Swim.com vs Workout
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swim.com
Automatically record and track your swimming workouts with advanced statistics. Compete with friends and other swimmers on global leaderboards, and access thousands of customizable swim workouts.
- Automatic swim recording with Apple Watch
- Advanced swim statistics
- Stroke type and count detection
- Drill Mode for kick tracking
- Global leaderboards and friend competition
- Thousands of customizable swim workouts
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SWIM.COM IS THE ESSENTIAL APP FOR SWIMMERS! Record your swims automatically with your Apple Watch and track your progress with advanced swim stats. Compete on leaderboards, connect with friends and choose a swim workout to challenge yourself. THE BEST SWIM TRACKING APP FOR THE APPLE WATCH. Use the Swim.com app on your Apple Watch to record your swim workouts automatically; no button-pressing required. Detect stroke type, stroke count with the most accurate swimming app available. You can even track kick and other drills with Drill Mode! Swim.com, uses HealthKit to export your Swim.com activities into the Health app and to read swim activity data from other apps such as Apple's Workout app. COMPETE WITH YOURSELF OR WITH THOUSANDS OF POOLS AND CLUBS WORLDWIDE. Motivate yourself by competing with friends in a club or against other swimmers just like you on our global leaderboards. See how you compare to other swimmers at your local club and aim to be the lane leader. SMART WORKOUTS FOR EVERY SWIMMER. Download the app, and get access to thousands of smart swimming workouts for free. Customize and edit workouts using our new workout editor to craft the perfect swim. You can even add your own workouts and share them with our community! Have an issue? ** CONTACT US AT SUPPORT@SWIM.COM **
Workout
Track a wide variety of exercises with detailed metrics and personalized feedback. Monitor your progress, analyze training load, and receive motivational encouragement to optimize your fitness journey.
- Multiple workout types (running, yoga, cycling, etc.)
- Multisport and custom interval training
- Real-time key metrics display
- Running form and cycling power analysis
- Customizable alerts and voice feedback
- Training load and progress tracking
- Motivational workout buddy feature
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Workout with Apple Watch • Scroll through the list of workouts to choose the workout type that best matches what you’re doing, including running, hiking, yoga, and cycling. • Multisport workout supports training for a triathlon or duathlon and includes automatic switching. • Create structured intervals by selecting or building a custom workout. • Receive a reminder to start or end your workout for walking, running, cycling, elliptical, rowing, and swimming. • Raise your wrist to view key metrics, including calories, distance, pace, heart rate, running power, and more during your workout session. • Running form metrics track how efficiently you run and include: Vertical Oscillation, Stride Length, and Ground Contact Time. • Connect Bluetooth-enabled cycling accessories, such as power meters, directly to Apple Watch. • Support for Functional Threshold Power estimates and Power Zones for cyclists with a connected power meter. • Cycling workouts on Apple Watch will start a Live Activity on your paired iPhone to show workout metrics, views, and experiences optimized for the display size of iPhone, which can be mounted to a bike for easy viewing. • Customize alerts based on specific metrics for each workout type, with the ability to receive alerts when going above or below a metric like Pace, Running Power, Cadence, or falling within a target Heart Rate Zone. • With Voice Feedback, workout milestones like pace, speed, distance, progress against goals, and activity rings are announced. • When in an active workout, scroll the Digital Crown to see new Workout views and training experiences, including additional metrics, Heart Rate Zones, and to check your progress against your Activity Rings. • Training load helps you see how the intensity of your workouts may impact your body over time. So you can make informed decisions about how and when to adjust your workouts. • Track the effort of your workouts and use training load to see how your 7-day load compares to your 28-day load. • Get encouragement and stay motivated during your workouts with Workout Buddy. Using Apple Intelligence from your iPhone, Workout Buddy provides you with the right encouragement based on your workout data and fitness history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Swim.com at monthly against Workout's every 9 months. Swim.com also leads on ratings volume (1.1K vs 30). Workout's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Workout holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swim.com has 1.1K ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Swim.com's written reviews are positive against 47% of Workout's.
Swim.com ships an update monthly, Workout every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swim.com | Workout |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.1K ratings) | 4.5 (30 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 41.4% of reviews | 46.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 30 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 9 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 175 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spiraledge | Apple Inc. |
Customer experience
Swim.com
Workout
Bugs and requests
Swim.com
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashing or freezing during workouts
- Inconsistent lap/distance tracking
- Sync issues between app and Apple Watch
- Inability to properly log or edit workouts
Requested features
5 requests- Improved Strava integration
- Better workout scheduling and notification features
- Ability to track kick sets and drills
- More comprehensive data analysis and visualization
- Seamless sync with Apple Health app
Workout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Swim.com
No in-app purchases
Workout
No in-app purchases









