Quick answer
Commit Swimming is club software for coaches: workouts, attendance, meet entries, billing and team messaging, from $39 to $249 a month (September 2026). Gophin is a free app for families and coaches to follow competition results: every official meet time, best times, cuts against USA Swimming and Swimming Canada standards, rankings and comparisons. If your club uses Commit, Gophin is not a replacement; it adds cuts, rankings and results from any meet or club on top.
Parents often hear about Commit Swimming because their club switched to it, then wonder whether they need something else to follow their swimmer's times. Coaches ask the reverse question. The two tools overlap less than their names suggest.
I build Gophin, so keep that in mind. Everything about Commit below comes from Commit's website and pricing page, checked on September 23, 2026. Everything about Gophin is a screen you can open in the app today.
Side-by-side comparison (September 2026)
| Gophin | Commit Swimming | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Competition results and progress tracking | Swim club management platform |
| Main user | Parents, swimmers, coaches following results | Coaches and club administrators |
| Workouts and practice | Not offered | Core feature: write workouts in plain text, training analytics, season planning, attendance |
| Meet results | Imported automatically from official results: 300,000+ meets (counted from official results, September 2026) | Meet results and performance insights for the club's own athletes; meet entries built from each swimmer's time history |
| Time standards | Official standards from the US, Canada and Brazil (USA Swimming, Swimming Canada and 10 provincial bodies, Brazil); gap to each cut | Not listed among its features |
| Compare swimmers / seasons | Compare â Swimmers, Compare â Seasons, Compare â Standards, group comparison | Reports that compare athletes and review training trends |
| Rankings and records | Public rankings by country, region, club or meet; records | Not listed among its features |
| Club operations | Not offered | Billing, registrations, meet entries, volunteers, messaging, club website |
| Parents' access | Any parent, free, for any swimmer | Parent portal (Workouts plan and up) with payments, messages, meet commitments, and the swimmer's best times and results |
| Price | Free for everyone (supported by donations) | Solo $39/mo, Workouts $69/mo, Team Basic $129/mo, Team Premium $249/mo; annual options available |
| Apps | Web, iPhone and Android | Web plus a mobile app for deck-side use |
What Commit Swimming does well
Commit covers both coaching (workouts, training analytics) and club operations. Its pitch is aimed squarely at coaches and club leaders who are tired of older systems:
- Workouts written naturally. Coaches type a practice the way they would on a whiteboard, and Commit structures it by stroke, distance and intensity, which feeds training logs and analytics.
- Meet entries. Entries are built from each swimmer's full time history, with commitments tracked and entry files exported.
- A portal for families. Parents pay invoices, read team messages, commit to meets and see their swimmer's best times, results and progress; swimmers see workouts, training history and season trends (for parents, for swimmers).
- Running the club. Billing and invoicing, registrations, email and push messaging, volunteer tracking and, on the top plan, the club website on its own domain.
- Plans by club size. Solo ($39/month) for one coach, Workouts ($69/month) for up to 6 coaches with a parent portal, Team Basic ($129/month) adding billing, registrations and meet entries, Team Premium ($249/month) adding the website and white-glove onboarding. Annual prices are 10 times the monthly price.
If you run a club and are choosing between Commit, SportsEngine Motion (formerly TeamUnify) and SwimTopia, Commit's own comparison pages are the place to start. Gophin is not in that category.
What Gophin does well
Gophin answers the question parents ask after every meet: is my swimmer getting faster, and what cut is next?
- Every official result, automatically. Search your swimmer once. Their competition history loads from official results, across clubs and seasons, with nothing to type. It does not depend on which software the club uses.
- Best times and evolution. Best times per event and per course, and an evolution chart that shows every swim over the years.
- Standards with the gap. Each best time next to the USA Swimming motivational standards (B to AAAA), Futures, Sectionals and Junior Nationals, or Swimming Canada and provincial standards, with the time still to drop.
- Comparisons. Compare â Swimmers side by side, Compare â Seasons at the same point of the year, and compare a whole group.
- Splits and pool conversion. Splits analysis for a race, and times from 25-yard, 25-metre and 50-metre pools shown converted when you want one view.
- Rankings and records. Public rankings by country, region, club or meet, plus records.
- Free. No subscription and no paid tier.
Sign in free and open Compare â Standards to see your swimmer's cuts
Where they overlap, and where they don't
Both show meet results and best times, but from different angles. Commit shows results for your club's athletes, so coaches can build entries and reports and parents can check progress in the portal. Gophin shows results for any swimmer from official data, including meets swum for a previous club, and puts them against standards and rankings.
Everything else is separate. Commit plans practice and runs the club; Gophin does neither. Gophin compares against standards, ranks swimmers nationally and follows swimmers from any club; that is not Commit's job.
Which one do you need?
- You are a parent: Gophin. You do not choose your club's software, and you do not need to. If your club uses Commit, you will likely use its parent portal for payments, messages, meet commitments and your swimmer's times. Gophin adds what the portal does not: the gap to each standard, rankings, and swimmers from other clubs.
- You are a swimmer: Gophin for your own times, cuts and rankings. Commit is where you see the workouts your coach shares.
- You are a coach choosing club software: Commit (or its competitors). Gophin will not run your practices or billing.
- You are a coach following results: Gophin works alongside any club software to see how your group compares with standards and with swimmers from other clubs.
Using both
This setup is common, and it costs the family nothing extra: the club runs on Commit, the coach writes practice there, and parents open Gophin after each meet to see new best times and how far the next cut is. Training on one side, racing results on the other.
For more options, see Best Swim Tracking Apps for Parents and Swimmers. If you also use SwimCloud, Gophin vs SwimCloud compares the two for recruiting and cuts.
