Diveplanner Tec & Rec vs MyDiveLocation
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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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Plan your technical or recreational dives in seconds on your iPhone, iPad and Mac ! Diveplanner is a full featured planner for technical and recreational scuba diving. It features various modules to quickly plan one or multiple dives including gas contingency and oxygen toxicity. Diveplanner was designed as a safe and reliable tool for divers. It helps plan technical and recreational dives quickly and easily and to share the schedule instantly with your dive buddy. Dive planning module: • Open Circuit / CCR, multi gas, decompression dive schedules up to 300 m/985 ft deep in fresh water or saltwater (including EN13319) at sea level or altitude • Uses Bühlmann decompression model ZH16L-C with user selectable gradient factors as conservatism • Multi level dive instructions • Full automatic gas switch (from the list of selected gas for the dive) or manual gas switch or a mix of both • Full automatic contingency plans computation (lost decompression or travel gas) and ++ (too long/too deep) plans • Automatic bailout plan computation in CCR mode • Various information, caution or warnings for deep END, high or low PPO2, Setpoint, ICD, vestibular DCS due to ICD on gas switch • Computation of gas requirement and gas weight • Account for up to 6 consecutive dives with surface interval to account for residual saturation at start of the current dive • Works in Metric or Imperial units Dive table module: • Open Circuit / CCR, multi gas decompression dive table up to 66 m/210 ft deep and 60 min bottom time, in freshwater or saltwater (including EN13319) at sea level or altitude • Uses Bühlmann decompression model ZH16L-C with user selectable gradient factors as conservatism • Account for up to 6 consecutive dives with surface interval to account for residual saturation while computing the dive table • Works in Metric or Imperial units • Translated in English, French and German
MyDiveLocation
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Store all your dives in the App. You can add your certificates and insurance. By choice you can add your user data, it will be stored in the App on a single device and not transferred to any third party. The data will be used only on the PDF list of dives for your own use. The coordinates will be used for the dive spot to show the dive spot on the map, no tracking of position or transfer to a third party will be done. The location service for the current position can be used when you want to add a new dive, permission is necessary. The dives will be saved in lists with up to 100 dives. If the list is full you can create a new one, the lists can be selected in the app. For each list you can create a PDF with a reduced set of data. A PDF can as well be created for each single dive. All data are stored in your iCloud Drive. Optional, depth data can be imported to the dive from the health app. The depth data from the health app will be used to create a depth chart of the dive. Data set for a dive: - location, spot, country, dive base - time and date - coordinates - rating of dive - dive time, max depth, view, water temperature - suit(dry or neopren), weight - number of bottles, bottle size, final pressure, nitro - buddy - remarks Functions in list : - add new dive - sort dives by dive number - sort dives by location - show a map with all dives in the list (only the dives on the map will be shown in the list of this view) - create PDF with all dives in the list - select list - add insurance and certificates (up to 5) - add user data and photo Functions in Detail: - edit a dive ( all data and add photo) - show photo - create PDF of the selected dive (full data set)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyDiveLocation at none against Diveplanner Tec & Rec's 3. Diveplanner Tec & Rec's advantage is device support and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On price 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. MyDiveLocation asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Diveplanner Tec & Rec | MyDiveLocation |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sensetrails LLC | Thomas Nietz |
In-app purchases
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
- Two weeks free trialFree
- Tec Basic$7.99
- Tec Advanced$19.99
MyDiveLocation
No in-app purchases
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