Comparison

Tim vs Swim+

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

Head to head
About

Tim

Features
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Swim-R brings easy to use apps to the swimming pool to facilitate the organisation of training sessions. It is our ambition to lower the administrative burden for the coaches and to provide a crystal clear view on the athlete's training and competition data. Tim-R is the first app of a series. It's a Swim Coach Assistant that helps you to focus on the training. Use Tim-R to: - Coordinate the exercises in your training sessions - Specify the number of swim lanes available for training - Enter the number of swimmers participating - Define the number of repeats for an exercise (e.g. 4 x 100m Freestyle) - Set the time a swimmer gets to complete one repeat (e.g. 1:10) - Broadcast “On your marks” and start sounds through a connected bluetooth speaker - Get a view on the start times of each group of swimmers (waves) - See the number of repeats completed and total time elapsed for each exercise Need help or want to give feedback? Reach out to hello@swim-r.eu.

About

Swim+

This app offers real-time, personalized swim coaching using AI that adapts to your daily fitness. It provides haptic feedback and detects key metrics like laps, speed, and fatigue to optimize training and prevent injury.

Highlights
  • Real-time AI coaching
  • Haptic feedback
  • Automatic lap and set detection
  • Fatigue analysis
  • Performance metrics and charts
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Personalized improvement suggestions
Features
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Swim+ provides a delightful and magical workout experience! Swim+ represents a giant leap forward in technology that provides real time personalized coaching using an advanced artificial intelligence system that adapts to daily changes in your health & fitness to help maximize your training & performance. Swim+ alerts you to critical data: laps & sets during your swim, drifting out of the target speed, heart rate, stroke cadence, or effort for your workout, new best times or efforts, and acute or chronic fatigue limits indicating that you should stop to minimize the risk of injury. Swim+'s haptic feedback allows you to center your focus on the effort of your workout, without the distraction of glancing down at your Watch screen to see your data. Because the artificial intelligence algorithms that power Swim+ execute directly on your Watch, you get both faster, more immediate coaching during your workout, and your privacy & data security is ensured because your data never leaves your Watch for processing on a distant cloud server. Your Apple Watch stays the heart of every workout—now a companion iPhone app helps you explore, search, and understand your training. Free Features: 1. Haptic feedback provided so that you don't have to disrupt your workout to look at data on your Watch. 2. Start & stop swim recordings and intervals using force touch menus that perform reliably when your Watch screen is wet from the pool. 3. Scroll through data screens without swiping by rotating the crown button. 4. Geek out on piles of data and performance metrics. 5. New diary to explore the story of every swim. 6. Powerful natural language search instantly surfaces your key data—just ask. 7. Automatic swim set detection and categorization. 8. All day battery life for your longest open water swims. 9. Integrates with Apple Health. Coaching Subscription Features: 1. Intelligent coaching insights analyze your training history to guide you toward improved fitness. 2. Detailed analysis of each lap with customized coaching to boost your performance. 3. Comprehensive swim set performance analysis and personalized improvement suggestions. 4. Stroke cadence & distance per stroke analysis that provides guidance & coaching to ensure that you maximize swim speed while minimizing injury. 5. Heart rate analysis with feedback aimed to guide you to your correct target heart rate zone. 6. Speed & effort analysis to help guide you to the optimal effort level to help maximize your training. 7. Real time acute fatigue analysis that alerts you when you are getting tired and should consider stopping to reduce the risk of injury. 8. Post swim chronic fatigue analysis that coaches you to take rest days or extra recovery days when appropriate to avoid burnout and overtraining. 9. Tracking of your all time personal best efforts and performances for each stroke type, with notifications when you achieve a new personal best. 10. Customized target training effort ranges based on your personal data. Coaching subscriptions unlock the coaching features across the entire family of World Champ Tech workout apps, and are available for purchase in-app. A free, 14-day trial of the coaching features is available to demo in-app. Swim+® registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, registration number 6745039.

Screenshots

Tim2 screens
Swim+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tim at none against Swim+'s 4. Tim also leads on iOS requirement (11.4 vs 17.6). Swim+'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 46 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Swim+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tim asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tim ships an update every 46 months, Swim+ every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tim versus Swim+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimSwim+
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 46 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.4 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVerduco BVWorld Champ Tech

In-app purchases

None

Tim

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Swim+

Subscriptions3
  • Intelligent Coaching$1.991 Month
  • Intelligent Coaching1 Month trial$1.991 Month
  • Intelligent Coaching$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Intelligent CoachingFree

Questions

Is Tim free?
Tim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swim+ free?
Swim+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tim or Swim+ have ads?
Neither Tim nor Swim+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tim or Swim+?
Tim ships an update every 46 months, and Swim+ every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tim was updated on September 29, 2026 and Swim+ on October 14, 2026.

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