SplitDeck vs Touchpad
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SplitDeck
Easily time multiple swimmers simultaneously with a clean, intuitive interface. Record splits, mark swimmers finished independently, and export your data. Designed for speed and clarity during practices and races.
- Time up to 10 swimmers/lanes
- Record splits instantly
- Finish swimmers independently
- View current and split times
- Optional lane/swimmer labels
- Export times
- High-contrast layout
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Start up to 10 stopwatches at once. Scan a heat sheet to auto-populate your entire meet. SplitDeck is the multi-lane timing app built for swim coaches who need speed, accuracy, and zero setup friction on the pool deck. Record splits as swimmers hit the wall. Finish each lane independently. Undo a mistaken finish instantly. Your session auto-saves every 5 seconds — no data lost if the app closes unexpectedly. HOW IT WORKS Tap Start All — every timer begins at the same moment. Tap Split on any lane as a swimmer touches the wall. Tap Finish to stop that lane while others keep running. Save your results with one tap when the set is done. SPLITDECK PRO 10 concurrent lanes (free tier: 3) Swimmer rosters with one-tap lane auto-fill Full meet mode with standard 11-event order and gender grouping Heat-by-heat progression — names auto-populate for every heat Heat sheet import — scan or upload a heat sheet, auto-populate events, heats, lanes, and swimmer names Filter scanned results against a saved roster BUILT FOR THE POOL DECK Oversized tap targets for fast, one-handed use Digital stopwatch, analog clock face, or both at the same time 4 color themes: Dark, Light, Pool Blue, Midnight 6 accent colors High contrast for outdoor visibility Keep Screen On mode prevents auto-lock during timing SAVE AND EXPORT Session history grouped by day Quick Save with one tap or Name & Save for custom labels Export individual sessions, date ranges, or everything at once as CSV Swipe to rename or delete saved sessions Crash recovery — auto-save restores your session on relaunch CHOOSE YOUR DISPLAY Switch between a clean digital readout, an analog stopwatch face with second and minute hands, or both side by side. Timers scale automatically to fit your lane count — from one full-screen timer to a grid of ten. NO SETUP FRICTION Open the app. Pick your lanes. Tap Start. You're timing in under 5 seconds. Swimmer names are optional. Rosters make it even faster — select a team and auto-fill every lane in one tap. No accounts. No subscriptions. No ads. No internet required. Your data stays on your device. SplitDeck replaces the handful of stopwatches you're juggling on deck. It's faster, cleaner, and everything stays saved.
Touchpad
This app allows coaches to time multiple swimmers simultaneously, capture individual split times, and compare performance against ideal pacing. It also offers note-taking features for each lane and team management capabilities.
- Multi-lane timing
- Individual split capture
- Pacing comparison
- Tempo counter
- Lane-specific notes
- Roster and progress tracking
- Heat sheet scanner
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Built by coaches, for coaches. Touchpad is a swim stopwatch that does what a regular stopwatch (or even multiple stopwatches) can't: time multiple lanes in a heat at the same time, capture individual splits length by length, and tell you how each swim actually compared to where it should have been — all from one place. Touchpad runs your whole session, practice or meet, and organizes your insights when you're done. For free, always, you get the following features: Time the race - Set the course (SCY, SCM, LCM), pick the event, choose how many lanes. Or create your own custom swim. - Tap an individual lane button for each split. The app captures every split, the total time, and the deltas between the captured time and elite times, automatically. - Up to 7 lanes per heat, with a layout that keeps the timing buttons vibrant and within reach, organized in a line so you can match the pool. See the swim, not just the time - Every split is compared to an ideal pacing profile for that event and course built from aggregations of multiple elite swims for that race. - A signed delta next to each ideal time tells you exactly how much faster or slower the swimmer was on that length. - A built-in Tempo Counter on the home page helps you capture stroke rate by tap. Manage your workouts - Write workouts in plain text and watch them get parsed live - Save specific sets and reference them in future workouts for easy copy-paste - With Touchpad Team, share workouts with other coaches and edit collaboratively Tag what mattered - Every lane card opens a notes sheet with quick-add notes for each lane: Start, Underwater & Breakout, Stroke, Turns, Tempo & Pacing, Breathing, Finish, Context, etc. Tap what happened, add free text if you want, save. Notes are editable weeks later from History — so you can review a meet swim against what you saw in the moment. With a Touchpad Team subscription, Insights will aggregate notes across a meet so you can see what your team is doing well or needs to work on. And sync data across devices with a free Touchpad account. --- Touchpad Team (paid subscription) — for coaches running real meets and real rosters With a Touchpad Team subscription, you get access to: Organize your team - Roster & progress. Keep your team's swimmers in the app. Tag who swam in which lane after the race. Stats like best times update automatically, with a trend chart per event on each swimmer's profile. - Invite assistant coaches to your team by email. Everyone sees the same roster, the same meet, the same meet queue. Switch between teams without losing where you were — each team keeps its own queue and history. Run the meet - Heat sheet scanner. Photograph the printed heat sheet, or upload the meet PDF. The app reads it, filters to your club, and builds you a queue of heats with your swimmers in event order. Each lane shows the parsed seed time next to that swimmer's personal best. Names are fuzzy-matched against your roster — exact matches, fuzzy candidates, and unmatched names are flagged so you can fix them before you build the queue. Multi-page PDFs go in as a single scan. - Work the queue heat by heat — Start → time → results → next heat queued and waiting. Skip or insert a manual heat. A post-session summary shows every result with seed comparison. You can manually time with the split stopwatch, or enter splits off the board. See a preview of the time your swimmer is on track for, assuming an ideal race. Better Practice Tools - Replay: set up your iPhone or iPad and capture video with a 5-60 second delay. Loop a reference video next to it. Insights - See what your team is doing well and what needs to be improved. Takes swims from meets and aggregates performances into actionable metrics. Always improving! Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: SplitDeck at free against Touchpad's free with in-app purchases. Touchpad's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. SplitDeck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Touchpad sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
SplitDeck ships an update monthly, Touchpad every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SplitDeck | Touchpad |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NATHANIEL J MOREHOUSE | Bryson Alef LLC |
Customer experience
SplitDeck
Touchpad
In-app purchases
SplitDeck
- Pro Mode$1.99
Touchpad
- Touchpad Team - Monthly7 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Touchpad Team - Annual7 Days trial$49.991 Year









