Comparison

Dive Diary vs Oceans

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Oceans

Log your scuba dives in the cloud and connect with a global community of divers. Automatically correct underwater photos, discover new dive sites, and contribute to citizen science projects. Share your adventures and plan future explorations.

Highlights
  • Cloud-based dive logging
  • Automatic underwater photo correction
  • Smart dive check-in and sharing
  • Discover and plan dive sites
  • Connect with global divers
  • Offline mode for logging
  • Citizen science environmental reporting
Features
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Oceans is the #1 social logbook and community platform used by tens of thousands of scuba divers worldwide. Oceans lets you keep dive logs in the cloud and share sites and observations with divers and friends around the globe. Oceans logging tool intelligently knows where you are and suggests observations, making dive check-ins fast and easy. ▸ Automatic advanced color correction of underwater photos. ▸ Smart and swift dive check-in and sharing. ▸ Keep your diving history at hand, safely stored in the cloud. ▸ Discover, explore and plan future diving adventures. ▸ Follow buddies, ocean explorers & dive sites, and interact with divers around the world. ▸ Off-line mode allows dive check-in even when away from mobile networks. ▸ With Oceans’ citizen science program you can help collecting environmental reports such as plastic waste, coral bleaching and illegal fishing for future analysis. ▸ Wirelessly connects and import dives from Oceans S1 Supersonic, the dive computer with built-in buddy communications. ▸ #DiveoftheWeek highlights the best dives every weekend featured for Oceans' over 40,000 instagram followers, and #DiveoftheYear, our yearly award selected by Oceans ambassador and aquanaut Fabien Cousteau! We wish to co-develop Oceans with you. Do you have any ideas, features or comments? Whatever the reason you can reach us at team@oceans.io.

Screenshots

Dive Diary4 screens
Oceans4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dive Diary at 90% against Oceans's 40%. Dive Diary also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (19 vs 5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dive Diary holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Dive Diary's written reviews are positive against 40% of Oceans's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dive Diary ships an update every 2 months, Oceans every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 1, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dive Diary versus Oceans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDive DiaryOceans
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (19 ratings) — better3.8 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better40.0% of reviews
Number of ratings19 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGoanmook ChoiOceansio AB

Customer experience

Dive Diary

All ratings19 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral10.5%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative3.3%

Oceans

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral40.0%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dive Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Oceans

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dive Diary free?
Dive Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Oceans free?
Oceans is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dive Diary or Oceans?
Dive Diary is rated higher. Dive Diary averages 4.0 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while Oceans averages 3.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Dive Diary or Oceans have ads?
Neither Dive Diary nor Oceans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dive Diary or Oceans?
Dive Diary ships an update every 2 months, and Oceans every 6 weeks. Most recently, Dive Diary was updated on November 1, 2026 and Oceans on November 1, 2026.

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