swimsync vs USA Swimming
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
swimsync
This application helps swimmers of all levels organize and track their performance. It allows users to save results for multiple swimmers, group times by meet or stroke, and visualize progress through graphs. Coaches can also use team features to rank swimmers and view personal bests.
- Organize results for multiple swimmers
- Save yards and meters times
- Import swim results from a global database
- View personal best times
- Graph lap splits and chart progress
- Share results with coaches and family
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Swimsync is an excellent swimming app to organise and track your swim times. The app is designed for swimmers of all ages and abilities. Swimsync makes it easy to get up-to-date and organise your swimming life! You can save results for multiple swimmers, group their times into meets, strokes and distances, graph their times and view all swimmer's best times in one screen. In this new build, swimsync will also save results for yards and meters distances. In addition, with the new Team Times function, coaches can rank their swimmers' swim times and view their teams' personal best times. All the swimming features you require in one excellent app: • Set up swimsync for multiple swimmers • Save yards and meters times • Import swim results from a global database • View personal best times all in one screen • Backup your app and sync with your other devices • Graph lap splits and chart progress • Customise distances for Open Water swims • Share results with others and keep coaches and family up-to-date with your swim times • Save times directly from the in-built stopwatch ALL YOUR SWIM TIMES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS!
USA Swimming
This official app provides members and fans with on-the-go access to membership details, event information, and live streaming of competitions. Manage your membership, access resources, and stay updated on the latest swimming news and athlete performances.
- Member card access
- Membership notifications
- Mobile payments
- SafeSport resources
- Find a Team search
- Live stream access
- Event replays
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Built for athletes, coaches, officials, and parents, the official USA Swimming app delivers a personalized experience with instant access to membership information, performance history, rankings, and more. It's time to share your swimming story. SET GOALS AND TRACK YOUR PROGRESS - Set goal times for any event and course - Choose a target date and see how many days you have left - View active goals and look back at your goal history - Shape your swimming journey, one goal at a time CELEBRATE WITH ACHIEVEMENT BADGES - Earn badges for participation, improvement, and performance milestones - See your most recent achievements at a glance - Track your progress toward badge collections DISCOVER YOUR SWIMMER ARCHETYPE - Find out what type of swimmer you are, from Versatile to stroke specialist - See how your events break down across IM, freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, and backstroke YOUR TIMES, YOUR DATA, ONE APP - Search for athletes' times across USA Swimming - View rankings, leaderboards, and time standards - Access your member status and profile Available now in the USA Swimming mobile app and Data Hub.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: swimsync at 61% against USA Swimming's 14%. swimsync also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). USA Swimming's advantage is rating (3.7 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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. swimsync sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. USA Swimming asks for nothing beyond the download.
USA Swimming holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: USA Swimming has 27 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 61% of swimsync's written reviews are positive against 14% of USA Swimming's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
swimsync ships an update every 5 weeks, USA Swimming every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | swimsync | USA Swimming |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.7 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews — better | 14.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kathryn Donaldson | USA Swimming |
Customer experience
swimsync
USA Swimming
Bugs and requests
swimsync
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
USA Swimming
Reported bugs
13 issues- Login credentials not recognized despite being correct
- 404 errors on dashboard access
- App frequently becomes inaccessible or down
- Users kicked out of sessions unexpectedly
- Registration updates not applying correctly
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- Dropdown selections appearing blank
- Times not loading or updating
- New account creation failing
- Credentials not linking to existing profiles
- Auto-generating duplicate user IDs
- Errors on non-English language devices
- Back navigation returning to login screen
- Slow app performance
Requested features
12 requests- Restore time search functionality
- Display swimmer times and historical data
- Restore goals and patches tracking
- Allow multiple parent accounts per child
- Improve registration process and consolidate family accounts
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- Add landscape mode for iPad/tablet support
- Restore live results viewing
- Add time standards database with Olympic Trials standards
- Implement proper database integration
- Improve overall app architecture and interface design
- Add responsive help articles aligned with actual processes
- Restore SwimCloud-like functionality
In-app purchases
swimsync
- Share swim results$0.99
- Import from 'My Swim Results'$0.99
- Sync and backup swimsync$0.99
USA Swimming
No in-app purchases









