Baltic Deco Planner Lite vs Diveplanner Tec & Rec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Baltic Deco Planner Lite
This tool helps technical divers plan staged decompression dives. It supports multi-level and repetitive dives with nitrox, and tracks gas consumption and decompression profiles. Dive plans can be saved for easy reuse.
- Staged decompression dive planning
- Nitrox-only diving support
- Multi-level and repetitive dive calculations
- Gas consumption tracking
- Decompression profile calculation
- Configurable ascent/descent rates
- Saveable dive plans
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Tool for planning staged decompression dives for technical divers. The Lite Edition features basic recreational level depths and nitrox-only diving. Supports multi-level and repetitive dives, nitrox, metric and imperial measurements. Keeps track of gas consumption, OTUs and CNS. Per dive configurable ascent/descent rates, last stop/stop interval settings and RMV/MOR. Constantly displays updated plan details as changes are made, and uses color highlighting to suggest best mixes. Dive plans can be stored in a bookmark folder for convenient reuse. ZHL16-B with configurable gradient factors for calculating decompression profile. Please see www.balticdecoplanner.com for more info, bug tracking and support.
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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Diveplanner Tec & Rec plans recreational and technical dives, on open circuit or closed circuit rebreather (CCR), in a few taps, and keeps your logbook. PLAN • Bühlmann ZH-L16C decompression model with your gradient factors, or the Thalmann algorithm of the U.S. Navy: VVal-79 for air and nitrox, XVal-He-9 for heliox CCR dives; compare a plan with both • Open circuit and CCR, down to 300 m / 985 ft, in salt, fresh or EN 13319 water, at sea level or at altitude • Multi-level dives, multi-gas decompression with automatic or chosen switch depths • Contingency plans computed for you: deeper, longer, lost deco gas, GF 100 and the CCR bailout • Warnings for ppO2, END, gas density, isobaric counter diffusion, CNS and OTU • The decompression chart of each plan: the profile, the tissues' ceilings at GF 100 and at your gradient factors, the leading tissue • A dive day of as many repetitive dives as you need, with their surface intervals • Saved plans in folders, shared as files GAS • Describe your cylinders: the plan gives the pressure at the end of the dive, the turn pressure, the rock bottom and the maximum bottom time your gas allows • Gas needed by volume and weight, per gas TABLES • Dive tables by depth and bottom time for your own gases, gradient factors and conditions, with the previous dives of the day • Share or print the table as a PDF TOOLS • Gas blender: partial pressure blending of nitrox, trimix and heliox from what is left in the cylinder, ideal or real gas; the best mix for a depth from your ppO2, END and gas density limits, and the cylinder label • Tides: the tide of a day anywhere at sea, from the nearest NOAA tide station or the EOT20 global tide model, its high and low waters, and the tidal currents and slack waters of a nearby current station, read to the minute on the chart • Photo colors: restore the true colors of your underwater photos and videos, their blue or green cast, haze and missing red corrected, with the depth of your logged dive; compare before and after, then save or share LOGBOOK • Log your dives by hand, from a plan, or download them over Bluetooth from a Shearwater dive computer (Petrel 2, Perdix, Perdix AI, Nerd 2, Teric, Peregrine), with the profile, stops, gases and sensor values • Photos, dive sites on a map, statistics, tags, search and filters • Synchronised between your iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud • Export to UDDF, Subsurface, CSV, a PDF logbook and .divelog archives; import UDDF and Subsurface SHARE • Ready-to-cut dive schedules as a PDF, for your buddy or your slate: every plan, the gas and cylinders, CNS, OTU and warnings EVERYWHERE • iPhone, iPad and Mac • Metric or imperial units • In 12 languages, each with its user guide LICENCES • Rec, free: one gas, air or nitrox up to 40 %, down to 66 m / 210 ft • Tec Basic: up to 3 gases, nitrox up to 100 %, normoxic trimix and triox • Tec Advanced: unlimited gases and depth, hypoxic trimix • Try every feature free for 2 weeks Diveplanner is a planning aid. It does not replace training, experience, a dive computer or your own judgement: always dive within the limits of your certification.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Baltic Deco Planner Lite at 3.8 against Diveplanner Tec & Rec's 3.1. Baltic Deco Planner Lite also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 43%) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Baltic Deco Planner Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Baltic Deco Planner Lite holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Baltic Deco Planner Lite's written reviews are positive against 43% of Diveplanner Tec & Rec's.
Baltic Deco Planner Lite ships an update every 2 months, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Baltic Deco Planner Lite | Diveplanner Tec & Rec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (9 ratings) — better | 3.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eskil Olsen | Sensetrails LLC |
Customer experience
Baltic Deco Planner Lite
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
In-app purchases
Baltic Deco Planner Lite
No in-app purchases
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
- Two weeks free trialFree
- Tec Basic$7.99
- Tec Advanced$19.99
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