Deepblu vs Diveplanner Tec & Rec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deepblu
Log your underwater adventures, enrich them with media, and connect with a global diving community. Automatically sync dive data from compatible computers and discover popular dive destinations worldwide. Build your diver profile and get your logs certified by instructors.
- Automatic dive log synchronization
- Add photos and videos to logs
- Discover and plan dive destinations
- Build diver identity and profile
- Instructor certification of logs
- Compatible with many dive computers
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Your incredible dive journeys start with Deepblu. THE MOST INTUITIVE DIVE LOG APP ● Enrich your dive log with underwater photos and videos to share with the global diving community ● Create dive logs automatically by synchronizing your dive computer via Bluetooth ● Compatible with most dive computers on the market (see all compatible dive computers below) ● Have your instructor certify your Deepblu dive log in-app ● Build your diver identity EXPLORE POPULAR DIVE DESTINATIONS AROUND THE WORLD ● Discover dive sites, plan dive travel based on user reviews and media ● Cancun – Explore MUSA, C-55, and unique sea life ● Tulum – Dive in Cenote Dos Ojos and more underwater caves ● Bali – Dive with mantas and discover unique reefs COMPATIBLE DIVE COMPUTERS Deepblu COSMIQ+, SCUBAPRO Aladin Sport, Galileo 2, Aladin H Matrix, TUSA DC Solar Link IQ1204, and Shearwater Petrel 2, Perdix, Perdix AI, Nerd 2. Deepblu is also compatible with Subsurface, which supports nearly 200 other dive computers from popular brands such as AquaLung, Cressi, Mares, Oceanic, SCUBAPRO, Shearwater, Sherwood, Suunto, Uwatec and many more. *The Deepblu app is recognized as the official digital training log of international dive agencies such as IDA, ITDA & DIWA, where instructors can digitally sign their students logs directly on the app, counting towards certification. Dive on.
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
Plan technical and recreational scuba dives with detailed gas management, decompression schedules, and contingency planning. This tool helps divers quickly create and share dive plans for various depths and conditions.
- Technical and recreational dive planning
- Multi-gas and CCR dive schedules
- Bühlmann decompression model (ZH16L-C)
- Automatic contingency plans
- Gas requirement and weight calculation
- Dive table generation
- Metric and Imperial units
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Diveplanner Tec & Rec plans recreational and technical dives, on open circuit or closed circuit rebreather (CCR), in a few taps, and keeps your logbook. PLAN • Bühlmann ZH-L16C decompression model with your gradient factors, or the Thalmann algorithm of the U.S. Navy: VVal-79 for air and nitrox, XVal-He-9 for heliox CCR dives; compare a plan with both • Open circuit and CCR, down to 300 m / 985 ft, in salt, fresh or EN 13319 water, at sea level or at altitude • Multi-level dives, multi-gas decompression with automatic or chosen switch depths • Contingency plans computed for you: deeper, longer, lost deco gas, GF 100 and the CCR bailout • Warnings for ppO2, END, gas density, isobaric counter diffusion, CNS and OTU • The decompression chart of each plan: the profile, the tissues' ceilings at GF 100 and at your gradient factors, the leading tissue • A dive day of as many repetitive dives as you need, with their surface intervals • Saved plans in folders, shared as files GAS • Describe your cylinders: the plan gives the pressure at the end of the dive, the turn pressure, the rock bottom and the maximum bottom time your gas allows • Gas needed by volume and weight, per gas TABLES • Dive tables by depth and bottom time for your own gases, gradient factors and conditions, with the previous dives of the day • Share or print the table as a PDF TOOLS • Gas blender: partial pressure blending of nitrox, trimix and heliox from what is left in the cylinder, ideal or real gas; the best mix for a depth from your ppO2, END and gas density limits, and the cylinder label • Tides: the tide of a day anywhere at sea, from the nearest NOAA tide station or the EOT20 global tide model, its high and low waters, and the tidal currents and slack waters of a nearby current station, read to the minute on the chart • Photo colors: restore the true colors of your underwater photos and videos, their blue or green cast, haze and missing red corrected, with the depth of your logged dive; compare before and after, then save or share LOGBOOK • Log your dives by hand, from a plan, or download them over Bluetooth from a Shearwater dive computer (Petrel 2, Perdix, Perdix AI, Nerd 2, Teric, Peregrine), with the profile, stops, gases and sensor values • Photos, dive sites on a map, statistics, tags, search and filters • Synchronised between your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud • Export to UDDF, Subsurface, CSV, a PDF logbook and .divelog archives; import UDDF and Subsurface SHARE • Ready-to-cut dive schedules as a PDF, for your buddy or your slate: every plan, the gas and cylinders, CNS, OTU and warnings EVERYWHERE • iPhone, iPad and Mac • Metric or imperial units • In 12 languages, each with its user guide LICENCES • Rec, free: one gas, air or nitrox up to 40 %, down to 66 m / 210 ft • Tec Basic: up to 3 gases, nitrox up to 100 %, normoxic trimix and triox • Tec Advanced: unlimited gases and depth, hypoxic trimix • Try every feature free for 2 weeks Diveplanner is a planning aid. It does not replace training, experience, a dive computer or your own judgement: always dive within the limits of your certification.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deepblu at none against Diveplanner Tec & Rec's 3. Deepblu also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (39 vs 7). Diveplanner Tec & Rec's advantage is rating (3.1 vs 2.9) and review sentiment (43% vs 29%). On price, ads, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Diveplanner Tec & Rec sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Deepblu asks for nothing beyond the download.
Diveplanner Tec & Rec holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Deepblu has 39 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Deepblu's written reviews are positive against 43% of Diveplanner Tec & Rec's.
Deepblu ships an update monthly, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Deepblu | Diveplanner Tec & Rec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (39 ratings) | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blaris ApS | Sensetrails LLC |
Customer experience
Deepblu
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
In-app purchases
Deepblu
No in-app purchases
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
- Two weeks free trialFree
- Tec Basic$7.99
- Tec Advanced$19.99
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