Shearwater Cloud vs Static Apnea Trainer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shearwater Cloud
Connect your mobile device to your dive computer to download, manage, and analyze dive logs. Update firmware and utilize cloud storage for accessible and secure dive data across multiple devices.
- Download dive logs via Bluetooth LE
- Analyze depth, decompression, and temperature
- Cloud storage for dive logs
- Firmware updates for dive computers
- Cross-device accessibility
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Shearwater Cloud links your mobile device to your Shearwater dive computer. It allows you to download and manage your dive logs, update your dive computer firmware, and use cloud storage. Using Bluetooth LE technology, you can quickly and easily download your dive logs to Shearwater Cloud. Once your logs are downloaded, you can analyze your depth, decompression profile, temperature, and much more. The defining feature of Shearwater Cloud is the ability to store your dives via the cloud. Cloud storage provides accessibility to your dives on any mobile device with an internet connection. In addition, dive logs can be recovered should the dive logs be lost on a local storage. Shearwater Cloud is compatible with Tern, Peregrine, Teric, Perdix 2, Perdix AI, Perdix, NERD 2, Petrel 3, and Petrel 2.
Static Apnea Trainer
This app helps you improve your breath-holding capacity through structured breathing exercises and apnea tables. It's designed to adapt your body to lower oxygen levels, beneficial for freediving, other sports, meditation, and relaxation.
- Breath-holding exercises
- Apnea tables
- Oxygen level adaptation
- Meditation and relaxation
- Sports performance enhancement
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Learn to hold your breath for 3 minutes. Static Apnea Trainer provides breathing exercises that help your body to adapt to lower oxygen levels. Most of these exercises consist of breath holds and rests with specific lengths — apnea tables or static tables (apnea training based on repeated intervals of breath holds). They are mostly used in freediving but they can be very beneficial when practicing other sports or just for meditation and relaxation moments.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Static Apnea Trainer at 5.0 against Shearwater Cloud's 2.6. Shearwater Cloud's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (104 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. Static Apnea Trainer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Shearwater Cloud asks for nothing beyond the download.
Static Apnea Trainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shearwater Cloud has 104 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Shearwater Cloud's written reviews are positive against 33% of Static Apnea Trainer's.
Shearwater Cloud ships an update every 5 weeks, Static Apnea Trainer monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 2, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shearwater Cloud | Static Apnea Trainer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (104 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.8% of reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shearwater Research | Stefan Scheler |
Customer experience
Shearwater Cloud
Static Apnea Trainer
Bugs and requests
Shearwater Cloud
Reported bugs
18 issues- App crashes on startup with latest iOS versions
- Bluetooth connection causes app to freeze or crash
- Dives fail to download or sync completely
- Dive numbers display incorrectly compared to computer
- Data loss when updating app or firmware
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- Graph freezes when viewing in landscape mode
- Cloud account requirement blocks app access
- Slow download speeds (8+ minutes per dive)
- Dropdown menus and UI elements unresponsive
- Surface interval and end dive time removed in updates
- Temperature unit conversion failures
- SAC rate calculation errors
- Auto-download toggle cannot be disabled
- Checkboxes for filtering data removed
- iPad version displays iPhone layout only
- German/Italian translation mix-up
- Unable to connect to specific computer models
- Scrolling triggers accidental field selection
Requested features
20 requests- Modern, native-looking user interface redesign
- GPS/geolocation integration for dive sites
- Ability to manually add or import dives
- Photo attachment capability for dives
- Dive planner functionality
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- Map view of dive locations
- Landscape mode optimization for iPad
- Ability to copy/paste information between dives
- Filter dives by mode (recreational, technical, etc.)
- Average SAC rate statistics across all dives
- Buddy management and sharing features
- Equipment tracking and reuse
- Dive profile zoom capability
- PDF export of dive logs
- Support for more tank configurations
- GFSurf information on graphs
- Smart notifications/SNS integration
- Dive date format customization
- Full-screen graph in landscape orientation
- Selective dive download options
Static Apnea Trainer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shearwater Cloud
No in-app purchases
Static Apnea Trainer
- Static Apnea Trainer Pro$2.99
- Static Apnea Trainer Pro$3.99
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