Dive Check vs Diveplanner Tec & Rec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dive Check
Create and share comprehensive gear checklists for diving trips. Ensure nothing is forgotten with customizable lists and reminders. Perfect for divers, snorkelers, and anyone carrying extensive equipment.
- Create custom checklists
- Share lists with friends
- Set reminders
- Use default checklists
- Edit and modify lists
- Add new items
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Dive Check is useful and simple to use application for creating checklists for scuba divers, technical divers, snorkelers and everyone else who carries a lot of gear on locations, and needs to make sure that nothing is forgotten, or misplaced. Did you ever want to send a list of equipment to your dive buddy or friend, so they don't forget something on the next diving trip? With Dive Check you can create a list and share it with as many friends as you want to, set reminders, and never miss a dive due to forgotten equipment or gear. - Use Default Checklists - Create Reminders - Create Empty or Template Checklists - Edit, Delete, or Modify Checklists - Add New Items in Checklists - Send (Share) Checklists with friends Enjoy Dive Check, and Safe Diving!
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 • 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 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 rating: Diveplanner Tec & Rec at 3.1 against Dive Check's 1.0. Diveplanner Tec & Rec also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (7 vs 2). Dive Check's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (50% vs 33%). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Dive Check sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Diveplanner Tec & Rec sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Diveplanner Tec & Rec holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Dive Check's written reviews are positive against 33% of Diveplanner Tec & Rec's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dive Check ships an update every 4 days, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dive Check | Diveplanner Tec & Rec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (2 ratings) | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AXIS Productions | Sensetrails LLC |
Customer experience
Dive Check
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
In-app purchases
Dive Check
- Dive Check Full Version$2.99
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
- Two weeks free trialFree
- Tec Basic$7.99
- Tec Advanced$19.99
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