Comparison

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ vs ShalloWeDive

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+

Transform your Apple Watch Ultra into a comprehensive dive computer for scuba, freediving, and snorkeling. Explore new locations with heatmaps, track your routes, organize underwater media, and share your adventures securely. Plan dives, monitor real-time data, and stay safe with advanced algorithms.

Highlights
  • Dive computer functionality
  • Snorkeling route tracking
  • User-generated dive spot heatmaps
  • Dive log and media organization
  • Pre-dive planner
  • Real-time dive data monitoring
  • Freediving mode with custom alarms
Features
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Dive into a World of Adventure with Oceanic+ on Your Apple Watch Ultra! Ready to make every dive or snorkeling experience an unforgettable journey? Oceanic+ transforms your Apple Watch Ultra into a full-featured dive computer, making it easier to explore the underwater world - from your favorite local spots to the most exotic oceans. New Features: Explore Like a Local with User-Generated Heatmaps Curious about the best dive spots? Our new heatmaps reveal popular scuba, freediving, and snorkeling locations worldwide or near your hotel. Switch between modes to see where fellow divers have explored and check water conditions reported up to 3 days in advance. Track Your Snorkeling Adventures Each snorkeling session is now mapped out for you! Get a detailed route using GPS data and relive the experience directly on your Apple Watch or iPhone. Your Dive Memories, Perfectly Organized Sorting through your dive photos and videos has never been easier. Our updated interface allows you to quickly organize, color-correct, and relive your underwater moments. Share the Joy, Keep Your Privacy Show off your latest dive location, compete on stats, or share logbooks and photos - only with the people you choose. You control who sees what, ensuring your privacy is always protected. Add your dive buddies, share your underwater adventures, and track your gear from popular brands—or create your own custom descriptions. The Complete Diving Companion Whether you’re planning your next dive, capturing underwater memories, or analyzing your dive stats, Oceanic+ is designed to make the most of your diving experience. - Dive Housing: Scuba and Gauge mode - Apple Watch Ultra: Scuba, Freediving, and Snorkeling modes - Pre-Dive Planner with real-time conditions, tides, and community insights. - No Deco Planner for calculated dives. - Real-Time Dive Data with depth, time, and ascent rate monitoring. - Activity Map to see all your dives on a world map. - Safety Tools like visual and haptic warnings. 7 Custom Watch Faces to match your style. - Stay Safe Underwater Oceanic+ uses the trusted Bühlmann algorithm to keep you informed and safe during every dive. - Plan Like a Pro Set your gas mix, max depth, dive time, and more with our powerful no-deco planner. - Track your Tissues Oceanic+ uses the trusted Bühlmann algorithm to allow you the flexibility of customization and efficiency for your decompression profiles. - Get the Big Picture Log dives, photos, videos, and stats with GPS-enhanced details for every location. - Go Deeper into Freediving With custom alarms, heart rate tracking, and more, our Freediving Mode helps you set new boundaries. - Make the Most of Your Dives With features like weight planning and easy dive log and media export, you’ll always have the ultimate dive tool with you. - Start with free basic features, or unlock advanced tools and features with plans starting at just $1.99/month, or choose the $129.99 Annual Family plan. Each plan is tailored to fit your needs. With Oceanic+, every dive is a story waiting to be told. Start your next adventure today. Visit https://www.oceanicworldwide.com/oceanic-plus/ for more.

