What's new in Freediver

0.13.0 3 October 2026

New

Rate how a dive felt item by item, such as urge to breathe, tension and feeling cold, each 1 to 5.
Rate limiting events such as LMC, blackout and squeezes 1 to 5, on the dive they happened on or on the session.
Each dive has one Early turn box: leave it for a dive that met its goal, or tick it to add the planned depth, distance or time.
A dive or breath hold that ended early asks what made you stop.
Rate storms, hurricanes, tsunamis and tornadoes 1 to 5 under Environment events.
Add Wetsuit, Last meal or Safety to a form in one tap, and give each of their fields a default.
Record where a session took place: pool, sea, lake, river, quarry, cenote, spring or dry land.
Dynamic and static forms can record heart rate, lung volume and sightings.
Stats charts yes or no fields, such as Early turn, as the share of dives answered yes.
Choose which three numbers Home shows, in Preferences.
Sessions, forms, static plans, collections and sites shared in chat open when tapped, and can be looked at before adding.
Guests are told when an event they were invited to is deleted.
Importing a dive file a second time asks before replacing the session.

Improved

Rating colours mean the same thing everywhere: the good end is blue, the bad end is red, and sea conditions and effort are purple.
A rating on a saved session shows its word beside the dots.
Every field in the form builder says what it records.
A saved session groups each dive's numbers under Result, Descent bottom ascent, Sensations and Limiting events.
Every multi-select opens a search list and shows the choice in the field.
Water features are grouped by kind and include rocky reef, coral reef, silt, blue water and more.
Sessions no longer ask for totals their dives already give.
An RSVP changes the moment it is tapped, and waits for a connection when offline.
Declining an event invite can be undone.
Add location is now Create location.

Fixed

Depths and distances follow the chosen units on collapsed dives, share cards and collection sites.
A saved session shows every choice of a multi-pick field, under the field's full name.
A chat with someone blocked offers Unblock instead of a message box that cannot send.
The chat on screen no longer sends notifications for its own messages.
A static plan ended early saves only the breath holds reached.
Event guest counts no longer include the host.
Deleting a collection closes it at once.
The app language follows the account that is signed in.
Google and Apple sign-in work on the web app. (web app only)
Removing a guest from an event no longer freezes the app. (iPhone only)

0.12.1 1 October 2026

Improved

Password-reset emails open in the Freediver app. (iPhone and Android only)
Map search shows towns, reefs and wrecks while typing.
A message just sent in chat stays in view above the keyboard.
Dates on sessions and events shared in chat follow the chosen date format.

Fixed

Text boxes in drawers, such as Rename group, no longer hide behind the keyboard.
Saving an edited session no longer asks whether to discard the changes.
Opening a notification or a link closes the previous screen's dialog or drawer first, and keeps unsaved edits.
The minutes and seconds wheels show both digits. (iPhone only)
The moving band on Home flows steadily instead of nearly stopping.

0.12.0 1 October 2026

New

Stats marks a personal best with a ring and a PB label.
Dives imported from Apple Health show which app and watch recorded them. (iPhone only)
Directions on a dive site opens the phone's maps app.
Share a static plan or a log form in chat, for the other diver to add to their own.
Share to several chats at once.

Improved

A new look on every screen: a near-black dark mode, bolder titles and clearer text.
The tab bar stays at the bottom in Profile and Settings.
Status labels on events, invitations and the logbook are easier to read.
Apple and Google sign-in are smaller, and the sign-in form fits on one screen.
Imported dives waiting for review have their own prompt in the logbook, and each dive in a session is its own card.
Times are picked on minutes and seconds wheels instead of typed.
Stats charts are calmer and keep their axes while loading or when a range is empty.
The dive site card on the map has a close button.
A finished static plan lists each breath hold, and Save and log saves it and opens the log in one tap.
Static plan cues sound on time with the phone locked. If Alarms & reminders is off, the plan screen says so and opens the setting. (Android only)
Friends are now connections, and Connect replaces Add. Older versions of the app need updating to send or answer connection requests.
Profiles without a photo show a drawing of a diver instead of a blank outline.

Fixed

The full map opened from a session or dive site has a back button.
The logging form no longer has large gaps under When and Session name.

0.11.0 11 September 2026

New

Sign in with Apple or Google.
Record how anxious a session or a single dive felt.
Static plans count down five seconds in the middle of the ring before starting.

Improved

Marine life is picked from a list grouped by kind, so the same animal adds up across dives.
Dive sites can describe what is underwater from a longer list, such as walls, drop-offs, pinnacles and thermoclines.
Usernames show on profiles of divers who are not connected.
Blocking someone withdraws an unanswered event invitation sent to them.
Messages reported for review are deleted after twelve months.

Fixed

Long titles end with "…" instead of being cut off mid-word.

0.10.1 5 September 2026

Improved

The map, new dive sites and the home location open on the current position, home, or the whole world.
Saving a new dive site without a name or a pin says what is missing. Boat access is no longer asked.

