Comparison

Escape Alcatraz Tri vs Swim Structured

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

Head to head
About

Escape Alcatraz Tri

Track participants in real-time during the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon. Get live updates on times, paces, and places, with interactive course maps and push notifications for progress. Share your experience and stay informed with event details.

Highlights
  • Real-time participant tracking
  • Live course map
  • Multiple participant tracking
  • Push notifications
  • Event information
  • Social sharing
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The Sokin Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon App will provide you with all the information you need throughout your weekend in San Francisco! Highlights: - Participant times, paces, estimates, and places in real-time - Interactive course map & live map tracking - Easy tracking of multiple participants at the same time - Push notifications as progress is made on course - Event info and messaging - Social sharing & notifications

About

Swim Structured

Features
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Your coach sends you a workout. You're standing on the pool deck. Now what? Swim Structured turns any coach-written swim set into a structured, device-ready workout in seconds. Paste the text, tap Parse, and every interval, with its stroke, effort, equipment, and the coach's exact cues, is ready to send to your Apple Watch or Garmin. BUILT FOR THE WAY COACHES ACTUALLY WRITE Coaches don't write in JSON. They write "4 X 50 @ Kickboard Flutter, finish last 15M hard kicking!" Swim Structured reads that. It handles the shorthand real swimmers use: send-offs, rest intervals, equipment callouts, round multipliers, mixed-stroke intervals, and the little notes that actually make a set work. ON YOUR WRIST, MID-INTERVAL The cues your coach wrote don't get lost. When you're on the 3rd of 4 kick 50s, your watch shows you "finish last 15M hard kicking!" exactly as written. No more memorizing the sheet before you push off. FULLY ON-DEVICE The parser is a real language model running locally on your iPhone using Apple's MLX framework. Your workouts never touch a server. No account. No subscription. No internet required after the one-time model download. EXPORTS THAT WORK Send to Apple Watch via WorkoutKit, with swim-native pool intervals and your notes attached. Export as FIT, the Garmin-native format. Upload to Garmin Connect, TrainingPeaks, or any service that reads FIT. Your rep counts, rest intervals, strokes, and equipment come through cleanly. EDIT BEFORE YOU SWIM Review the parsed workout before you export. Drag to reorder. Tap to edit. Add a warm-up interval or fix a typo. Your workout, your way. BUILT BY A TRIATHLETE Designed by someone who actually trains. If a feature doesn't help you get in the water faster, it's not in here.

Screenshots

Escape Alcatraz Tri4 screens
Swim Structured3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Escape Alcatraz Tri at Free against Swim Structured's $9.99. Escape Alcatraz Tri also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Swim Structured's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 13 months). On rating, 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

Escape Alcatraz Tri is free to download; Swim Structured costs $9.99 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 Escape Alcatraz Tri against 5.0 for Swim Structured. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Alcatraz Tri has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Alcatraz Tri ships an update every 13 months, Swim Structured every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Escape Alcatraz Tri versus Swim Structured: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape Alcatraz TriSwim Structured
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating5.0 (74 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings74 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 13 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDilltree IncNils Albertsen

In-app purchases

None

Escape Alcatraz Tri

No in-app purchases

None

Swim Structured

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Alcatraz Tri free?
Escape Alcatraz Tri is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swim Structured free?
Swim Structured costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Alcatraz Tri or Swim Structured?
Swim Structured is rated higher. Escape Alcatraz Tri averages 5.0 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Swim Structured averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Escape Alcatraz Tri or Swim Structured have ads?
Neither Escape Alcatraz Tri nor Swim Structured shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Escape Alcatraz Tri or Swim Structured?
Escape Alcatraz Tri ships an update every 13 months, and Swim Structured every 3 weeks. Most recently, Escape Alcatraz Tri was updated on November 3, 2026 and Swim Structured on November 5, 2026.

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