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The Best Dive Log App for Android

A good logbook is quick to fill and tells you something you didn't know about the dive. Here's how the Android options compare, and what most of them never show you.

By Olivia Steeples · Updated 2 October 2026 · ~8 min read

The best logbook is the one you actually fill in. After a dive you have wet hands, a salty phone and a minute before the next briefing. Anything slower than that gets skipped, and a logbook with gaps isn't much use to anyone, least of all you.

The second test is whether it tells you anything. Most logbooks record a dive. A few help you understand it.

What our logbook shows that most don't

• The dive in 3D. With a GPS trail and a depth profile, the route hangs in 3D with a depth curtain beneath it. Drag to orbit, tilt from map to profile, and scrub through the dive minute by minute.
• Tissue loading, replayed. The profile runs back through the same Bühlmann ZH-L16C engine your planner uses, showing all 16 compartments filling on the way down and clearing on the way up. It opens on the moment of peak loading.
• Air consumption you can trust. Log your start and end pressures and SAC is worked out by the same engine as the Apple Watch app. A typo like 12 bar instead of 120 is caught before it skews your numbers, and a trend card shows your breathing improve over a season.
• Heart rate, temperature and ascent rate across the whole dive, when your device recorded them, with safety stop and decompression flags.
• A wellbeing check. Every scuba log ends with a simple question: how did you feel after this dive? Report any symptom and the app points you straight to getting assessed.
• Insights per discipline. Scuba, freediving and snorkelling each get their own bests and patterns, because your longest dive and your longest breath-hold aren't the same thing.

The logbooks compared

Diving Standard is our app, so weigh this accordingly. Check each store page for current features.

The basics every logbook should get right

• Log in seconds, then add detail later if you want to.
• Bring your history with you. Import from your computer, another app or a screenshot, so you don't start from zero.
• Export and own your data. A PDF logbook for your instructor or dive centre, and a way to delete everything.

Logging by hand or by computer

A phone logbook is a record, not a recorder. If your dive computer measured the dive, bring the data in when you can: that's what unlocks the profile, the 3D route and the tissue replay. If your computer doesn't sync, log by hand. New to the instrument itself? Read what is a dive computer.