Comparison

Divers Guide 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

Divers Guide

Features
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The most complete app for divers Scroll through recent divelog reports from all over the world or from a region of your choice. Store your favorite dive sites on the frontscreen. * Check before you leave for a dive site, weather conditions, wind speed, wind direction, water temperature and visibility. * Read what divers just experienced at your favorite dive site and what species they have spotted. * Use our dive maps, watch underwater pictures and navigate to a dive site. * Plan dives in the Dutch Oosterschelde with our tide planner. And much more. You can expect more dive sites every month! Do you want even more specific dive site information? Become a premium member and get access to premium content in the app and on our website. Subscribe:http://www.duikersgids.nl/abonneren Bugs and wishes Found bugs or errors? Or do you have suggestions for new features or new dive sites? Contact us from the phone menu. Talk and develop with us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Duikersgids/218886388146259 ref = hl

About

Diveplanner Tec & Rec

Plan complex recreational and technical dives with advanced decompression models and multi-gas support. Log your dives, manage gas blends, and restore underwater photo colors. Syncs across Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Bühlmann ZH-L16C and Thalmann decompression models
  • Open circuit and CCR dive planning
  • Multi-gas decompression support
  • Contingency plan computation
  • Gas blending and cylinder management
  • Underwater photo color correction
  • Bluetooth dive computer data import
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, 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.

Screenshots

Divers Guide4 screens
Diveplanner Tec & Rec4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Divers Guide at none against Diveplanner Tec & Rec's 3. Divers Guide also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 17.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Divers Guide ships an update every 3 months, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Divers Guide versus Diveplanner Tec & Rec: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDivers GuideDiveplanner Tec & Rec
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.1 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—42.9% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS12.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLudulicious VOFSensetrails LLC

In-app purchases

None

Divers Guide

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 Divers Guide free?
Divers Guide 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.
Do Divers Guide or Diveplanner Tec & Rec have ads?
Neither Divers Guide nor Diveplanner Tec & Rec shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Divers Guide or Diveplanner Tec & Rec?
Divers Guide ships an update every 3 months, and Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 2 months. Most recently, Divers Guide was updated on October 26, 2026 and Diveplanner Tec & Rec on November 3, 2026.

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