# NOAA Marine Forecast & Weather — user reviews > 88 indexed App Store user reviews of NOAA Marine Forecast & Weather by LW Brands, LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 4,849 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noaa-marine-forecast-and-weather/id1242115154/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noaa-marine-forecast-and-weather/id1242115154.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 3,765 · 4★ 742 · 3★ 179 · 2★ 50 · 1★ 113 ## What do users think of NOAA Marine Forecast & Weather? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Provides similar forecasts to radio - 👍 Great for anticipating wind and waves - 👍 Streamlined and easy to navigate - 👍 Accurate and up-to-date - 👍 Intuitive and pleasant layout - 👍 Integrated with NOAA advisories - 👍 Convenient to access weather and tides in one place **Cons** - 🐛 Inaccurate wave height reporting - 🔍 Limited information compared to NOAA website - 🔍 Lacks wave period information important for boater safety - 🔍 Doesn't support landscape view - 🐛 Occasionally fails to retrieve NOAA data - 🔍 Cumbersome to use compared to old app - 🔍 Lacks hourly weather forecast **Commonly reported bugs** - Inaccurate wave height reporting - Occasional failures to retrieve NOAA data **Most requested features** - Add wave period information - Include water temperature data - Allow saving of favorite locations - Improve map interface and zone visibility - Add wind direction map with arrows - Provide more comprehensive tide information ## Newest reviews (19 of 88) ### 4/5 — Great app *2026-07-04, version 1.3* Great app for seas ### 5/5 — Review *2024-08-20, version 1.3* Love the app! Worth paying for. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-06-15, version 1.3* My favorite source for succinct marine weather information. ### 5/5 — Just right *2024-05-26, version 1.3* Everything I need Nothing I don’t. Accurate. And the don’t collect or share any info. Perfect app. ### 5/5 — All the data I need *2024-03-28* Every thing you need. Nothing you don’t Very accurate They don’t collect any data from you. That is unusual these days ### 5/5 — accurate and up to date *2024-01-09, version 1.3* impossible to find local marine forecast for where I live .. it is available for nearby areas but those are useless when it comes to tides.. this app is more accurate, full of good detail that anyone who plays or works on the ocean would want to know! ### 5/5 — Super useful and intuitive *2023-07-02, version 1.2* This is a very useful tool for planning paddles. I find it easy to use. Fortunate to have this. ### 2/5 — Changes needed - include Wave Period for Marine Safety *2023-05-18, version 1.2* Wish this contain the same information as the Coastal Marine forecast by zone info provided by NOAA that is important for Boater Safety. All experienced Boater know that Wave Period can be far more important than Wave Height. Time between waves (Wave Period) will define how good or bad the offshore conditions will be. If 4 foot waves have 10 seconds between wave it will be a super enjoyable day. If 4 foot waves have 5 seconds between wave it will be an awful day. Just go to the Marine Forecast by Zone information proved by NOAA and save the money of buying this app (app is handy for quick info but us Boaters end up just going back to NOAA Marine forecast web page and finding out the wave period and height for our safety anyways. ### 5/5 — Great App *2022-12-06, version 1.2* Great application and easy to use. ### 3/5 — Not fully accurate *2022-10-17, version 1.2* I use a handful of marine weather apps and like this one for the links to warnings and craft advisories, but the wave height reported is never accurate. From winds 5 knots to 45 knots this only ever says “waves 1 foot or less.” Definitely a problem there. ### 5/5 — Dependable and easy to use *2022-08-04, version 1.2* I use this app every day during boating season. It’s easy to find a forecast for any location, with dependable info. ### 5/5 — Sea weather app *2022-07-25, version 1.2* Excellent, easy to use app. I keep it set to my vicinity of where I fish and find it very accurate. Updates weather as it changes. ### 5/5 — Great App! *2022-06-12, version 1.2* As a professional mariner, I use this app multiple times a day and it’s a must have. ### 5/5 — My 1 Go To *2022-06-10, version 1.2* This is by far my favorite and most accurate weather app. Have used it while boating up and down the ICW for two years now. Spot on. ### 5/5 — Alaskan boater *2022-05-07, version 1.1.10* This is a fantastic app. I have been using it for several years now and the information is almost always accurate. I live in a remote area and if I want to go town, it’s a 14 mile trip across the bay, this is the second thing I look at, the first is sky outside my window. ### 5/5 — Top weather & sea conditions source *2022-04-12, version 1.1.10* This app has become my first choice when planning fishing trips. The weather and sea condition forecasts are generally very accurate, and the tide predictions are very helpful too. I do wish there was a little more info on the tide predictions though, perhaps a little more granularity so it’s easier to see tide changes at half hour intervals. ### 5/5 — First impression it’s a great intuitive app *2021-09-14, version 1.1.9* Really surprised me since this app is very intuitive and easy to use as well the pleasant graphic layout complete the positive impression. I’m very happy to have discovered it. Down in the Florida Keys it’s an essential application for boaters and local living people ### 5/5 — NWS marine forecast *2021-07-10, version 1.1.9* Love this app. Very easy to use once you know how it works. Choice of point forecast vs zone forecast is very useful. Attached tide chart is a big plus. What you need all in one app. Only thing I would like to see is a weather radar ability. Then it would be my only app. ### 4/5 — Very handy *2021-07-09, version 1.1.9* Brand new to boating at sea. This is a good planning tool for us. One improvement I’d like to see is wave period info in the forecast, but I don’t know if your source adds that to the final product. