in Buoycast\nWind 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.\n\nQuestions or feedback: hello@buoycast.com\n\nSubscription\nBuoycast 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.\n\nPrivacy Policy: https://buoycast.com/privacy\nTerms of Service: https://buoycast.com/terms-of-service","facts":{"developer_id":1202655933,"developer_url":"https://buoycast.com","first_released":"2017-04-29T17:19:03Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"5.1.0","release_notes":"What's new in 5.1\nA redesigned buoy screen\n- New instruments for every reading\n- New Dew Point, Visibility and Salinity sections, and an Hour by Hour table\n- Redesigned Sun, Moon and Tides screens: the next event up front, every high and low tide labeled with its time, and a moon drawn to its real phase\n- Pro adds a history grid with a heat map of the last 12 hours, and Forecast vs. Observations charts\n\nMore of NOAA's network\n- NOAA PORTS stations join the map and the list, with water level, currents and salinity\n- Where an NDBC buoy and a PORTS station share a location, you see the latest readings from both in one feed\n- Your favorites are now highlighted in gold on the map\n\nNOAA watches, warnings, and advisories\n- Watches, warnings, and advisories for your area appear alongside the conditions, with a timeline of when each one starts and ends\n- Pro also pushes NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories when they are issued\n\nThreshold notifications, rebuilt (Pro)\n- Tap a notification to land on the buoy, with the reading shown against your threshold\n- See whether each one is working, pause it for the day, or turn it off with a swipe\n\nAlso\n- Filter the buoy list by what each buoy reports, with live readings in every row\n- Bug fixes and performance improvements\n\nWhat's new in 5.0.8\n- Bug fixes and performance improvements\n\nWhat's new in 5.0.7\n- Updated the built-in list of buoys and forecast zones\n\nWhat's new in 5.0.6\n- Fixes a crash when opening the app from a notification\n- Chart","rating_current_version":4.57512,"rating_count_current_version":13639,"star_counts":null,"genres":["Weather","Utilities"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":null,"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-10-14T19:33:33.748Z","catalog_read_at":null,"reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-10-15T23:53:51.807Z","placed_at":"2026-10-15T06:00:53.131Z","scored_at":"2026-10-19T14:56:11.617Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Shows real-time wind, waves, and water temperature from NOAA buoys, with marine forecasts, tides, and NOAA alerts.","what_is":"Buoycast displays wind, waves, water temperature, and pressure measured by 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys, organized around the user's location and favorite spots. 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