Getting started
Getting started with Dive Kit
What Dive Kit is, how its tabs are laid out, and what to expect the first time you open the app.
Last updated 3. Juni 2026
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What Dive Kit is
Dive Kit is a set of diving tools for your phone. You use it on the boat or the shore to plan a dive before you get in and to log it after you climb out. It covers the calculators most divers reach for and a decompression planner for technical dives.
Dive Kit works in both metric and imperial, so you can read depths in metres or feet and pressures in bar or psi. You pick your units when you first open the app, and you can change them any time.
The tabs
Dive Kit is organised into tabs along the bottom of the screen. This guide covers the two tabs you see today, the ones you use to plan and manage your diving. A dive logging tab is in the works and is not yet visible.
| Tab | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Plan | Every calculator and planner. Best Mix, Gas Specs (equivalent air depth (EAD), PPO₂, equivalent narcotic depth (END)), Gas Usage, the surface respiratory minute volume (SRMV) breathing rate tool, Buoyancy, the Unit Converter, the Gas Blender, the cylinder database, hand signals, and the Deco Planner. This is where you do the maths before a dive. |
| Manage | Your profile, certifications, and all of the app’s settings, including units, appearance, diving preferences, and your subscription. |
The Plan tab opens to a grid of tools. Tap any tool to open it. You can reorder the grid so the tools you use most sit at the top. To reorder, tap the menu in the Plan header, choose Reorder Tools, drag the tools into the order you want, then tap the checkmark in the header to save. The same menu has a Reset to Default option if you want the original layout back.
Where the tutorials live
Dive Kit ships a short, plain-language tutorial for most tools (twelve in total: Best Mix, Gas Specs, Gas Usage, breathing rate, Buoyancy, the cylinder database, the Gas Blender, the gas mixer, the Deco Planner, the CCR Deco Planner, the Unit Converter, and hand signals). There is no separate tutorials tab. Open a tool, then tap the help icon in its header to read the tutorial for that tool. Tutorials are built into the app, so they work with no signal on the boat.
Some tools also show a one-time learn card the first time you open them. Tap to dismiss it and that tool will not show the card again, but the tutorial itself stays one tap away behind the help icon, so dismissing the card never hides the lesson.
Your first run
The first time you open Dive Kit, it walks you through a short setup before the main app appears. There are seven screens, and a Step X of 7 counter and a row of progress dots at the bottom track where you are. The first three screens are intro screens, so they show a Skip button that jumps straight to the setup questions.
Welcome
The opening screen introduces Dive Kit as your diving companion. Tap the next arrow to move on.
About
A screen explaining what Dive Kit is for. Tap through it.
Core features
A quick look at the kinds of tools Dive Kit includes. This is the last intro screen, so Skip is still available here.
Which deco planner did you use before?
Pick the deco planner you used before Dive Kit: Multideco, Baltic, Something else, or I’m new to dive planners. Dive Kit uses your answer to tune your deco defaults to match the conventions of the tool you already know, so the numbers feel familiar from the start.
Choose your units
Select Metric or Imperial. This sets pressure, depth, volume, temperature, and weight in one tap (Metric is bar, metres, Celsius; Imperial is PSI, feet, Fahrenheit). You can change any unit later in Settings.
Pick a theme
Choose Light, Dark, or Auto (System). Auto follows your device’s own light or dark setting. You can change the theme later in Settings.
Read and accept the safety disclaimer
The last screen covers the risks of diving, the need for proper certification, your liability as the user, and the fact that the app’s numbers are not guaranteed to be correct. You must tick the acknowledgement box before the Start Exploring button activates. Tapping it opens the main app.
Onboarding only runs once. After that, Dive Kit opens straight to the Plan tab.
You picked your theme during this setup, and you can change it any time in Manage → Settings → Appearance. The app language is not part of onboarding; you set it in the same Appearance settings whenever you like. See Units and settings.
Where to go next
- New to the app? Walk through a real task in Your first dive plan. It picks a gas for a planned depth and checks the gas you will use.
- Want to set up units, language, theme, and diving preferences? See Units and settings.
- Planning a decompression dive? Read the Deco Planner page.
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Parts of this guide were drafted with AI assistance and may contain mistakes. It's educational, not a substitute for training. Always dive within your certification and verify with your instruments.