Comparison

Swim+ vs Two Plates

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

Two Plates

This strength training app helps self-coached lifters track workouts and manage progressive overload. It automates calculations, offers built-in popular programs, and allows custom program creation. Log sets quickly, manage plate math, and analyze your training progress.

Highlights
  • Fast set logging with RPE/RIR
  • Automated program progression
  • Customizable program builder
  • Plate math calculator per side
  • Apple Watch workout control
  • iCloud data sync
  • Import/export training history
Features
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Two Plates is a strength log for the self-coached lifter. It runs your program, does the math between sets, and gets out of the way. You pay once and it is yours. LOG SETS FAST Your next set is already loaded. One tap confirms it, and effort chips like @8 sit right on the keypad. RPE or RIR, your call. Rest timers run themselves. Logging is built to keep up with you mid set, not the other way around. YOUR PROGRAM RUNS ITSELF 5/3/1, GZCLP, nSuns and co. ship built in with their published progression rules. Build your own program, or paste one from any AI chat, even the exercises your physical therapist handed you, and it lands as a real program with working progression. Every weight change comes with its reason in plain language, and the app shows its work. PLATE MATH, PER SIDE Tell it the bars and plates you actually own and every set comes with what to load, per side even on the Apple Watch. Plate loaded machines too. APPLE WATCH The Apple Watch app runs the whole session from your wrist. Confirm sets, see what's next, finish your workout without touching your phone. THE LOG IS YOURS Import your history from Strong or Hevy CSV. Export everything, any time. Sync is iCloud, there is no account to create, and your training data never touches our servers. PAY ONCE Everything you need to log is free, forever. One purchase unlocks the parts that plan and analyze for you: programs that progress themselves, check-ins that update your plan, and the deeper look at your training. No subscription. Set for life.

Screenshots

Swim+4 screens
Two Plates4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Two Plates at 5.0 against Swim+'s 3.0. Two Plates also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 weeks). Swim+'s advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.1). On price, ratings volume, 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

Both are free to download. Swim+ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Two Plates sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Two Plates holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swim+ ships an update every 5 weeks, Two Plates every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Swim+ versus Two Plates: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwim+Two Plates
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWorld Champ TechAnthony Topalides

Customer experience

Swim+

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

Two Plates

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
1 purchases

Two Plates

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$24.99

Questions

Is Swim+ free?
Swim+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Two Plates free?
Two Plates is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Swim+ or Two Plates?
Two Plates is rated higher. Swim+ averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Two Plates averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Swim+ or Two Plates have ads?
Neither Swim+ nor Two Plates shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swim+ or Two Plates?
Swim+ ships an update every 5 weeks, and Two Plates every 5 days. Most recently, Swim+ was updated on October 14, 2026 and Two Plates on October 14, 2026.

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