DriftPoint vs FreeDive Ultra
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DriftPoint
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DriftPoint - The Ultimate Drifting Event Management Solution DriftPoint streamlines the entire process of organizing and managing professional drifting competitions. Whether you're a spectator, an event organizer, a judge, or a competitor, DriftPoint has the tools to enhance your experience. Key Features: Competitor Registration: Easy and intuitive sign-up for participants. Live Results: Real-time updates for spectators, keeping them engaged throughout the event. Judging System: Efficient and transparent scoring for both qualifications and tandem battles. Qualification Rounds: Smooth organization of qualifying stages. Tandem Battles (TOP 8 to TOP 64): Manage thrilling tandem battles with precision. Team Management: Organize and track teams effortlessly. Competitor Overview: Access detailed stats and information on every participant. Info Boards: Centralized information hub for all event-related updates. Multiple Competition Formats: Flexibility to support various drifting event formats. Series Points Tracking: Automatically calculate and manage points across events. Custom Competition & Series Configuration: Fully customizable competition settings for unique events. Excel Export: Generate detailed reports in Excel format with a single click. Video Integration: Seamlessly incorporate video content into your events. DriftPoint is your all-in-one solution for delivering professional, well-organized, and thrilling drift events. From registration to results, every aspect of competition management is covered.
FreeDive Ultra
This app automatically tracks freedives on Apple Watch Ultra, recording depth, time, and temperature. It offers GPS mapping of your route, recovery timers with heart rate, and detailed session analysis on your iPhone. Log conditions, add notes, and review dive profiles.
- Automatic dive tracking
- GPS route mapping
- Real-time depth, time, temperature
- Recovery timer with heart rate
- Dive spot saving and navigation
- Detailed dive profile charts
- Session logging and notes
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FreeDive Ultra is the only app built exclusively for freediving and spearfishing on Apple Watch Ultra, with open water, pool and dry apnea modes. THE DIVE Tap once and every dive is tracked: depth, dive time and water temperature, second by second. Live Dive shows as you descend, Recovery when you surface, with your surface interval and live heart rate. Choose what each shows: more values, or fewer in bigger numbers. ZERO TOUCH, BY DESIGN You never touch the screen. The Digital Crown moves between screens. The Action Button acts on whichever screen you are looking at: set your heading on the compass, cycle to the next dive spot, drop a marker on your route, save a length in the pool, or start and stop a STA hold. NAVIGATE THE WATER Save a GPS pin with a turn of the Crown. The Route screen tracks your path as you go and shows how far you have travelled, with every marker you dropped on the Action Button laid along it. Curate up to 10 dive sites on iPhone and all of them reach your watch. Cycle through them with the Action Button, and navigate to any one with live direction and distance on the dial. For spearos and freedivers alike, that is the difference between finding the mark again and searching for it. LIVE SHARE Send a web link and anyone can follow your session live: where you are, how deep you went, how long you held. Press the Action Button to send them a short message from your watch. POOL AND DRY TRAINING Pool mode logs every rep and its distance automatically, in DYN, DYNB, DNF or STA, with Dive, Rest, Breathe Up and STA alerts. In Train, run guided pool workouts on your watch: static CO2 and O2 tables you can adjust, or build your own. For dry apnea, take a breath hold test, then follow CO2 and O2 tables built from your max, or make your own, with voice cues through each round. Equalise teaches equalizing by depth, with a mouthfill calculator and dry drills on land. BACK ON LAND Sessions sync to iPhone and iPad on their own. At a glance: dive count, max depth, longest dive, session time, plus calories and heart rate in Apple Fitness. See your route on a map with total distance, entry and exit points, and every location you saved. Add photos and video, log visibility, current and surface conditions, write notes, and rate the session. Session Charts show heart rate, depth and water temperature across the whole session. Every dive gets its own profile, descent and ascent rates, and surface heart rate. YOUR LOGBOOK ON THE WEB Every dive, map and note on a big screen, and you can edit them there too. Sign in at app.freediveultra.com DEPTH Depth reading is capped at 6 metres while we work with Apple on the full 40m entitlement. Every other feature works identically at any depth. FREE VS PRO The free tier is a real dive watch: automatic tracking, real-time depth and dive time, surface recovery with live heart rate, pool, dry apnea and equalization training, your dive list on iPhone, iCloud backup, demo dives and UDDF import. No subscription, no time limit, no catch. Pro adds the rest. On the watch: session overview, descent and ascent speed, compass, Route, dive spot navigation, saved locations, 8 haptic alarms, Live Share, and automatic stealth mode that dims the display and silences haptics the moment you go under. Tune it with session timeout, custom surface screens and Crown sensitivity. Plus pool alerts, a Default Discipline and guided pool workouts. On iPhone, Pro opens every open water and pool session in full, and every dive inside it. Share a whole session or a single dive as a card or a video, sized for Instagram and TikTok, or replay a dive as a 3D Flyover. Export in UDDF, the standard dive log software reads. 7-day free trial. Built by a freediver, for freedivers and spearos. Tap once, and dive. freediveultra.com Discord: discord.gg/uFrdEeypRr Support: support@freediveultra.com Privacy: freediveultra.com/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DriftPoint at none against FreeDive Ultra's 2. DriftPoint also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. FreeDive Ultra sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. DriftPoint asks for nothing beyond the download.
DriftPoint ships an update fortnightly, FreeDive Ultra every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DriftPoint | FreeDive Ultra |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Code Solutions OÜ | ALEXIS EDWARD ARGENT |
In-app purchases
DriftPoint
No in-app purchases
FreeDive Ultra
- FreeDive Ultra Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- FreeDive Ultra Pro Annual7 Days trial$25.991 Year
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