SwimTopia’s mobile app is available to all members of a team using a SwimTopia website (a valid SwimTopia login is required).
Our FREE mobile app shows a personalized view of your family’s meet entries, volunteer signups and swim history. And includes great features to help keep parents better informed, like our Notification Alerts, and Live Event/Heat bar!
If your team is using Meet Maestro™, SwimTopia’s meet management solution, you’ll have access to heat sheets, estimated start times, live meet results and team scores when you upgrade to our Pro subscription (details below).
SwimTopia Mobile App Download
The SwimTopia mobile app is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
Mobile System Requirements:
- iOS 9 or higher
- Android 8 or higher
SwimTopia Mobile App - Features Overview
- Notification Alerts (Free)
- SwimTopia Live Event/Heat Bar on meet days (Free)
- Family Overview (Free)
- Swim History (Free)
- Heat Sheets & Estimated Start Times*
- Meet Results & Scores*
*Feature requires use of Meet Maestro™ and a Pro subscription.
Try Pro for FREE for 7 days, then upgrade to Pro for $1.99/month
For more information on subscribing to Pro, see our Help Center article - How do I subscribe to SwimTopia Pro?
Note: If users wish to cancel the Pro subscription, this is done through the app store subscription tool, not within the app itself. See our Help Center article on How to Cancel a Pro Subscription
SwimTopia Mobile App - Feature Details
Notification Alerts (Free)
Team admins now have the option to send Emails or Alerts from within the Communications tool of their team website. Sending an alert triggers a push notification to team members’ who have downloaded the SwimTopia mobile app AND allowed notifications within their phone settings, removing the need for external texting apps. Note: You need to update to the new release of SwimTopia's mobile app to receive push notifications (Version 2.1.17 or higher)
Android Users: For more information on notification settings, see our Help Center article - Android Notification Settings
Additional Mobile App Notifications (Pro Subscription & Meet Maestro™ Users)
Team members that upgrade to a Pro subscription will receive swim and job reminders on meet days when their team uses the SwimTopia Live Event/Heat Bar feature in the app. And when the host team is using Meet Maestro, team members will receive live results notifications after their kids have swum. More details below.
For more team admin instructions on sending Alerts, see our Communications Help Center article.
SwimTopia Live Event/Heat Bar (Free)
Like having an Event/Heat board in your pocket, SwimTopia Live is really handy if you can’t see the pool from your volunteer position or you want to time your arrival at the pool. Your team can access SwimTopia Live features in the mobile app when your team admins perform a few simple steps.
SwimTopia Live features include:
- Live Event/Heat bar on the mobile app for all your team members
> Requires a team volunteer to broadcast the current event/heat from app - Live Event/Heat bar on the mobile app for the visiting team (if they also use SwimTopia)
> Simply share a subscriber code with the visiting team
For more team admin instructions on getting started with SwimTopia Live, see our Help Center article about Enabling SwimTopia Live
Family Overview (Free)
You can see all your team’s upcoming and past calendar events, and then drill down to specific meets to see which swim events and volunteer positions your family is signed up for. When the SwimTopia mobile app is used with Meet Maestro™, team members can also see their swimmers’ heats, lanes, and estimated start times per event.
Note: To sign up for meets (meet entries or job signup), you will need to access your team's website through the browser on your phone. Also, some teams choose NOT to display relay team designations on the app.
Swim History (Free)
SwimTopia's mobile app keeps your swimmer’s best times and swim time history at your fingertips, with details on every swim for which SwimTopia has data, organized by stroke and distance. The app shows a summary of best times for each swimmer, and from there you can drill down into each event for more information.
Heat Sheets & Estimated Start Times
(Pro Subscription & Meet Maestro™ Users)
Meet Results & Scores
(Pro Subscription & Meet Maestro™ Users)
For teams that use Meet Maestro™ to manage their meets, team members with a Pro subscription, are notified of swim results and team scores for all swimmers live throughout the meet. For non-Maestro teams and basic subscribers, meet results for your own swimmer are updated after the meet, and teams can choose to display the meet scores.
Team Admins: Communicating to Parents about the SwimTopia Mobile App
We suggest mentioning this app to your parents in communications, social media, swim meet descriptions and on your website.
We offer a sample email message that you can send to your parents. It provides a concise list of the app's benefits, including detailed instructions for downloading the app to start receiving push notifications. Feel free to edit the message to fit your team's needs (you'll know best whether your team is planning to use the live Event/Heat updater, Meet Maestro, etc.)
➞ See a sample letter you can send to your parents
Adding a snippet to your website
You can add use a Text Area Snippet to let your parents know about the SwimTopia mobile app. In the snippet, you can provide a link to the app stores to make it easy to download. Here is an example:
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