Nitrox Tools vs Dive Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nitrox Tools
This app provides essential tools for divers to plan and blend enriched air nitrox. It calculates dive parameters like equivalent air depth and maximum operating depth, and supports various blending methods for custom gas mixes. Easily switch between metric and imperial units and save custom settings for frequent use.
- Enriched air nitrox blending
- Dive planning calculations
- Equivalent Air Depth (EAD)
- Partial Pressure of Oxygen (PPO2)
- Maximum Operating Depth (MOD)
- Save custom mixes and settings
- Metric/Imperial unit switching
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Enriched Air Nitrox blending and planning tools in your hand and available at a touch. You can use these tools at your air station to provide the information you need to fill a Nitrox tank from any existing mix (or empty). Dive Planning tools provide your Equivalent Air Depth, PPO2 at your planned depth, Maximum & Contingency Operating Depth at various oxygen partial pressures and the "best mix" for a planned depth and oxygen partial pressure. You can easily switch between Metric and Imperial/U.S. systems of measurement to adapt to a new fill station. The dive planning tools also support both salt and fresh water calculations. Chances are you regularly work with a specific set of mixes and and common dive situations. Nitrox Tools includes the convenience of saved settings that you can recall at a touch and adjust to a new situation as needed. You can also select mix values using pre-installed default mixes or your own saved custom mixes. When updating one of the mixes for a tool you are offered a list of saved mixes that you can use directly or adjust as needed. You can save the currently displayed mix by clicking the "+" button. Just like with the saved calculations, you can re-arrange or delete any mixes in your saved list. Do you need to share your planning or blending calculations with other divers? All the tools have the ability to share the results of the calculations from within the application. You can set default email addresses and a subject within Nitrox Tool's settings that will be automatically added when you share a result. Nitrox Tools supports a number of blending methods: • Top Up - blend a final mix from starting mix and pressure using 100% oxygen and air or any available topping mix. • Bleed Down - save expensive oxygen and valuable time by easily calculating how much gas to bleed from an existing cylinder to switch to a different mix using air or any available topping mix. • Mix + Mix - make a specific final mix using the remaining gas in the cylinder and mixing that with banked Nitrox (rather than pure oxygen) and air or another topping mix. This enables the blending of Nitrox without the use of pure oxygen for certain combinations of mixes. Avoiding pure oxygen may increase the safety of the blending process and help manage the cost. • Top Off - determine the expected result from topping an existing cylinder with air or some other topping mix. This situation is common when a diver wants to have the blender top the mix remaining from the first dive with air from the boat's compressor. Remember you must always personally analyze your mix before diving it. This application is not a substitute for proper training and should not be used as a substitute for proper dive planning or the primary Nitrox blending and planning methods taught during training. Please do not attempt to handle high pressure oxygen or fill SCUBA cylinders without proper training.
Dive Calculator
This app provides comprehensive scuba diving calculations, including basic, nitrox, and trimix gas mixes. It supports both metric and imperial units, and allows for gas volume and cost calculations for blending and top-ups. Results can be easily copied for documentation.
- Basic, Nitrox, and Trimix calculations
- Gas volume and cost calculations
- Top-up and bleed down mix calculations
- Metric and imperial unit support
- Oxygen narcotic/non-narcotic selection
- Copy results to clipboard
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A wide variety of scuba based calculations for all levels of divers. Basic Calculations Include: -ATA -SAC / RMV rates -Tank volume / Pressure rating -Basic unit conversions Nitrox Calculations Include: -EANx best mix -Integrated top-up and bleed down mix calculations -What if top–up -EANx mix planning Trimix Calculations Include: -Integrated top-up and bleed down mix calculations -What if top–up -Trimix planning -Best Trimix -Heliair All blending and top up pages include gas volume and cost calculations. Trimix gas fill orders can be changed by simply dragging the icons to select the fill order. Oxygen can be selected as narcotic / non-narcotic on the appropriate calculation pages. Results can be copied to the clipboard in a text format for use in E-mails, messages or other forms of documentation. All pages support metric and imperial units. Many pages include both metric and imperial units.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Dive Calculator at Free against Nitrox Tools's $5.99. Dive Calculator also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 88%) and ratings volume (24 vs 4). Nitrox Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On ads and device support 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
Dive Calculator is free to download; Nitrox Tools costs $5.99 up front. Dive Calculator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Nitrox Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.
Nitrox Tools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dive Calculator has 24 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Nitrox Tools's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dive Calculator's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Nitrox Tools ships an update every 5 months, Dive Calculator every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and June 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nitrox Tools | Dive Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.6 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 24 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Greg Mclaughlin | Zanthic Automation Inc. |
Customer experience
Nitrox Tools
Dive Calculator
In-app purchases
Nitrox Tools
No in-app purchases
Dive Calculator
- EANx Calculations$0.99
- Trimix Calculations$0.99
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