Report whale sightings and get alerts to help prevent vessel strikes.
About Whale Alert
Whale Alert is a maps & navigation app developed by Conserve.io.
Download Statistics
Whale Alert has been downloaded 72 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 2.9 thousand times.
User Ratings
Whale Alert is rated 3.23 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 150 ratings.
App Information
Whale Alert is FREE to download. The last update was on July 2, 2025.
Technical Requirements
Whale Alert requires Android 5.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play June 2015.
Description
Protect Whales. Prevent Collisions. Join the Effort.
Vessel strikes are a leading cause of whale injury and death around the world. With the Whale Alert app, you can help keep whales safe—whether you're a mariner, recreational boater, beachgoer, or scientist.
Whale Alert turns your sightings into action.
Report live, dead, or injured whales, stay informed about speed zones and regulations, and view whale activity on an interactive map. Every report contributes to a safer ocean for whales and people.
Key Features: - Interactive Map: View recent whale sightings from professionals and citizen scientists, acoustic detections from buoys and gliders, and aerial survey data. - Real-Time Alerts: Get notified when you're near recent whale activity or areas of concern. - Report Sightings: Log sightings of living, dead, or injured whales and report marine hazards or vessel strikes. - Whale ID Guide: Identify whale species accurately using an in-app identification tool. - First Responder Connection: Quickly connect with response teams for distressed, stranded or dead whales.. - Collision Risk Monitoring: Understand your vessel’s risk based on location, speed, and likelihood of whale presence. - Marine Rules at a Glance: Access speed limits, seasonal protections, and region-specific whale approach guidelines. - Data-Rich Map Layers: Includes arine sanctuaries and protected areas, seasonal and dynamic management areas, U.S. marine charts, NOAA PORTS® data, and likely whale presence along the U.S. East Coast and Europe. - Multilingual Support: Available in English, French, and Spanish.
Whale Alert is currently available in the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
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Why It Matters: Whales are vulnerable to collisions with vessels of all sizes. In California, gray whales are the most commonly reported victims of vessel strikes. On the Atlantic coast, the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale faces a similar threat. In the Mediterranean, vessel strikes are the leading cause of human-caused death for fin and sperm whales.
Slowing down saves lives. Whale Alert empowers you to take simple, informed actions that make a big impact. By reporting sightings and following in-app guidance, you help reduce ship strikes, inform science and policy, and protect some of the ocean’s most iconic creatures.
The Whale Alert team consists of IFAW, Conserve.IO and Greenov. We are part of a global effort to reduce vessel strikes and other human activities that threaten marine mammals. Our network of partners, contributors and sponsors include NOAA Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Whale Alert — West Coast, NOAA Fisheries Service, Canadian Whale Institute, Channel Island Cetacean Research Unit, Bay of Fundy—Tidal Energy, Whale Alert Alaska—National Park Service, The Marine Mammal Center, Orca Network, Beam Reach, OceanWise, Marine Mammal Advisory Group, Ørsted and ProtectedSeas.
Download Whale Alert today and help make the ocean safer for whales—one sighting at a time.
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I love this app for the purpose it was created. This informs boaters about the presence of whales in the area, so they can help protect them, and even help support them in cases of emergencies. I think all boaters should be required to have this app before and while on the water. The ocean is their home that we crudely trespass onto. Thank you for helping us yield for them.
★★★★★Alison Bradley· Jun 6, 2025
What a great app to help save whales! The latest update now includes Europe, US and Canada, and adds more features, like giving you alerts if whales have been reported nearby and collision risk based on your boat size, speed and the likelihood of whales nearby. This app makes it easy to report whale sightings, and the information is actually used by scientists and agencies to help us understand and protect these wonderful animals. Thank you to the team who made Whale Alert!
★★★★☆Cameron Hunt· Feb 26, 2024
I need to know where the whales are right now. Not 2 days ago. There should be a way to limit the view to sightings within the last 6, 12, and 24 hours.
★☆☆☆☆Mary Stedham· Jan 22, 2024
Was neat app for seeing where the whales are. Now the app is crashing all the time so forced to uninstall.
★☆☆☆☆Patty Farrell· Nov 7, 2022
I was in the app for about a minute. Now app keeps closing. I think it could be great if it worked
★☆☆☆☆Dana Greeley· Jan 9, 2024
App keep crashing after map loads. Android 14. Please fix.
★★☆☆☆Jeff Baker· Sep 6, 2015
No whales shown There seems to be no point to this app at the moment because no one is reporting whales. In Monterey Bay there are a lot of whale sightings right now. But nobody adds them to this app.
Google Play Rankings for Whale Alert
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Technologies used by Whale Alert
Whale Alert is requesting 0 permissions and is using 16 libraries.
Each subscription will automatically renew 3 days before the expiration date for
the same time period. Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time before the renewal.
Android Jetpack core
Firebase
Google Cloud Messaging (GCM)
Okio
Google Maps SDK
Volley
Crashlytics
fabric
Amazon AWS SDK for Android
XML Pull Parsing
kXML
kObjects Utilities
kSOAP 2