SwimRight Academy vs YMCA LA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SwimRight Academy
This app facilitates a learn-to-swim program for children, allowing parents to manage classes, track progress, and handle billing. It provides exclusive notifications and news updates from the academy's founder.
- Book classes and makeups
- Track makeup and free classes
- Record future absences
- Submit waitlist requests
- Manage billing and payments
- View skills and level history
- Receive app-exclusive notifications
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SwimRight Academy offers a learn to swim program for children of all ages. Started in 2005 by 4-time Olympic Gold Medalist Lenny Krayzelburg, "our core purpose is to teach and inspire children to be water safe". With the SwimRight iClass app, everything is at your fingertips Here are some of the features: - Book classes - Book makeups - Keep record of your makeups and free classes - Record future absences - Submit waitlist requests - Manage your billing - Pay your balances - Drop ongoing monthly classes - Update contact information - View skills and level history - Receive notifications exclusively on the app - News updates from Lenny and SwimRight Academy
YMCA LA
Easily manage your fitness journey with this app. Reserve equipment, classes, and swim lanes. Access health programs, event information, facility hours, and important alerts.
- Schedule health and wellness activities
- Reserve equipment, classes, and courts
- View facility hours
- Digital membership barcode
- Receive instant alerts and notifications
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The YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles app makes getting and staying fit easier than ever! Reserve equipment, classes, swim lanes and get instant access to health & wellness programs, events, hours, alerts and all our programs. Features: SCHEDULE YOUR HEALTH & WELLNESS View, search and reserve equipment, classes, small group training, racquetball courts, personal training, and more. FACILITY HOURS Quickly find out opening and closing times. BARCODE SCAN - Enter our facilities with your digital membership key card. ALERTS - Stay up to date with what’s happening at the LA Y with instant notifications and in app alerts. Please send any feedback and questions to info@ymcaLA.org. We love hearing from you!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SwimRight Academy at 2.5 against YMCA LA's 1.8. SwimRight Academy also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). YMCA LA's advantage is ratings volume (163 vs 19). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SwimRight Academy holds the better App Store score, 2.5 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: YMCA LA has 163 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of SwimRight Academy's written reviews are positive against 5% of YMCA LA's.
SwimRight Academy ships an update every 3 weeks, YMCA LA every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SwimRight Academy | YMCA LA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (19 ratings) — better | 1.8 (163 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 12.5% of reviews — better | 4.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 163 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 170 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LK Swim School Inc. | Attollo Technology LLC |
Customer experience
SwimRight Academy
YMCA LA
Bugs and requests
SwimRight Academy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
YMCA LA
Reported bugs
38 issues- Cannot log in
- Email with pin never arrives
- App crashes
- Feedback form doesn't work
- Keyboard cannot be dismissed
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- App is slow
- App logs out randomly
- App doesn't save preferred location
- App doesn't show family members
- App doesn't work at night
- App doesn't auto-refresh
- App doesn't show full swim lanes
- App errors: unable to get class data
- App errors: unable to get equipment data
- Missed check-ins
- App doesn't show classes
- Cannot cancel classes
- Cannot jump on waitlist
- App times out
- App doesn't find user account
- App doesn't accept new password from website
- App doesn't show available times unless day is selected
- App says cannot retrieve family data
- App doesn't work for childcare reservations
- App doesn't work for court bookings
- App doesn't work for open swim
- App doesn't work for waitlisting
- App doesn't sync name with account
- App redirects to website
- App doesn't remember login
- App gives weird error messages
- App doesn't let you reserve childcare
- App doesn't let you reserve spots
- App doesn't allow new account creation easily
- App doesn't allow booking courts easily
- App doesn't send pin
- App shows incorrect date for reservation
- App doesn't connect to YMCA system for email/password
Requested features
8 requests- History of check-ins
- Overall number of check-ins by year/month
- Number of streaks (days/weeks)
- Allow selecting one date, time, and duration for multiple people
- Develop a new app
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- List available court times for booking
- Offer website booking option
- Provide scannable keycard option
In-app purchases
SwimRight Academy
No in-app purchases
YMCA LA
No in-app purchases
Questions
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