Comparison

Swim+ vs SwimNow

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

Head to head
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.

About

SwimNow

This app analyzes and tracks swimming data from your Apple Watch and other synced devices. It offers detailed insights into your performance, advanced split views, and trend charts to help you improve your swimming efficiency and achieve your goals.

Highlights
  • Import structured workouts to Apple Watch
  • Advanced splits views with more metrics
  • Data analysis and trend charts
  • Swimming achievement stickers
  • Compare two swims
  • Set personal goals
  • Yearly and monthly summaries
Features
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THE ULTIMATE APPLE WATCH SWIM TRACKER SwimNow is the essential swim app designed specifically for Apple Watch. It empowers you to seamlessly track, analyze, and optimize every swimming workout right from your wrist. By integrating directly with the Apple Health App, SwimNow transforms your standard pool and open water swims into professional-grade analytics—capturing everything from laps, pace, and distance to advanced metrics like SWOLF and stroke efficiency. Whether you are a beginner aiming for general fitness or a competitive swimmer chasing a new Personal Best, this app provides the deep data insights you need to train smarter. Discover the best alternative to the native Fitness app and make every meter count! ► Import Structured Workouts to Apple Watch Easily edit your swimming plan on your phone and seamlessly import it to Apple Watch.(Need iOS 18 & WatchOS 10) ► Data View swimming data recorded by your Apple Watch native app in various formats, including calendar and list views. ► Advanced splits views Compared to the native app, the splits view offers more metrics, including stroke count, stroke efficiency, SWOLF, heart rate, and more. Helps you understand the details of each swim lap better. ► Swimming Achievement Stickers Unlock a variety of fun achievement stickers. Place them freely to record your growth and show off your unique swimming style. ► Compare Two Swims Compare technical metrics between two swimming sessions to help you spot differences and continuously refine your technique. ► Data Analysis Provide comprehensive swimming statistics, including swim time, distance, pace, stroke count, stroke rate, calories burned, heart rate, and more, with detailed breakdowns for each interval and lap. ► Trend, Charts, Graph Select time periods, filter by swimming style, pool length, and distance. With comprehensive technical metrics and multidimensional statistics, generate detailed trend charts that help you easily track and analyze long-term swimming data, identify progress and areas for improvement, and enhance your performance. ► Set Goals Set personal goals and cultivate swimming habits to achieve your objectives. ► PB Personal best in different distances. like 100m, 200m, 1000m, 1500m... ► More Metrics Additional metrics such as METs and training impulse. ► Yearly Recap A cool yearly recap that highlights every bit of your persistence and progress throughout the year. ► Monthly & Weekly Summaries Crystal-clear summaries that make every bit of your progress easy to track. ► Distance Correction Fixed an issue where Apple Watch recorded incorrect distances during Open Water Swims (caused by breaststroke). You can edit stroke types and adjust distance for all laps at once, making it easier to correct missed laps or inaccurate swim data recorded by Apple Watch during pool workouts. ► Training Notes Add personalized notes to each training session to track progress and key details. ► AI Analysis Analyzes swimming data within your monthly summaries to optimize your training plans. ► Sharing Features Easily share your swim data with long screenshots, cards, or text. Download SwimNow now and start your swimming data analysis journey, making every meter count! SwimNow offers both a one-time payment option and an annual subscription. The subscription includes an auto-renewal feature. This means it will automatically renew unless you manage your subscription in your account settings. After purchase, you can manage your subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your account settings in the App Store. Email: swimnow@outlook.com

Screenshots

Swim+4 screens
SwimNow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: SwimNow at 77% against Swim+'s 0%. SwimNow also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and SwimNow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SwimNow holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SwimNow has 44 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Swim+'s written reviews are positive against 77% of SwimNow's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swim+ ships an update every 5 weeks, SwimNow weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Swim+ versus SwimNow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwim+SwimNow
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)4.9 (44 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews77.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings144 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.617.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB170 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWorld Champ Tech阳 邹

Customer experience

Swim+

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

SwimNow

All ratings44 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews71 reviews
Positive77.5%
Neutral8.5%
Negative14.1%

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
2 purchases

SwimNow

Subscriptions1
  • Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Swim+ free?
Swim+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SwimNow free?
SwimNow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Swim+ or SwimNow?
SwimNow is rated higher. Swim+ averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while SwimNow averages 4.9 from 44 ratings.
Do Swim+ or SwimNow have ads?
Neither Swim+ nor SwimNow shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swim+ or SwimNow?
Swim+ ships an update every 5 weeks, and SwimNow weekly. Most recently, Swim+ was updated on October 14, 2026 and SwimNow on October 17, 2026.

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