SwimPulse vs USA Swimming Network
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
USA Swimming Network
Access live and on-demand swimming events, athlete features, and exclusive documentaries. New content is added weekly, offering a constant stream of swimming-related videos for fans.
- Live event streams
- On-demand race clips
- Exclusive documentaries
- Content from influencers
- New content added weekly
- Search by swimmer
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The USA Swimming Network is a free live and video-on-demand destination with thousands of videos featuring your favorite athletes and content providers. What you’ll love about the USA Swimming Network: - Live streams of USA Swimming, U.S. Masters Swimming, and YMCA events - New content added weekly so there’s always something new to discover - A variety of on-demand content including race clips, exclusive USA Swimming Productions documentaries and series, and content from swimming influencers - Search for content featuring your favorite swimmer on mobile and tablet devices
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SwimPulse at 71% against USA Swimming Network's 14%. SwimPulse also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). USA Swimming Network's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SwimPulse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: USA Swimming Network has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of SwimPulse's written reviews are positive against 14% of USA Swimming Network's.
SwimPulse ships an update every 2 weeks, USA Swimming Network every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SwimPulse | USA Swimming Network |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (19 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better | 14.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Artem Goncharov | Connected Television Group |
Customer experience
SwimPulse
USA Swimming Network
In-app purchases
SwimPulse
No in-app purchases
USA Swimming Network
No in-app purchases
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