# Buddy: Social Dive App — user reviews > 39 indexed App Store user reviews of Buddy by Dive with Buddy, Inc., rated 4.30/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buddy-social-dive-app/id1588860327/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/buddy-social-dive-app/id1588860327.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 37 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 5 ## Newest reviews (12 of 39) ### 5/5 — Favorite Logbook & Dive Community App *2024-05-06* The Buddy is a fantastic scuba diving companion app! The logbook functionality is crazy robust and allows you to put tons of details into each of your dive logs. Being able to add photos and videos to your logs helps keeps all your dive memories in one place. The ability to have a digital dive bag to keep track of all the gear you use and mark what gear you use on each dive is so cool. From an instructor and dive shop owner point of view the ability to push dive log verification to my students is awesome, and helps to teach them how to make good dive logs. The social aspect of the app makes it fun to keep up with our divers as they go on and explore the underwater world. It’s a great way to interact with other divers, and the articles that are posted are interesting and fun too. I recommend this app to everyone of my students and everyone that walks through the doors of our dive shop. If you are looking for the best dive log app with tons of other functions that you will use and enjoy; then look no further and enjoy your new Buddy! ### 5/5 — Very original *2024-04-28, version 3.0.66* The app is very useful and original, easy to use, I like that it has many features, and I’m looking forward to other innovations! The shared photos and videos are beautiful! ### 5/5 — Excellent *2024-04-28, version 3.0.66* It is a must app for all divers. Very attractive and easy to use. ### 5/5 — My favorite scuba app! *2024-04-09* This app combines a digital dive log and social media app with a means to digitally discover friends, dive locations and certification verification with a way to share dive pics and videos to your other social media sites! Fantastic!! Love this app. Just download it. ### 5/5 — Great for divers of all kinds! *2024-04-09* Whether you are a recreational diver or a dive pro, diving is about building a community and this app makes it easy to not only log dives but keep in contact with those you meet 😁 ### 5/5 — The future of diving *2024-04-09* An amazing platform that is only getting better. Incredibly convenient and user friendly, without a doubt the best dive log interface I’ve seen as an instructor for the last 10 years. More features keep coming out and making it even more desirable such as group messaging and dive buddy meet ups! I love sharing my gear on my profile and validating customers dives with ease. Truly one of a kind and can’t wait to see how they continue to group evolve and expand! ### 5/5 — Divers choice! *2024-04-09, version 3.0.66* Any diver should download and use the buddy app! It makes it easy when traveling to have your dive log right on your phone, no more searching and trying to remember where you left it. My favourite part about the buddy app is connecting with friends all over the world to see where they are diving. Such a fun tool and app for a diver at any level ### 5/5 — Top notch dive app *2024-03-27* Love the community and logging dives! Makes it easy and user friendly! Love seeing what my other dive buddies are up to and learning about gear and marine life from their posts! ### 5/5 — Great app for pros and students *2023-12-25* A great way to get away from telling all students all of the dive details. Log it once and put your students names for verification within the app with any agency not just what you teach. Great tool to keep all I formed and very easy to use. We are ensuring any divers that come diving with use download and register the app. ### 5/5 — Disappointed *2023-07-19* App will not take info. Just spins and freezes. Have to close out and restart. Hope this is resolved. Could be a good app. Update… app is working properly now. Developer reached out with a follow up. **Developer response:** Our most sincere apologies Brent! We ran into a glitch the day you tried to sign up, but we are working on improving the app every day. Hope you will give us another chance. Hope to see you on Buddy! ### 5/5 — Fun app! *2023-07-11* Definitely an app we needed in the dive community! Love the convenience of logging my dives, sharing photos and connecting with dive buddies from all over and share our love for the underwaterworld 🩵✨ ### 5/5 — Best App yet, hits all the right notes *2023-07-02* This app does EVERYTHING that’s been lacking out there, and does it with style. This one clearly has some R&D behind it, and great people. It has things for new divers, snorkelers and freedivers which is incredible, plus tools for professionals. It works for all agencies like PADI, NAUI, SSI & others. Love it! