Video: World's First Swim App for Apple Watch Put to the Test

Ted Bradley and a team of London-based developers have created the very first Swim App for Apple Watch after have successfully designed one for the Pebble. The app, which aims to track metrics such as lap times and heart rate, has so far proved to be successful with the Apple Watch showing similar results of that of the Pebble in a 200 meter swim. In Bradley’s test, the Apple Watch was able to accurately capture heart rate information and transfer it to Apple’s HealthKit app like any other workout currently found in Apple’s own Workout App. It was also able to use the workout and credit it towards his daily exercise and move goals.

According to Bradley, the one caveat is that the Watch experiences a small delay when waking it up to check lap times, claiming that it takes a few second to parse through the information its collected and then display it on the screen. Another issue is that the Apple Watch is not currently fully waterproof. Bradley and his team hopes that changes in the future.

We really hope that Apple see the demand for an official, fully waterproofed Apple Watch. Once that is available, we’ll be able to ship a fully featured swimming app. In the mean time, it would be great to see swimming become a first class citizen in the Apple Health and Activities apps. Running and cycling both have their own distance graphs you can view in the dashboard whilst for swimming you have to drill down to individual workouts.

You can check out the full blog post here where Bradley details everything that let him up to this app including some of the challenges he and the team has faced.