Comparison

Alert Diver vs Diveplanner Tec & Rec

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

Head to head
About

Alert Diver

Explore dive industry insights, research, and safety information. Discover underwater photography, travel destinations, and marine environmental topics. This app provides valuable content for divers and enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Dive industry research
  • Medical information
  • Dive safety guidelines
  • Underwater photography
  • Dive travel guides
  • Marine environmental topics
Features
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Alert Diver magazine, the dive industry’s leading publication, features DAN’s core content of research, education, medical information and dive safety. In addition, Alert Diver showcases underwater photography, dive travel and marine environmental topics. Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) dive safety organization. DAN's mission is to help divers in need of emergency medical assistance and to promote dive safety through research, education, products and services. Published quarterly, Alert Diver is a benefit to members of DAN; its companion website, AlertDiver.com, is available to all. If you are a current DAN member (DAN America region), everything offered in this app is included in your membership and free to you!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 • 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 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.

Screenshots

Alert Diver4 screens
Diveplanner Tec & Rec4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Alert Diver at 4.0 against Diveplanner Tec & Rec's 3.1. Alert Diver also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). Diveplanner Tec & Rec's advantage is review sentiment (33% vs 25%). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Diveplanner Tec & Rec sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Alert Diver asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Alert Diver holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 7 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 25% of Alert Diver's written reviews are positive against 33% of Diveplanner Tec & Rec's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alert Diver ships an update every 6 months, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Alert Diver versus Diveplanner Tec & Rec: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlert DiverDiveplanner Tec & Rec
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better3.1 (7 ratings)
Positive reviews25.0% of reviews33.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB83 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDivers Alert NetworkSensetrails LLC

Customer experience

Alert Diver

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive25.0%
Neutral8.3%
Negative66.7%

Diveplanner Tec & Rec

All ratings7 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral28.6%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Alert Diver

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Diveplanner Tec & Rec

One-time3
  • Two weeks free trialFree
  • Tec Basic$7.99
  • Tec Advanced$19.99

Questions

Is Alert Diver free?
Alert Diver is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diveplanner Tec & Rec free?
Diveplanner Tec & Rec is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Alert Diver or Diveplanner Tec & Rec?
Alert Diver is rated higher. Alert Diver averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Diveplanner Tec & Rec averages 3.1 from 7 ratings.
Do Alert Diver or Diveplanner Tec & Rec have ads?
Neither Alert Diver nor Diveplanner Tec & Rec shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alert Diver or Diveplanner Tec & Rec?
Alert Diver ships an update every 6 months, and Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 3 months. Most recently, Alert Diver was updated on October 14, 2026 and Diveplanner Tec & Rec on October 16, 2026.

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