Dive Diary vs iScubaSites
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.
iScubaSites
Discover scuba diving locations globally with this user-friendly app. Simply search a region to find available dive sites and access detailed information when provided. Explore the underwater world with ease.
- Worldwide diving site information
- Location-based search
- Detailed dive site information
- Simple and intuitive interface
- Explore underwater locations
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This app is designed to help divers to find information about available diving sites worldwide. iScubaSites is very simple to use, just search for a location and the app will show you the available scuba diving sites in the area. Selecting a diving site, will show the name and additional information whenever available.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: iScubaSites at 4.4 against Dive Diary's 4.0. Dive Diary's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 80%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
iScubaSites holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Dive Diary's written reviews are positive against 80% of iScubaSites's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Dive Diary ships an update every 2 months, iScubaSites every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dive Diary | iScubaSites |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (19 ratings) | 4.4 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goanmook Choi | Arie Guttman |
Customer experience
Dive Diary
iScubaSites
In-app purchases
Dive Diary
No in-app purchases
iScubaSites
No in-app purchases
