What is Buoycast?

Buoycast is the fastest way to check what the buoys are doing right now, and get notified when they change. It puts real-time observations from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys, marine forecasts, tides, weather maps, and marine warnings on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, organized around your location and your favorite spots. Open the app and your closest buoy is right there. Everything else is one more tap away.

Designed and developed by a sailor, Buoycast has helped boaters, anglers, sailors, and paddlers get on the water safely since 2017.

Need to talk? Send an email to [email protected].

Quick Facts

• On the App Store since 2017
• Real-time observations from 1,000+ NOAA NDBC buoys
• NOAA marine forecasts from 300+ coastal and offshore zones
• More than 200,000 downloads
• Over 10,000 five-star ratings, 4.6 average
• Available for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch

Pricing and Availability

Buoycast is a free download on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. A subscription to Buoycast Pro is available for $2.99 per month or $19.99 per year, and every subscription starts with a free week.

The Rebound Update

The Rebound update is a full rebuild focused on simplicity. Buoycast now opens straight to your closest buoy, with live wind, waves, temperature, and pressure. Forecasts, tides, maps, and marine warnings are one more tap away. New in this release: AI condition summaries, custom threshold notifications, a redesigned buoy-first home screen, and a rebuilt Apple Watch app with complications.

Buoycast Pro

Buoycast Pro unlocks the full picture:

• AI condition summaries. An on-device language model reads the latest observations and the forecast and writes a plain-language briefing of what to expect on the water. On iPhone 15 Pro and newer it runs entirely on your device, so nothing leaves your phone, and every summary links back to its sources. Older devices fall back to a rule-based summary.
• Custom threshold notifications. Get notified when wind, waves, gusts, temperature, or pressure at any buoy cross the limits you set, with AND/OR logic for combined conditions.
• NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories delivered as push notifications the moment they are issued.
• Interactive weather maps with animated radar, precipitation, wind, temperature, clouds, and pressure.
• Forecast-vs-observation charts on every data type, with 12-hour history and future tide predictions.
• Apple Watch complications, Home and Lock Screen widgets, custom section order and visibility, and iCloud sync across your devices.
• No ads.

Who Wrote Buoycast?

Michael Mahon. He’s a sailor and software developer from Baltimore, MD.

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