Comparison

FDS Remote Timer 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

FDS Remote Timer

Features
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Remote Timer has been designed to be used when the distance between a timing gate and the timing center is above the range of radio transmission. This app will send all timestamps generated by a TBox to our Cloud server (either via a timing session or via a WebResult competition ID). Those timeStamps can be retrieved either by SmartChrono, by another Remote Timer app (in Receive mode) or by a computer using the dedicated "FDS Timing Server Interface" PC application.

About

Swim Coach Toolkit

Manage swim and dive teams with this comprehensive toolkit. Import rosters and meet entries, track results, generate custom practice sets, and analyze performance data. All features are available for free.

Highlights
  • Roster & Athlete Management
  • Meet Entry & Results Tracking
  • Practice Generation & Editing
  • Time Standards & Team Records
  • Customizable Reports
  • Precision Stopwatch & Pace Calculator
Features
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Leave your HyTek Team Manager Windows Device at the pool? Want to make edits to your lineup on the bus? Or want to get a jump start on your team's entries instead of doomscrolling during your athletics meeting? The Swim Coach Toolkit takes care of this all for free. Roster & Athlete Management — Import rosters directly from Hy-Tek Team Manager via ZIP, iCloud Drive, OneDrive, or Google Drive. Store athlete profiles, class years, graduation years, USSID numbers, and event best times. Meet Entry — Import meet ZIP files from any cloud location or local storage. Enter individual and relay entries, assign heat and lane assignments, and export entries back to Team Manager format. Full Dive Entries for E-Dive with export Dive List entry, contains a picker with searchable dive list. Meet Results — Import results from Hy-Tek Meet Manager. View results by event or by athlete with place, time, splits, and calculated points. Choose from NCAA or NFHS scoring formats — championship or dual meet — and recalculate points any time. Ability to upload or snap a picture of a practice and automatically convert to text. Age Group Specific Entries now only show athletes of that age group Japan Web-SWMSYS Entry CSV/PDF Entry Export SPLASH, Thailand, Guam HyTek CSV Entry Export Practice Generator, Practice Editor, Practice Writer. - Active Yardage calculations, Attendance with editable attendance codes and suite of reports Time Standards & Team Records — Create custom standard sets (conference cuts, school A-standards) with rapid numpad entry. The event list auto-advances as you go so you can enter an entire set in under a minute. Store program records by event, gender, and type with holder names, dates, and meet details. REPORTS — All exportable as print-ready PDFs Best Times — roster-wide personal records by event and gender Meet Entries by Athlete — complete entry card for every swimmer Meet Entries by Event — full heat sheet by event Meet Results — formatted results with splits and points column Season Points Total — individual scoring across multiple meets and a full season date range Event Entry Totals — entries-per-athlete summary against meet limits Time Standards Achieved — every athlete who has hit a custom standard or NCAA D1, D2, or D3 cut, with their best time alongside the qualifying mark Birthday Report — roster sorted by upcoming birthday BACKUP & RESTORE — Full data backup exports to a single .swimbackup file. Restore on any device, with a choice of merge or full replace. Cloud storage is fully supported for all imports. Hy-Tek Team Manager and Meet Manager file formats (.HY3, .CL2, .ZIP) are supported throughout. OTHER COACHING TOOLS Precision Stopwatch — Split every swimmer in real time. Lap times are saved automatically so you can review every split after practice. Leave Time Generator — Enter your interval and the number of repeats, and the app calculates every departure time for the set. Supports pace clock starts, odd/even intervals, set patterns, and automatic rest calculation. Race Pace Calculator — Work backward from a goal time to see what split the swimmer needs to hold, or project a final time from a known split. Covers every standard distance from 50 to 1650 yards. Swim Course Converter — Convert times between SCY, SCM, and LCM instantly. Includes NCAA Division I equivalency calculations when converting from meters. NCAA Standards — The full 2026–27 qualification standards for Division I, II, and III — men's and women's — always available offline. 2025-2026 standards available for comparison.

Screenshots

FDS Remote Timer3 screens
Swim Coach Toolkit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Swim Coach Toolkit at fortnightly against FDS Remote Timer's every 4 months. FDS Remote Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (13 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FDS Remote Timer ships an update every 4 months, Swim Coach Toolkit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
FDS Remote Timer versus Swim Coach Toolkit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFDS Remote TimerSwim Coach Toolkit
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFDS-Timing SarlBradford Wilder

In-app purchases

None

FDS Remote Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Swim Coach Toolkit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FDS Remote Timer free?
FDS Remote Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swim Coach Toolkit free?
Swim Coach Toolkit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FDS Remote Timer or Swim Coach Toolkit have ads?
Neither FDS Remote Timer nor Swim Coach Toolkit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FDS Remote Timer or Swim Coach Toolkit?
FDS Remote Timer ships an update every 4 months, and Swim Coach Toolkit fortnightly. Most recently, FDS Remote Timer was updated on October 4, 2026 and Swim Coach Toolkit on October 17, 2026.

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