PADI for Android

Not useable. The PADI app is needed for the technology driven diver but the app works very slowly when it comes to logging dives and looking up dive sites. The app should also have a function where it can tie you and your buddy’s dive together so you can share notes as well as ensure accuracy of dive record.

Takes about 30 seconds to load after every button click

The dive log won’t allow me to mark where I went diving. The best I can do find some spot nearby which could be tens of miles away. More than a bit annoying.

I am both a PADI and SSI certified diver and use both apps depending on how I an diving with. I like both apps and both are user friendly. I would say SSI’s app is a little better mostly because it allows you to easily save dive buddies info so you can reconnect for future dives. Also, SSI dive site locator is much better. However, PADI allows you to save logged recreational dives with out verification which I like because I often don’t dive with a SCUBA instructor that can verify the dive. Before I became a PADI certified diver I would just log my dives on the SSI app as unverified if there wasn’t a SSI diver master to verify the dive. Both apps are good but I would say I now log my dives on the PADI app and only use the SSI app for the dive site locator and to add dive buddies if they are SSI certified divers.

The “Dive Site” field in the app’s Log book doesn’t allow free text entry and its search function doesn’t return any results. You can’t save a dive to the log without entering a Dive Site, so the Log book feature is useless.