NOAA Marine Forecast: Buoycast

What's new in 5.1 A redesigned buoy screen - New instruments for every reading - New Dew Point, Visibility and Salinity sections, and an Hour by Hour table - 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 - Pro adds a history grid with a heat map of the last 12 hours, and Forecast vs. Observations charts More of NOAA's network - NOAA PORTS stations join the map and the list, with water level, currents and salinity - Where an NDBC buoy and a PORTS station share a location, you see the latest readings from both in one feed - Your favorites are now highlighted in gold on the map NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories - Watches, warnings, and advisories for your area appear alongside the conditions, with a timeline of when each one starts and ends - Pro also pushes NOAA watches, warnings, and advisories when they are issued Threshold notifications, rebuilt (Pro) - Tap a notification to land on the buoy, with the reading shown against your threshold - See whether each one is working, pause it for the day, or turn it off with a swipe Also - Filter the buoy list by what each buoy reports, with live readings in every row - Bug fixes and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.8 - Bug fixes and performance improvements What's new in 5.0.7 - Updated the built-in list of buoys and forecast zones 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