Bringing dives from another app

Export a file from your old app, hand it to us, and review the dives before they join your logbook.

Export a file from your old app, hand it to Divemates, and we read the dives out of it for you. Nothing joins your logbook until you've reviewed it, and you won't retype a single dive.

In the app

Go to Divemates → Dives → Incoming → Bring Dives In → Upload a File and pick your export.

There's a shortcut worth knowing. Wherever the file already is (Files, Mail, AirDrop, your old app's own share button), choose Divemates in the share sheet and it comes straight in. Either way you get a confirmation, and the file waits in Incoming while we read it.

On a computer

A few hundred dives are far easier to review on a big screen. Sign in at divemates.app and go to Divemates → Dashboard → My Diving → Dives → Import.

Drag your export onto the page, or click Choose a file.

What happens next

The reading happens on our side rather than on your phone, so you don't have to sit and watch it. Most files are ready quickly. A format we've never seen before takes longer, because we work out how to read it before we read it.

We'll let you know when it's ready. In the app the batch waits in Incoming as one row, however many dives are in it; on the web the review opens on the page you uploaded from. Confirm the dives you want and come back for the rest whenever you like.

Note: if a file defeats us you get a notification for that too, so you're never waiting on something that isn't coming.

Files we can read

Export any of these from your old app:

  • dive XML: UDDF, UDCF, Subsurface (.ssrf) and MacDive
  • dive log databases (.db) from Shearwater Cloud, Suunto DM4 and DM5, and Seac
  • FIT files, from Garmin and any other computer that writes them
  • DL7 (.zxu)
  • CSV and TSV, including a spreadsheet saved as CSV
  • JSON

One file at a time, and one file can hold your whole logbook. If your old app offers a choice of export formats, any of the above is fine.

If your file isn't on that list

Send it to us anyway, and we mean that. We teach the importer new formats as real files turn up, so a logbook we can't read today is genuinely useful to us and often readable soon after.

Get in touch with the original file, untouched, and tell us which app it came from.