BuoyWhale User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience50.0% of reviews
Neutral7.1% of reviews
Negative experience42.9% of reviews

~ Based on 14 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is BuoyWhale Safe?

BuoyWhale: NOAA Marine Weather appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BuoyWhale is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 315 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

89.5% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.4% of ratings suggest some concerns
6.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 315 App Store ratings for BuoyWhale.

Is BuoyWhale Legit?

BuoyWhale: NOAA Marine Weather appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BuoyWhale is 78/100.

Based on 78 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Works well for me

It’s always been pretty dependable

Boater Boy 521

Awesome at a glance to get ACCURATE data on Lake Michigan!

Boater Boy 521

Awesome at a glance to get ACCURATE data on Lake Michigan!

Crashes immediately

I loaded this app on my iPhone 6s Plus running iOS 15 but it crashes immediately when launching it. It’s supposed to operate on iOS 12 or later.

One of the best apps to date

Easy to navigate fast real time data thank you!

Useless. Just shows position of buoy. No data

No datajonah1939

Alerts

Alerts work once in awhile

Most of the time not

Compass directions fail

At present the compass arrow pointer on both map and details page, are 180 degrees out of position. The top of a map is always north!

Bad interface

Brings up terms of service that I have to agree to before access, but won’t respond to my selection. Interface has lines overlapping making it hard to read. Does not work well on my iPhone 11

Helpful

Love it. Keeps me fresh for oncoming wx.

User Friendly App

easy to read interface, not cluttered with
useless information

Wave height is missing

Looks like it would be good but there is no wave heights. Too bad.

No Buoy Wave direction

In open water the direction of the swell / wave is key to how rough the passage will be. A downhill ride, bashing up hill or wallowing. NOAA reports it, this app does not display it. Not such an issue on lakes and protected waters.
Visually attractive but fatally incomplete, at least for me.

Captain tori

Super helpful for checking the conditions in the strait of Juan De Fuca! Super helpful in general