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Pretty Useless *2024-08-08* I want to like it. But it’s pretty useless. It seems like I’d have to pay for the social aspects of the app, without knowing how many people are in my area for it to be worthwhile. When searching for buddies in my area, it yields only a handful of results. As a dive log, I have to log manually, no option to import or export data. I don’t see that being any better than the padi, naui, or ssi apps that allows me to manually log dives. Worst is, I was testing the dive log feature with dummy data. Although it’s only in draft, it comes up in public searches. Although I save it as private, it still pops up in public searches. I delete the draft, it tells me the draft was successfully deleted, and yeap, you guessed it, it’s still coming up in public searches. I deleted and reinstalled the app to clear it from cache… nope it’s still there. Who’s doing qa on this?? ### 1/5 — Don’t waste your time. *2024-07-16, version 4.0.5* The app is a great concept, but an epic failure. I added each of my certs, cert numbers AND screenshot cert cards, but could not be verified. Also, the radar portion doesn’t wort at all. Just scrap the app and start over. ### 1/5 — Good Ideas, but Falls Short on Effort *2024-05-14* The creators of the Buddy App have combined a lot of what other dive log apps are missing to create what looks like a diver’s logistic needs for one central hub to do all things DIVE. Unfortunately it seems to fall short on effort as things are slowly rolled out and don’t necessarily perform well. A major faux pas and poor professional standard is their use of AI (e.g., ChatGPT) to write their “blog” articles OR their inability to come up with original content so they repost articles from other underwater blog sources. This makes the entire App seem unauthentic, ungenuine, and shows the lacks of effort or care in the product they deliver to the user. The Buddy Blog articles, while in substance may be truthful lack a targeted accuracy that is observable in the AI-generated text. Additionally, the money grab buddy locator “radar” option is useless. Why would I pay for that service when they advertise the “social aspect” of their “community” to do exactly that?! In my opinion, go all the way or cease the effort. The lack of users on the platform is also pitiful. Formerly the Buddy App and “social community” was alive and abound on social media, but that (much like the effort into this App) has fallen off. Too bad because the rooted ideas were well placed. Just poor execution and lack of effectiveness (effort). **Developer response:** Hi Rich! Thanks for diving into Buddy and putting in the effort writing this extensive review. We’re very sad to hear we didn’t meet your standards when it comes to speed of delivery, execution, and blog articles on the app. We have many exciting new content rollouts and app features in the pipeline though, make sure to keep an eye out! And, we can assure you our user base is growing everyday and we’re putting in a full effort! The Buddy Team 🐠 ### 2/5 — Buggy/Unresponsive *2023-11-11* I downloaded the app with hopes of logging my dives more accurately and having the ability to add my gear and accompanying photos. The app immediately began to crash and became unresponsive when trying to add dive locations, gear and other information. I had to close out multiple times. I am still unable to add anything. I am using an iPhone 14 Pro Max. **Developer response:** Aloha Law & Light, It might be possible this week we were underwater making updates per the latest iPhone updates. We'd be thrilled for you to join the community and hope that you'll give us a go again :) The Buddy Team ### 2/5 — No ability to import dives *2023-09-16, version 3.0.18* Despite the positive reviews this app is worthless to me. There is no way to import dives from another app and no interface to import from a dive computer or Apple Watch. ### 2/5 — Disappointed *2023-06-17* App will not take info. Just spins and freezes. Have to close out and restart. Hope this is resolved. Could be a good app. **Developer response:** Our most sincere apologies Brent! We ran into a glitch the day you tried to sign up, but we are working on improving the app every day. Hope you will give us another chance. Hope to see you on Buddy! ### 3/5 — Not really worth paying for… yet. *2024-10-19* It is missing some sort of an “open to dive” status to link people together. Otherwise it’s better to just join a facebook group and throw out a post looking for buddies with specific certs to join in. ### 3/5 — Need to work *2024-05-23* Buddy radar not working, tried to log back into the app, it could not find my email address. I’ll try again in a month ### 3/5 — Fun, easy to use, and beautiful, yet it lacks many advanced features *2024-04-09* This dive log app shines with its user-friendly interface, easy navigation, and visually appealing design, making it a joy to use for logging your underwater journeys. Setting up is a breeze, thanks to a straightforward account creation process and unobtrusive email communications, which is always appreciated. However, while the app serves