SwimPace vs Swim Coach Tools
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SwimPace
This app helps swim coaches plan practice and test sets by calculating swim distances and times. It allows for custom intervals and can scale results for swimmers of different abilities. Evaluate swimmer fitness and strategize for races with precise pace calculations.
- Convert distance to time
- Convert time to distance
- Scale intervals for multiple lanes
- Customizable quick pick buttons
- Calculate fundamental 100 pace
- Goal pace per 50 calculation
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Swim coaches will find this app useful especially while planning practice sets and test sets. In a effort to keep practices fresh and interesting for the swimmers it is often desirable to prescribe sets of non-standard swim distances. - 10x125 can be more interesting than 10x100 - 3x450 might sometimes be a better set than 3x500 The challenge for the coach becomes picking a good interval for the innovative distance. We marvel at the abilities of those math-genius coaches out there who can effortlessly pick the perfect interval for the strangest of distances. For the rest of us: good thing there is an app for that! The SwimPace app calculates in both directions. For a given distance it will give you the correct time. For a given time, it will show you the distance travelled. Your table can be as large or as small as you want, showing any number of combinations swum at a given pace. Many coaches will periodically run a T30 or T20 test set (a 30:00 minute or 20:00 minute swim) to evaluate swimmer fitness. This app will help coaches understand the results by calculating the fundamental 100 pace travelled. Every January Masters across USA compete in the one hour swim race. The app can help with strategy in picking a goal pace per 50. An interesting use of a tempo trainer can be to set the beep to happen every half length of the pool. It is a pleasure for any coach to watch the intensity these kids will put into an attempt to beat the beep! Yes, the app will let you set a distance of 12.5. Here is a list of features: - Convert distance to time: specify a list of swim distances (e.g 12.5, 50, 100, 150) and paces will be calculated. - Convert time to distance: specify a list of times (e.g. 1:00.00, T30, 1 hour), distances will be calculated based on the pace you've chosen. - Optional extra columns are available to scale an interval for multiple lanes of different abilities. For instance you can pick an interval for your fastest lane and it will also show the intervals for other lanes that are traveling 5, 10, 15, and 20 seconds slower per 100. - A couple of customizable "quick pick" buttons are always visible in case your table grows big and you need a quick way to dial in a standard pace. I almost always have one of these buttons set to 100 meters.
Swim Coach Tools
This app provides essential offline tools for swim and dive coaches, including a stopwatch, split tracker, meet scorer, pace calculator, and dive scoring utilities. It consolidates multiple functions into a single, easy-to-use platform for efficient meet management and practice planning.
- Offline multi-lane split tracking
- Meet scoring for dual and championship meets
- Race plan and target split generation
- Full-screen pace clock
- Stroke rate and cycle time analysis
- Dive scoring and code translation
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Swim Coach Tools brings ten essential utilities for all swim and dive coaches into one, fully offline app for iPhone and iPad. Track multi-lane splits, score meets, analyze stroke metrics, convert times, manage dive scoring, and run pace sets without bouncing between watches, websites, or half a dozen different apps. These tools are everything swim and dive coaches need, all in one place, and ready when they need them during a big meet or an important workout. From high school to college, club to international, assistant coach to head coach, and swim to dive...this toolkit is for you! Pay once and get the full app. Swim Coach Tools is just $4.99 with no subscriptions, no ads, and no additional in-app purchases. Ever. WHAT YOU GET: CLASSIC WATCH A clean, dependable, digital stopwatch designed for the pool deck. Large buttons, easy-to-read splits, and fast controls when all you need is a watch that works. SPLIT WATCH Track an entire heat of swimmers on one screen with one thumb. Tap a wall touch, assign it to a lane, and get your data without juggling multiple stopwatches. MEET SCORER Score dual meets and championship meets without the mental math. Pre-score a psych sheet or follow the teams as they race live with built-in scoring presets. SPLIT GOALS Build a race plan in seconds. Enter a goal time and instantly generate target splits, then adjust key splits to match your swimmer’s strategy. PACE CLOCK A bright, full-screen pace clock that your swimmers can actually see from across the pool. Simple, clear, and always ready for practice. Prop it up at your next workout! PACE TIMER Set the interval, start the set, and let it run. Pace Timer repeats the send-off, tracks reps, displays each rep's time, and keeps the group on schedule without constant math from the coach or the lane leaders. TEMPO TAP Tap along with your athlete's swim to get instant stroke rate and cycle time. Great for checking tempo during practice, race-pace work, and live swims. DPS CALCULATOR Turn one measured swim into instant distance-per-stroke, velocity, and efficiency numbers. A quick way to connect stroke count and speed without extra math. TIME CONVERTER Convert SCY, SCM, and LCM times instantly and fully offline. No browser tabs, no searching, and no waiting on internet on deck. DIVE TOOLS A full set of dive-meet utilities in one place. Display judging numbers, calculate scores fast, and translate dive codes without reaching for paper cards or reference sheets. WHY THIS APP IS DIFFERENT: 1. Built By a Coach, For Coaches This app was built by a swim coach who has stood on the pool deck wishing all of these tools lived in a singular place, got tired of searching and waiting, and finally just built it. I know the exact pain points of this beautiful sport, and I designed this app to try and solve as many as I could. 2. One Single Purchase -> You Own It All No subscription creeping onto your card, no annoying ads, and no sneaky in-app purchases trying to nickel-and-dime you for the features that you actually want. Additionally, no account creation and no data harvesting. Nothing you type into the app ever leaves your phone. Period. 3. Uncompromising Accuracy The numbers *have* to be right. A tool that is sometimes wrong is worse than no tool at all, and this is why every single calculation on this app has been rigorously tested. 4. 100% Offline Capability No internet? No problem. This app is guaranteed to run at the deep end of the oldest, most heavily bunkered indoor pool in your area, every single time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: SwimPace at Free against Swim Coach Tools's $2.99. SwimPace also leads on iOS requirement (7.0 vs 15.1). Swim Coach Tools's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 1.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
SwimPace is free to download; Swim Coach Tools costs $2.99 up front. SwimPace sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Swim Coach Tools asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swim Coach Tools holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | SwimPace | Swim Coach Tools |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 1.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Hirst | Cole Baratte |
Customer experience
SwimPace
Swim Coach Tools
In-app purchases
SwimPace
- Upgrade$0.99
Swim Coach Tools
No in-app purchases









