5K@ADA vs Swimming Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5K@ADA
This app encourages physical activity to help prevent diabetes and its complications. It serves as a disease awareness campaign, promoting healthy lifestyles for diabetes prevention and control. Participation is free of charge.
- Diabetes prevention awareness
- Promotes physical activity
- Healthy lifestyle encouragement
- Free participation
- Disease awareness campaign
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The 5K@ADA brings together citizens of New Orleans and ADA attendees to emphasize the need for increased physical activity to help prevent diabetes and diabetes complications. This disease awareness activity provides participants with the opportunity to raise public awareness about the importance of a healthy lifestyle in preventing and controlling diabetes. Through Novo Nordisk's continued support of the American Diabetes Association, the 5K@ADA Virtual Challenge will be free of charge .
Swimming Timer
This app helps swimmers practice race starts with customizable timers and randomized delays. It also functions as a stopwatch to accurately measure lap and split times during training. Results can be saved and organized by date, with customizable event names and color themes.
- Customizable race start timer
- Randomized start delays
- Lap and split time measurement
- Save and view results by date
- Editable event names
- Customizable color themes
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Starter & stopwatch app for swimming. It can be used for practicing the starting race command or to help you measure your time. ●Basic Functions 1. Starter function You can set the time from TAKE YOUR MARKS to start sound as you like. It is also possible to randomize the time, which is useful for practicing the start. 2. Lap time & Split time Pressing the "Lap" button or "Stop" button after the start sound, the lap time and split time will be measured. If you accidentally press the button to measure a time, you can delete it by swiping the result cell to the left. 3. Saving results Measured times can be saved by pressing the "Save" button. Saved times can be viewed by date. 4. Event setting By tapping the event name under the time, you can freely select an event (e.g. Men's 100m Freestyle). In the initial display, 100m is set. 5. Color settings The background color and timer color can be changed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 5K@ADA at none against Swimming Timer's 2. 5K@ADA also leads on ads (none vs shown). Swimming Timer's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Swimming Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 5K@ADA asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for 5K@ADA against 5.0 for Swimming Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively.
5K@ADA ships an update every 2 months, Swimming Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5K@ADA | Swimming Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | American Diabetes Association | NAOYA ONO |
Customer experience
5K@ADA
Swimming Timer
In-app purchases
5K@ADA
No in-app purchases
Swimming Timer
- Support Developer$0.99
- Remove ads$6.99
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