Swim.com: Swim Tracker

I have the Apple Watch app and it use it to record my swims. Pretty accurate when you are swimming only problem is that it doesn’t record any kick. A lot of the sets I do are kick based so it says I only do a couple hundred metres which is incorrect. If they could get it to record kick it would be so much better.

App itself seems great. Installed well on my phone and Apple Watch and tracked my first swim accurately BUT I had problems adding my local pool and finishing my profile on the website. This appeared to be linked to Apple devices because I was successful on a PC (but not an iPad MacBook or iPhone).

Has some nice features. But it can’t recognize when I’m kicking. Seems pretty basic for a swim training app. Even the Out-of-the-box Apple Workouts app is more accurate. I’m using a series 10 watch, so an older model can’t work any better.

I like this app lots. Lots of details

This app works great. I love it. I just wish that it could track kicking. When I do a kick set it always says that I take really long rests but I don’t. It says that because when I am kicking with a board it doesn’t track that.

I swim every day and this works great.

The only issues is that it does not register my kick sets in a pool unless I swing my one arm a few times each 25. I would give this app 5 stars if it just counted my kicks. I like that it gives me my average 100 time based on my movement and not just the overall workout time divided by the distance swam. This results in much more accurate 100 pace during workouts. No other problems at all.

No matter what, I could not get the Apple Watch app to track my swim today. It’s the first time I swam in 2 1/2 years, and I’ve use Swim.com a lot in the past on both Samsung and Apple Watches. For whatever reason, it just would not track. The display would go back to the watch face leaving the water lock active, and there was no display of any swimming done. I un-water-locked the watch launch the app, it was right back to the default screen where you start your workout. I tried this a few times and gave up. Ended up using Apple Watch, but I was already partway into my swim, so I only got part of it recorded.

Since the update, the Swim app does not update Apple Watch workouts for days and sometimes not at all. What happened??

I like the app and it does a decent job tracking my yardage (and I love that you can do drill sets). My problem is that every 2-3 swims the app just closes / stops / crashes and loses track of my workout. It’s SO frustrating to swim and have it crash (sometimes multiple times during a workout).