Comparison

FreeDive Ultra vs DIVR Connect

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

DIVR Connect

Features
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DIVR is a dive logbook built for divers who want their time underwater to count for more. Log every dive in seconds, build a logbook you'll actually want to keep, and explore a global map of dive sites and the marine life found at them. Every dive you record also helps build an open picture of ocean health — your species sightings and reef observations feed real marine-science datasets, shared under the standards research institutions use. LOG YOUR DIVES • Fast, structured logging — depth, time, conditions, gas, buddies and notes • Add photos to every dive • Works offline: log on a boat with no signal and it syncs automatically when you're back online • Switch freely between metric and imperial EXPLORE THE OCEAN • A map of thousands of dive sites worldwide • See which species have been logged at each site • Browse a catalogue of marine species with verified scientific names IDENTIFY MARINE LIFE • Record the species you spot on every dive • Build a personal life-list of the marine life you've seen CONTRIBUTE TO MARINE SCIENCE • Add simple coral health and coverage assessments to your dives • Your observations help build open biodiversity data used by the marine-research community • You stay in control — keep dive-site locations public, restricted, or private CONNECT WITH DIVERS • Follow other divers, like and comment on dives • Share your best moments — or keep your logbook entirely private DIVR is free to use. Privacy comes first: you decide what's shared, sensitive dive-site coordinates are protected, and you can export or delete your data at any time. Dive in. Make every dive count.

Screenshots

FreeDive Ultra4 screens
DIVR Connect4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DIVR Connect at none against FreeDive Ultra's 2. DIVR Connect also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. FreeDive Ultra sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. DIVR Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FreeDive Ultra ships an update every 10 days, DIVR Connect every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FreeDive Ultra versus DIVR Connect: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFreeDive UltraDIVR Connect
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 8 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperALEXIS EDWARD ARGENTJoep Weterman

In-app purchases

2 purchases

FreeDive Ultra

Subscriptions2
  • FreeDive Ultra Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • FreeDive Ultra Pro Annual7 Days trial$25.991 Year
None

DIVR Connect

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FreeDive Ultra free?
FreeDive Ultra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DIVR Connect free?
DIVR Connect is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FreeDive Ultra or DIVR Connect have ads?
FreeDive Ultra shows ads; DIVR Connect does not.
Which is updated more often, FreeDive Ultra or DIVR Connect?
FreeDive Ultra ships an update every 10 days, and DIVR Connect every 8 days. Most recently, FreeDive Ultra was updated on October 31, 2026 and DIVR Connect on October 31, 2026.

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