swimsync vs Swimming Timer
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!
Swimming Timer
This app helps swimmers practice race starts with customizable timers and randomized delays. It also functions as a stopwatch to accurately measure lap and split times during training. Results can be saved and organized by date, with customizable event names and color themes.
- Customizable race start timer
- Randomized start delays
- Lap and split time measurement
- Save and view results by date
- Editable event names
- Customizable color themes
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Starter & stopwatch app for swimming. It can be used for practicing the starting race command or to help you measure your time. ●Basic Functions 1. Starter function You can set the time from TAKE YOUR MARKS to start sound as you like. It is also possible to randomize the time, which is useful for practicing the start. 2. Lap time & Split time Pressing the "Lap" button or "Stop" button after the start sound, the lap time and split time will be measured. If you accidentally press the button to measure a time, you can delete it by swiping the result cell to the left. 3. Saving results Measured times can be saved by pressing the "Save" button. Saved times can be viewed by date. 4. Event setting By tapping the event name under the time, you can freely select an event (e.g. Men's 100m Freestyle). In the initial display, 100m is set. 5. Color settings The background color and timer color can be changed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Swimming Timer at 5.0 against swimsync's 3.0. Swimming Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 61%). swimsync's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Swimming Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Swimming Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of swimsync's written reviews are positive against 100% of Swimming Timer's.
swimsync ships an update every 5 weeks, Swimming Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | swimsync | Swimming Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Kathryn Donaldson | NAOYA ONO |
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swimsync
Swimming Timer
In-app purchases
swimsync
- Share swim results$0.99
- Import from 'My Swim Results'$0.99
- Sync and backup swimsync$0.99
Swimming Timer
- Support Developer$0.99
- Remove ads$6.99
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