Who Is a Buddy in the Freediver App

A buddy is your training partner

Freediving is a sport nobody enters the water alone for. The Freediver app mirrors that: you connect with the person you train with, and from then on their planned sessions turn up in your week and yours in theirs. They live under Buddies in the app.

How to connect with a buddy

Step 1: Open Buddies

Open the app menu and look under Training. Buddies sits between your static apnea settings and your memberships, and the number beside it is how many people you are connected with right now.

App menu with Buddies under the Training section

Buddies lives in the app menu, under Training

Step 2: Tap Invite buddy

The Buddies screen lists everyone you train with. When it is still empty it says so, and one row does the work: Invite buddy.

Empty Buddies screen with the Invite buddy row

An empty buddy list, and the row that starts an invitation

Step 3: Send the link, or let them scan it

Up comes your invitation: a link, and the same link as a QR code. Off the water, Copy or Share it into a message. At the pool it is quicker to hold up the code and have them scan it.

Anyone holding that link can connect with you, so treat it like an address rather than a secret. If it ends up somewhere it should not, Reset link issues a new one and the old one stops working.

Invitation sheet with the buddy link, a QR code, and Copy and Share buttons

One link, one code — copy it, share it, or have it scanned

Step 4: They accept

Opening the link shows them who is inviting and what they are agreeing to: you will see each other's upcoming trainings and share your progress. One tap on Accept Invitation and it is done — or Decline, if it was a mistake.

The connection is mutual from that moment: they appear on your list, you appear on theirs. Either of you can end it later, without asking the other.

Buddy invitation screen with the inviter's name and the Accept Invitation button

What the other person sees when they open your link

What a buddy sees

Their sessions do not sit in a separate corner of the app — they turn up in your own feed, on the day they are planned for, folded into a single row: 1 buddies training. Open it and the session is there in full.

Whose it is. Their initials and name sit at the top of the card, so a shared day never gets confusing.
What it is. The name of the session and its shape as a row of dots — one per rep, so you can see the rhythm before you read a number.
How big it is. Planned distance, total apnea time, how long the session should take, and its ALS load score.
Only what is ahead. A buddy sees trainings that are planned and not yet finished — not your history or your log from previous months.

There is also Start workout on their card: if you like the look of the session, you can run the same one yourself, side by side in the same lane. Once a session is completed it drops off the upcoming list, and your effort ratings, your notes and your statistics stay yours.

Home feed with a buddies training row expanded to show a buddy's session card

A buddy's session, in your own feed, on the day it is planned

At the pool: less explaining, more diving

The difference shows most at the poolside. Instead of explaining before every set what you are doing now and how long your rest is, you are both looking at the same plan. Your buddy knows you have two minutes after this rep and when to be at the wall.

Whoever is spotting can run the countdown from the app. The rest counts down in the middle of the screen, NEXT shows the rep that follows — discipline, distance, pace and a one-line cue — and the header keeps the running total: how much of the session is left and what time it ends. If the rest needs stretching, the buttons nudge it by ten seconds or a minute.

The one diving does not have to watch a clock or count in their head — just listen. When the session is written down in advance and visible to both of you, there is far less to settle on the spot. And the less there is to settle by the water, the calmer the dive.

Countdown screen with the rest timer, the next rep and the time left in the session

The rest, the rep that follows, and how much session is left

Good to know

The connection is mutual. You see each other's upcoming sessions — there is no way to follow someone one-sidedly.
One link, as many people as you like. Send it to a whole club if you want; when you want it void, reset it.
The QR code is the poolside version. No typing, no messaging app, no phone handed over — just hold up the screen.
Disconnecting is immediate. Remove a buddy and your sessions stop being visible to each other.
The app is no substitute for a spotter. A shared plan and a countdown help you communicate, but safety comes from the person in the water, not from a screen.