Open Water Swim

Open Water Tracker & Community

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2.8for iPhone, Apple Watch

8.9

8 Ratings

Daniel Kanaan

Developer

16.6 MB

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Apr 13, 2024

Update Date

Health & Fitness

About Open Water Swim

Welcome to Open Water Swim, the first Apple Watch and iPhone App dedicated to letting you track, analyze, and share your favorite activity: open water swimming! Open Water Swim was built and tested BY open water swimmers FOR open water swimmers.

We started with the need for a truly accurate tracker that would highlight the best aspects of your swim: your performance, where you went swimming, and satellite imagery to capture your favorite swim.

Open Water has gone above and beyond, thoroughly testing the app for accuracy and reliability when you are out in the open water. You can focus on your swim while Open Water handles the tracking.

And once you've completed your swim, you'll be able to relive the experience on your phone, which will add the swim to your monthly summary and provide a detailed look at your swim including: distance, pace, duration, heart rate, and energy burned. Beyond that, there's a native inspired heart rate graph and beautiful interactive map where you can choose to view satellite or topographical imagery.

And when you're done checking out all the details of your swim, we've given you a one click share button that will put together a beautiful summary of your swim to send to your friends.

We've also got built in logging, so you can send us your swim log if you notice something strange about your swim.

What's New in the Latest Version 2.8

Last updated on Apr 13, 2024

Old Versions

Brand new Water Temperature tracking* (and charts for pros).
There was an issue where permission was not requested for the new Temperature tracking. That is fixed.

Enjoy!
*requires Apple Watch with temperature sensor...

Version History

2.8

Apr 13, 2024

2.7

Apr 7, 2024

Brand new Water Temperature tracking* (and charts for pros). Enjoy!

*requires Apple Watch with temperature sensor...

2.6

Mar 20, 2024

Insights are finally here, with in depth interactive charts that let you highlight your favorite stats over your favorite time periods. Whether you want to make sure your pace is improving every week, or your distance per swim is improving, Insights will let you master your swimming. Enjoy!

2.5

Mar 13, 2024

Open Water Swim now includes a free version! Paid subscribers will get several benefits such as live heart rate charts, Digital Crown to start, and interactive maps.

Happy Swimming!

2.4

Jan 3, 2024

It's always hard scrolling a list of numbers... so now you can see a map for each swim in the background instead. This should help you find your swims quickly. Don't forget you can share right from the Home Screen.

And now, there's a widget that will let you start your swim right from your watch face.

Enjoy!

2.3

Oct 27, 2023

Hey Swimmers, you can now share your swim right from your list by swiping right and hitting share. Also fixed some other minor issues. Feedback always welcome!

2.2.1

Oct 17, 2023

Hey Open Water Swimmers! This release fixes an issue where your most recent swim wouldn't show up right away. Also new: I modified GPS processing in WatchOS 10 and I also lowered power consumption in certain circumstances when the app is not in use. In this version, I further tweaked GPS processing, which should improve accuracy to the best level yet. I appreciate your feedback!

2.2

Oct 14, 2023

Hey Open Water Swimmers! Recently I modified GPS processing in WatchOS 10 and I also lowered power consumption in certain circumstances when the app is not in use. In this version, I further tweaked GPS processing, which should improve accuracy to the best level yet. I appreciate your feedback!

2.1

Oct 7, 2023

Hey Open Water Swimmers! A lot of new stuff in this release, including modifying GPS accuracy in WatchOS 10. I also lowered power consumption in certain circumstances when the app is not in use. And I revisited the design of the app with a focus on improving readability and navigation in iOS 17 and WatchOS 10. Feedback is always appreciated!

2.0

Aug 17, 2023

Aloha Open water Swimmers of the world! There are a bunch of new features in this version, so read on:
- You can (finally) manually type in a location name for those cases where we can't figure out where you were. Next time you swim there, that location should automatically be selected.
- Optional higher precision for temperatures (like 71.5°F or 13.4°C). Just tap the temperatures or select it from settings
- Improved GPS data scrubbing and smoothing. Should reduce random jagged lines and improve accuracy.
- Lots of bug fixes and improvements all over.
And finally, Mahalo for your suggestions and support! I really appreciate it.

1.9

Jul 5, 2023

Aloha! Press to Pause is here! You can now pause using the Digital Crown and side button pressed at the same time. Watch Ultra users have always been able to pause with the action button and side button, but now Press to pause comes to the other Apple Watches. Make sure you enable the feature in the settings on the watch.

1.8

May 11, 2023

Aloha! I fixed an issue that occasionally prevented the share button from showing for the most recent swim. This also had the effect of speeding up the detail view for your swim. Enjoy!

1.7.1

Mar 20, 2023

Hot on the heels of the new look for Open Water Swim, I'm releasing this updating because there was a bug. I also updated the share screen and made hopefully improved the detail screen so it is a little bit faster to appear.

1.7

Mar 17, 2023

There's a new look in town, and I made it just for you!

1.6.1

Feb 13, 2023

Hot off the back of my latest update, this update brings you a redesigned shareable image, see slide 7. And don't forget the other (almost) brand new stuff:

1. An awesome LIVE heart rate chart showing the past five minutes of your swim so you can see what's happening while you swim and make sure your watch is performing well. The post-swim summary also shows you the chart for the whole swim.

Apple Watch Ultra users will also see live reporting of water temperature as you swim and a summary of the water temperatures from the App and post swim summary screen. I love the Ultra, and I think you'll enjoy these changes a bunch!

1.6

Jan 29, 2023

This version has an awesome LIVE heart rate chart showing the past five minutes of your swim so you can see what's happening while you swim and make sure your watch is performing well. The post-swim summary also shows you the chart for the whole swim.

Apple Watch Ultra users will also see live reporting of water temperature as you swim and a summary of the water temperatures from the App and post swim summary screen. I love the Ultra, and I think you'll enjoy these changes a bunch!

1.5

Jan 11, 2023

Special thanks to feedback from Josh, our local tester, for suggesting improvements in this version which include: Action button on the Watch Ultra lets you start, pause, and resume your workout. Josh loves swimming, so he needed this. Other little improvements make this the best version of Open Water Swim....ever!

1.4

Dec 31, 2022

Hey swimmers! I improved the map in app. It's a lot faster, more informative, and most importantly, prettier. A complete overhaul of the start screen was in order so you have a slider now which means starting the swim is more tactile. There's a lot of behind the scenes improvement as well so you should have a better experience overall. Enjoy!

1.3

Dec 4, 2022

Our intrepid beta testers pointed out that we had messed up. :/ This update fixes that.

1.2

Dec 3, 2022

A couple of minor fixes for this release. Waterlock should work reliably. Mahalo!

1.1

Dec 2, 2022

We've improved the app already! No seriously, some minor issues were cleaned up.

1.0

Dec 1, 2022

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