Dive List vs Diving Decoder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dive List
This app provides a reference for diving difficulty tables and allows users to create and calculate dive lists. It includes features for tracking multiple lists, scoring dives, and sharing lists with others.
- FINA Degree of Difficulty Tables reference
- Dive list creation
- Quick score calculator
- Favorite dives
- Track multiple dive lists
- Share dive lists
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Dive List provides all the information from the FINA Degree of Difficulty Tables (effective as of 2017) in an easy to use interface. Use it to help craft a dive list for yourself or your diver(s). It also contains a quick score calculator you can use to determine the score of a given dive based on sample judges scores. Mark some of the dives as favorites for quick access. Show information from divemeets.com to see a dive's history, or to view your own profile. Dive List Pro - an in-app purchase allows for tracking multiple lists of dives. Use it to keep track of your 1-meter, 3-meter, and platform lists, as well as Summer League, Junior and Senior USA Diving. Document the score of a given list for history. You can even track lists for multiple divers for your friends on the team, or the athletes you are coaching. Sharing Lists - also with Pro, you can share lists with other divers so they can load it into their app as well. Dive List Pro is required for both users. See http://www.diverscore.com for a FREE online meet scoring service and other tools.
Diving Decoder
Decode complex diving codes into understandable descriptions of dives and their difficulty. Supports standard springboard and platform heights for a comprehensive understanding of competitive diving.
- Enter dive codes
- Get dive descriptions
- View dive difficulty
- Supports springboard heights
- Supports platform heights
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Have you ever been watching a diving competition and heard something like "This diver will do dive 403B" and wondered what that meant? This app lets you easily enter a dive code and will give you a description of what that dive entails and the degree of difficulty of the dive. Supports all standard springboard and platform heights: 1 Meter 3 Meters 5 Meters 7.5 Meters 10 Meters - Written by a swimmer, who has watched many diving meets and wondered what all those numbers and letters meant.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Diving Decoder at Free against Dive List's $0.99. Diving Decoder also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (50% vs 38%). Dive List's advantage is rating (4.2 vs 3.0) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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
Diving Decoder is free to download; Dive List costs $0.99 up front. Dive List sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Diving Decoder asks for nothing beyond the download.
Dive List holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 38% of Dive List's written reviews are positive against 50% of Diving Decoder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dive List ships an update every 6 months, Diving Decoder every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dive List | Diving Decoder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Flory | squishLogic |
Customer experience
Dive List
Diving Decoder
In-app purchases
Dive List
- Dive List Pro$2.99
Diving Decoder
No in-app purchases






