Shearwater Cloud vs Diveable
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.
Diveable
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Should you dive today? Diveable gives you a straight answer. Diveable opens on the dive sites nearest you, ordered by distance — or search thousands more around the world, or press and hold the map anywhere on the coast. Every spot gets a clear rating: Great, Good, Fair, Poor, or Don't Dive. Diveable finds the best daylight windows over the next week and shows you exactly what's behind the call. WHAT IT LOOKS AT: • Swell height, period, and direction — shaped by each site's exposure and shelter • Wind and gusts • Tide state and timing from the nearest NOAA station, in US waters • Ocean current and water temperature • Recent rain and chop, for an honest visibility estimate BUILT FOR NEWER DIVERS Never learned to read a marine forecast? Every rating breaks down into plain-English factor cards — how the swell is hitting this particular site, what the wind is doing to the surface, where the tide is — so you can see which one is the problem today. STRAIGHT WITH YOU The rating comes from a fixed, published scoring recipe over live forecast data — including hard stops for thunderstorms, big surf, and strong current. Tap "The raw numbers" on any spot to see every reading behind the score. KNOW A SPOT WE DON'T? Suggest it. We check the coordinates against public map data and the marine forecast before it goes on the map for everyone — and tell you what we found either way. No account. No ads. No tracking. A forecast is never a promise. Always assess conditions in person, check local reports, and dive within your training.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Diveable at every 4 days against Shearwater Cloud's every 5 weeks. Shearwater Cloud's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Shearwater Cloud ships an update every 5 weeks, Diveable every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shearwater Cloud | Diveable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (104 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 25.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 333 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shearwater Research | Taylor Labs |
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
Diveable
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shearwater Cloud
No in-app purchases
Diveable
No in-app purchases
Questions
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