ProSwimWorkouts vs Touchpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ProSwimWorkouts
Access professional swim workouts created by expert coaches. Share your training routines and discover how others train. Offers free resources alongside premium content and team subscription options.
- Professional swim workouts
- Workout sharing capabilities
- Content from expert coaches
- Free workouts and resources
- Premium content access
- Team subscription options
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Welcome to the ProSwimWorkouts App. The one place for you to get your daily swim workout! Get professional swim workouts by professional swim coaches. Are you passionate about swimming? Are you a swim coach or an athlete wondering how your competition spends their time in the pool? Have you ever wanted to share what you do every day but didn’t know how? Now you can do all of it on the go in one place! ------------------------------------------------------------- PSW provides swim workouts by professional swim coaches. All contributing coaches to PSW believe in the power of sharing their knowledge and experiences with other coaches and athletes from around the world. PSW does offer many free workouts and resources. However, access to the majority of our content is a paid feature. We also offer subscription options for teams allowing Club Boards, Club Owners or Head Coaches to get premium access for their staff at volume pricing. You can find out more on our website about all our individual and team subscriptions. The goal of PSW is to give back to the swimming community and we hope that you will be pleased to know that with your help, we will support coaches, athletes and organizations around the world.
Touchpad
This app allows coaches to time multiple swimmers simultaneously, capture individual split times, and compare performance against ideal pacing. It also offers note-taking features for each lane and team management capabilities.
- Multi-lane timing
- Individual split capture
- Pacing comparison
- Tempo counter
- Lane-specific notes
- Roster and progress tracking
- Heat sheet scanner
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Touchpad is your best, on-deck coaching companion. Touchpad is a swim stopwatch that does what a regular stopwatch (or even multiple stopwatches) can't: time multiple lanes in a heat at the same time, capture individual splits length by length, and tell you how each swim actually compared to where it should have been — all from one place. Touchpad runs your whole session, practice or meet, and organizes your insights when you're done. For free, always, you get the following features: Time the race - Set the course (SCY, SCM, LCM), pick the event, choose how many lanes. Or create your own custom swim. - Tap an individual lane button for each split. The app captures every split, the total time, and the deltas between the captured time and elite times, automatically. - Up to 7 lanes per heat, with a layout that keeps the timing buttons vibrant and within reach, organized in a line so you can match the pool. See the swim, not just the time - Every split is compared to an ideal pacing profile for that event and course built from aggregations of multiple elite swims for that race. - A signed delta next to each ideal time tells you exactly how much faster or slower the swimmer was on that length. - A built-in Tempo Counter on the home page helps you capture stroke rate by tap. Manage your workouts - Write workouts in plain text and watch them get parsed live - Save specific sets and reference them in future workouts for easy copy-paste - With Touchpad Team, share workouts with other coaches and edit collaboratively Better Practice Tools - Replay: set up your iPhone or iPad and capture video with a 5-60 second delay. Loop a reference video next to it. Tag what mattered - Every lane card opens a notes sheet with quick-add notes for each lane: Start, Underwater & Breakout, Stroke, Turns, Tempo & Pacing, Breathing, Finish, Context, etc. Tap what happened, add free text if you want, save. Notes are editable weeks later from History — so you can review a meet swim against what you saw in the moment. With a Touchpad Team subscription, Insights will aggregate notes across a meet so you can see what your team is doing well or needs to work on. And sync data across devices with a free Touchpad account. --- Touchpad Team (paid subscription) — for coaches running real meets and real rosters With a Touchpad Team subscription, you get access to: Organize your team - Roster & progress. Keep your team's swimmers in the app. Tag who swam in which lane after the race. Stats like best times update automatically, with a trend chart per event on each swimmer's profile. - Invite assistant coaches to your team by email. Everyone sees the same roster, the same meet, the same meet queue. Switch between teams without losing where you were — each team keeps its own queue and history. Run the meet - Heat sheet scanner. Photograph the printed heat sheet, or upload the meet PDF. The app reads it, filters to your club, and builds you a queue of heats with your swimmers in event order. Each lane shows the parsed seed time next to that swimmer's personal best. Names are fuzzy-matched against your roster — exact matches, fuzzy candidates, and unmatched names are flagged so you can fix them before you build the queue. Multi-page PDFs go in as a single scan. - Work the queue heat by heat — Start → time → results → next heat queued and waiting. Skip or insert a manual heat. A post-session summary shows every result with seed comparison. You can manually time with the split stopwatch, or enter splits off the board. See a preview of the time your swimmer is on track for, assuming an ideal race. Insights - See what your team is doing well and what needs to be improved. Takes swims from meets and aggregates performances into actionable metrics. Always improving! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ProSwimWorkouts at none against Touchpad's 2. ProSwimWorkouts also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). Touchpad's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 13 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Touchpad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. ProSwimWorkouts asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ProSwimWorkouts against 5.0 for Touchpad. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
ProSwimWorkouts ships an update every 13 months, Touchpad every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ProSwimWorkouts | Touchpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 76 MB | 112 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicolas Messer | Bryson Alef LLC |
Customer experience
ProSwimWorkouts
Touchpad
In-app purchases
ProSwimWorkouts
No in-app purchases
Touchpad
- Touchpad Team - Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Touchpad Team - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year
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