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NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast at Mac App Store analyse
Skipjack Studios, LLC
Version
5.0.7
Size
177.69 Mb
Updated
2 weeks ago
Released
29 Apr 2017
Description
Know the real conditions on the water before you leave the dock.
On the water since 2017, with 200,000+ downloads and 10,000+ five-star ratings from boaters, anglers, sailors, kayakers, and coastal homeowners.
Buoycast shows you the wind, waves, and water temperature actually happening out there right now, measured on the water by 1,000+ NOAA buoys, not modeled from a land forecast. 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.
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
The 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.
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.
Privacy Policy: https://buoycast.com/privacy
Terms of Service: https://buoycast.com/terms-of-service
Estimates
Search Keywords 1
| # | Term | Country | Place | Priority |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | noaa weather forecast | #17 | ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ |
Competitors
| # | App | Common keywords |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clime: NOAA Weather Radar Live | 1 |
| 2 | WeatherBug: Weather Forecast | 1 |
| 3 | NOAA Radar Pro: Weather Alerts | 1 |
| 4 | AccuWeather: Weather Forecast | 1 |
| 5 | The Weather Channel - Radar | 1 |
| 6 | Weather Radar - NOAA Channel | 1 |
| 7 | Weather Hi-Def Radar Forecast | 1 |
| 8 | MyRadar Accurate Weather Radar | 1 |
| 9 | global storms | 1 |
| 10 | Storm Radar: Weather Tracker | 1 |
| 11 | Weather Mate - NOAA Radar Maps | 1 |
| 12 | 14 Day Weather Forecast | 1 |
| 13 | MyRadar Weather Radar Pro | 1 |
| 14 | Storm Tracker° | 1 |
| 15 | Local Weather Radar & Forecast | 1 |
| 16 | Weather⁺ | 1 |
| 17 | NOAA Radar US | 1 |
| 18 | Yahoo Weather: Daily Forecasts | 1 |
| 19 | Marine Weather Forecast Pro | 1 |
Availability
Devices
iPad2Wifi
iPad23G
iPhone4S
iPadThirdGen
iPadThirdGen4G
iPhone5
iPodTouchFifthGen
iPadFourthGen
iPadFourthGen4G
iPadMini
iPadMini4G
iPhone5c
iPhone5s
iPadAir
iPadAirCellular
iPadMiniRetina
iPadMiniRetinaCellular
iPhone6
iPhone6Plus
iPadAir2
iPadAir2Cellular
iPadMini3
iPadMini3Cellular
iPodTouchSixthGen
iPhone6s
iPhone6sPlus
iPadMini4
iPadMini4Cellular
iPadPro
iPadProCellular
iPadPro97
iPadPro97Cellular
iPhoneSE
iPhone7
iPhone7Plus
iPad611
iPad612
iPad71
iPad72
iPad73
iPad74
iPhone8
iPhone8Plus
iPhoneX
iPad75
iPad76
iPhoneXS
iPhoneXSMax
iPhoneXR
iPad812
iPad834
iPad856
iPad878
Watch4
iPadMini5
iPadMini5Cellular
iPadAir3
iPadAir3Cellular
iPodTouchSeventhGen
iPhone11
iPhone11Pro
iPadSeventhGen
iPadSeventhGenCellular
iPhone11ProMax
iPhoneSESecondGen
iPadProSecondGen
iPadProSecondGenCellular
iPadProFourthGen
iPadProFourthGenCellular
iPhone12Mini
iPhone12
iPhone12Pro
iPhone12ProMax
iPadAir4
iPadAir4Cellular
iPadEighthGen
iPadEighthGenCellular
iPadProThirdGen
iPadProThirdGenCellular
iPadProFifthGen
iPadProFifthGenCellular
iPhone13Pro
iPhone13ProMax
iPhone13Mini
iPhone13
iPadMiniSixthGen
iPadMiniSixthGenCellular
iPadNinthGen
iPadNinthGenCellular
iPhoneSEThirdGen
iPadAirFifthGen
iPadAirFifthGenCellular
iPhone14
iPhone14Plus
iPhone14Pro
iPhone14ProMax
iPadTenthGen
iPadTenthGenCellular
iPadPro11FourthGen
iPadPro11FourthGenCellular
iPadProSixthGen
iPadProSixthGenCellular
Pricing by country
| Country | Price |
|---|---|
| Canada | free |
| USA | free |
Version History
Latest: 5.0.7
What's new in 5.0.7
- Bug fixes and reliability improvements
What's new in 5.0.6
- Fixes a crash when opening the app from a notification
- Charts refresh on their own just before readings expire, and no longer freeze when new data arrives
- Cleaner, easier-to-read tide charts
- Apple Watch: tides show today at a glance with the full list one tap away, and the watch now follows your phone's unit settings
- Recovers your default buoy gracefully if NOAA retires it
- Lower battery use while the app is in the background
- Reliability and performance improvements
What's new in 5.0.5
- Bug fixes and reliability improvements
What's new in 5.0.4
- Faster, more reliable tide predictions
- Behind-the-scenes reliability and performance improvements
What's new in 5.0.3
- Smoother buoy details that open without hanging, even on busy buoys
- Faster loading with smarter on-device caching
- Reliability and performance improvements
What's new in 5.0.2
- Faster, smoother app launch
- More reliable notifications and Apple Watch complications
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
What's new in 5.0.1
- Fixes a rare freeze that could occur when opening the app
- Reliability and performance improvements
Everything new in 5.0
Rebuilt around your buoys
- New buoy-first home screen: the closest buoy and your favorites, no setup required
- Your existing feeds are automatically migrated to favorites
Apple Watch app + complications
- Check wind, waves, temperature, and pressure from your wrist
- Complications for every data type, plus a Pro NOAA alert complication
Conditions at a glance
- Every buoy now shows a severity gauge and a plain-language summary, so you can read how it looks out there before digging into the numbers
- Pro adds AI condition summaries, generated fully on-device on iPhone 15 Pro and newer
Redesigned charts
- Cleaner and easier to read at a glance
Accessibility
- VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support across every observation screen
Plus reliability and performance improvements across the app.
Want to be notified when your buoy crosses a threshold? Pro unlocks threshold notifications on any observation type, Forecast vs. Observations, AI condition summaries, weather maps, and ad-free browsing.
Thanks for 9 years of feedback and support. Keep it coming: hello@buoycast.com
v4.0.8
2 weeks ago
v4.0.4
3 months ago