iDiveScore vs Diving Decoder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iDiveScore
This app helps divers, parents, and coaches calculate diving scores during competitions. It offers fast input, live score updates, and real-time forecasts for the score needed to win. It supports custom dive difficulty values and complex tower dives.
- Fast score input
- Live score updates
- Real-time score needed forecast
- Custom dive difficulty (DD)
- Supports complex tower dives
- Renameable tabs
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A Simple but efficient Diving Score calculator. This app will assist divers, parents or even coaches with entering and calculating their diving scores during competitive diving meets. Fast input, live update of scores with realtime average "score needed" forecast against a standard comparison, featuring all the latest FINA DD for accurate scoring. - Also allows to enter custom DDs per dive, in case of specific required dives rules preset DD. - Now fully supports complex tower dives lists, with different height within a session. - Allows to rename each tab! (by double tapping it) Universal App working on all iPods, iPhones and iPads, supporting HD, Retina and wide 4" iPhone5 type graphics.
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 iDiveScore's $1.99. Diving Decoder also leads on rating (3.0 vs 2.0). iDiveScore's advantage is review sentiment (58% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On ratings volume, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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; iDiveScore costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Diving Decoder holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 58% of iDiveScore'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.
iDiveScore ships an update every 7 months, Diving Decoder every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iDiveScore | Diving Decoder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Baptiste Bolcato | squishLogic |
Customer experience
iDiveScore
Diving Decoder
In-app purchases
iDiveScore
No in-app purchases
Diving Decoder
No in-app purchases
