Swimming Lap Timer vs Nado
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swimming Lap Timer
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Track your swimming laps, time, and performance with ease. Whether you're training in the pool or improving your endurance, this app helps you stay focused and measure every session accurately. Key Features Track Unlimited Laps Count every lap in real time with a large, easy-to-read interface designed for quick taps during your swim. Advanced Timer & Stopwatch Monitor total session time and individual lap times with precision. Detailed Swim Stats & History View your past sessions with full breakdowns including laps, distance, duration, and average pace. Stroke Tracking Switch between freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and medley with color-coded indicators. Custom Pool Settings Set your pool length (25m, 50m, yards) for accurate distance tracking. Subscription Details: • Title: Savory All Access • Length: 1 year • Price: $39.99 per year and $7.99 per week (auto-renews) • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ • Privacy Policy: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b2FQZ_HK2I_6ZBJhiaJw_Vii5aKW9D4dYjGfP9C8efU/edit?usp=sharing
Nado
This app provides structured swimming workouts designed by coaches, adapting to your feedback to help you improve. Track your progress over time and see your gains, with an optional Apple Watch integration for convenience.
- Hundreds of pre-written swim workouts
- Adaptive coaching based on feedback
- Detailed progress tracking
- Apple Watch integration
- Workout progress saved after each set
- Designed for adult swimmers
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You get to the pool, swim a few laps, get out. No plan, no idea if any of it is making you faster. Nado hands you the workout before you get in the water. Hundreds of workouts, ready to swim Beginner to advanced, all written the way a coach would write them: warm-up, drills, main set, cool-down, with every distance and rest interval already worked out. Open the app, read the set, swim it. A coach that pays attention Tell Nado how the swim felt and the next weeks adjust. You get notes on what to focus on, why a set is built the way it is, and when to push. It's the part most people lose when they stop swimming with a team. Watch your progress stack up Every swim is saved. Distance, pace per 100, best times, weekly volume. Come back in three months and see the 500m nonstop you couldn't do in March. Apple Watch app Start the workout on your wrist. Your sets, rest timers and distance are right there, tap through as you go. The phone stays in the locker. No Apple Watch? Still works The full app runs on iPhone alone. Leave it at the end of the lane and tap through between sets. Nothing is locked behind the watch. It won't lose your workout Your progress is saved after every single set. App crashes, phone dies, you get a call mid-swim: come back and the workout is exactly where you left it. Built for adult swimmers Masters swimmers, people coming back after 20 years away, triathletes who dread the swim leg, and anyone who learned to swim last year and wants a real plan. Privacy policy: https://sky-oxygen-b93.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-3c94284f30598032b4a0e736c51a30ee?pvs=74 Terms of use: https://sky-oxygen-b93.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-3c94284f30598096b100dadafb623b16
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Swimming Lap Timer at none against Nado's shown. Nado's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, in-app purchases 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 Lap Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Nado sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $13.90 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Swimming Lap Timer ships an update every 3 months, Nado fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swimming Lap Timer | Nado |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 102 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Fenuku Kekeli | Agora Labs Ltda. |
In-app purchases
Swimming Lap Timer
- All Access for a week$4.997 Days
- All Access for a year$39.991 Year
- All Access to Lifetime$99.99
Nado
- Monthly Subscription$13.901 Month
- Annual Subscripton$69.901 Year








