Dive Diary vs Diving Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dive Diary
This app serves as a digital logbook for scuba divers, allowing users to record their dives with a visually appealing, customizable interface. It supports unlimited photo and video attachments, cloud backup, and easy sharing of dive logs.
- Customizable logbook design
- Unlimited photo/video attachments
- Cloud backup and restore
- Cross-device synchronization
- Social media sharing
- Import Suunto dive computer logs
- Export logs to CSV
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Dive Diary is a scuba diving log book application that looks like a real paper-based log book. Create your own stylish and emotional log book that is easy to use. Features • Full-view screen design and easy-to-use interface. • Provision of beautiful ocean scenery and moving fish images for designing your own log book. • You can attach an unlimited number of pictures/videos for each log. • You can very easily backup your log data to our server and restore it just with one touch. • You can keep same logs on all your iOS devices. • You can change the design of your logbook. Dive Diary support 6 color skins, 19 wallpapers, 17 diary inner pages. • You can share screenshot of your logbook to social network service like Facebook, Twitter and so on. • You can import logs in your dive computer through File Sharing of the iTunes. Currently, you can import only Suunto dive computer's logs that are exported as XML file through Suunto DM5. • You can export logs to a CSV format file.
Diving Log
This app serves as a customizable digital logbook for scuba divers. It allows users to record detailed dive information, including depth, time, location, and environmental conditions. Users can also add photos, instructor signatures, and export logs for social sharing.
- Customizable dive logbook
- Record dive details (depth, time, temp)
- Map dive point locations
- Add photos and instructor signatures
- Export logs to social media
- Graph display of depth intervals
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TUSA Diving LOG is a diving logbook app, which enables you to upload log data from TUSA IQ1204 DC Solar Link to your smartphone using Bluetooth® SMART. The TUSA Diving LOG App has many customizable functions to record the details of your dive. Information such as entry time, exit time, dive time, maximum water depth, average water depth, water temperature, air consumption, and much more can be recorded. Customize your dive log by recording dive point locations using maps, add photos, and capture signatures from an instructor. In addition, detailed water depth and warning information can be recorded at intervals, and uploaded to your app. Also you can easily export dive log information as images to share on Facebook, Twitter, or other social media. TUSA Diving LOG can be used independently of TUSA IQ1204 DC Solar link to record basic log information. --TUSA Diving LOG-- • Featuring: - Customizable scuba diving log book (create, edit, and browse log history) - Graph display of depth intervals - Record dive point locations using maps - Export log information as an image to share on social media - Dive instructor verification signature - Ability to toggle ON/OFF all menu display items • Information Recording: - Maximum Water Depth (including graph display and current time) - Average Water Depth - Total Bottom Time (including Entry and Exit Time) - Date - Location - Dive Points (Map Display) - Entry Point (Boat or Beach) - Residual Pressure Start and End Time - Air Consumption - Weather - Wave Height - Current - Wind - Water Temperature - Lowest Water Temperature - Visibility - Gas Type - Cylinder Type & Volume - Safety Factors: N2 & O2 Indicators - Ascent Rate Warning - Decompression Dive Warning - Decompression Depth Warning - PO2 warning - O2 warning - Maximum Depth Alarm - M Value Warning - Weight - Instructors Name - Instructor Verification Signature - Buddy Name - Memo • Creating a New Dive Log with TUSA Diving LOG App - Press the “New Log” button on the home screen to create your new dive log. • How to Pair TUSA IQ1204 DC Solar Link with DiveLog App - When you create a new dive, first press the blue “Link with DC Solar” button on top in order to pair your TUSA IQ1204 DC Solar Link. Press the “Start Search” button displayed at the bottom of the screen. Make sure to follow all instructions on the screen in order to successfully upload your dive log information in the Diving LOG app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Dive Diary at 4.0 against Diving Log's 2.0. Dive Diary also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 50%) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 9 months). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dive Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dive Diary has 19 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Dive Diary's written reviews are positive against 50% of Diving Log's.
Dive Diary ships an update every 2 months, Diving Log every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dive Diary | Diving Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) — better | 2.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goanmook Choi | TABATA CO.,LTD. |
Customer experience
Dive Diary
Diving Log
In-app purchases
Dive Diary
No in-app purchases
Diving Log
No in-app purchases






