Comparison

SwimJim vs LastTimer

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

Head to head
About

SwimJim

This app provides swimming lessons and water safety education for children, developed by experienced educators. It focuses on skill development, comfort in the water, and making swimming enjoyable for all children, including those with special needs. Learn about programs, teachers, and the benefits of aquatic activities.

Highlights
  • Swimming curriculum
  • Water safety education
  • Skill development
  • Comfort in water
  • Special needs support
  • Experienced teachers
Features
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SwimJim's classes gives you and your kid real skills and knowledge about swimming, safety and fun. We use a real curriculum developed by real educators and experts. Our students are the greatest ambassadors of our success. We invite you to learn about our programs, our teachers and our generations of alumni. Our hallmark is loving dedication with focus skill development. We get children comfortable and competent in the water. We make the most of your time and their energy and focus. Forty years of experience have taught us how to work with your kid’s behavioral and developmental patterns. We make swimming enjoyable and help fear and exuberant kids alike. We deeply enjoy helping with children with special needs and development issues. They are some of our favorite and best students! The aquatic environment can provide every kid with a unique athletic experience that you can't find in other sports. We bring self-esteem, safety and an essential life skill to thousands of children every week. Jump in with us! We'll see you poolside in New York and Houston.

About

LastTimer

This interval timer app helps you maximize workout efficiency by guiding your training sessions. Create custom timers with prep time, exercise intervals, rest periods, and audio cues. Track progress visually with widgets and live activities.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timers
  • Prep time and rest periods
  • Multiple exercises per cycle
  • Up to 10 cycles per workout
  • Audio cues
  • Home screen widgets
  • Live Activities integration
Features
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A timer keeps you honest. No more rushing through sets or resting too long between rounds. You set the work, the rest, and the pace, and LastTimer holds the line so you can focus on training, not on watching the time. Built for rounds, tuned for everything. LastTimer runs jiu jitsu, boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, and wrestling rounds with a clean bell that cuts through a noisy room, and it is just as at home with HIIT, Tabata, circuits, yoga, meditation, or a Pomodoro block. NEW IN 1.4.0 - ON YOUR WRIST, IN SYNC, ONE SCAN AWAY - Apple Watch app: a real timer on your wrist that runs on its own, with no iPhone nearby. Start a round, drop your wrist, and it keeps running and taps you at every change. - Your timers, everywhere: iCloud keeps saved timers and workout history in sync across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Build a timer on the phone and it is already on your wrist. - Scan to run: hand someone a workout with a scan. It opens the timer instantly, with nothing to install. - Every built-in preset is on the Watch too, ready without saving a thing. ONE TIMER, EVERY SCREEN - A full native iPad app with a coaching dashboard: the whole session at once, a big ring beside a board of every round, session stats, and what is up next. - Presentation Mode: a full-screen room display for a TV or projector over AirPlay or a USB-C to HDMI cable, so the whole class reads the timer from across the mat. - Lock Screen and Dynamic Island controls: pause, resume, and skip a round without unlocking. - Interactive Home Screen widget: start a saved timer with one tap; pause, resume, or skip the running one. - Voice announcements: spoken round call-outs, a 3-2-1 countdown, and "Workout complete." - Named, colored rounds: label each slot (Warm-up, Guard Passing, Sparring) and the ring tints to match, everywhere the round shows. - Round presets: boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling, per-belt IBJJF match times, Tabata, and EMOM, ready in one tap. - Session history and streaks: every finished workout logged with a daily streak. - Share a timer: send any timer (rounds, names, colors) as a link a training partner imports. - Siri and Shortcuts: "Hey Siri, start Boxing Rounds in LastTimer." BUILD YOUR PERFECT TIMER - Prep, exercise, and rest periods - Multiple exercises per cycle, up to 10 cycles - A bell that mixes over your music and plays even on silent - Accurate in the background when you switch apps WORKS FOR - Jiu Jitsu, boxing, MMA, Muay Thai, wrestling - HIIT and Tabata - Circuit and strength training - Yoga and stretching - Meditation - Pomodoro study sessions - Cooking (yes, really) PRIVACY No account. No ads. The developer collects no data. Your timers and history live on your device and sync privately through your own iCloud, where only you can see them. LastTimer costs less than that 12 oz can of sugar water. Download it and take control of your training.

Screenshots

SwimJim4 screens
LastTimer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SwimJim at Free against LastTimer's $0.99. LastTimer's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3). On rating, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

SwimJim is free to download; LastTimer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SwimJim against 5.0 for LastTimer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SwimJim ships an update monthly, LastTimer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
SwimJim versus LastTimer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwimJimLastTimer
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings311 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMain Street Academies Holdings General Limited Inc.Matthew weppler

Customer experience

SwimJim

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

LastTimer

All ratings11 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SwimJim

No in-app purchases

None

LastTimer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SwimJim free?
SwimJim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LastTimer free?
LastTimer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SwimJim or LastTimer?
SwimJim and LastTimer are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do SwimJim or LastTimer have ads?
Neither SwimJim nor LastTimer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SwimJim or LastTimer?
SwimJim ships an update monthly, and LastTimer every 3 weeks. Most recently, SwimJim was updated on September 18, 2026 and LastTimer on September 23, 2026.

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