Garmin Dive™ vs Omnigrade
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Garmin Dive™
This app serves as a comprehensive diving logbook and planning tool. It automatically records dive data, tracks gas consumption, and supports various diving disciplines. Users can also discover dive sites, manage gear, and share experiences with a community.
- Automatic dive logging
- Gas consumption tracking
- Support for multiple dive types
- Interactive dive site maps
- Gear and service tracking
- Real-time diver monitoring
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Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced diver, Garmin Dive is the ultimate diving companion. Once you pair your phone with a Descent™ dive computer or another compatible Garmin device¹, you can enjoy powerful features like: • Automatic dive logging and gas consumption tracking • Support for recreational and technical scuba diving, including single-gas, multi-gas and closed-circuit rebreather diving • Support for freediving, including apnea, apnea hunt and pool apnea • Interactive maps and dive site search • Viewing and sharing ratings and photos of your dive sites with the community • Tracking dive gear, service intervals and diver certifications • Monitoring other divers in real time with an added Garmin Descent S1 buoy However you enjoy diving, you can plan, log and review your dives with the Garmin Dive app. ¹See a full list of compatible devices at garmin.com/dive Note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life. Privacy Policy: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/privacy/dive/
Omnigrade
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Omnigrade is your climbing logbook — built for the wall, the gym, and the outdoors. Log every route and boulder, indoors or outdoors, and watch your progress take shape. Omnigrade keeps your whole climbing history in one place, with the grade systems you actually use and the stats that show how far you've come. LOG IT YOUR WAY • Routes and boulders, indoor and outdoor • Grade systems built in: French, YDS, UIAA, and Finnish for routes; Font and V-scale for boulders • Record ascent style — onsight, flash, redpoint, send, repeat, or attempt — and rope style: lead, top-rope, auto-belay, or speed • Add notes, attach photos and videos, and tag where you climbed • Climb abroad? Each climb keeps the local time and date of where it happened SEE YOUR PROGRESS • A dashboard that surfaces your recent climbs and current session at a glance • A clean logbook organized by day, with search across routes, places, and notes • Stats that turn your ticks into real insight • Home-screen widgets and a Live Activity for the session you're in SESSIONS & APPLE HEALTH • Start and end climbing sessions as you go • Sessions mirror automatically to Apple Health as workouts YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE • No account required. No ads. No analytics or tracking • Everything syncs privately through your own iCloud — we can't see it • Photos and videos you capture are saved to your photo library for safekeeping • Export and restore your full logbook with a JSON backup anytime OMNIGRADE PRO Unlock more with a one-time purchase — yours forever, no subscription: • Unlimited Media — attach as many photos and videos to each climb as you like • Smart Linking — share one photo or video across every log from the same session • Pro Insights — your hardest grade and flash/onsight rate, grade pyramids, send trends, ascent breakdowns, time on the wall, and speed analysis • Custom Grade Scales — build your own scales with custom labels and choose which appear on every climb Works on iPhone and iPad. Download Omnigrade and start logging your next climb. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Garmin Dive™ at none against Omnigrade's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Omnigrade sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Garmin Dive™ asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Garmin Dive™ | Omnigrade |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (854 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 854 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 505 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Garmin | Klondis |
Bugs and requests
Garmin Dive™
Reported bugs
6 issues- Cannot save dive logs
- Dive sites not found in the app
- Randomly missing dive logs
- Photos not displayed chronologically
- Sync issues with Mk2i device
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- Inability to delete dives and have numbers update automatically
Requested features
6 requests- Dive planner in the app
- Export dive data to other apps
- Ability to combine short dives
- Import dive logs from other software
- More detailed statistics and analytics
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- Offline mode for dive logging
Omnigrade
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Garmin Dive™
No in-app purchases
Omnigrade
- Omnigrade Pro$4.99
Questions
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