Submarius: Diving and fishing
Roger VanDeburgh Sports iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Submarius: Diving and fishing is a free Sports app for iPhone and iPad by Roger VanDeburgh. Rated 5.0/5 from 11 ratings. Requires iOS 15.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 11 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 30 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 22
- 2026 · v1.3.37
Screenshots
About Submarius: Diving and fishing
Submarius reads the ocean and reports everything you need to know to make a decision. Dive weather, bite forecast, and water clarity forecast for spearfishing, diving, fishing, and boating — built for people who are tired of stitching together four apps to decide if today is worth the drive. App Sections: - Conditions Dashboard - Map (with reefs and wrecks, live/forecasted radar, water clarity overlay, wind, and more) - Fish (what species can I expect to find at my set location, what are the laws and regulations, images of the fish) Every factor — wind, swell, tide, moon, pressure, water temp, water clarity — goes into a single 0–10 verdict you can read in two seconds. Tap any factor to see the numbers and the reasoning. No black-box "AI" — every input is transparent. Water Clarity Forecast No other major app has this. Submarius blends satellite turbidity (NOAA CoastWatch Kd490), USGS river-plume detection, wave-mixing physics, and community post-dive reports into an honest Secchi-depth estimate with explicit uncertainty. Grounded in Lee et al. 2015 (R²=0.96). When we don't know, we say so. Activity Modes Spearfishing, freediving, scuba, rod-and-reel fishing, boating, sailing, surfing, kayak/SUP. Each mode reweights the verdict around what actually matters for that activity — clarity and tide for spearos, swell period and wind for surfers, bite windows for anglers, small-craft advisories for boaters. Bite Score Dive forecast with water clarity, bite score, swell, tide, and moon — every factor explained. Tide stage, moon phase, solunar windows, barometric trend, wind, and water temperature — combined into a 0–10 score, factor by factor. No secret formula. If we score a day a 3, you'll know exactly why. Map Layers Self-hosted bathymetry + sea-surface temperature + animated weather radar + wind particle flow + reef and wreck structure overlays. Finds drop-offs, temp breaks, and shelter without dragging you to another app. Live GPS Tracks Record your dive or fishing trip as a live blue track on the map. Useful for retracing drift, marking productive zones, or just remembering the line you swam. Safety, Always Free Shark-tag alerts (OCEARCH), community shark sightings, SOS, and buddy GPS sharing are permanently free for every user, every tier. No paywall, no trial — by design. Privacy by default Your spots stay your spots. GPS-fuzzed to ~1 km on anything public; precise location never leaves your device unless you explicitly share it. Post-dive clarity reports ship with H3-fuzzed coordinates only — we can't give away where you dive because we never see it. Anonymous Current conditions, 2-day forecast, basic bite score, and every safety feature work without an account. Sign up when you want to save spots or post catches. Submarius Pro Pro unlocks the 8-day forecast, premium map overlays, offline maps, unlimited saved spots, advanced bite score layers, full water-clarity horizons, and catch history export. $12.99/month or $99/year with a 7-day free trial. Limited $149 lifetime tier for the first 1,000 founders. Subscriptions bill through your Apple ID and renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Privacy: https://submarius.com/privacy Terms: https://submarius.com/terms
Ratings & reviews
5.0
11 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.3.37 · Updated September 22, 2026
• Clamming is now a primary activity, with its own verdict. • Better clarity in bays and sheltered water: we now work out the local wind sea where the wave model has no water, and measure fetch from the water rather than the shoreline. • Tides reach further into bays, and a few places that read as a flat zero tide now read correctly. • The mode picker only offers real transports under "how you get there". • A finer bite score map, and assorted fixes.
App privacy
The developer, Roger VanDeburgh, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Location: Precise Location
- Contact Info: Email Address
- User Content: Photos or Videos
- Identifiers: User ID
Used for: App Functionality
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality
Alternatives to Submarius: Diving and fishing
Looking for apps like Submarius: Diving and fishing? Here are 6 similar apps on the App Store. The highest rated is Spearo Vision - Weather (5.0/5), and all 6 are free to download.
-
Spearo Vision - Weather
5.0
-
SeaThrough
5.0
-
FreeDive Ultra
5.0
-
Element - Conditions & Sports
4.7
-
FishLegal
4.4
-
STAmina Apnea Trainer
4.9
| App | Rating | Price | Last updated | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submarius: Diving and fishing | 5.0 / 5 (11 ratings) | Free | September 22, 2026 | |
| Spearo Vision - Weather | 5.0 / 5 (2) | Free | Oct 14, 2026 | Compare |
| SeaThrough | 5.0 / 5 (4) | Free | May 15, 2026 | Compare |
| FreeDive Ultra | 5.0 / 5 (5) | Free | Oct 11, 2026 | Compare |
| Element - Conditions & Sports | 4.7 / 5 (65) | Free | Oct 17, 2026 | Compare |
| FishLegal | 4.4 / 5 (127) | Free | Jun 15, 2024 | Compare |
| STAmina Apnea Trainer | 4.9 / 5 (5,437) | Free | Oct 5, 2026 | Compare |