# NOAA Buoy Reports & Ship Data

> Marine Wind, Wave & Sea Temps

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1038264455](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1038264455)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1038264455`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Juggernaut Technology, Inc.
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.70 / 5 (2,436 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.49
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-14
- **First published:** 2015-11-15
- **Size:** 16 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-22
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noaa-buoy-reports-ship-data/id1038264455)
- **Website:** [https://www.NOAABuoyReports.com](https://www.noaabuoyreports.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.NOAABuoyReports.com/ios\_privacy.html](https://www.noaabuoyreports.com/ios_privacy.html)

## Description

**NOAA Buoy Reports & Ship Data** provides focused, real-time marine observations from more than 1,000 buoys and 200 ships worldwide. View wave heights, wind speeds and direction, gusts, air and water temperatures, atmospheric pressure, and tropical storm, hurricane, and cyclone locations from the NHC.

Explore conditions on an intuitive map, save favorite locations, review interactive graphs with up to 45 days of historical buoy data, and monitor readings with Home Screen, Lock Screen, and StandBy widgets. The app supports metric and English units, local time, dark mode, and sharing. It delivers observation data only—not tide information or weather forecasts.

## Rankings

- #36,834 — Overall
- #53 — data

## Review summary

Users broadly praise NOAA Buoy Reports as a critical, easy-to-use tool for boaters to plan trips with buoy data like water temp, sea state, and winds. They value the app's simplicity and the premium/favorites features, especially for Great Lakes coverage. However, reviewers repeatedly note data gaps and occasional temperature/reading inaccuracies, missing wave data in some areas, and a desire for GPS buoy locations and better filtering. Overall usefulness often outweighs the drawbacks, depending on location.

### Pros

- Essential boating/weather resource; critical for planning trips on lakes and offshore.
- Provides valuable buoy data (water temperature, sea state, winds) with easy access.
- Very easy to use with practical features like favorites for quick checks.
- Premium upgrade offers worthwhile benefits (extensive favorites list and added data).
- Strong regional coverage in the Great Lakes area (e.g., Lake Erie).

### Cons

- Data gaps and reliability issues: many buoys don’t report data or aren’t available consistently.
- Water temperature readings are inconsistent or missing/incorrect in some buoy reports (temp not displayed or misreported).
- Wave data and other reports can be unavailable in certain regions; some stations lack complete buoy reports.
- Lack of GPS coordinates/numbers to locate buoys; desire for built-in buoy GPS data.
- Limited filtering and customization (you can’t easily filter by wind or toggle ship data).

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