# NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast

> Buoy Weather, Waves & Tides

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1202655934](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1202655934)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1202655934`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Skipjack Studios, LLC
- **Category:** Weather
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (13,622 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.0.7
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-29
- **First published:** 2017-04-29
- **Size:** 178 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-16
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noaa-marine-forecast-buoycast/id1202655934)
- **Website:** [https://buoycast.com](https://buoycast.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://buoycast.com/privacy](https://buoycast.com/privacy)

## Description

**NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast** delivers real-time marine conditions from 1,000+ NOAA buoys, helping boaters, anglers, sailors, kayakers, and coastal homeowners understand what is happening on the water before heading out. View live wind, gusts, waves, water temperature, pressure, tides, marine forecasts, sunrise and sunset, moon phase, and current weather organized around your location and favorite spots.

Buoycast Pro adds threshold notifications, NOAA watches and warnings, interactive weather maps, detailed observation history, future predictions, AI-generated condition summaries on supported iPhones, Apple Watch complications, widgets, custom layouts, and an ad-free experience. With iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, Buoycast makes marine weather and safety information easy to access wherever you are.

## Rankings

- #15,042 — Overall
- #79 — forecast

## Review summary

Buoycast provides accurate, dependable marine weather data that many boaters rely on for planning. Users praise its consistent wind and buoy data and usefulness for diving, fishing charters, and day trips. However, recurring complaints focus on the latest update causing bugs and a more cumbersome interface, disruptive ads and upsell prompts, and gaps in data visibility (wave heights, forecast depth) or limitations in paid features. The app's performance with location search and buoy mapping is also cited as a source of frustration. Overall, strong data quality but negative feedback centers on UX, monetization, and data availability issues.

### Pros

- Accurate and dependable buoy and wind data.
- Very useful for planning activities (diving, fishing charters, boating).
- Timely wind speeds and water condition updates.
- Long-term reliability and trust from years of use.
- Consistently accurate forecasts for Gulf of Mexico.

### Cons

- New version updates are bug-prone and cumbersome; older UI was faster.
- Excessive ads and upsell prompts pushing BuoycastPro.
- Data gaps or incomplete data (e.g., wave heights not shown, paid features limited to current day).
- Location/search and buoy map usability issues (can't set location; buoy map sometimes not visible).

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