Baltic vs Dive Kit

Baltic keeps a dive on one list: ascent and breathing-rate settings, levels, gases, then the profile. A level opens a full screen of wheels for depth, time, oxygen, helium and setpoint, with the run time, stops, CNS, OTU, ppO2 and END printed below and updated as the wheels turn. Dive Kit also keeps the plan on one screen; a level or a gas opens in a sheet over it, and the result updates as you edit.

Here Baltic shows more. Every stop carries the gradient factor it is riding, 0.50 at the first stop rising to 0.71 at the last on this rebreather dive, beside its CNS, ppO2 and END/EAD, and the profile marks where offgassing begins (23 m here). Dive Kit's stop table has depth, stop time, run time and mix, with optional ppO2, CNS, remaining-gas and equivalent-mix columns. It computes the offgassing depth but does not show it, and has no running GF column.

Tap a level in Baltic and a sheet offers Deeper, Longer, Deeper & Longer and Bail, plus Wreck/Cave Bail on a rebreather; tap a gas for Lost Gas. Each opens as its own profile, with the changed part shaded; Deeper & Longer adds 3 m and 5 minutes. Dive Kit computes the set in one pass, +3/+5 m, +3/+5 min and a lost-gas tab per cylinder, and adds custom failure scenarios (lose a named gas at a chosen point) and plan modifiers for breathing rate, a stress burst and a delay before the ascent, each with its own schedule and gas figures.

Baltic bails out from any planned level and mixes open-circuit and CCR legs in one plan. In our test we bailed out from the 38 m level with EAN50 and oxygen as the only bailout gases. Baltic put the diver on EAN50 at 38 m and flagged its ppO2 of 2.40 in red with a CNS warning, then printed CNS and OTU as "nan" for every stop and the surface. Dive Kit bails out from a level, the end of the profile, any run time or a depth on the ascent, runs a setpoint schedule and dilout switches, and checks the bailout gases for isobaric counter-diffusion. Its CNS count continues past the NOAA table's 1.6 bar, so the total stays a number.

Baltic's share button in the plan's toolbar exports the plan as text, by email or as a PDF. Dive Kit shares by link or QR code; a buddy without the app opens it in a browser viewer at divekit.app, and the plan exports as a printable A6 slate (image or PDF).

Baltic is a planner; its maker sells gas blending as a separate app, Baltic Blender. Dive Kit's eleven tools (blending, best mix, gas specs, gas usage, SAC/SRMV, weighting, cylinders, units and more) are free in the app, and nine of them also run free on this website.