Comparison

SwimPulse vs Stroke Rate Trainer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SwimPulse

Track your swimming progress with a workout calendar and detailed analysis. Visualize your frequency, analyze pace, and export data for further insights. Includes an Apple Watch app for stroke tempo training and HealthKit integration.

Highlights
  • Workout calendar with SWOLF metric tracking
  • Detailed swim session analysis
  • Data export to CSV
  • Apple Watch stroke tempo trainer
  • HealthKit integration
  • Insights for optimized training
Features
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Improve Your Swimming Performance with this powerful app. Key Features: 1. WORKOUT CALENDAR: Visualize your swimming frequency with a glance at this week or month. Track your progress using the SWOLF metric, a popular swimming efficiency indicator, directly in the calendar. 2. DETAILED WORKOUT ANALYSIS: Tap a calendar date for an in-depth view of your swim session, including pace per 100m, stroke distance, sweet spot analysis and loop-by-loop stroke per minute metric. 3. DATA EXPORT: Easily export workout data to CSV format for advanced analysis in Numbers on your laptop. 4. Apple Watch App that can be used as a Stroke Tempo Trainer - it vibrates every given period of time (0.5-3 sec, or 20-120 SPM) so you can use it to make strokes for each hand or only for the left hand with watch to keep the required strokes tempo. Insights for Optimized Training: - Discover patterns in your swimming habits. For example, realizing a lack of activity on Mondays could lead to scheduling morning swims, boosting efficiency and combating procrastination. - Correct your stroke rate to be in the sweet spot (white zone in the chart of pace to stroke rate dependency). - Download CSV file with your workout and ask AI assistant to provide you a feedback or a piece of advice regarding the data in that file - the data is enough for it to evaluate your workout and provide a meaningful feedback. Cost: Free. Regular updates promised. Coming Soon: Better charts. HealthKit Integration: SwimPulse safely syncs with HealthKit for activity and workout data, crucial for accurate SWOLF and other metrics. SWOLF Explained: A key metric combining 100m swim time and stroke count per 100m. Lower SWOLF indicates higher efficiency. Requirements: - Apple Watch (3rd edition) for full metric tracking. - iOS 13.

About

Stroke Rate Trainer

This app provides a customizable metronome to help athletes train at specific tempos. It plays audible beeps at a set rate, ideal for practicing swimming strokes or other sports requiring precise timing during workouts.

Highlights
  • Customizable beep rate
  • Set tempo in seconds per cycle
  • Audio output via speaker or headset
  • Useful for swimming and other sports
  • Supports iPhone, iPad, and iPod
Features
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This is a simple metronome app that plays a beep at the selected rate in seconds per cycle. This can be used to train cycle rates in swimming or other sports. Example usage would be playing the rate to an athlete or group of athletes through the phone speaker, bluetooth speaker or headsets before or during a practice repeat so they learn the target tempo they are trying to achieve.

Screenshots

SwimPulse4 screens
Stroke Rate Trainer2 screens

Verdict

The call

SwimPulse and Stroke Rate Trainer are too close to call on the numbers: across 8 compared parameters — price, rating, ratings volume and ads among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SwimPulse against 5.0 for Stroke Rate Trainer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SwimPulse versus Stroke Rate Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwimPulseStroke Rate Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews71.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperArtem GoncharovDavid Hedden

Customer experience

SwimPulse

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

Stroke Rate Trainer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SwimPulse

No in-app purchases

None

Stroke Rate Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SwimPulse free?
SwimPulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stroke Rate Trainer free?
Stroke Rate Trainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SwimPulse or Stroke Rate Trainer?
SwimPulse and Stroke Rate Trainer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do SwimPulse or Stroke Rate Trainer have ads?
Neither SwimPulse nor Stroke Rate Trainer shows ads.

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