Comparison

DiveFilter vs Surface Interval

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

Head to head
About

DiveFilter

Enhance underwater photos and videos with specialized filters and AI-powered marine life identification. Log your encounters with a badge system to appreciate the full ocean ecosystem.

Highlights
  • Underwater photo/video filters
  • Batch editing
  • AI marine life identification
  • Badge collection for encounters
  • Color correction for underwater footage
Features
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I built DiveFilter because I believe diving is more than searching for big encounters. The ocean is an entire system. Every small creature matters, and every encounter has its meaning. I wanted a way to help people notice more, learn more, and fall in love with the whole ocean — not just a few famous moments. I also wanted underwater photos and videos to feel closer to what we actually see. Light fades, colors disappear, and the ocean is hard to capture. DiveFilter gently brings those colors back, so the beauty beneath the surface can be remembered and shared. With tools for underwater photo and video editing, marine life identification, and badge records, DiveFilter turns each dive into something you can keep — not just as an image, but as an experience. I made DiveFilter for divers who don’t just dive to see the ocean, but to understand it, appreciate it, and love it as a whole. # Features - Filters tailored specifically for underwater photos and videos - Batch editing for faster dive-trip workflows - AI-powered marine life identification with short species introductions - Badge collection to record and revisit your encounters # Links - Privacy Policy: https://divefilter.com/privacy-policy - Term of Service: https://divefilter.com/term-of-service

About

Surface Interval

This app automatically enhances underwater videos by restoring lost colors and editing them into short, watchable clips. It processes footage directly on your device without uploading, offering customizable reel lengths and resolutions for sharing.

Highlights
  • Automatic underwater color restoration
  • Automatic video trimming and assembly
  • On-device processing, no uploads
  • Customizable reel length and resolution
  • Built-in music tracks
  • Supports various camera file formats
Features
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Underwater video comes back blue, and a dive comes back as forty minutes nobody is going to watch. Surface Interval does both jobs by itself: it puts the red back, and it cuts the dive down to one reel worth watching — on the phone, with nothing uploaded anywhere. It is built for the DJI Osmo Action and tested mostly on it, and it works with footage from any camera. HOW IT WORKS Add the videos from a dive, from Photos or from a card reader through Files. They land in a folder for that day, which you can rename to the site you dived. Open the folder and tap "Make a reel of this folder", or pick a few videos and make a reel of just those. The app does the rest. It measures each video and puts back the color the water took — shallow, mid, deep or night, read from the footage itself rather than from a preset you have to guess at. It finds the moments worth keeping, trims them, leaves them in the order they were shot, dissolves between them and lays a track underneath. You get two choices: how long, from 5 seconds to 3 minutes, and whether it is made in 4K for YouTube. Then save it to Photos. WHAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT IT The correction is measured, not guessed. Footage a camera already corrected is recognized and left alone, so it is never corrected twice. Videos still in iCloud are streamed, not downloaded. A 4K original never has to come down to your phone before it can be used. Vertical and horizontal footage are kept in separate folders, so a reel never mixes the two. A reel interrupted by a phone call or a hot phone carries on from the shot it had reached, instead of starting again. There is no account and no sign-in, and the app makes no network call of its own; a purchase goes through Apple. Your footage is read where it already sits and is never copied anywhere. WORKS WITH DJI Osmo Action, GoPro, Insta360, iPhone — anything that writes an ordinary video file. Reels are saved to Photos at 1080p, or in 4K for YouTube. MUSIC Eight tracks are built in, and 45 more come from Apple on a tap in Settings, on iOS 26.4 and later. One is picked to suit each reel. They come from Pixabay under its Content License: nothing to credit, nothing to pay, and only ever mixed under your own footage. FREE, TWO REELS A DAY Two reels a day are free, each with a small watermark in the corner. Week, Year or Lifetime lifts the limit and lets you turn the watermark off. Week and Year renew automatically until you cancel. Terms of Use: https://ligrimp-lang.github.io/surfaceinterval-site/terms.html Surface interval: the time between dives.

Screenshots

DiveFilter4 screens
Surface Interval4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Surface Interval at 5.0 against DiveFilter's 3.7. Surface Interval also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). DiveFilter's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. DiveFilter sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Surface Interval sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Surface Interval holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DiveFilter ships an update every 3 weeks, Surface Interval every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DiveFilter versus Surface Interval: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiveFilterSurface Interval
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size50 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSensibly Smart LLCRUSTAM ISMAILOV

Customer experience

DiveFilter

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Surface Interval

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

In-app purchases

8 purchases

DiveFilter

Subscriptions7
  • Premium - Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Premium - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Monthly Basic Plan$6.991 Month
Show 4 more
  • Monthly Pro Plan$12.991 Month
  • Yearly Basic Plan$19.991 Year
  • Premium - Yearly$29.991 Year
  • Yearly Pro Plan$39.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$59.99
6 purchases

Surface Interval

Subscriptions4
  • Diver.Today, monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Week$9.997 Days
  • Diver.Today, yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
Show 1 more
  • Year$29.991 Year
One-time2
  • Diver.Today, for life$49.99
  • Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is DiveFilter free?
DiveFilter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Surface Interval free?
Surface Interval is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DiveFilter or Surface Interval?
Surface Interval is rated higher. DiveFilter averages 3.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Surface Interval averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do DiveFilter or Surface Interval have ads?
Neither DiveFilter nor Surface Interval shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DiveFilter or Surface Interval?
DiveFilter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Surface Interval every 3 days. Most recently, DiveFilter was updated on October 30, 2026 and Surface Interval on November 10, 2026.

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