Comparison

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ vs SafetyStop

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
Currently charting
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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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SafetyStop

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SafetyStop is the dive app I wanted and could not find: quick enough to use on a boat, honest about what it does not know, and built so your dive log is never trapped anywhere. THE LOGBOOK IS THE STAR Log a dive in seconds. Tap Use My Location and SafetyStop names the water you are actually in and sets salt or fresh for you — the two things every other app makes you type twice. Depth, time, gas, buddy, conditions, notes. Imperial or metric, your choice, switchable any time. NITROX, WITHOUT THE GUESSWORK Enter your mix and get MOD, EAD and PPO2 at working and contingency depths, each marked safe, warning or danger against the limit you set. An acronym key explains every term, because "EAD" should not require a textbook. PLAN THE DIVE, FILL THE TANK Dive planning works out your gas, rock bottom and turn pressure. The tank refill calculator tells you what to add for a target mix, and what pressure to stop at on the gauge. READ YOUR DIVES OFF YOUR COMPUTER If you dive a Shearwater, SafetyStop reads your dives straight off it over Bluetooth, depth profile included. Re-importing is safe: dives already in your log are skipped. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS WHEN YOU WANT IT TO Your dives are saved on your device and the whole app works with no signal and no account — the logbook, every calculator, dive planning, dive-computer import and export need neither. Cloud sync is optional. SafetyStop Cloud Sync costs $4.99 per year and keeps a backup of your log and syncs it across your devices; the copy on your phone stays exactly where it is. Either way you can export your whole log to a file and import it back, so it is never locked in. WHAT THIS IS NOT SafetyStop shows no-decompression limits from published recreational tables, and it plans your gas. It has no decompression model of its own and it does not replace your dive computer, which tracks your actual profile. Table limits are for a first dive only. Always dive within your certification and follow your computer. Developed by Divers, for Divers. SUBSCRIPTION SafetyStop Cloud Sync — $4.99 per year, auto-renewing. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://safetystop.cloud/privacy

Screenshots

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+4 screens
SafetyStop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is chart position: Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ at #63 against SafetyStop's unranked. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and SafetyStop sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ ships an update every 3 weeks, SafetyStop every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 10 level
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ versus SafetyStop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterScuba Diving Computer Oceanic+SafetyStop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (4.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#63 — better—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size102 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuish Outdoors, LLCKevin Ross

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

SafetyStop

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
1 purchases

SafetyStop

Subscriptions1
  • Cloud Sync$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ free?
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SafetyStop free?
SafetyStop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ or SafetyStop have ads?
Neither Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ nor SafetyStop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ or SafetyStop?
Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ ships an update every 3 weeks, and SafetyStop every 2 weeks. Most recently, Scuba Diving Computer Oceanic+ was updated on October 17, 2026 and SafetyStop on October 6, 2026.

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