Comparison

Swim.com vs MyFreeDive

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 **

About

MyFreeDive

Record and store your free diving sessions using an Apple Watch Ultra. Track depth, temperature, distance, and heart rate with detailed charts and history. Organize dives, store certifications, and export data.

Highlights
  • Record dive data with Apple Watch Ultra
  • Track depth, temperature, distance, and heart rate
  • View dive charts and history
  • Organize dives into custom lists
  • Store certifications and insurance
  • Export dive data to PDF
Features
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This app is for free diving. You can record with an Apple Watch Ultra a free dive and store the data in the app.  The watch app will record the depth, the water temperature, the depth and the coordinates.For the disciplines DYN & DYN-B in pool also the distance will be recorded, minimum distance is 1 lane. A view with a chart of the dive is available. You can set a surface time and a notification when you want to do repeating dives. The number of dives and the total time will be shown. In the settings of the watch app you can select the discipline, starting depth, pool or outdoor, length of lane, surface time and start by button. On the watch the last 25 dives are as history available. You can send the dives to the iPhone by button (iPhone must be in receiving mode), select on iPhone the dive you want to store and confirm to send the chart data on your watch. Currently the app records depth down to 6m ! The app is not a dive computer, the app will only record the data. Optional, depth data can be imported to the dive from the health app. The depth data from the health app will be used to create a depth chart of the dive. As the app is working down to 6m and if you use the depth app for deeper free dives, you can import data from the health app to show a chart for depth. This will replace an older chart, also from watch. In the settings of your Apple Watch Ultra you can select the app for auto start (Generell -> auto start-> under water) and also to start the app by action button (Generell->action button->action(diving). The iPhone App will store your dives on the iCloud Drive. You can store the dives in different lists, the systematic can be freely decided, as example different lists for discipline, month, name or location. Each list can contain a maximum of 100 dives. The lists can be sorted by different criteria like location, time, distance, depth,... A view for the details of a single dive is also available as a view of a chart of the dive. A PDF for a single dive or the dive list can be created and printed. You can store also your certificates and insurance in the app, they will be shown in the PDF of the list as well. A personalisation with photo, name and birth date can be done as well. The watch app will read your heart rate, if you have authorised and show the heart rate on screen. In addition the heart rate will be stored during your dive and you can see the chart afterwards when you select a dive from the list. Please have in mind that the function may not work correctly under water. The app, iPhone or Watch, will send no data to any a third party. The data are only in your personal iCloud Drive stored. Functions watch: - current depth - current time - surface time - max depth - min / max water temperature - distance for DYN & DYN-B (pool only min 1 lane) - heart rate - total time - total # of dives - set notification time during dive - set notification time on surface - start by action button - training plan

Screenshots

Swim.com4 screens
MyFreeDive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MyFreeDive at 5.0 against Swim.com's 4.4. MyFreeDive also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). Swim.com's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

MyFreeDive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swim.com has 1.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Swim.com ships an update monthly, MyFreeDive every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Swim.com versus MyFreeDive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwim.comMyFreeDive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (1.1K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.1K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size175 MB5 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSpiraledgeThomas Nietz

Customer experience

Swim.com

All ratings1,102 ratings
Positive83.7%
Neutral5.4%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews366 reviews
Positive41.5%
Neutral17.8%
Negative40.7%

MyFreeDive

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

MyFreeDive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Swim.com

No in-app purchases

None

MyFreeDive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Swim.com free?
Swim.com is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is MyFreeDive free?
MyFreeDive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Swim.com or MyFreeDive?
MyFreeDive is rated higher. Swim.com averages 4.4 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while MyFreeDive averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Swim.com or MyFreeDive have ads?
Neither Swim.com nor MyFreeDive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Swim.com or MyFreeDive?
Swim.com ships an update monthly, and MyFreeDive every 2 weeks. Most recently, Swim.com was updated on September 24, 2026 and MyFreeDive on September 19, 2026.

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