Asian Diver vs Diveplanner Tec & Rec
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Asian Diver
This app offers in-depth articles and features for diving enthusiasts, covering ocean preservation, safety, and marine life. It provides profiles of industry leaders and guides for certified divers.
- Articles by underwater journalists
- Focus on ocean appreciation and preservation
- Diving safety information
- Profiles of industry leaders
- Guides for certified divers
- Content for novice and experienced divers
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By Divers, For Divers" With articles drawn from the world's best underwater journalists, photographers and academics specializing in Asia, Asian Diver was created for the serious diver with a passion for understanding, appreciating and preserving the natural beauty of our oceans. For novices seeking to take on more of the deep blue, we showcase profiles of the prominent movers and shakers of the industry, increase awareness in diving safety, get up close with the peculiar "natives" of the reefs and highlight things to do once you are certified. Magazine Subscriptions are available for purchase inside this app. One year subscription - $4.99 (automatically renewed until canceled) Your subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Your iTunes account will automatically be charged at the same price for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period unless you change your subscription preferences in your account settings. You can manage your subscriptions through your account settings after purchase on your device. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Please visit http://www.magzter.com/ns/privacy-policy.html for our Privacy Policy and http://www.magzter.com/ns/terms_condition.html for our Terms & Conditions
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.
- 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
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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 review sentiment: Diveplanner Tec & Rec at 43% against Asian Diver's 0%. Diveplanner Tec & Rec also leads on monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 8 months). Asian Diver's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Asian Diver sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year and Diveplanner Tec & Rec sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Asian Diver holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Diveplanner Tec & Rec has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Asian Diver's written reviews are positive against 43% of Diveplanner Tec & Rec's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Asian Diver ships an update every 8 months, Diveplanner Tec & Rec every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Asian Diver | Diveplanner Tec & Rec |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Magzter Inc. | Sensetrails LLC |
Customer experience
Asian Diver
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
In-app purchases
Asian Diver
- Asian Diver$4.991 Year
- Asian Diver$1.99
- Issue 4 2018$1.99
- Asian Diver Issue 2 - 2013$2.99
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- Asian Diver - Issue 03 2013$2.99
- Asian Diver - Issue 01 2014$2.99
- Asian Diver - Issue 03 2014$2.99
- Asian Diver Issue 04 2014$2.99
- Asian Diver Issue 06, 2014$2.99
- Asian Diver Issue 01, 2015$2.99
- Asian Diver Issue 01 2016$2.99
Diveplanner Tec & Rec
- Two weeks free trialFree
- Tec Basic$7.99
- Tec Advanced$19.99
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