Dive Shearwater Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience7.1% of reviews
Neutral8.9% of reviews
Negative experience83.9% of reviews

~ Based on 56 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Dive Shearwater Safe?

Dive Shearwater does not appear safe based on available data. AppsHunter Safety Score for Dive Shearwater is 42/100.

This assessment is based on 45 user ratings, with an App Store average of 1.5/5.

Safety Analysis

4.4% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
86.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 45 App Store ratings for Dive Shearwater.

Is Dive Shearwater Legit?

Dive Shearwater appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Dive Shearwater is 68/100.

Based on 68 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Oh brother

The old shearwater app was no good and that theme continues here. New coat of paint still full of issues. Going on 3 months no with major issues and no update.

Give us a delete dive log option

Only 2 stars because I cannot delete training/non dives off the log. Deleted off my Peregrine TX just fine, reconnect, still there. And I also want dive 0 gone, unless it has to be there for warranty.
When will this option be available?!?! $1,100 and I can’t choose what information/dives I want on it? A 4’ training “dive” is not relevant to my actual dive log.
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Mixed review

Had an initial hiccup with getting my old dives transferred over but got there in the end. I love the ability to log the coordinates but would like to see this be an optional field for those of us who don’t have the new transmitter.

Also realised that unlike the old app, this one isn’t recording and showing the gas mix used so I have no log of the nitrox % I’ve dived.

You also can’t manually add dives in the odd case you might have to use a different dive computer meaning it’s not a one for all log.

Good start but still prefer the old app at the moment.
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Unable to delete individual dives

I got 2 shearwater computers and some dives show up in the log twice, no way to delete individual dives

Glitchy and missing features

Updated Aug 9, 2026: now on version v1.0. I feel I wasted my money on the swift GPS. Dives uploaded disappear while editing and can’t be reloaded. Had to move to the older Shearwater Cloud app that still works just fine, but doesn’t include GPS. Shearwater did fix most of the issues I mentioned below but dives disappearing and not being able to reload is the worst issue. If it won’t retain the dive, what’s the point?

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Just not working yet. Units on the dive profile are missing and the scale is off, nothing like the pictures they are showing. SAC rate for the dive is missing. People using imperial measures will find translation errors (entered 81F air temp and it converts to 177.8F on the summary),

And for an app designed specifically to track gps with the new gps transmitter, you can’t enter gps coordinates for older dives or even get the gps coordinates from your current dive.

I’m sure this will all get fixed. But for now, I’d hold off on converting. I regret buying the new transmitter and should have waited until this app is fixed.
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Can’t sync or find my Teric

Worked for a bit then decided it doesn’t want to find my Teric or sync dives. Have gone back to shearwater cloud, macdive and the divessi app for logging

Still worse than the original app

After ALL this time, how is it still worse than the original app?

Current worst complaint: app won’t open without internet. So you can’t upload your dives and make notes while on most liveaboards.

Literally just having a pen and paper works better than this app.

Um, terrible

I absolutely love my Shearwater dive computers but this app is an abomination. I can emphasize enough how awful this app is you can’t delete a dive, import dives that aren’t on your computer and just the general use of the app is terrible.

Come on Shearwater get your act together on this one.

Good and I am sure it will get better

With all the harsh reviews I thought I’d add a more positive experience. Just returned from 17 dives and 4 of us logged them all with this app from our Peregrine TX. Overall the app is a great start. Sure there are some bugs here and there but we found a few work arounds to get our complete logs in just fine and it wasn’t that difficult. Looking forward to what Shearwater does with this as I am confident they will make this a great experience.
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Need to stick with Shearwater Cloud

The only feature lacking from the prior app was mapping/location. This app loses so much functionality to merely add mapping capabilities. This is completely unusable and should be scrapped.

Disappointed

So disappointed. My first dive with my Peregrine TX was great and everything sync’d fine. Two dives the next day and the recorded dive location is 1000 miles away and doesn’t match either the entry or exit coordinates. Where/how does the app obtain dive location? Why wouldn’t it use either of those locations. My 4th dive didn’t record location but my 5th dive did. Downloaded to the app and it lost the 5th dive’s log number. Start and entry time are completely wrong. Just a lot of data corruption. So disappointed to see my log book getting corrupted after spending $1200 on it.
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So Bad

Why did you switch?? The cloud version was SOOOOO much better than this. It’s pretty unusable. The iPad app is terrible. The phone app is terrible. You can navigate to anything or really find anything. Please improve.

Computer is great, App is NOT

Shearwater, please please please find a person or team to completely overhaul your app. It is not user friendly at all and there are a million ways to improve the app experience with all of the amazing data that you can download off of the Peregrine. The computer is top of the line, but the app might be the worst one I’ve seen. I look forward to the day when I get a notification that there is an app overhaul and I can download the new experience. Looking forward to it!!!
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Good app after recent improvements

The app had a few annoying bugs when initially launched, but think Shearwater has done a good job on sorting most of them out.

There are still a few things that could be improved, such as full screen graph, but I know they are working hard on constantly improving so I’m sure we’ll see me useful features in the near future.
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export to PDF

We hope it can revert to the previous version, so that dive logs can be exported as PDF files for easy printing.

Better… Improvements

The last few updates have been better.

Not very intuitive

I switched over from another integrated computer system that provided SAC and RMV in your log but find the app impossible to navigate to see it. Also, as an Instructor I would like an easier way to put it in pool mode for teaching confined water. When I go for a real dive, cleaning up the junk dives takes quite a while. On my Garmin I can tell my computer to ignore those dives. Might have to stop teaching with the Perdix 2 because I went to clear the log, deleted the junk dives, and renumbered them appropriately. However, once I do that, it isn’t easy to discern why the next log number goes to whatever the count was going to be if the junk dives were included. It’s a step up from Cloud but the promises made at Dema this year haven’t been realized yet. I’d love for this to be my go to system but I need a clear log and would love SAC and RMV info
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Bug-Filled App

What a disgrace for a company that makes exceptional diving hardware to release a software app of such poor quality. The sync to Shearwater Cloud is random and incomplete only downloading my first 13 dives. When pressing the sync button it falsely claims data is downloading. If you start to complete a page and have to pause it clears when swapping screens.

Pure junk
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Even worse that Cloud

I would not download unless you absolutely must. Terrible app. Prob better on a phone, but those of us using ipads to access will suffer. App cannot deal with the new iOS 26 features and is not user friendly at all.

Very bad app

The former app Shearwater Cloud was bad but at least it worked, for some reason Shearwater make the best dive computers around but the worst apps, it would’ve been nice if you could easily manage your dives but somehow all my dives are doubled and it’s a pita to delete the doubles, i have to select them one by one, hit edit, the delete the dive but sometimes the edit button doesn’t work and i’m stuck on a blank page
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