well for basic dive logging needs, it currently misses out on several advanced features that some divers might find essential. These include the ability to download data directly from your dive computer, support for various advanced diving types like technical, cave, and dives using double tanks or stage deco mixes, and the capability to export your data for external use. Additionally, divers associated with smaller certification organizations such as GUE or UTD might notice the orgs are missing from the cert cards section. Interestingly, the app allows for logging of technical depths up to 400ft and the use of trimix gas mixes, yet it falls short in accommodating gas volumes over 130 cubic feet or setting up a double tank configurations. Overall, this app is a fantastic choice for casual, recreational divers seeking a simple and engaging way to track and share their underwater adventures, complete with basic info and photos. Its social features hold promise, though the community around it is still growing. For divers delving into more advanced forms of diving, it's worth noting the app currently lacks some functionalities that might enhance their logging experience, such as direct data downloads from dive computers and support for advanced diving settings. **Developer response:** Aloha Onema, Thank you for the feedback. We’re working on computer integration now and will announce when it’s available. We’ll add GUE and UTD to the agency selection. And, we’ll speak with the team to accommdate gas volumes over 130 cubic feet or setting up a double tank configurations.  Within your profile and settings — you can add any other points to the ‘Feedback’ section for our team to receive and address as best we can. Additionally, we have new features coming out including a way to meet new dive buddies around the world! Thank you for your support and hope your rating will increase as we address each of these points. The Buddy Team ### 5/5 — Exceptional Community Builder *2026-02-27* Absolutely love this app! What an amazing way to build a community and connect with like-minded Divers around the world. I love being able to share my stories and connect with some people this vast and beautiful community. This app makes it easier than effort to do all of those things and more. ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Best Dive log app out there *2025-06-03, version 4.0.11* I absolutely love this app. I love how you can do and how in depth you can go! ### 5/5 — Like the app *2025-03-08* Really like the app. I can log all my past dives and log the current dive right at the dive site. Don’t have to worry about the old paper log book getting wet and ruined. ### 5/5 — Love it! *2024-10-09, version 4.0.6* Very easy to use! I love logging my dives on here, I have officially transitioned from logging in my books to logging on the Buddy app! ### 5/5 — Brilliant!! *2024-10-09, version 4.0.6* This is a great idea, so helpful to divers looking for buddies and dive centres. The dive logging is nice and easy, the buddy radar is intuitive, overall a great app! I look forward to using it for a long time! ### 5/5 — Nothing else like it *2024-10-02* There isn’t another app on the market that does what Buddy is doing for divers. Connecting with new dive buddies, logging dives, and sharing to social within one app. Take my money!! ### 5/5 — A Must-Have For Divers! *2024-09-30, version 4.0.6* I absolutely love this app as a way to log dives and connect with other divers from around the world! The dive log map is great for those who travel to dive — allowing you to look back on all the wonderful places you've experienced underwater 💙🌊 ### 5/5 — Best Diving App *2024-09-30* I love using the buddy app to meet new dive buddies while I’m traveling. I have met so many awesome new buddies using the Radar feature! The Buddy app is far the best app to log dives. It’s great being able to add photos to my dive logs and being able to share them on social media. Best diving app out there! ### 5/5 — 5 Stars: Great app for meeting a new dive buddy! *2024-09-02* The Buddy app exceeded my expectations by connecting me with an outstanding dive buddy. My new dive buddy and I had amazing experiences underwater and completed 5 dives together during a magical weekend dive trip to Catalina. Thanks to the app's efficient matching system and detailed profiles. It’s a game-changer for anyone looking to enhance their scuba diving adventures. Highly recommend! ### 5/5 — Game changer 🙌🏼 *2024-05-22* Dive Buddy is such a game changer. It’s so fun to log my dives and see other divers logs/ where they’re diving. I’m constantly diving and traveling and just looking for new places to go, so it’s been amazing. On top of that, they just launched this Buddy Radar feature and now on my travels I’ve been able to see other divers in the area 💃🏼 It’s pretty incredible app honestly, there’s so much to it besides logging dives— I really haven’t seen anything like it! I’ve been using it for almost a year now 🤿🙏🏼 --- *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 2026-08-24.*