Dive Calculator vs Subsurface
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dive Calculator
This app provides comprehensive scuba diving calculations, including basic, nitrox, and trimix gas mixes. It supports both metric and imperial units, and allows for gas volume and cost calculations for blending and top-ups. Results can be easily copied for documentation.
- Basic, Nitrox, and Trimix calculations
- Gas volume and cost calculations
- Top-up and bleed down mix calculations
- Metric and imperial unit support
- Oxygen narcotic/non-narcotic selection
- Copy results to clipboard
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A wide variety of scuba based calculations for all levels of divers. Basic Calculations Include: -ATA -SAC / RMV rates -Tank volume / Pressure rating -Basic unit conversions Nitrox Calculations Include: -EANx best mix -Integrated top-up and bleed down mix calculations -What if top–up -EANx mix planning Trimix Calculations Include: -Integrated top-up and bleed down mix calculations -What if top–up -Trimix planning -Best Trimix -Heliair All blending and top up pages include gas volume and cost calculations. Trimix gas fill orders can be changed by simply dragging the icons to select the fill order. Oxygen can be selected as narcotic / non-narcotic on the appropriate calculation pages. Results can be copied to the clipboard in a text format for use in E-mails, messages or other forms of documentation. All pages support metric and imperial units. Many pages include both metric and imperial units.
Subsurface
This application allows divers to manage their dive logs on their mobile devices. It supports editing dive data and downloading new information from compatible dive computers. Optional cloud synchronization is available for seamless data transfer with desktop versions.
- Mobile dive log management
- Edit dive data
- Download from Bluetooth LE dive computers
- Optional cloud synchronization
- Open-source and free
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Subsurface-mobile is an iOS dive log application based on Subsurface, the best free open source dive log application available on Windows, Mac and Linux. Subsurface-mobile allows you to access your dive log on your tablet or phone, edit the data and even download new dive information from many Bluetooth LE enabled dive computers. Using a free Subsurface Cloud Storage account you can synchronize your dive data with the Subsurface desktop application (while significantly increasing the usefulness, the cloud account is not required to use Subsurface-mobile). To get support from the developers, please use the in-app menu entry "Ask for support" Please check out the Subsurface-mobile user manual: https://subsurface-divelog.org/documentation/subsurface-mobile-v3-user-manual (also available from within the app) Subsurface-mobile is free and open source. No ads, no commercial anything. And it comes with free cloud storage (if you decide to use that - it's optional). Your data aren't used for anything, nothing gets monetized.
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Verdict
Dive Calculator and Subsurface both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Dive Calculator's written reviews are positive against 63% of Subsurface's. Dive Calculator also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 17). Subsurface's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Dive Calculator sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Subsurface asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Dive Calculator against 4.5 for Subsurface. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 48 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Dive Calculator's written reviews are positive against 63% of Subsurface's.
Dive Calculator ships an update every 12 months, Subsurface every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 7, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dive Calculator | Subsurface |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (24 ratings) — better | 4.5 (48 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 63.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 48 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 17 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zanthic Automation Inc. | Dirk Hohndel |
Customer experience
Dive Calculator
Subsurface
In-app purchases
Dive Calculator
- EANx Calculations$0.99
- Trimix Calculations$0.99
Subsurface
No in-app purchases









