Blue Trails vs Oceanus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blue Trails
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Blue Trails is a free scuba diving app and digital dive log, built by divers. Log every dive, find your next dive site, explore wrecks in 3D and share your dives with your buddies. YOUR DIVE LOG, DONE RIGHT Keep a complete record of every dive: depth, bottom time, visibility, water temperature, tank, gas and nitrox mix, weights and more. Import dives from your dive computer files, add photos and videos, and export your whole logbook to PDF. GOT AN OLD PAPER LOGBOOK? Take a photo of a page and Blue Trails reads your dives and adds them to your digital logbook. Your whole diving history, finally in one place. FIND YOUR NEXT DIVE SITE Browse thousands of dive sites on the map, read reviews from other divers and rate the spots you have been to. Each site shows its depth, coordinates and the marine life you can expect to see there. EXPLORE WRECKS IN 3D Many wrecks come with a 3D model. Spin it, zoom in and plan your route before you get in the water. Filter the map to see wrecks only. KNOW WHAT LIVES THERE Photos, size, conservation status and a short description for each species, in your language. A LOGBOOK OTHER DIVERS CAN TRUST Ask instructors, dive centers or buddies to validate your dives and build a verified dive history. ALL YOUR DOCUMENTS IN YOUR POCKET Store your diving certifications, insurance and medical record in the app. Link with your dive center so they have your details before you arrive, and revoke access any time. SEE HOW YOUR DIVING ADDS UP Stats with records, yearly charts and air-consumption trends. Earn achievement badges as your logbook grows. DIVE WITH YOUR BUDDIES Follow other divers, join dive groups, share dives so your buddies can add them to their own logbook, and share your profile with a QR code. NOT TIED TO ANY BRAND Sign in with your email, Google or Apple in seconds. Blue Trails is not tied to any dive computer manufacturer. You decide who sees your dives, and your data is yours. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bluetrails.eu/policy.html?policyUUID=d7d44a2b-1df1-4d8c-ac46-3dbf7b4f3a7e
Oceanus
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Log the dive. Name what you saw. Keep both in one place. Oceanus is a scuba and freediving logbook with an AI marine species identifier built in. Record depth, time, tank and conditions — then point your camera at a fish and pin it to the dive it came from. THE LOGBOOK - Log by hand in under a minute: date and time, duration, max and average depth, location - Import straight from a .FIT file exported by a Garmin dive computer, depth profile included - Read the depth profile as a chart on the detail screen - Scuba and freediving are both first-class types - Conditions: salt, fresh or brackish water, water temperature, visibility from poor to excellent - Gear: suit from shorty through 3/5/7 mm wetsuit, semi-dry and drysuit; tank from aluminum 63 through steel 120, doubles and sidemount; start and end pressure - Free-text title and notes on every entry - Link the species you identified to the dive they belong to - Everything syncs to your account and follows you to any device you sign in on AI SPECIES IDENTIFICATION - Point the camera at a fish, shark, ray or invertebrate and get an identification back - Species profiles with scientific name, depth range, geographic regions, danger level and conservation status - Browse the catalog by category: fish, sharks, rays, mammals, reptiles, mollusks, crustaceans, cnidarians - Save any species to favorites - Everything you identify joins your personal collection DIVERS, NOT JUST DIVES - Find divers by nickname, follow them, and watch their diving arrive in the Friends feed - Like the ones you enjoyed - 34 achievements, from your first identification to a full-category sweep - A global leaderboard scored on Ocean Score, recalculated nightly: species x10, identifications x2, achievements x25, streak x5 - A certification wallet for your scuba, freediving, specialty and first-aid cards. Medical entries stay private and are never published. - Share an entry as a sticker sized for Instagram Stories PREMIUM Premium unlocks AI Dive Story: turn a photo from a diving trip into a cinematic underwater scene. A monthly generation limit applies and is shown in the app. WHO IT IS FOR Recreational scuba divers who want the logbook on their phone instead of in a soggy paper book. Freedivers. Snorkelers. Anyone who surfaces with a photo of a fish and no idea what it was. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. Oceanus does not replace your dive computer and is not a dive planner. It does not calculate decompression or no-stop limits. Always dive within your training and follow your computer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Blue Trails at 3 against Oceanus's 1. Blue Trails also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Blue Trails sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year and Oceanus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Blue Trails ships an update every 11 days, Oceanus every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Blue Trails | Oceanus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 121 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blue Trails GmbH | Mikhail Listratsenka |
In-app purchases
Blue Trails
- Seahorse Subscription$14.991 Year
- Turtle Subscription$54.991 Year
- Shark Subscription$99.991 Year
Oceanus
- Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Premium Yearly3 Days trial$29.991 Year