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ShalloWeDive

Features
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Track your depth at a glance — right on your wrist, right underwater. ShalloWeDive is a real-time depth tracker built for shallow water — down to about 6 meters — using the Apple Watch depth sensor, with an iPhone companion for your dive logbook and dry-land breath-hold training. Snorkeling, freediving, spearfishing, or a mermaid set: see your depth, water temperature, heart rate, and dive time the moment you go under. No phone signal, no internet, no subscription — just your wrist and the water. Color-coded safety zones change as you descend — safe (teal), caution (yellow), danger (orange) — so you always know where you are without looking away from the water. How Far You Actually Swam Dynamic apnea is scored in distance, yet no dive computer measures it. Now your wrist does: the wall turns of a pool swim are counted from the watch's motion, and the rest screen shows the swim's distance — turns times the pool length plus the last partial length — marked "~" as the estimate it is. Correct it on your phone; the original stays beside your correction. The Clocks a Dive Computer Has — On Your Wrist, and Your Buddy's Static, dynamic, tables, interval, stopwatch and surface interval, all on the watch, all staying lit through Water Lock and wrist-down: - Static: taps before, at and after your target; the hold starts when your wrist goes under and ends on the Action button — or when your wrist comes out - Dynamic: the swim ends when you surface and the rest counts from that instant — shrinking-rest CO₂ sets or fixed-interval departures - Your phone's tables, run in the water: each hold a target, each rest from the moment you came up - As breath-holder or buddy: one program, timed by the water on one wrist and by a tap on the other; the phone shows both records side by side Breath-hold in water is done only with a trained buddy watching, never alone. Train Your Breath-Hold — On Dry Land The iPhone companion also coaches classic apnea tables, no watch required: - CO₂ table, O₂ table, or a single static hold — or build a table of your own - Every round runs a recovery first, then the hold, so you always start rested - Voice announcements pace each phase, even with the phone locked - Every session is recorded, round by round Dive Under Your Own Discipline Choose your discipline before the session and the watch applies its timing: Freedive — one deliberate descent per surfacing, with a surface rest timer between dives; Mermaid — a rehearsal set of short, shallow immersions inside a fixed window, with targets for depth, bottom time, and dive count. On Your Watch - Real-time depth and water temperature from the built-in depth sensor - Heart rate monitoring during every dive - Multi-dive session tracking with automatic dive counting - Descent and ascent times for every dive within the sensor's range - A dive logbook on your watch, saved between sessions The iPhone Companion Review your whole logbook on a bigger screen: - Dives group into outings, with search by site, buddy, tag, or note - Add the dive site, buddy, gear, notes, and a personal rating - Dives sync from your watch automatically — or all at once, on demand Your watch and iPhone connect directly, on-device — no account, no server, and your logbook leaves only when you share it. Beyond the Measurement Range The depth sensor is built for about 6 meters. Past that, "No Limit" mode silences the depth alerts and shows a calm "beyond range" readout — and the logbook records the dive honestly as "6 m+", with no invented maximum or split. Private by Design All data stays on your devices. No account. No server. No tracking. No ads. Diving requires an Apple Watch with a depth sensor (Ultra, Ultra 2, Series 10, or later); breath-hold training runs on any iPhone. The two sync directly, no internet needed. ShalloWeDive is a reference tool. It does not replace certified equipment, proper training, or safe diving practices. Always dive within your personal limits.

Screenshots

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+4 screens
ShalloWeDive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ at Free against ShalloWeDive's $3.99. Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ also leads on chart position (#61 vs unranked). ShalloWeDive's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 weeks). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ is free to download; ShalloWeDive costs $3.99 up front. Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ShalloWeDive asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ ships an update every 3 weeks, ShalloWeDive every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ versus ShalloWeDive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ShalloWeDive
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.4 (4.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#61 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuish Outdoors, LLCAndygile

Bugs and requests

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes or freezes during dives
  • Dive data not syncing correctly between devices
  • Incorrect depth/time recording in some cases
  • Unexpected switches between dive and snorkel modes

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to manually add/edit past dives
  • Option to customize data screens and information displayed
  • Automatic dive mode activation upon submerging
  • Air integration with tank pressure monitoring
  • Offline functionality and dive log backup

ShalloWeDive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+

Subscriptions5
  • Snorkeling+$1.991 Month
  • Freediving Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
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  • Annual1 Year trial$79.991 Year
  • Annual Family1 Year trial$129.991 Year
One-time2
  • One day$0.99
  • One Day$4.99
None

ShalloWeDive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ free?
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ShalloWeDive free?
ShalloWeDive costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ or ShalloWeDive have ads?
Neither Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ nor ShalloWeDive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ or ShalloWeDive?
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ ships an update every 3 weeks, and ShalloWeDive every 2 weeks. Most recently, Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ was updated on September 29, 2026 and ShalloWeDive on September 22, 2026.

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