# Blueye — Underwater Drones

> Underwater Drones (iPhone/iPad app by Blueye Robotics AS.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blueye/id1369714041 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Blueye Robotics AS](https://appshunter.io/developer/1369714040)
- Category: Photo & Video, Utilities
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 312 MB
- Languages: American English, Dutch, Finnish, French (France), German (Germany), Hindi, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, European Portuguese, European Spanish and 1 more
- Released: 2018-12-16
- Data updated: 2026-09-01
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blueye/id1369714041/reviews.md

## What is Blueye?

The Blueye app lets you control your Blueye underwater drone from your iPhone or iPad. Choose between the touch interface or connecting an MFi-licensed wireless gaming controller to control the drone.

The app shows telemetry data from the drone, such as depth, heading, orientation, water temperature, and battery level, as well as a full HD 1080p/30fps video stream.

After your dive, the app lets you download a dive log to your device, as well as any video or pictures captured from your underwater inspection.

Visit www.blueye.com for more information about Blueye and our products.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 6.1.0 — 2026-08-21

- Show the video stream's active transport (UDP or TCP) in the diagnostics view. Video normally arrives over UDP, and the app silently falls back to TCP on network paths that block UDP — a fallback that can add video delay and was previously invisible.
- Show the drone's storage settings in the diagnostics view and in the diagnostics report, listing whether the drone is set to store media files, multibeam recordings, dive logs, and diagnostics logs. The support email includes the same list, so disabled storage of media or logs is visible to the support team instead of looking like missing data.
- Add a warning when a recording stops unexpectedly or fails to start, so a dead recording no longer goes unnoticed until after the dive. The app watches the drone's recording state and alerts if the main camera, external camera, or multibeam stops counting recording time, or does not start recording after being told to.
- Add a move button to the file transfer view to move photos, videos, and multibeam recordings between the drone's internal storage and a removable USB storage device. The app checks that the files fit before starting, moves thumbnails along with their files, skips files that already exist at the destination, and refreshes the list when the storage device is attached or removed. Requires a Blunux version with support for moving files between storage devices.
- Add a button to the drone storage settings to copy all dive logs to the removable USB storage device. Logs already on the device are skipped, and the originals on the drone are always kept, so the copy is safe to repeat. Requires a Blunux version with support for copying dive logs.
- Fix deleting a multibeam recording from the drone leaving its thumbnail file behind on the drone's storage.
- Hide the overlay copies of photos that the drone's web interface saves to the removable USB storage device. The file transfer view shows an overlay badge on the original photo instead, and an overlay copy whose original photo has been deleted stays listed so it can still be transferred or deleted.
- Recognise the Blueye High Capacity Battery v2 in the diagnostics view, which now shows the battery by name and includes its per-cell temperatures, instead of listing it as an unknown battery.
- Improve piloting with a keyboard: several bindings and the Alt modifier keys that had stopped working are fixed, a held key now commands full speed with `Q`/`E` setting the speed level, and new keys cover taking a photo (`P`), the gripper (`G`/`H`), the dive menu and status view (`M`/`Tab`), and the multibeam and mission shortcuts (F-keys).
- Add a keyboard layout to the Controls page of the dive menu, listing every key binding for the connected drone. The page switches between the game controller illustration and the keyboard table, and opens on the keyboard when one is attached and no game controller is connected.
- Fix input staying stuck when a key or game controller button was held as a dive menu opened or the app lost focus, which could leave the drone moving with nothing pressed.

### 6.0.0 — 2026-07-31

- Add a manual gain slider to camera settings for Blueye X3 Ultra and X7, available alongside manual exposure, to control camera gain (in dB) for brighter images in low light. Requires Blunux v5.1 or newer on the drone.
- Add an automatic color-correction filter to camera settings for Blueye X3 Ultra and X7, with an on/off toggle and intensity slider (next to the turbidity filter), for more natural underwater colors.
- Show the number of photos, videos, and multibeam recordings for each dive directly in the dive log list, to make logs with media easier to find.
- Fix a navigation error that could block opening pages such as news articles, settings detail pages, or the dive view until the app was restarted, caused by a modal dialog not being fully cleared from the app's navigation state.
- Fix a crash that could occur when the Wi-Fi connection to the drone dropped and reconnected, caused by two overlapping video-stream restarts tearing down the same video player at the same time.
- Attach the most recent app log file to the support email generated from Contact Support, alongside the diagnostics report, to help support diagnose issues faster.
- Fix the recording-started banner reporting the selected frame rate and resolution instead of the ones actually used: it now shows 25 fps while the multibeam is active on drones that limit the frame rate, and the real recording resolution when the drone model or a lower streaming resolution caps it.
- Fix video recordings using a bitrate meant for a higher resolution or frame rate than the drone actually records at, which wasted storage on the drone. The bitrate now follows the resolution and frame rate in use.
- Fix 60 fps being sent to drones that cannot deliver it, which could happen after selecting 60 fps on a Blueye X3 Ultra and then connecting another drone model, or after switching the recording resolution to 4K. The camera now falls back to 30 fps in those cases.
- Block activating the multibeam while a video recording is running above the frame rate the drone can sustain alongside it. A running recording keeps the frame rate it was started with, so the app now asks you to stop the recording first instead of leaving the drone recording 30 fps with the multibeam in parallel.

