Dive World s Diving Community Reviews

DiveWorldsDivingCommunity USED to be great but their design and dev team don’t care about fixing a bug saying iCloud videos cannot be color corrected. I’ve never experienced this on any videos for an entire year. Now all of the sudden it won’t color correct any of my videos saying download your iCloud videos to your phone (uhhhh why??? Makes no sense and who knows how to do that?!). So I download to my phone and when I click on a video it STILL says cannot correct iCloud video. Your UX TEAM IS HORRIBLE. I paid for DiveWorldsDivingCommunity I expect it to work and function. And so do other paying customers.

I have used DiveWorldsDivingCommunity with my Kraken case for over 2 years without a problem. Went on a dive last month and for some reason I can’t connect my iPhone to DiveWorldsDivingCommunity to use as a camera anymore. I can only log into DiveWorldsDivingCommunity to use the social media platforms. After some research I learned that Weefine has taken over Kraken ans suspect that this has something to do with my problem? I have reached out to your (Dive+) customer service via email 4 times in the last month but no one has responded. Very disappointing!!!

Update:

A friend helped me figure out how to change the units of measure then force quit DiveWorldsDivingCommunity then restart to save the changes. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity does not automatically log your dives. The only good thing about DiveWorldsDivingCommunity is the color correction. Even then, it’s very limited unless you buy their expensive VIP subscription. The Kraken Smart Housing Pro is a good housing but there is no true app support. Wasted money.

I downloaded DiveWorldsDivingCommunity prior to receiving the Kraken Smart Housing Pro. I figured I’d familiarize myself with the software. I tried DiveWorldsDivingCommunity in preview mode and the unit standard was set to metric. I figured the preview mode was set to metric by default. I tried switching the unit standard and nope, still metric. I contacted the developer and was instructed to pair DiveWorldsDivingCommunity with the housing and try switching the unit standard. I tried. Still metric. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity will not allow me to set the unit standard to imperial. It forces me to use metric. If I am recording video or taking photographs, it is crucial for me to see the correct information while on a dive. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity is just as useless as the Kraken app.

If you want a simple program that logs dives and does color correction, this is not it. All I was looking for was a program that would do color correction on a video, and then I could save that video to my photo album, and I didn’t care if it had a watermark on it. Instead, there’s so much that they tried to cram into this program that involves everything else in the world but those two simple things. Saving the video to my own personal files so that I could share it as I saw fit was not an option. Screw that. If I can’t even get that, there is absolutely nothing that you can get me on this program that is worth paying for.

The color correction is amazing!!! The Dive+ water mark imprinted in the corner of your photo is going to keep me from using DiveWorldsDivingCommunity again unless it is corrected.

Up until a month ago, if you saved the photo it would save the Dive+ watermark in the bottom left corner. My work around for this was to screenshot the photo and then crop. They have obviously gotten wise to this because now as soon as you “correct color” the water mark appears.

I have recommended DiveWorldsDivingCommunity to dozens of divers, so I thought word of mouth advertising would be sufficient. I would gladly pay for DiveWorldsDivingCommunity if the watermark was removed

I love DiveWorldsDivingCommunity primarily for the color correction. However it freezes and quits all the time when I’m trying to save color-corrected videos. I have only been able to successfully save a couple short clips. I hope they work out these bugs soon because the color-correction is epic!

Edit: still having problems with DiveWorldsDivingCommunity freezing and quitting all the time. I have not been able to edit any videos since the first day of having DiveWorldsDivingCommunity . I have tried deleting and reinstalling DiveWorldsDivingCommunity several times. Left email feedback through DiveWorldsDivingCommunity and have not been contacted at all. Very disappointed now.

A good e-log option, but hard to use. Would love to see these improvements:
1. When putting in data, instead of clicking several times to get to typing, can you just make the keyboard automatically pop up?
2. Have an option to load all past logs. I could only see the recent 10 dives.,
3. Have better summary statistics of past dives
4. Have an option to just type in the name of dive site without geolocation because most people don’t carry a gps when diving.

I’ve used DiveWorldsDivingCommunity a lot. It’s great on colour correcting pics and videos. Every now and then I’d pay the monthly service to remove the watermark for videos I was more focused on. Now you have to pay a monthly or annual subscription ($30) to use, what is I believe is, it’s core function.
If it were a paid app, I’d gladly pay. Making this a subscription has turned me off it completely. I get it, make money. But don’t make it take, take, take.
Good luck with your community share free stuff. I’m out. I’d rather do post shoot corrections on a pc than fist over cash repeatedly for social sharing, non professional videos that I make.
Hello green videos, my old friend! Bye bye Dive+.

So far i like DiveWorldsDivingCommunity ok, however I wish they would make a version to fit an iPad. I have used it on my phone however I like the larger screen on my iPad as I can see what I am doing better. I have noticed that DiveWorldsDivingCommunity gives great color but some of my photos get overexposed, so I then use another photo app to fix the overexposure. Faster and easier to use than photoshop for my underwater photos.

This is a great app and I have been excited with each new update, but this latest one is something of a let down, at least when exploring the community posts.

Whereas I like the fact that you can see hashtags, bubbles, and # of views, as well as where each shared photo/video came from, I don’t like it when exploring the main community page. Why? Because it makes the photos and videos smaller and harder to browse. Lots of whitespace in this new design means less real estate for pictures and is less enjoyable for me. The “Refresh” button is ok, but a drag-down to refresh, and no button, would be better. ‘Nearby’ is ok too, if you live near the ocean. I don’t so it’s irrelevant. ‘New’ or ‘recently added’ posts would be more valuable but that seems to have disappeared in favor of “hot” posts? What will a newbie do?

