Swim GURU by Swim Smooth App Reviews

Want to like this new version of the guru. But I can’t like it because it’s not functional. It doesn’t accurately track your swims. Over the last month I’ve done two more swims than it gives me credit for. Today it said “treading water” for my “progress”. Yesterday it said “building strength”. I swam both days, and today did 5100. Yet today, I’m supposedly only “treading water” ? They tried to automate this but they haven’t got it right. Other problems - you have less flexibility with how you enter non swim smooth workouts. You can’t break it out into CSS, Red Mist etc. You can’t easily log workouts on the ap. For some reason it only works on the pc or the iPad. The print out versions of the workouts sometimes only let you see “drill” and don’t explain what it is. These are the things off my head. I find when you give them feedback they ... listen? Sometimes being in love with your own ideas is limiting in the ultimate execution. I sooooo want this to be great as I love SwimSmooth. But this version of the ap is not as good as the swim smooth guru.

Doesn’t work with Garmin. If you are getting this app for stroke insights, which is why i got it, you will be disappointed. The stroke insights are not compatible with Garmin (Fenix 6 at lest). The Garmin app is better. Sorry. I know. It sounded like a genius idea.

First Look at Stroke Insights: Wow!. My first thought was: How could you possibly extract and then properly analyze data at such a fine granular level. After a couple of workouts I am really surprised how well it has been executed and visualized in the app. I like how the results are directly linked to the tutorial videos showing how to fix or what to optimize. Once I’ve done more workouts, I’ll see how reliable the stroke insight is and will update this review if it doesn’t hold up to the first impressions. Minor quirk: during the swim it happened twice that the app didn’t properly count my laps. However it seems to correct itself once I finish the work out and analysis begins.

Motivating if you like data. I really like this app. It has a few quirks but overall I get a lot of useful feedback from it. I swim on my own so without a coach and can’t see what I might be doing wrong. But my watch and this app can. Since using it I have corrected crossing my center line, improved catch, better rotation, and most exiting- dropped times. Some quirks. It always misses the 25 of my first warmup, whether I swim a 50, 100, or 200. It will always read 25 less. Ok, fine. If you do a plan the events you can select are limited and in meters. I swim yards and the training plan will be in yards but the event is only available to select as meters. On the progress page you do have to pull it down so it refreshes and reflects your most recent swim. The app seems to haphazardly record personal bests. These past two swims I have had PBs per the swim lot breakout but the PBs are not reflected in the PB lists. Not sure why. I tried to refresh and delete/reinstall but the PB records didn’t update. I wish I could add my own photo for the swims recorded. The one photo there is nice but not for every single swim. Not really a quirk but a wish item for a future update. Minor quirks but overall a really help app!

Good app. This is a very good app. While not every data point is meticulously precise, it gives you solid information about the quality of your stroke technique and effort. Best on the market as far as I can tell. The developers should be proud!! Nonetheless, I do hope there are updates coming to further improvement accuracy of information. Would love to see what more these developers can do as tech improves.

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Sync issues. Quite a unique and useful app. I like the CSS training approach and how the app can calculate your personal tempo timer settings. The stroke analysis is cool too. Although seems inaccurate for hand entry angle. The most infuriating aspect is syncing. The app can take anywhere from 1 minute to 24h+ to show your swim. Even though the workout is immediately visible in the native IOS health and workout apps. Not sure if others have had this issue and if there is a way to force the sync …. Hope there is a fix.

All round best swim app. A great tool for tracking each swim, 6 different stroke analytics, training plans to improve CSS times and staying motivated throughout the year.

Interesting stroke analysis. The stroke analysis is interesting and gives plenty to work on. It is linked to a well curated and extensive collection of videos explaining faults detected and suggesting drills to help correct them. There is also a large collection of sets and tailored schedules for attaining your goals. Helpful responses to questions while initially getting up to speed on the app. Well worth trying so can see if it works for you.

Great combo of training plans and lessons. This has a huge depth of training videos matched to your drill and plan which I’ve found fantastic. This app is also unique that is scaled the swim difficulty by the time completed. My Garmin sync was great.

Best swimming app in the world.. Everything in one place - trading program, swim insights, activities, swim sets, swim videos & much more 🥰

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Great coach. It really helps improve your technique through the stroke insights. Great tool.

Good feedback, unique features, lots of bugs. The swim insights is really cool and works well. It would be great to see more info on the position of my catch at different parts of my pull. A missing feature would be to download swim sets onto my watch, similar to other swim watch apps. Downside is that this app has a lot of bugs, the most annoying is it frequently signs me out of the app.

Cool, but need some work. The insights are crazy! By far the most incredible feature, but there are some things they could improve: first, it’s crazy slow. Maybe they could store some things locally or move to a faster service provider because each api call takes several seconds to complete. Second, the login is terrible. It loses the JWT token all the time, and it’s the only app I have that doesn’t integrate well with the iPhone password manager. I hope they will keep improving it; there is a lot of potential :)

Compatibility. Since one of the best swim watches is a Garmin Swim 2 with GPS it would be awesome if this app worked with a watch specifically for swimming. What’s good about the G Swim 2 is that it tracks rest periods automatically and more accurately and you can interact with it without purging water. The Apple Watch interface can’t be used unless you purge the water and it doesn’t track rests between sets. I’ve tried swimsmooth with my apple watch and it works fairly well. But if I get the Garmin, I’ll be wearing both if I use swimsmooth. Can you make compatibility work with a Garmin?

It’s everything I need. Easy to use. I use Stroke Insights (free with the GURU) for stroke correction. Plenty of plans and workouts for all distances and swim abilities. Frankly it’s brilliant app.

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