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Seas??? *2025-10-05, version 1.3* Not too impressed with the “seas” forecast. In this apps world, the seas are ALWAYS 1 foot. Even with 20+ mph sustained winds. 🤔 Magic??? No; just inaccurate forecasting. ### 1/5 — Dangerous App *2020-08-28, version 1.1.7* Calling sea conditions 1 foot when in reality it was 7plus is a big and very dangerous error! ### 1/5 — System down *2020-07-09, version 1.1.7* I just purchased hoping to make offshore plans. System is down and not working. This might be something to mention before allowing people to spend money on the App. ### 1/5 — Too little *2020-07-03, version 1.1.7* Not much info fo an app you have to pay for. Can only look at 1 point at a time, no saving favorites. Or am I missing something? Free aid I use are better. ### 1/5 — Not for saltwater fisherman. *2020-06-19, version 1.1.7* Doesn’t give NOAA weather and sea conditions offshore. Paid for an app that gives me 0 useful information. NOAA give weather and sea state past 1000 fathoms. Wouldn’t take much for this app to do the same considering their info probably comes from NOAA. ### 1/5 — Not accurate *2020-06-05, version 1.1.7* This app is not even close to being accurate! It says in app 1 foot or less and the local new weather report say 4 feet! This is very dangerous! ### 1/5 — No marine forecast *2020-04-23, version 1.1.7* I was looking for a app that has the sea state. This doesn’t. I would like my 1.99 back ### 1/5 — Drop the extra couple dollars for the other app with more features. *2019-03-31, version 1.0.14* There was no clarification in the description that this was just the cheaper, less utilitarian version of the other NOAA apps. Spend a couple bucks more and get many more features, instead of buying a bunch of apps for a few dollars. I bought the better one and now I’ll be deleting this. ### 1/5 — Not worth buying *2018-07-08* I just bought the App because I needed to know the marine Forecast off Charleston, South Carolina. It was unable to give me any information at all on the forecast. I checked the next zone north of Charleston and the App couldn’t give me any information there either. It did not appear to be a problem with NOAA, but with the App itself. I didn’t like giving this App even one star because I see it as worthless, but the only way to rate it is to give it at least one star. ### 1/5 — Beyond basic *2018-05-28, version 1.0.2* Just a lousy local chart with low definition an one far away buoy giving you basic tide information Zero wind maps with arrows as it should have even if designed by a 2 year old And you call this “ Marine “ I am a sailor and there is zero added value in this app and nothing that anyone can’t find on any weather app Be serious put a wind direction map with arrows and wind speeds ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Apex Predator *2026-06-26, version 1.3* Love the app for planning offshore trips. I’ve relied on it mostly in the mid Atlantic area and just now in the San Juan Islands ### 5/5 — Very good marine app *2026-03-24, version 1.3* Dependable app ### 5/5 — Great tool *2025-10-20, version 1.3* Very helpful for planning coastal paddles. Thank you for your work. ### 5/5 — Great Layout *2025-07-20, version 1.3* This is an easy to use, well thought out Marine forecast application. ### 5/5 — Exactly What I Was Looking For *2025-07-04, version 1.3* Provides similar forecasts to what you would hear tuning into WX on the radio - perfect. ### 5/5 — The best in this niche! *2025-02-18, version 1.3* This is my first stop before I take the boat out 100% of the time! Great for anticipating the big picture overview including wind and waves…direction and strength. Often my go/no go decisions start here! ### 5/5 — The best couple bucks I ever spent *2025-01-20, version 1.3* It’s like a copy and paste from the NOAA website, but much easier to navigate and more streamlined I love it. I do a lot of passage planning and I use this app, I double check noaas website every now and then and it’s always been pretty much word for word. I can’t recommend it enough ### 5/5 — Captain *2024-12-08, version 1.3* It’s alright ### 5/5 — Great app *2024-10-12, version 1.3* The only one I’ve found to be the closest to actual conditions and the only one I use. ### 5/5 — Must have App *2024-09-05, version 1.3* Great app for divers. It’s easy to get off the boat, the trick is getting back on! I dive primarily off the NC coast and in the Keys. It’s great at giving the sea conditions so you know what to expect and when to stay on shore. Wave interval would be a great addition. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-26.*