Comparison

Workouts X vs Swim Coach Toolkit

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

Head to head
About

Workouts X

This application helps swim coaches create, modify, and run custom workouts. It features a built-in pace clock that can be projected onto a screen, displaying the set list for swimmers. Advanced set options allow for interval adjustments after each repeat.

Highlights
  • Create and modify swim workouts
  • Customizable terminology
  • Built-in pace clock
  • Projectable pace clock display
  • Advanced interval adjusting sets
  • Designed for age group to college teams
Features
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This app is designed for swim coaches to enter and run workouts. It is designed specifically for the iPad and iPhone to make it easy to create and modify workouts and is highly customizable so a coach can use their own terminology and descriptions to setup a workout. One of the really cool features of the app is the built in pace clock that can run the workout that you designed. Hook it up to a projector or large TV at the pool and you have a pre-programmed pace clock that is setup for your workout. It even shows the set list so the swimmers know what they are doing. Another advanced feature in this app is the ability to define sets that adjust the interval after each repeat. With this feature, it is easy to design a set of 10x100 on 1:20 minus 0:02 each repeat (1:20, 1:18, 1:16, …). This type of set would be difficult to keep track of with a normal pace clock, but with the built-in pace clock it is easy to know the current send off. This application has been designed and tested by a number of coaches from age group to college teams. I hope you find this app useful for setting up and running practices for your own team. Complete privacy policy and terms of use can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/bigfishsoftware/privacypolicy

About

Swim Coach Toolkit

Manage swim and dive teams, including rosters, athlete data, and meet entries. Generate practice plans, track attendance, and analyze performance with custom reports. Supports multiple file formats for seamless data import and export.

Highlights
  • Roster management (import/export HY-TEK/SDIF)
  • Athlete data tracking (birthdays, IDs, best times)
  • Meet entry creation and export
  • Dive lists with searchable dive table
  • Practice generator and attendance tracking
  • Custom time standards and team records
  • Print-ready PDF reports
Features
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Left your HY-TEK Team Manager laptop at the pool? Want to fix a lineup on the bus, or get a head start on entries instead of doomscrolling in your athletics meeting? Swim Coach Toolkit handles it, free. SWIM & DIVE TEAM MANAGER • Rosters: import HY-TEK Team Manager or SDIF roster files from iCloud Drive, OneDrive, Google Drive or Files. Export HY-TEK or SDIF rosters. • Athletes: class and graduation year, USA Swimming and other federation IDs, birth dates with automatic ages, active and inactive status. • Swim history: every imported swim, best times by course (SCY, SCM, LCM), splits, reaction times and progression charts. MEET ENTRIES • Import meets from HY-TEK, SDIF, Lenex, Swim Meet Toolkit or DSV (Germany) files. • Individual and relay entries with heat and lane, a Relay Builder, and bonus and exhibition entries. Age-group events list only that age group. • Diving: dive lists with a searchable dive table and DD, exported for eDive. • Export entries in HY-TEK format, as SPLASH, Thailand or Guam CSV, as a Japan Web-SWMSYS CSV or PDF, as DSV8, or in your own CSV layout. MEET RESULTS • Import results from HY-TEK, SDIF, Lenex, DSV and Swim Meet Toolkit files. • By event or by athlete: place, time, splits, reaction time and points, with each round's relay swimmers. • NCAA or NFHS scoring, championship or dual. Rescore any time. MEET DAY WITH SWIM MEET TOOLKIT (MAC) • Join the Mac's Meet Hub over the pool Wi-Fi as table staff or a dive judge. • Manual dive score cards when there's no connection. • Watch the live scoreboard, no password needed. • On a Mac: stream a running clock to a Colorado scoreboard over a serial cable. PRACTICE & ATTENDANCE • Practice Generator, Editor and Writer with running yardage totals. • Snap or upload a photo of a handwritten practice and turn it into text. • Practice calendar, full-season plans, groups and facility setup. • Attendance with editable codes and a full set of reports. STANDARDS & RECORDS • Custom time standards with several cut levels. Rapid numpad entry auto-advances through the events. HY-TEK .STD import. • Team records by event, gender, course and age group. REPORTS (print-ready PDFs) Best Times · Birthday · Time Standards Achieved · Meet Entries by Athlete · Meet Entries by Event · Psych Sheet · Check-In Sheets · Lane / Timer Sheets · Meet Results · Season Points Total · Season Results by Athlete · Event Entry Totals · Split Sheets · Attendance Entries and results reports let you choose individual, relay or both, and which columns print. SYNC, BACKUP & LANGUAGES • Optional iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac, shared with Swim Data Toolkit on the Mac. • Full backup to one .swimbackup file. Restore with merge or full replace. • English, French, Spanish and German. COACHING TOOLS • Stopwatch: two watches, every split saved. Apple Watch app, Live Activity, and splits from Control Center, the Action button or Siri. • Leave Time Generator: pace clock starts, odd/even intervals, set patterns and rest. • Race Pace Calculator: goal time to splits, or split to final time, 50 to 1650. • Course Converter: SCY, SCM and LCM, with NCAA Division I equivalency. • NCAA qualifying standards 2026–27 for Divisions I, II and III, plus 2025–26 to compare. Always offline. Works hand in hand with Swim Meet Toolkit and Swim Data Toolkit for Mac. NEW: TIME TRIALS FROM YOUR PHONE • At a meet run on Swim Meet Toolkit, open Meet Staff, pick the hub and tap Connect as Coach with the coaches' password. • Add Time Trial: pick the team, the swimmer (from the meet, your roster, or typed in) and the event. The seed fills in from the swimmer's best time. Send, or Send & Add Another HY-TEK, Team Manager, SPLASH, eDive, Colorado Time Systems, NCAA, NFHS and USA Swimming are, or may be, trademarks of their respective owners. Swim Coach Toolkit is not affiliated with them.

Screenshots

Workouts X4 screens
Swim Coach Toolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Swim Coach Toolkit at none against Workouts X's 3. Swim Coach Toolkit also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Workouts X's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Workouts X sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Swim Coach Toolkit asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Swim Coach Toolkit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Workouts X's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swim Coach Toolkit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Workouts X ships an update every 5 weeks, Swim Coach Toolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Workouts X versus Swim Coach Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWorkouts XSwim Coach Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (8 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBig Fish SoftwareBradford Wilder

Customer experience

Workouts X

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Swim Coach Toolkit

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Workouts X

Subscriptions3
  • WorkoutsX Monthly Subscription1 Month trial$1.491 Month
  • Loyalty User6 Months trial$1.491 Month
  • WorkoutsX Yearly Subscription1 Month trial$14.991 Year
None

Swim Coach Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Workouts X free?
Workouts X is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swim Coach Toolkit free?
Swim Coach Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Workouts X or Swim Coach Toolkit?
Swim Coach Toolkit is rated higher. Workouts X averages 4.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Swim Coach Toolkit averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Workouts X or Swim Coach Toolkit have ads?
Neither Workouts X nor Swim Coach Toolkit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Workouts X or Swim Coach Toolkit?
Workouts X ships an update every 5 weeks, and Swim Coach Toolkit fortnightly. Most recently, Workouts X was updated on November 2, 2026 and Swim Coach Toolkit on November 5, 2026.

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