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I can't speak for Subsurface's desktop/CLI apps, which I've not used, but I found the mobile app to be very disappointing. The UI is absolutely atrocious, to th

I can't speak for Subsurface's desktop/CLI apps, which I've not used, but I found the mobile app to be very disappointing. The UI is absolutely atrocious, to the point of being unusable, unfortunately. I've been using the commercial Dive Log [1] app for many years, which is okay, but for my type of recreational diving, it requires a lot of manual data entry for each dive. It's got plenty of "pro" features, but lacks obvious features relevant to recreational diving. In particular, its location support is awful -- a good dive app really should be built around a central dive site database so that the dive app becomes useful not just after a dive (to log your dive) but also before (to read about the under- and over-water geography, local wildlife, etc.). Dive Log doesn't even know about countries -- you have to enter them manually! Having tried a lot of these apps, they are all pretty bad, and very few of them are free. I think the worst one I've encountered is the official PADI app. I've still not figured out how to edit a previously logged dive in that app. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dive-log/id301049600 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dive-log/id301049600

bhoey 7y ago
> I found the mobile app to be very disappointing. The UI is absolutely atrocious, to the point of being unusable, unfortunately Just to provide another anecdote, I have been pleasantly impressed by the (Android) mobile app. I wonder if there are significant UI/UX differences between iOS and Android apps? I don't log my dives through the mobile app which may be where the experience disparity lies. But having a quick reference before a dive of what weight I used on the last fresh water dive or what has been my air consumption at this depth in the past is pretty handy. As for the desktop apps I've used both the Linux AppImage and the MacOS versions and find them both pretty nice to use. The fact that the dive log data is stored locally in XML makes manual tweaks super easy, for example copying over a subset of dives from a watch dive comp to my main intergrated's dive log file after a vacation.

bhoey 7y ago

> I found the mobile app to be very disappointing. The UI is absolutely atrocious, to the point of being unusable, unfortunately Just to provide another anecdote, I have been pleasantly impressed by the (Android) mobile app. I wonder if there are significant UI/UX differences between iOS and Android apps? I don't log my dives through the mobile app which may be where the experience disparity lies. But having a quick reference before a dive of what weight I used on the last fresh water dive or what has been my air consumption at this depth in the past is pretty handy. As for the desktop apps I've used both the Linux AppImage and the MacOS versions and find them both pretty nice to use. The fact that the dive log data is stored locally in XML makes manual tweaks super easy, for example copying over a subset of dives from a watch dive comp to my main intergrated's dive log file after a vacation.