This is a great color correction app. I would give it 5* except for one major problem, at least in my mind. The problem is DiveWorldsDivingCommunity re-orders all the pictures when done in batch mode(yes, photos selected in order taken for batch processing). For underwater photography, sequence is a must to keep track of what you saw where and when so you can go back there. Also, when experimenting with exposures, setting, etc it becomes impossible to keep track . Fix the reordering and it is a much better app.

The filter is amazing. I have never seen anything so simple with near perfect results.

DiveWorldsDivingCommunity itself needs improvements.
I have bought the VIP version for 1 year.
1. Batch correction doesn’t work from time to time. Some photos are filtered, you can see the result but you are not able to save them. I don’t know why.

2. From time to time after converting a batch you end up with a menu in Chinese and don’t know much what to do. Well I was able to find my way out. It kind of ask to select photos between the results you get that I guess you can not do anyhow

3. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity creating a Dive+ album and adding all the results in that album would be very welcome. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity adds the result just next to the photo edited that is quiet difficult to find if you have many photos

I haven’t tried the social sharing part of DiveWorldsDivingCommunity yet.

So everything worked great on my 1st dive 2nd dive and 3rd dive last week. Then my last 4 dives every time I click to video or take a photo the screen goes into 3 different frames for 30 seconds, then the pop up that tells you to connect within 10 seconds appears which underwater that ain’t happening, then screen just goes black and you don’t even get the instrument screen. Of course this week on my couch it’s still doing the same thing

Developer has already posted an update based on my and other’s feedback of app crash issues on older phones with too many photos or videos. I had two days of app crashes at 60’ in Kona with the older app version and reached out to Kraken who engaged this developer. They responded within 24 hrs acknowledging the issue and now have already posted an update. DiveWorldsDivingCommunity worked fine on iPhone 8 Plus, but I prefer to dive with last iPhone being a 6 Plus “just in case of a housing failure”. The color correction is great and ease of using DiveWorldsDivingCommunity in the Kraken housing is easy. The only reason for the one star deduction is the Bluetooth disconnect. Not clear if a hardware or software recovery issue with the housing. It is just troubling at 60’ down to have DiveWorldsDivingCommunity state a Bluetooth disconnect which means with the Kraken housing you have no shutter button connection or the menu buttons on the window. The big difference with DiveWorldsDivingCommunity and WaterShots housing is no physical connection to buttons, everything is Bluetooth. Great flexibility, but risk that needs improvement with connection. Most is one disconnect per dive, but is that when the Eagle Ray or Manta go by?
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UPDATE May 2019
Use DiveWorldsDivingCommunity again in Kona this year with the Kraken housing and an iPhone 6 Plus like last Sept. No crashing or discount issue at all. I highly recommend the Kraken housing for those in North America and DiveWorldsDivingCommunity. The ease of use and post dive color correction work great.

I use Dive+ to correct scuba clip from a GoPro . It really does a great job. I do not really delve in the community although there are some fantastic pic & clips from what I’ve seen.
I wish there was a little better deal on the purchase, however . I dive a lot but at this point I don’t get that many great NEW pics & although I dive weekly I feel the way they price the service for my needs does not work that well.

I love using DiveWorldsDivingCommunity in my Weefine housing. Been taking awesome shots and the color correction after is pretty slick too. The only issue is the fact that the dive computer can't be adjusted to nitrox which is the only gas I dive with. So on a lot of dives, the dive computer in DiveWorldsDivingCommunity goes into deco mode even though on my wrist computer, I still have a lot of no deco time. I hope the developers can work on users being able to adjust the dive computer settings to include different mixes of enriched air nitrox. Thank you!

I don’t use video lights on my camera, I have strobes instead, but the color correction is fantastic on this about 95% of the time. Even with the photos a little bit of color correction is sometimes needed to in order to make it just right. I don’t mind that it puts a watermark on the photos, actually I rather like it but I only wish that we could move it wherever we wanted on the photo and not just keep it on the bottom. And be able to change the color of the water mark too. That would be the only thing I’d want to fix about DiveWorldsDivingCommunity , placement and coloration of watermark. Hope the devs see this as I think it would be a great change.

I love DiveWorldsDivingCommunity and the community is very nice. The color correction saves my pictures big time and then to add a social presence to DiveWorldsDivingCommunity where people from all over the world can see and comment on others posts. Also, it’s super cool that you can log your dives in it as well. I really really want to give it 5 stars but I can’t because at this point DiveWorldsDivingCommunity will not even let me open it before crashing immediately. I really want to post and fix up my pictures with your app so please help me out here! I have the latest version of DiveWorldsDivingCommunity and I am using an iPhone 8 Plus. This only started happening a few days ago and I have not been able to use it at all since.

There is nothing like this for you Divers of the Underwater World! You may even find a couple of your favorite photos might be enhanced; I did! Wish there was a Windows version, but I understand why there isn’t. Looks like I will be upgrading my Sweetheart’s dive equipment someday. For now, it is SO good that he just emails me photos and I enhance and save!

I LOVE DiveWorldsDivingCommunity, but all of a sudden, it won’t color correct my videos, only my photos. When I try to color correct a video, it says “sorry dive+ does not currently support color restoration…”. But, my videos ARE downloaded to my phone, so I don’t know what’s going on.