Dive Traveler app review: a user-personalized dive tool

Introduction

If you're an avid diver then we've got a great personalized diving app for you to use. The Dive Traveler app for your iPad works as a "user-personalized mobile dive traveler experience," in other words, it's a very cool tool to use on your dives. This is in fact the first app of its kind and is meant to provide you with constant information, stories, and photos, all relevant to scuba diving. The app has actually been created in part by two scuba diving experts, which means they know what divers want to see and have in a mobile app.

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Find New Content All the Time

The top feature of this app is that it aims to provide you with new content all the time that can be personalized to your own needs/wants. The app is free to use and features local dive information, product/gear reviews, feature stories, photos, and more.

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The way the scuba diving app works is that you set up the configuration the way you want. This allows you to quickly find the information you want without having to move through multiple menus of items you're not interested in. This makes the experience convenient and of course much faster. This can be done under your profile settings and keep in mind you can always change your settings any time you like to suit your interests.

As mentioned this app is subscription free despite the fact that the content is always being updated. Unfortunately its user reviews are just average. Right now it seems users aren't very impressed with the amount of content and the actual user experience. It seems as though the app is still trying to find its place and work out the kinks.

What’s In It

You can find a varied amount and type of information here. There is destination specific information which includes pictures and details from the local experts themselves. There are features from Dive Experts from around the world that talk about their classes, trips, specials, information, and pictures. The Gear Locker takes a look at a massive database of items that you can read about and put in your personal gear lifestyle. The itinerary generator is great in order to put together your dream trip and there are visual top 5's on a variety of topics.

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To me it feels like an app still in its infancy stages, which the developers even allude to and state that it will continue to grow. It will be interesting to see where this one goes.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Provides you with information on a variety of dive sites straight from local experts
• Read product/gear reviews
• Build an itinerary
• View a large amount of photos

Cons

• The app doesn’t have a ton of content at this point
• Some users are unhappy with the user interface
• The app feels like it hasn’t hit the mark yet

Final Thoughts

The Dive Traveler app for your iPad is a really cool concept and I think in time this one has the potential to be a great app.