Polar Team vs Commit Swimming
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Polar Team
This app helps coaches monitor individual player effort in real-time during indoor team sports. It provides objective performance data after training sessions, allowing for personalized coaching and future session planning. Share detailed reports with players and staff to optimize team performance.
- Real-time heart rate monitoring
- Individual and team coaching guidance
- Player performance comparison
- Post-training objective data
- Shareable performance reports
- Heart rate zone tracking
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** Polar Team is ranked among the top 10 Health and Fitness apps in 18 countries! Polar Team allows coaches and trainers of any indoor sports team – basketball, ice hockey, indoor tennis, volleyball and more – to see exactly how hard each team member is working. This allows you to coach each of them individually, in real time. It also provides information to see who is tiring, who needs to work on their fitness, and who may have energy left in the tank. To coach with Polar Team, you’ll need an iPad and a compatible Polar heart rate sensor or a sport watch for each player.* Follow the performance of your whole team or concentrate on one player at a time. Spot the differences and guide your players at once. Compare several players on screen in real time. Motivate your players by showing them their effort on the go during training. After the training Polar Team reveals objective data on your players’ performance and shares reports with your players and coaching staff. Use the data to plan your next session. *Compatible devices: https://support.polar.com/en/support/FAQs/Compatibility_and_Requirements_Polar_Team_app Key features: -Follow your team’s heart rates on screen in real time (in beats per minute and percentage of maximum heart rate, and by target heart rate zone) -Guide and motivate your players at once, as a team or individually -Compare chosen players on screen during training -See objective data on the effort of the whole team and each player individually after the training (average and maximum heart rate per session, calorie consumption, accumulated time in heart rate zones, heart rate curve, weekly training overview) -Share this data with your team and coaching staff via email as a pdf summary Coach your team to the top with Polar Team. Discover more about Polar Team sports solutions at: http://www.polar.com/en/b2b_products/team_sports Note: We recommend using the app in indoor team sports only due to limitations in the Bluetooth Smart transmission range. The maximum line-of-sight coverage for Bluetooth Smart transmission is around 60 meters (66 yards).
Commit Swimming
This app simplifies swim workout logging and analysis for athletes and coaches. Its unique "Parser" algorithm interprets free-text entries, transforming them into trackable data. View trends, log workouts for groups, and manage notes and attendance effortlessly.
- AI-powered workout parsing
- Track swim season trends
- Log workouts for multiple groups
- Add notes and record test-set times
- Track athlete attendance
- Organize workouts into folders
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Write, track and analyze your swim workouts with Commit. Whether you are an athlete or a coach, Commit Swimming is the simplest and most modern way to keep a journal of your swim training. No need to type into little boxes, just write each workout like an email and Commit's proprietary algorithm, "The Parser", does the rest. "This is an enormous step forward from anything else that’s available. It's a game changer." Matt Kredich, Tennessee "Commit has created the most significant workout manager I've ever seen. This program is a blessing." Greg Wriede, Peddie "Finally an affordable program that makes logging simple." Adam Depmore, Lone Star Aquatics Written about on SwimSwam by Gold Medal Mel Stewart as "The most innovative swim software out there", Commit Swimming is the most advanced workout journal that coaches and swimmers across all levels are now using. Why? Because it tracks your workout history, it analyzes trends in your training, and most importantly, it’s extremely easy to use. All you have to do is type your workout like you would in a Word document, and everything else is automatically taken care of for you. Commit Swimming Features In addition to The Parser, Commit's swimming workout manager comes with easy to use features swimmers and swim coaches need every day. -view graphs and trends of your swim season -log workouts for yourself or multiple training groups at once -write notes for a workout to communicate with other coaches, keep track of mental notes, or record test-set times -track athlete-specific attendance for your workouts and view attendance reports -Organize workouts into folders for easy access As always, contact team@commitswimming.com with any questions!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Polar Team at 4.6 against Commit Swimming's 3.6. Polar Team also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (294 vs 18). Commit Swimming's advantage is review sentiment (40% vs 30%) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Commit Swimming sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Polar Team asks for nothing beyond the download.
Polar Team holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Polar Team has 294 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 30% of Polar Team's written reviews are positive against 40% of Commit Swimming's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Polar Team ships an update every 2 months, Commit Swimming every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Polar Team | Commit Swimming |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (294 ratings) — better | 3.6 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 40.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 294 — better | 18 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Polar Electro | Commit Analytics |
Customer experience
Polar Team
Commit Swimming
Bugs and requests
Polar Team
Reported bugs
16 issues- Emailing reports to coaches and participants is glitchy
- Consistency in readings is still an issue
- App crashes constantly
- App will not open after deleting demo players
- Does not sync
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- External projection feature no longer supported
- No AirPlay
- Cannot display heart rate on external monitor
- External screen mirroring has been removed
- Screen mirroring turned off
- Disallowing external screen sharing
- Cannot AirPlay live stats on TV
- New update has ruined my business
- Crashing
- Cannot start this app
- Constantly crashes
Requested features
10 requests- Solution for small businesses not $$$/month
- More user-friendly software
- Allow AirPlay
- Export heart rate data in HRM or XML format
- Handle multiple teams and players
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- More than one team stored in the app
- Ability to add additional teams
- Fix crashing issues
- Improve external projection feature
- More communication about update changes
Commit Swimming
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Polar Team
No in-app purchases
Commit Swimming
- Yearly Subscription$89.99
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