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Cross-Brand Dive Logbook That Keeps Your Dives Yours Even When You Switch From Suunto To Shearwater To Garmin

mobile app real project •• multiple requests

Divers who upgrade or own more than one dive computer find their logs siloed: Suunto, Garmin, and Shearwater each encode dive data differently and push you into their own app, and exporting between them is lossy. Subsurface and a couple of apps import multiple brands, but the encoding differences still cause real import friction. The opportunity is a mobile-first dive log that treats your dive history as portable, ingesting any computer's data cleanly and surviving a brand switch.

builder note

Lean on Subsurface's open libdivecomputer rather than reverse-engineering every brand yourself. The differentiator is a phone-first experience and a lossless brand-switch import, not re-solving parsing that Subsurface already did well.

landscape (3 existing solutions)

Cross-brand dive logging technically exists, but it is desktop-bound or import-fragile; no mobile-first app makes switching dive-computer brands painless.

Subsurface The open-source standard and genuinely cross-brand, but desktop-first; the mobile companion is limited and the workflow assumes you sit at a computer.
Vendor apps (Suunto app, Garmin Dive, Shearwater Cloud) Each locks you to one brand; switching computers strands your old dives or imports them with data loss.
Dive Log / DiveLogDT Support multiple brands, but import is fiddly because manufacturers encode the same dive in incompatible ways.

sources (2)

other https://forum.suunto.com/topic/11278/export-dive-logs-to-sub... "Divers asking how to move dive logs out of the vendor app" 2026-05-23
other https://www.scubadiving.com/scubalab-review-digital-dive-log... "Cross-brand import is lossy because manufacturers encode dives differently" 2026-05-23
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