Swimmetry

Review by eFreeware

Swimmetry is a swim analytics app from 10KLakes, LLC, built for competitive swimming rather than casual lap counting. It has been on Google Play since June 2017 and sits in the Sports category, with more than 10,000 installs and a 2.3 average from 91 ratings.

The main reason to consider it is the way it turns a swimmer's times into something readable: progress against recognized standards, side-by-side comparisons with other swimmers, and a forward-looking college projection. If you are the parent of a club swimmer, or a swimmer old enough to care about cuts and rankings, that combination is the draw.

It is free to install and shows no ads, though in-app purchases are offered. The developer has kept it current, with the most recent update in August 2026 fixing a 50 Fly comparison bug.

Standards and progression as the core

The feature the developer leads with is goal and standards tracking. Swimmers see how their best times stack up against motivational, state and LSC standards, plus meet cuts including Speedo Sectionals and Junior Nationals. Standards from every USA Swimming state and LSC are covered.

What appeals to me here is the framing. Rather than a bare list of times, the app shows how far a swimmer is from the next milestone, and year-over-year indicators show how much faster they have gotten. That is the question most swimming parents actually ask after a meet, and having it answered without spreadsheet work is the point.

Progression and analytics sit alongside it. You can review a swimmer's last three years or set a custom date range, look at seasonal trends, and see which strokes are strongest. Team analytics extend the same view across groups, so a coach or team manager can watch achievements and average progressions rather than one athlete at a time.

Comparing swimmers, including the ones you race

Comparison is the second pillar. The comparison tools line one swimmer up against friends, rivals or famous names, using career-best marks, this season's bests, or times recorded at the same age. The last option is the interesting one, since it lines up two swimmers at the same point in their development rather than at the same meet.

Results are shown with color-coded heat maps, which the developer says reveal strengths at a glance, and you can overlay progression graphs for several swimmers on one chart. For a family with two swimmers in different age groups, or a coach comparing a squad, that overlay is likely the most useful screen in the app.

The same comparison data feeds the PDF export, so a coach conversation or a recruiting email can start from a chart rather than a screenshot of a results page.

SwimIQ and the college projection

SwimIQ is where the app's analysis layer lives. The developer describes it as AI-powered, offering personalized reads on a swimmer: meet recaps, race day planning, tracking toward qualifying times, and performance highlights drawn from that athlete's own results.

College Fit is the newer addition and the most ambitious. It forecasts times out to age 18 in three ways, then scores NCAA programs on how closely they fit. Each school gets a two-part read: whether the swimmer would project to score at the conference championship, and whether their times would earn a place on that team's depth chart.

You can browse a ranked best-fits list or search a specific school, then drill into event-by-event detail covering conference placement, roster ranking, NCAA cuts and how the projection compares with the team's fastest current swimmers. A written summary pulls the numbers together, with a choice of swimmer or coach wording.

One caveat belongs here: the tier filter currently spans NCAA D1 Power, D1 Mid-Major and D2, with D3 and NAIA described as coming later. The developer frames the feature as built to grow as more programs come online, so the ranked list is a snapshot of what is loaded rather than a complete catalog of college swimming.

Sharing, following and the PDF reports

The swimmer snapshot is a one-tap PDF report: a radar of stroke balance, the standards reached, charts of progress and year-over-year trends, formatted for sharing with coaches, college recruiters or family. Exports are available from the Compare, Progression, Rankings, Meet Results and SwimIQ screens.

There is also a discovery side. Any USA Swimming athlete can be looked up and added to a favorites list, with updates when they compete in a meet or reach a new standard. For a parent tracking a rival, a former teammate or an older sibling who has moved away to college, that turns the app into something you check after meets rather than only before them.

What it asks of you

The app is free, carries no ads, and offers in-app purchases. Beyond that, the requirement is context rather than hardware: Swimmetry is built around USA Swimming data, standards and athlete records, so its standards tracking, athlete search and comparisons assume swimmers competing in that system.

It also assumes you are the sort of swimming family that keeps times. The value comes from having results to put in, and from caring about the gap between a personal best and a sectional cut. Someone swimming for fitness will find the standards and college sections largely irrelevant.

The 2.3 average from 91 ratings is worth weighing. That is a low score for an app with this much functionality, and while the developer has continued to ship updates, a prospective user should treat the rating as a signal that the experience has not landed well with everyone who tried it.

How I would use it through a season

The natural rhythm is to enter or look up results after each meet, check where the swimmer now sits against their target standards, and let the year-over-year indicator tell you whether the training is working. The three-year and custom-range progression views are better suited to a quiet moment between meets than to the drive home.

Before a championship meet, the race day planning and qualifying time tracking in SwimIQ look like the pieces to open first, since they are built around the specific cuts a swimmer is chasing. Afterward, a meet recap gives you the summary in words rather than numbers.

For families with a swimmer approaching recruiting age, College Fit is the section to revisit periodically rather than once. Projections shift as times drop, and the conservative, expected and aggressive scenarios are a useful way to keep expectations honest. The best-fits list and the school search answer slightly different questions, so I would use both: the list to find programs you had not considered, the search to check ones already on the shortlist.

The PDF export is the piece that travels. A snapshot covering stroke balance, standards and progression is a reasonable thing to hand a coach at a parent meeting or to attach to a recruiting inquiry, and it saves assembling the same information by hand.

A focused tool for competitive swim families

Swimmetry is worth installing if you follow USA Swimming results closely and want standards, comparisons and progression in one place. The combination of NAG and LSC standards tracking, same-age comparisons, PDF snapshots and the College Fit projection covers ground that would otherwise take several spreadsheets and a lot of patience.

The caveats are the ones the app sets for itself. It is built around USA Swimming data, so it is a poor fit for swimmers outside that world. The college tier coverage currently stops short of D3 and NAIA, and the 2.3 rating from 91 users is a caution worth noting before you commit time to entering results.

My suggestion is to install it free, put in one swimmer's recent times, and see whether the standards view and the comparison charts tell you something you did not already know. If they do, there is more to explore; if the app feels like more bookkeeping than insight, you will know quickly. Parents of age-group swimmers chasing cuts, and older swimmers thinking about college programs, are the readers most likely to get something out of it.

What's new in version 1.2.79

- Fixed 50 Fly compare bug.