DuoSwim: Swim Workout App

I used this app to train for long distance swims and completed the Chesapeake Bay 4.4 mile swim and the Swim of Legends 8 mile swim using the workouts. I had no bugs, no issues, and it synced great with my Garmin watch. I really enjoyed the main sets and the variety of workouts. I have read reviews that indicate that the app used to have problems- but I wanted to make a review to state that this is no longer the case. I will keep using this app to keep my swims interesting.

Overall great app. I signed up for a free trial and after using 3 times bought a year’s subscription. Three areas I’d like to see improvements. One, the ability to see on my watch what is coming up next. I don’t see the next set until the final 10 seconds begin to count down and, if I need to put on or take off fins for example, I fall behind. Second, if I do fall behind it would be great to be able to pause or restart the set. As it is, I just usually skip one interval to get back on track. And lastly, sending the workouts to my watch (Apple SE) is glitchy at times and I need to reset the watch and/or my phone (has happened twice in the first 4x using it). But overall great and something I expect to use ongoing.

After using this for around a month, I switched back to MySwimPro since their system is smoother, but I genuinely love what Duo is doing by competing with SwimPro. There’s just a few things this app does that, if added or fixed, would make this THE swim app, undercutting SwimPro: - On a guided workout, there’s no way to resync the watch timer with your pool’s pace clock. If you accidentally start it not exactly on the :57, you need to rely on the watch’s timer or be off set the entire workout. The same is true of if something in the lane takes you off pace (someone joins the lane, choking on water, suit malfunction, etc); you’re just stuck. Adding a “restart set” or “restart rep” button would be a massive improvement. - The sets themselves are solid, excellent even. The problem is that the training path sets don’t change (or mine is bugged) from day to day; I was on Varying Pace for three days before I juststarted using the set library. - Tracking is inconsistent, more inconsistent than using the Apple Watch’s swim workout tracking alone. A 1400yd swim might be recorded as 1000yd, heart rate data isn’t recorded, times are wrong sometimes… It’s just janky. Sending a workout to the watch takes a few tries, but I don’t fault Duo for this since every phone-watch connected app has this problem from time to time. Swim Duo is an excellent app and what they’re doing is important; it just needs another round of deep cleaning. I’ll be back‽