Comparison

Trimix Tools vs DeepSix Dive Log

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

Head to head
About

Trimix Tools

This app provides essential tools for divers to plan and blend Trimix gases. It calculates optimal mixes based on depth, oxygen partial pressure, and equivalent narcotic depth, and supports various cylinder filling scenarios. Calculations are available offline and can be customized with saved settings.

Highlights
  • Trimix blending and planning
  • Depth and partial pressure calculations
  • Equivalent Narcotic Depth (END) calculation
  • Saltwater and freshwater support
  • Cylinder filling and bleed down calculations
  • Metric and Imperial system support
  • Offline functionality
  • Saved settings and custom mixes
Features
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Trimix blending and planning tools that can be used where you are and when you need them. You can use these tools to plan your mixes prior to arriving at the dive shop or to fill your cylinder at the air station or on the boat. Calculations are provided for the best Trimix given a planned depth and a desired maximum partial pressure of oxygen and equivalent narcotic depth (END). You can also calculate the ceiling and maximum depths along with your END based on your planned mix. The dive planning tools support both salt water and fresh water calculations. The blending tools provide for filling a cylinder with a remaining mix (or empty) to a specified target mix using oxygen, helium and a topping mix (air or another available mix). You can also calculate the result of topping an existing partially filled cylinder with a specific topping mix (air or another available mix). There is also a Bleed Down calculator that allows you adjust an existing full or partially full cylinder to a new mix with minimal wasted gas. Trimix Tools supports calculations in both metric and Imperial/US systems of measure. Traveling on a boat or working out of network range? These tools are at hand any time you have your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch. You could, for example, easily calculate the result of topping your cylinder from your first dive with air from the boat's compressor to take advantage of any remaining mix. You also have the convenience of saved settings that you can recall at a touch and adjust to a new situation as needed. Chances are you regularly work with a specific set of mixes and common dive situations. Trimix Tools includes the convenience of saved settings that you can recall 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 tapping on 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 Trimix Tool's settings that will be automatically added when you share a result. All END calculations (Dive Planning and Best Trimix tabs) in Trimix Tools treat oxygen as a narcotic gas by default. There is an option available under the Settings tab to change the default so that oxygen is not treated as narcotic if that is your preference. 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 Trimix blending and planning methods taught during training. Please do not attempt to handle high pressure oxygen or fill SCUBA cylinders without proper training.

About

DeepSix Dive Log

Record and relive your underwater adventures with detailed dive logs. Explore curated wrecks and wonders, identify marine life with AI, and restore true colors to your photos. Plan future dives with comprehensive environmental data.

