How to use the app

• Everything stays on your own device. Your dives, photos, settings and map marks are saved inside your phone or computer. We cannot see them, and there is no account or sign-up.
• It works offline, on the boat too. Only the map pictures and the translation need internet.
• Nothing leaves the device unless you send it. A backup file, a CSV, a printout or a correction to the club only goes where you choose to send it.
• The flip side: if you clear your browser's site data, uninstall the app or lose the phone, the logbook goes with it. Keep a backup file (see General info and settings).

Install and updates

• Install: see Get the app for iPhone, Android and computer. On iPhone, use Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. Without that, Safari may clear stored data after a few weeks unused.
• Updates: nothing to download. When there is a new version the app updates itself when you open it with internet. A small bar may ask you to tap Refresh.

Language, light and dark

Tap the round globe button in the bottom-left corner. Pick your language (automatic translation, internet needed) and choose Light, Dark or Auto for the look.

Settings

In the logbook tap Settings to choose units (metres or feet, bar or psi, and so on) and to add your name and certification. Units apply to new dives.

Backup and restore

• Back up: in the logbook tap Save a backup. On a phone it opens the share menu, so you can send the file to Google Drive, WhatsApp or your email. On a computer it downloads a file. The backup includes your dives, photos and settings.
• Restore: tap Restore from backup and choose the file.
• Moving to a new phone: 1) Save a backup and send the file to yourself. 2) On the new phone open pinkwhaleclub.com/logbook/, tap Restore from backup and choose the file. All dives, photos and settings come across.
• How often: after every few new dives. The logbook shows a small reminder with the date of your last backup.

Export and print

Use CSV for a spreadsheet and Print / PDF for a paper or PDF logbook. To choose which dives, tap Select dives and tick them, or use the search and filters first. With nothing selected they use the dives currently shown.

Booking a dive or course

Open Book, choose what you want, and tap send. It opens WhatsApp with your message already written, so you only press send.

Questions

See the FAQ, or message us on WhatsApp or email from Contact.

• Find a site: use the search box by name, country or type (wreck, wall, cave). Tap a pin to see its details.
• Mark a site as dived: open the site and add your visit. Your sites turn pink and the counters at the top update.
• Add a missing site: tap + Add a dive site. Your own sites show as red squares. You can send them to the club to be added for everyone.
• Pin in the wrong place? Tap Move pins, zoom in and drag the pin to where it really is. Use Send to the club to share the correction, Undo my moves to go back, and Done when finished.
• Your logbook on the map: sites you logged dives at show as dived automatically.
• The map pictures need internet. Your own marks and notes do not.

• Add a dive: tap + New dive. Choose Scuba or Freediving at the top of the form. Start typing the dive site and pick it from the list, and the place and position fill themselves.
• Scuba: max depth, dive time, gas mixes (Air, Nitrox, Trimix), configuration (single cylinder, twinset, sidemount, rebreather), suit, weight, conditions, buddy, notes and a photo.
• Freediving: discipline, dive time (mm:ss), max depth, distance for dynamic dives, breath-hold and rest time.
• Calculators: the form shows the gas MOD, ppO₂ at your max depth, and your surface air consumption (SAC) when you enter the tank pressures.
• Look back: each dive is one short card with site, max depth, dive time, gas, configuration and photo. Tap a card to open the full log.
• Search and filter: type in the search box, or filter by dive type, configuration or dive place. Clear filters resets them.
• Change or copy: open a dive, then tap Edit or Copy as new (handy for repeat dives at the same site). Delete removes it for good, so keep a backup.

• Dive photo: add one photo to each dive in the logbook. It shows on the dive card.
• Photo album on the map: open a site you dived and add pictures. You can tag names on them.
• Fish ID help: use the free outside tools linked in the album. Naming from a photo is a guess, so check it against a guide.
• Backup: your photos are included in the backup file, so large albums make a larger file.
• Only add photos you took, or have permission to use. Ask before sharing pictures of other people.