Comparison

Steps for Watch vs Swim+

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

Head to head
About

Steps for Watch

This app tracks your daily steps and heart rate directly on your Apple Watch. It offers detailed daily step analysis, a seven-day graph of your activity, and the ability to set personal step goals. All data is stored locally on your device for privacy.

Highlights
  • Daily step tracking
  • Heart rate monitoring
  • Digital Crown for detailed analysis
  • Seven-day activity graph
  • Complication support
  • Personal step goals
Features
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Track your Steps and Heart Rate in this standalone app for Apple Watch Key features: -Daily steps -Use the Digital Crown to examine daily steps in detail and compare your steps activity to heart rate measurements during the selected time period -Seven day graph with daily steps and heart rate averages -Complication with daily steps -Set your personal daily steps goal -In app tutorial (open menu by firmly pressing the screen) Privacy: Steps for Watch needs read access to Motion & Fitness Activity and Heart Rate data. Information read by Steps for Watch is only stored and used locally on your Apple Watch. If you have any questions please contact us at contact@sydvesti.com

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

Swim+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Steps for Watch at 73% against Swim+'s 0%. Steps for Watch also leads on rating (3.6 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Swim+'s advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 35 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. Steps for Watch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Steps for Watch holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Steps for Watch has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Steps for Watch's written reviews are positive against 0% of Swim+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steps for Watch ships an update every 35 months, Swim+ every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and August 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Steps for Watch versus Swim+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteps for WatchSwim+
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.6 (20 ratings) — better3.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings20 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 35 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSydvesti OyWorld Champ Tech

Customer experience

Steps for Watch

All ratings20 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%

Swim+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

None

Steps for Watch

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 Steps for Watch free?
Steps for Watch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swim+ free?
Swim+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Steps for Watch or Swim+?
Steps for Watch is rated higher. Steps for Watch averages 3.6 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Swim+ averages 3.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Steps for Watch or Swim+ have ads?
Neither Steps for Watch nor Swim+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steps for Watch or Swim+?
Steps for Watch ships an update every 35 months, and Swim+ every 5 weeks. Most recently, Steps for Watch was updated on September 10, 2026 and Swim+ on August 10, 2026.

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