Highlights
  • Detailed dive path mapping
  • Curated wreck and wonder catalog
  • On-device marine species identification
  • Underwater photo color correction
  • Environmental conditions planner
  • Dive computer data import
Features
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A dive isn't a row of numbers. It's a memory — a path through the water, the wreck's story, the fish you can name now, what the ocean was doing that day. DeepSix Dive Log treats it that way. DeepSix Dive Log is native on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV, with an Apple Watch Ultra companion. Your logbook lives on your devices and syncs through your own iCloud. No account. No DeepSix copy of your dive log. And it's free — the whole app. No dive cap, no ads. YOUR DIVE IS A PATH, NOT A PIN DeepSix extracts both entry and exit GPS from Shearwater dive computers — plotted together on the map, so a drift dive finally looks like what it was. Bluetooth download across 12 transport families, built on libdivecomputer; wired USB/serial import on the Mac; Garmin FIT and Suunto JSON too. Arm dive-day GPS tracking and the whole day becomes a route. Dives recorded on Apple Watch — the Depth app included — come in from Health and get their depth profile. WONDERS — WHERE THE OCEAN SHOWS OFF A curated catalog of remarkable underwater places, with real narratives — surfaced the moment a dive of yours lands near one. Each one contributed by DeepSix Dive Log divers. WRECKS, WITH THEIR WHOLE STORY 29,000+ curated diveable wrecks from national heritage registers on every continent, with offline coverage, historical dossiers, period-correct ensigns, and honest position-uncertainty rings. War graves are presented as something you honor, not trivia. Contribute corrections from inside the app; a person reviews every one. PHOTOS BECOME SPECIES Critter Expert identifies around 500 marine species entirely on your device — free, no account, no API key, no internet after a one-time 63 MB download. Region-gated, so it won't suggest a Caribbean fish in Palau, and nothing is ever confirmed for you. Names are verified against the World Register of Marine Species, with threatened-species status and invasive-species reporting built in — over time, your photos become a naturalist's logbook. Want the full range? Bring your own AI key (Anthropic or OpenAI) or a model on your own Mac — never a DeepSix charge. THE COLORS YOU ACTUALLY SAW Underwater photos come back blue. DeepSix knows how deep you were when you pressed the shutter, and whether the water was tropical blue, green or fresh, and restores the reds the water absorbed. Camera-aware, with GoPro red-filter compensation. Apply to one photo or the whole dive; corrections land in Apple Photos as revertible adjustments, never as copies. Video too, frame by frame as your depth changes. Free, on-device, nothing uploaded. WHAT WAS THAT DAY ACTUALLY LIKE? Tide state at your entry minute. Moon phase, sea temperature, swell, bleaching alerts, reef context from the Allen Coral Atlas and NOAA. Years later, the record answers what memory can't. Plus a 7-day conditions planner. BUILT HONEST Gas analysis that names its excluded dives. Deco shown as information, not alarm, when you dive tech. "Dives near" instead of inflated counts. Full-fidelity UDDF and Subsurface export, always free — lossless backup, the open .deepsixarchive format, and SQL and JSON exports any developer can build on. Your dive log will outlive any app, including ours. Smart Lists, gear and kits with service tracking, achievements, trips and a liveaboard planner round out the log. MacDive user? A high-fidelity import brings your dives, gear, photos, and dive-computer profiles across. FREE MEANS THE WHOLE APP Plankton, Whale, and Megalodon — the in-app purchases listed here — are optional Patron tiers that support the project. Their one perk is high-accuracy WorldTides tides; standard tides are free, or bring your own WorldTides key. DeepSix collects nothing unless you choose to send it: a wreck, a photo, a bug report. The privacy policy names every server we run and exactly what each one sees. Privacy policy: https://deepsixdive.com/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Trimix Tools4 screens
DeepSix Dive Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: DeepSix Dive Log at Free against Trimix Tools's $6.99. DeepSix Dive Log also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). Trimix Tools's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

DeepSix Dive Log is free to download; Trimix Tools costs $6.99 up front. DeepSix Dive Log sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Trimix Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Trimix Tools against 5.0 for DeepSix Dive Log. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Trimix Tools has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Trimix Tools ships an update every 4 months, DeepSix Dive Log weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Trimix Tools versus DeepSix Dive Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrimix ToolsDeepSix Dive Log
Price$6.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGreg MclaughlinRichard Bollar

Customer experience

Trimix Tools

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

DeepSix Dive Log

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Trimix Tools

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

DeepSix Dive Log

Subscriptions2
  • Plankton (Monthly)$0.991 Month
  • Plankton (Yearly)$9.991 Year
One-time2
  • Whale$49.99
  • Megalodon$99.99

Questions

Is Trimix Tools free?
Trimix Tools costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is DeepSix Dive Log free?
DeepSix Dive Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Trimix Tools or DeepSix Dive Log?
Trimix Tools and DeepSix Dive Log are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Trimix Tools or DeepSix Dive Log have ads?
Neither Trimix Tools nor DeepSix Dive Log shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Trimix Tools or DeepSix Dive Log?
Trimix Tools ships an update every 4 months, and DeepSix Dive Log weekly. Most recently, Trimix Tools was updated on October 29, 2026 and DeepSix Dive Log on October 28, 2026.

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