### 5.9.1 — 2026-06-22

- Show the connected drone model's illustration, logo, and a matching background on the connect screen.
- Show a red "Discovery error" status on the connect screen when the drone is reachable but its discovery service responds with an error, instead of leaving the status on "Not connected".
- Hide manual exposure, white balance, hue, and the X3 Ultra and X7 image-tuning sliders behind a collapsible Advanced section in camera settings, with a badge showing how many advanced settings are currently in manual override mode.
- Add a Recording Quality selector in camera settings to choose between High Efficiency, Normal, and Max Quality bitrate presets, and a Recording Codec selector for H.264 / H.265 on Blueye X3 Ultra and X7.
- Show a brief banner with the active resolution, frame rate, codec, and quality preset when video recording starts.
- Fix UTM coordinate handling in POI and waypoint editors: accept both "32N" and "N32" zone formats, prevent crashes when entering coordinates before a UTM zone, and stop the waypoint Name and UTM Zone fields from being overwritten with "0".
- Change the default picture mode to capture pictures on the drone only (previously drone picture plus an app screenshot). The Picture Mode setting still allows choosing screenshots or both.
- Fix the media transfer screen's download progress indicator not appearing while transferring photos and videos from the drone.

### 5.9.0 — 2026-06-19

- Show the connected drone model's illustration, logo, and a matching background on the connect screen.
- Show a red "Discovery error" status on the connect screen when the drone is reachable but its discovery service responds with an error, instead of leaving the status on "Not connected".
- Hide manual exposure, white balance, hue, and the X3 Ultra and X7 image-tuning sliders behind a collapsible Advanced section in camera settings, with a badge showing how many advanced settings are currently in manual override mode.
- Add a Recording Quality selector in camera settings to choose between High Efficiency, Normal, and Max Quality bitrate presets, and a Recording Codec selector for H.264 / H.265 on Blueye X3 Ultra and X7.
- Show a brief banner with the active resolution, frame rate, codec, and quality preset when video recording starts.
- Fix UTM coordinate handling in POI and waypoint editors: accept both "32N" and "N32" zone formats, prevent crashes when entering coordinates before a UTM zone, and stop the waypoint Name and UTM Zone fields from being overwritten with "0".
- Change the default picture mode to capture pictures on the drone only (previously drone picture plus an app screenshot). The Picture Mode setting still allows choosing screenshots or both.
- Fix the media transfer screen's download progress indicator not appearing while transferring photos and videos from the drone.

### 5.8.0 — 2026-05-19

- Add Blueye Cloud integration (Beta): sign in to sync dive logs, photos, videos, and multibeam recordings to your organisation.
- Fix multibeam sonar fan range labels showing meters in the dive view when the app is set to imperial units, and fix the multibeam range notification displaying a doubly-converted value when imperial units are selected.
- Add support for the Blueye Scaling Laser accessory.
- Fix a rare crash when rotating the device on the Download Media page.
- Fix a crash that could occur when opening the Diagnostics page after the drone connection had dropped.
- Fix a crash if the device left the drone Wi-Fi while a software update was in progress.
- Improve stability of drone communication during disconnect/reconnect by adopting upstream NetMQ thread-safety fixes.
- Fix the recording timer not appearing, or showing an inconsistent value, when recording on the main camera and an external (guestport) camera simultaneously.
- Update external dependencies.

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## More apps by Blueye Robotics AS

- [Blueye Observer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blueye-observer/id1453884806)

All apps by Blueye Robotics AS: https://appshunter.io/developer/1369714040

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