Comparison

DiveColor vs Bring Back Red

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

Head to head
About

DiveColor

Automatically restore vibrant colors and clarity to underwater photos and videos. This app analyzes water conditions and depth to correct blue/green casts, enhance warmth, and improve exposure, making your aquatic footage shareable.

Highlights
  • Smart color restoration
  • Manual color and exposure controls
  • Real-time editing preview
  • Supports photos and videos
  • Full quality export
  • Analyzes water conditions and depth
Features
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Do your underwater photos and videos captured with GoPro, DJI Action, Insta360, action cameras, or your phone always look too blue, green, dull, or washed out? DiveColor is an intelligent color restoration app designed specifically for underwater photography and videography. By analyzing underwater lighting conditions and color loss, it restores natural, vibrant colors with a single tap, bringing your underwater memories closer to what you actually saw beneath the surface. No professional color grading skills are required. Whether you're scuba diving, freediving, snorkeling, or exploring the ocean, DiveColor makes underwater editing simple, fast, and natural. Why Choose DiveColor • Intelligent Underwater Color Restoration – Automatically analyzes underwater conditions and restores realistic colors from blue, green, or faded footage. • Photo, Video & Live Photo Support – Edit all your underwater memories in one app. • Batch Editing – Process multiple photos and videos at once, saving time after every dive trip. • Professional Editing Tools – Fine-tune exposure, contrast, temperature, tint, saturation, dehaze, sharpening, and more. • Real-Time Preview – See every adjustment instantly before exporting. • Preserve Original Quality – Export with high image quality while maintaining important details. • Fully Offline Processing – All editing is performed on your device. No internet connection is required, and your photos and videos never leave your device. • Lightweight & Fast – Optimized for speed with a clean, distraction-free editing experience. Perfect For • Scuba Diving • Freediving • Snorkeling • Underwater Photography & Videography Compatible With GoPro, DJI Action, Insta360, underwater cameras, action cameras, and photos or videos captured with your iPhone. DiveColor is available in 11 languages, including English, Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Russian. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Bring Back Red

Features
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Your whole dive, restored. Bring Back Red is AI underwater color correction for the photos, Live Photos and video you bring home from scuba diving, snorkeling, freediving or an action camera. It measures what the water took from each shot and restores natural color without repainting the scene. AI FINDS YOUR DIVES BY ITSELF You do not tag anything or pick anything. Bring Back Red reads your camera roll, recognizes your underwater shots and groups them back into the dives they came from: photos, Live Photos and clips together. Open one and correct the whole dive in a single pass. Shots that are already balanced stay out of the way. Only the exceptions ask for your decision. VIDEO THAT SURVIVES THE EXPORT Supported 8K HDR video keeps its resolution, frame rate, audio and HDR intent. Correction follows the clip as the light changes through it, rather than freezing one look over the whole thing. Every export is reopened and checked before Bring Back Red calls it finished. If a long save is interrupted, you can finish it without processing the video again. IT TAKES WHAT YOUR CAMERA WRITES RAW and ProRAW from a housing, ProRes and Apple Log from an iPhone Pro, Dolby Vision and HDR video, and the everyday JPEG and HEIC. YOU KEEP CONTROL Preview photos and video before you commit. Adjust Intensity when you want to, or leave it alone. Export a corrected copy to Photos or Files, at full quality. Your originals stay exactly as they were, byte for byte. IT RUNS ON YOUR PHONE Correction happens on the device, so it works on the boat with no signal. There is no account to make, and your photos are never uploaded. ON IPHONE AND IPAD One app for both. On iPad the inspector stands permanently beside the photograph or the clip. AI that measures, never invents. Your dive is corrected, never repainted.

Screenshots

DiveColor4 screens
Bring Back Red4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bring Back Red at none against DiveColor's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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. DiveColor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bring Back Red asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DiveColor ships an update every 8 days, Bring Back Red weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DiveColor versus Bring Back Red: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDiveColorBring Back Red
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer馥源 刘Jerome Sommerfeldt

In-app purchases

3 purchases

DiveColor

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • PRO Lifetime$29.99
None

Bring Back Red

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DiveColor free?
DiveColor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bring Back Red free?
Bring Back Red is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DiveColor or Bring Back Red have ads?
Neither DiveColor nor Bring Back Red shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DiveColor or Bring Back Red?
DiveColor ships an update every 8 days, and Bring Back Red weekly. Most recently, DiveColor was updated on October 14, 2026 and Bring Back Red on October 7, 2026.

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