Swim vs Swimlytics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swim
This app helps competitive swim teams track swimmer progress and provides motivation through a unique ranking system. It supports multiple event types and offers easy time management tools for coaches, swimmers, and parents.
- Gamified ranking system for swimmers
- Track best times across 28 events
- In-app stopwatch for practice timing
- Import meet results files
- Manual time entry
- Accounts for coaches, swimmers, and parents
- Push notifications for achievements
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SwimWarrior is The Game of Swimming; an app that makes tracking progress and providing motivation easy for competitive swim teams of any size! RANKING SYSTEM SwimWarrior provides 3 types of rankings for every swimmer on a team. Rankings are based on swimmers’ best times in 28 events, with faster times leading to higher ranks. Times can be added from both practice sessions and meet result files. RANKING TYPES -Event Rank: determined based on a swimmer’s best time in an event -Stroke Rank: determined based on a swimmer’s best time in all events of a specific stroke -Overall Rank: determined based on a swimmer’s best time in all events RANKING STRUCTURE The ranking system works very similar to popular competitive, online video games. The ranks and their score ranges are: -Copper: 0-500pts -Bronze: 500-1000pts -Silver: 1000-1500pts -Gold: 1500-2000pts -Platinum: 2000-2500pts -Diamond: 2500-3000pts -Challenger: 3000-3500pts -Master: 3500-4000pts Qualifying times for each rank can be found at www.swimwarrior.com/ranks EVENT SELECTION Choose amongst 28 events for SCY, SCM and LCM to be used to determine rankings: -Butterfly: 25, 50, 75, 100 & 200 -Backstroke: 25, 50, 75, 100 & 200 -Breaststroke: 25, 50, 75, 100 & 200 -Freestyle: 25, 50, 75, 100, 200, 400/500, 800/1000 & 1500/1650 -Medley: 100, 200 & 400 TIMES MANAGEMENT To make the most out of the software, coaches must upload times. It’s incredibly easy to add and manage times in SwimWarrior! -Stopwatch: SwimWarrior features a state-of-the-art, in-app stopwatch feature that allows coaches to easily capture times data from practice in real time. Coaches select the events and swimmers they wish to time and the app autogenerates heats based on the number of lanes the coach wishes to use. The stopwatch is built to be optimized for the experience of coaching on deck, meaning that there is no need to look at the device while timing! -Meet File Import: SwimWarrior supports importing meet results files. After results files are processed, all times are stored automatically in swimmer’s profiles. -Manual Entry: SwimWarrior makes it easy to manually add times on the web and mobile app with a great user experience. ENGAGEMENT TOOL SwimWarrior is a tool for everyone on your team. With accounts for coaches, swimmers and parents, it’s easy to keep everyone updated with the skill level of every swimmer on the team and the progress they are making. When swimmer’s hit a new personal record or rank up, the app sends a push notification to them and their parent.
Swimlytics
This app analyzes competitive swim results to provide performance insights for swimmers, parents, and coaches. Track progress, compare swimmers, and understand trends across events and seasons. Premium features offer deeper analysis and full history.
- Automatic competitive swim result population
- Performance insights and trend analysis
- Swimmer progress tracking across events and seasons
- Side-by-side swimmer comparisons
- Team and LSC ranking context
- IMR/IMX progress tools
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Swimlytics is automatically populated with competitive swim results to help swimmers, parents, and coaches turn meet data into clear performance insights. Search for swimmers, save favorites, review best times, browse meet results, and follow progress across events, courses, and seasons from one streamlined app. Track top events and latest meet activity, monitor time standards and power points, and explore swim history in a way that makes trends easier to understand. Swimlytics brings important performance context together so you can quickly see where a swimmer is improving, where they are most competitive, and what to watch next. Dive deeper with side-by-side swimmer comparisons, team and LSC ranking context, and IMR/IMX progress tools designed to make long-term development easier to follow. Whether you are tracking one swimmer or comparing multiple athletes, Swimlytics gives you a clearer view of competitive progress. Swimlytics Premium unlocks exact times, full swim history, performance charts, deeper rankings, and expanded swimmer comparisons. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://splitsecondinsights.com/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Swimlytics at 5.0 against Swim's 4.4. Swimlytics also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Swim's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Swimlytics sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Swim asks for nothing beyond the download.
Swimlytics holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Swim's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swimlytics's.
Swim ships an update every 5 weeks, Swimlytics every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swim | Swimlytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | — | #141 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SWIMWARRIOR LLC | Split Second Insights, LLC |
Customer experience
Swim
Swimlytics
In-app purchases
Swim
No in-app purchases
Swimlytics
- Premium access7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Premium access7 Days trial$14.991 Year






