MacDive app for iPhone and iPad

Just finished loading yesterdays dives to mac. Sync to iPhone works perfectly. Managed one dive with gps recording activated, also synced perfectly. Although gps record does drain the battery somewhat. The only minus point is that the sync data can only be stored in Dropbox. It would be nice for the option to store on Apple cloud or a private NAS storage. Apart from that a 5 star app, easy to use and does what its supposed to.

This app is a fantastic way to carry logs with you and view them. I import dive computer data via the companion MacApp since my dive watch does not support BlueTooth. Dropbox syncing keeps the apps on the same page. Also has a brilliant GPS tracking feature that you can activate at the beginning of a dive trip and then just throw your phone in a dry bag the whole time. When you input dives from the DC, it automatically tags your locations and makes a beautiful map of all the sites where you have dives. Finally, developers are top notch. New DC or firmware updates can effect how they sync. And MacDive supports A LOT of different DC brands. Any little bugs I find, I shoot an email and they’re super responsive in finding and fixing those bugs.

MacDive for iPhone is a fantastic app. Beautiful design for displaying your dives, grouping as you like, and seamless Dropbox syncing with MacDive for Mac. This is how it should work.

Awesome app. Moved nearly all dives from google drive over. Much better interface and it syncs across devices. Highly recommended. Only thing left in drive is my tables and tide charts. Just need a place for them now.

Seriously? I just plunked down $10 for an app that doesn’t sync and now won’t open. I sync’d my mac version to the Dropbox cloud. Then I “allowed” the iPhone app to sync. Nothing. I closed the app then reopened it hoping that would help and now it instantly crashes every time I try to open it. Garbage. Fix it quick or I’ll be looking for a refund.

I’ve been a fan/user of the MacDive desktop app for years and have long been waiting for an iPhone app. Worth the wait! This is the best designed iPhone app (I’ve used others). Very clean user interface, great visualizations for gas usage and depth charts. Geo placements and photo integrations are elegant. And after a quick setup with Dropbox (need a DB account) you can sync between the two devices. Great job MacDive team and thanks for bringing this to us divers.

People have been asking for cloud sync for MacDive. Not only did we get it, but we also got an iPhone app! And its excellent. So much functionality to explore. One of my favorite features: scroll side to side with two fingers in any dive detail screen/tab the go to the same screen/tab in the next or previous dive. Brilliant.

This is a gorgeous UI and the representation and use of data actually make the desktop app seem all the more out of date. Please use iCloud for data sync, your desktop and iPhone app are all within the Apple ecosystem so theres really no reason not to. Please also add all of the DC Buddy supported computers, I have a Sherwood wisdom 2 and 3 I cannot use with this. GREAT first go at bringing a long standing Mac app to iPhone, thank you!

Initially it looked really good; nice interface, good layout and design, promising feature set. Uncertain about how thoroughly it was tested though. Imported all my data ok and appeared to be working nicely; but then selected the smart logs option to view dives and it crashed straight away. Subsequent attempts to open the app result in it crashing immediately, so it’s unusable. Could do with some minor interface tweaks. Bold, large size font on some headings is jarring and text color needs better contrast with the background to improve the readability and ease of use. Sync should be changed to use iCloud, since it’s easier, more convenient and it’s only syncing between iOS and OS X. Fix the crashes as well and it’s a 4 or 5 star app.

What more can I say, I was very pleased with my first experiences of this app. I have been using the desktop version of MacDive for a couple of years. Its his crate application that allows you to track everything you would want to track in your scuba dive log book. Furthermore, you can bring in pictures seamlessly from photos or iPhoto. Multiple photos can be linked into a single dive. It appears that everything in that desktop version of MacDive gets synchronized directly into the iOS version. Although the process took quite a bit of time, I think that is because I had over 250 photographs that were linked in to different dives. That said, the iOS app is very easy to use, all of the information that you need is there, and the really great thing is now you can add new dive sites right in your iOS app, using the GPS location of the phone itself while you are on the dive boat to mark the location. Previously I had to take my Garman on the dive boat, Mark the site and at a later time after I got home I would manually put it into Mac dive. You also have the ability on the fly to add a photograph taken with the iOS devices on camera directly to a dive. The app even allows you to link to your iOS contacts app to add buddies. Overall, I have played around with the app for a couple of hours, had no crashes, I see no discrepancies no hangs. I cannot say that Ive tested all of the features, my dive computer does not have Bluetooth built in, so I dont have a means to test the direct import of the dive profile. My current dive computer is a Liquivision Lynx, so I need to import through the Liquivision app, then drag the file onto MacDive to import the profiles. That works very well. Great Job Nick!