Swimtivity

Have an original or Series 1 Apple Watch and love swimming? With Swimtivity, you can get credit for your swim workouts in the Apple Watch Activity Move ring--without risking your watch in the pool.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Health & Fitness	$2.99	Made by Jessie	iPhone, iPod

And if you did another type of exercise but forgot to wear your watch, you can add a custom workout with Swimtivity to get credit for those calories, too!

After your activity, use the Swimtivity iOS or Apple Watch app to enter your workout information. Swimtivity does a very rough calculation of your calories burned. If you already know your calorie count, you can manually change Swimtivity's calculated calorie count to match.

Workouts are saved to the Health app and the entered calories count towards your Move goal. And workouts entered with the iOS app will count towards your Exercise goal.

When you enter an activity on your Watch, a force press on the details page allows you to switch between yards and meters.

As of version 2.0, the iOS app allows you to enter activities. It also displays a list of activities entered with Swimtivity.

Note: Due to limitations with the Health API, you will NOT get credit for the Exercise ring when entering activities with the Watch app.

Please don't wear your original or Series 1 Watch in the pool; Apple doesn't recommend it, and it's not required for Swimtivity.

Reviews

Only works for the current day
Zackeryttu

It will show greyed out minutes and calories but will fill your rings it even does my stands. The only problem is it only works for the current day you can not go back in time and have it count towards your rings. I forgot my watch the other weekend when I went out of town and wanted to be able to go back and input my data to keep my streak alive. If this app could do that it would be 5 stars and a top seller.

Doesn't sync
1pumpkinfan

From my watch, it keeps telling me that it needs access to my health data to save workout. I've enabled it on my iPhone's Health Data and it keeps giving me the same message. Uninstalling.

Does not show exercise minutes
The "I'm disappointed user"

It does show calories, however, it DOES NOT show minutes exercised. Bummer.

LOVE THIS APP!
Nan Valler

I love this app! I am not a speed swimmer, and this allows me to put in my time and distance, as well as calories burned, which is the only info I care about. Good job!

1 for 2 getting data into Apple Watch Activity
tallguy77

Thanks for making this app. I think it must be an Apple WatchOS limitation, but this app loads the calories into the Apple Watch Activity app but not the time of the swim. So you get progress on the pink ring, but not the more challenging yellow ring where you try to get 30 minutes of Exercise per day. Hopefully at some point the Activity app will be able to update this in the rings. In the Activity app on the iPhone, you can scroll down the page, see your swimming workout under Other, and going into that it does show the exact minutes of your workout...so just update the yellow ring with those minutes. C'mon Apple!

So far so good!
Mapalm

I've been looking for a way to manually enter swim workouts, and this is the best app I could find. Super easy to install and set up, and entering swim workouts on the Watch is a breeze. I just entered my first workout and it instantly updated the "Move" ring on my Apple Watch. The only downside, which the developer clearly states in her notes, is that the app has no way of adding data to the "Exercise" ring. Maybe she'll find a workaround one day, but for now, at least, I can get credit for those 350-calorie swim workouts! Thanks, Jessie!

Does the job
Brod336

With this app I'm finally able to keep track of my swims on my watch. It doesn't add to exercise just like it says on in the description. I do leave the timer going while I swim and just add just do the math with the calories between the workout app and what I actually did when I add the time and distance.

Efficient, and necessary
GentleReader29

Credit for swims! Works well. Efficient. Thanks so much!

Works well
Sara McC

I like this app. Works well for entering my swim workouts. I have a couple suggestions. (1) I would like to enter my workout in yards instead of meters. I noticed that the Apple Watch activity app converts it to yds anyway. (2) I would like to be able to enter the workout from my phone app or my watch. Thank you.