0.10.0 31 August 2026

New

Import dives from Apple Health: pick a day, and the watch's dives become a session. (iPhone only)
A number that looks wrong, such as a 500 m dive, asks for a second look before saving.
Dive sites record their water (sea, lake, river or quarry) and what might be seen there.
Events can be more than one kind, such as a pool session that is also a class.
People going to an event are told when its time or place changes or it is cancelled.
Add members to a group chat, and rename it.
Profiles can show an About, certifications, a home spot and languages.
Take a profile photo with the camera.
Add and manage owned dive shops in Settings. None of it is public.

Improved

Importing the same Apple Health day again updates its session instead of adding a copy. (iPhone only)
Stats opens on everything logged instead of the last month.
Use my location on an event's meeting point fills in the nearest dive site, never an exact position.
Tapping a connection opens their profile.

Fixed

The inbox no longer previews messages from blocked divers.

0.9.0 23 August 2026

New

Leave a group chat.
Tap a group chat's member count to see who is in it.

Improved

Dive computer files from Shearwater, Subsurface and others bring in the start time, alarms and dive number.
Uploading a dive file again keeps the corrections already made to it.
Bottom time (hang) is one field on the Deep form.
Sessions can no longer be dated in the future.

Fixed

Add to calendar on an event adds it to the calendar instead of opening the share menu.
A blocked diver can no longer add the person who blocked them to an event.
In the web app, the browser's back button and password reset work. (web app only)
In the web app, sheets no longer stretch across a wide window. (web app only)

0.8.0 21 August 2026

New

Import UDDF dive files, from Shearwater Cloud and other apps.
Courses show the other divers on them.
Instructors are told when a student submits a session.
Sharing anything with a place on it warns first that a location is being shared.

Improved

Imported dives include the alarms that went off and which dive computer recorded them.
Breath hold and dive times show as minutes and seconds, with hours above an hour.
Sharing an event in chat invites everyone in the chat.
Searching for an @username finds that diver.

Fixed

On iPhone, the keyboard, alerts and pickers follow the light or dark theme. (iPhone only)
In the web app, icons no longer show as empty squares. (web app only)

0.7.0 21 August 2026

New

Freediver runs in a browser at app.freediverapp.com, with the same logbook and account. (web app only)
Notifications arrive in the account's language.
Import Garmin FIT files in the web app. (web app only)
Download calendar files and the data export in the web app. (web app only)

Improved

A problem on one screen no longer closes the whole app.
Imported Garmin dives include the depth alarms set on the watch.
Stats charts show a chosen time span, twelve months by default.

Fixed

All-day events no longer show a day early in the phone's calendar.
Stats no longer crashes the second time the app is opened.
Reinstalling the app no longer shows the welcome steps again.

0.6.0 18 August 2026

New

Reset a forgotten password from the sign-in screen.
Form fields can have a default answer, filled in on every new session.
Log a dive with no signal. It is sent when the phone is back online.
Log the depth alarms set on a watch.
The breath-hold timer plays cues at chosen times.
Settings lists every session shared with an instructor.

Improved

Courses are now series, and each event in a series has its own date and end time.
Events can run past midnight.

Fixed

A breath hold added to an existing session is no longer lost.
Mark all read clears the unread dots.

0.5.0 11 August 2026

New

New accounts get short welcome steps before the first log.
Turn each kind of notification on or off in Settings.
Messages arrive while the app is closed.

Improved

The app opens with the logbook already on screen.
With no signal, the app waits instead of failing and refreshes when the signal is back.
Tapping a notification opens what it is about.
Notifications and location are explained before the phone asks for them.

Fixed

Home greets the diver by name.
Bug reports no longer include the reporter's name.
The launch screen no longer flickers between light and dark.

0.4.0 12 July 2026

New

A light theme: Preferences offers System, Light or Dark.
An early version of Freediver runs in a browser. (web app only)
Unread chats show a count.

Improved

Text is larger and easier to read.
What's new lists every release.
The map opens on the current position.
The breath-hold timer sits in the middle of the screen.

Fixed

Log out is readable in the light theme.
An empty chat no longer shows its message upside down.

0.3.0 11 July 2026

New

Report a bug from inside the app by tapping the version number.
Explore a demo account with two years of sessions before logging a first dive.
Export everything logged in one tap from Account settings.
A changed username is held for 90 days, so nobody else can take it at once.

Improved

The map fills the screen, and search moves it to the place found.
Everything logged is private unless it is shared.
Blocking someone hides them completely.
Deleting an account deletes its dive sites too.

Fixed

Screens no longer shift under the finger.
A screen that fails to load says so instead of showing an empty logbook.

0.2.0 6 July 2026

New

Push notifications, turned on in Preferences.
Metric or imperial units for the whole app.
Import a Garmin dive file with its depth profile.
Progress charts for anything logged, alone or compared.
A map of dive spots.
CO2 and O2 breath-hold tables, with cues that play with the screen locked.
Events and invitations.
Connections and chat, one-to-one or in a group.

0.1.0 1 July 2026

New

Log a session on a form of chosen fields.
See the logbook as a list or on a calendar.