Comparison

divelogs vs Time to Surface

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

Head to head
About

divelogs

Manage your diving activities and certifications with this companion app. Add, edit, and sync your dive logs, gear, and certifications with the web platform. Supports importing dive data from FIT files.

Highlights
  • Sync dive logs with web platform
  • Add and edit dives
  • Manage certifications
  • Track dive gear
  • Import FIT files
Features
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divelogs.de/.org companion app. Sync your divelogs data to the app. Add and edit dives, certifications and gear, sync back any time later. Now supports FIT file imports

About

Time to Surface

This technical dive planner calculates staged decompression for dives up to 56 meters. It supports multiple bottom gases and one deco bottle, offering detailed gas planning, runtime tracking, and contingency solutions. The app also accounts for repetitive dives and provides a printable wetnote layout.

Highlights
  • Staged decompression planning (15-56m)
  • Support for six bottom gases and one deco gas
  • Twin cylinder configuration
  • Bühlmann ZH-L16C model with adjustable gradient factors
  • Adjustable ppO2 and descent rates
  • Repetitive dive planning
  • Contingency scenario calculations
Features
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Staged decompression from 15 to 51 metres — deeper to 56 with a warning — on six bottom gases, with one deco bottle. Runtime, stops, minimum gas and both cylinder fills, before you kit up. Free. No in-app purchases, no subscription, no account. WHAT IT PLANS • Staged decompression, 15 m to 51 m, and to 56 m with a warning rather than a refusal • Six bottom gases: EAN32, triox 30/30, EAN28, air, 21/35 and 18/45 • One decompression gas — EAN50 or oxygen — in an AL80, AL50 or AL40 • A second deep segment before the ascent, deeper or shallower than the first • Twin cylinders on the back, yours to pick • Bühlmann ZH-L16C, gradient factors yours to set, 20/85 by default • ppO2 1.2 bar working and 1.6 bar at a stop by default — stricter than the 1.4 most divers trained at. Both adjustable • Descent 20 m/min, 9 m/min to the first stop, 3 m/min between stops, and the last 6 m at 1 m/min. Stops every 3 m with the last at 6 m. All four rates adjustable • Metric or imperial THE GAS PLAN Back gas fill and turn pressure on thirds, halves or all usable, every pressure on the ten-bar grid. Minimum gas — what two divers on one back-gas supply need to leave the deepest point and reach the first deco gas at 3 m/min, with a minute for the problem and a minute for the switch. The fill is the bottom phase, descent included, plus that minimum gas. Deco bottle fill and reserve. CNS. The deco bottle is walked level by level from the schedule that was actually solved — every stop, every travel leg and the slow last six metres. And it says which of the three ends the dive — your back gas, your deco bottle or your CNS clock — and at which minute. THE DIVE, MINUTE BY MINUTE Every leg carries the runtime it starts at and the runtime it ends at, so you can see where each line begins and ends without doing arithmetic. One tap lays the whole plan out as a wetnote page — schedule, gas checkpoints and on-the-fly adjustments — sized to copy by hand. DIVES BEFORE THIS ONE Keep a plan under a name, then say that up to three of them came before the one you are planning, each with the surface interval before it. Nitrogen and helium both cross the interval, and CNS decays at a 90-minute half-time. No published table covers repetitive decompression dives; this runs your own previous profiles through the same model. ON-THE-FLY ADJUSTMENTS Five minutes more or less on the bottom, or three metres deeper or shallower — each one re-solved through the same model, not scaled by a rule of thumb, with the change in deco minutes and what it costs in each cylinder. If a change goes past a limit, it says so. PRAGMATIC DECOMPRESSION Off by default. Switched on, it linearises the stops between 21 m and 9 m into one flat time per rung, and the 6 m stop is the longer of those stops added together and what the model needs there — a simpler profile to run in the water, not a more conservative one. The unadjusted profile is what the app computes otherwise. WHAT IT DOES NOT PLAN Closed-circuit rebreathers. Cave or wreck penetration. Hypoxic mixes and travel gas. More than one decompression gas. Altitude — sea level only. It does not compute OTU. One decompression gas per dive is a stated limit of this release, not an oversight. If your plan calls for two bottles, this is not your planner yet. INSIDE ITS ENVELOPE, IT REFUSES RATHER THAN WARNS A gas past its oxygen limit, an exposure past the maximum, cylinders that will not cover the plan, a surface interval under an hour — all produce no numbers at all, rather than a number with a caution attached. YOUR DIVE COMPUTER OWNS THE DIVE This is pre-dive arithmetic. It never pronounces a dive safe, and it is not a substitute for training, for your computer, or for your own judgement in the water. Offline. No ads, no analytics, no tracking. Nothing leaves your phone. iPhone, iOS 17 and later. Questions and bug reports: timetosurface@ismailov.net

Screenshots

divelogs4 screens
Time to Surface4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Time to Surface at every 2 days against divelogs's monthly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for divelogs against 5.0 for Time to Surface. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

divelogs ships an update monthly, Time to Surface every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
divelogs versus Time to Surface: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterdivelogsTime to Surface
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.517.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRainer MohrRUSTAM ISMAILOV

Customer experience

divelogs

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Time to Surface

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

divelogs

No in-app purchases

None

Time to Surface

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is divelogs free?
divelogs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Time to Surface free?
Time to Surface is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, divelogs or Time to Surface?
divelogs and Time to Surface are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do divelogs or Time to Surface have ads?
Neither divelogs nor Time to Surface shows ads.
Which is updated more often, divelogs or Time to Surface?
divelogs ships an update monthly, and Time to Surface every 2 days. Most recently, divelogs was updated on October 3, 2026 and Time to Surface on October 7, 2026.

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