Honest comparison
MySwimSet vs Commit Swimming
Half the price for a solo coach — $19/mo vs $39/mo — and you can try the whole product in the next sixty seconds. Trying Commit starts with booking a sales call.
Looking for a Commit Swimming alternative — or deciding between the two? The straight comparison is below, including where Commit is the right call. Every fact about Commit Swimming comes from their public site as of July 2026; verify current details at commitswimming.com.
| MySwimSet | Commit Swimming | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started | Write your first practice in under a minute — free, no call | "Book a demo" first; no free trial listed |
| Solo coach price | $19/mo · $149/yr (free during beta) | $39/mo · $390/yr (Solo) |
| Staff plan | $49/mo · $399/yr — up to 5 coaches | $69/mo · $690/yr — up to 6 coaches (Workouts plan) |
| Practice writing in swim shorthand | Yes — typed or dictated, parsed live | Yes — a parser refined over roughly a decade |
| Run Mode (live deck timer for running practice) | Yes | Not listed |
| Roster + deck attendance | Yes, all plans | Attendance tracking listed on all plans |
| Per-swimmer season reports with parent share links | Yes | Parent portal access on the $69/mo plan and up |
| Automatic time-standards check (USA-S, NCAA, YMCA) | Yes | Not listed |
| Coach-set goal times (Realistic / Stretch / Reach) | Yes | Not listed |
| Benchmark test sets (T-30, 30×100…) + wellness check-ins | Yes | Training and performance analytics listed |
| Season training analytics | Yes — volume, load, zones, stroke balance | Yes — interactive training and performance reports |
| Club billing, registrations, meet entries | No — deliberately out of scope | Yes — Team plans ($129–249/mo) |
| Team website hosting | No | Yes — Team Premium |
| Free public tools (standards, pace/CSS, converter, points) | Four tools, no account needed | None listed |
“Not listed” means the feature does not appear on Commit Swimming’s public site as of July 2026 — it may exist without being advertised. Commit Swimming is a trademark of its owner; it is named here only for comparison, and this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by Commit Swimming.
The real difference: a season record, not a workout journal
Both products will hold your workouts. The question is what you have at the end of the season. As of July 2026, nothing on Commit’s public site tracks a swimmer against a time standard, holds a coach-set goal time, logs a benchmark test set, or produces a per-swimmer season report a parent can read. That layer — who’s on pace for a cut, who’s actually improved since September, what you tell a parent at the end-of-season meeting — is what MySwimSet is built around. Write practices in Commit for a decade and you have a decade of practices. Run your season on MySwimSet and you have the season.
One more difference in how we operate: we publish free tools with no login — the USA Swimming time-standards lookup, pace & CSS calculator, course converter, and points calculator — so you can judge how we build before you ever create an account. Commit’s trial path is a sales call.
Where Commit is the right call
If you need one system to also run club operations — billing, registrations, meet entries, a team website — Commit’s Team plans ($129–249/mo) sell exactly that, and MySwimSet deliberately doesn’t. Their parser has a decade of refinement behind it, their staff plan seats six coaches to our five, and if your whole staff already lives in Commit mid-season, switching has a real cost no comparison page should wave away.
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Get started freeFrequently asked
Is MySwimSet a Commit Swimming alternative?
Yes — if your job is coaching. Both parse coach shorthand into workouts; from there they diverge. MySwimSet is built around the season: roster, deck attendance, per-swimmer reports parents can read, goal times, benchmark test sets, and automatic USA Swimming / NCAA / YMCA time-standards checks — at $19/month versus Commit’s $39 entry. Commit’s upper tiers ($129–249/month) also sell club operations — billing, registrations, meet entries, a website — which MySwimSet deliberately does not. Coaches who need club back-office should look at Commit’s Team plans; coaches who need to coach shouldn’t pay for them.
How is the pricing different?
Half, at the solo level: as of July 2026, Commit's published Solo plan is $39/month ($390/yr) — MySwimSet is $19/month ($149/yr). Staff plans: MySwimSet $49/month for up to five coaches vs Commit's $69/month for up to six. And MySwimSet is completely free during the current beta with founding rates locked in for beta coaches. Always verify current numbers on both pricing pages.
Can I try both before deciding?
You can try MySwimSet in the next sixty seconds — free beta, no credit card, no call. As of July 2026, Commit's site offers "Book a demo" with no free trial listed, so trying it means scheduling a sales conversation first. We also publish four free tools with no login at all — time-standards lookup, pace/CSS calculator, course converter, and points calculator — so you can judge how we build before you ever create an account.
Can I import my workouts from Commit Swimming?
Not automatically — there is no importer today, and we won’t pretend otherwise. In practice, coaches re-enter workouts quickly because MySwimSet parses the same shorthand you already write ("8x100 free @ 1:30 descend"), and most start fresh with the current week rather than migrating history.
Is MySwimSet really free right now?
Yes. MySwimSet is in free public beta — full product, no credit card, no demo call. When paid plans launch, coaches who joined during the beta keep the founding rates shown here.