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Swimming Goal Tracker for iPhone

Track your swimming lap goal on iPhone. Log each session, build toward your target, and watch the total grow without streaks. Free to download.

You set a lap goal for the year — 1,000 laps, maybe 5,000. You started logging each session's total in a habit tracker. The streaks felt motivating in January. By March, a pool renovation closed your lane for three weeks.

The streak broke. The 380 laps you'd already swum didn't move. The app showed a gap with no context for why it existed or what it meant for your annual total.

Swimming goals measured in laps are accumulation goals. Each session adds to a running total. A pool closure, a travel week, or a recovery period subtracts nothing from laps already swum.

The right tracker shows your lap total against your target and stays there while the pool is closed.

Common targets

500 laps1,000 laps5,000 laps

A swimmer doing 20 laps per session three times per week reaches 1,000 laps in about 17 weeks.

Why swimming laps is a milestone goal

Lap counts are cumulative. You want to reach a total, not maintain a daily check-in streak. Whether sessions happen every other day or in weekly blocks with rest between, the lap count reflects actual effort in the water.

The problem with streak trackers for swimming laps

A sick week, a pool closure, a travel block: the streak goes to zero when the lap total is still at 600. The tracker reports failure when the goal is 400 laps away from done.

What the math looks like

30 laps per session, 3 sessions per week, reaches 1,000 in about 11 weeks. A rest week costs zero laps from the accumulated total.

How Notch tracks swimming laps

  1. 1
    Set a target. Enter how many laps you want to swim. Notch knows where done is.
  2. 2
    Log each lap. Tap to add one. Each tap adds a dot to the grid and moves the total closer to your target.
  3. 3
    Watch the grid fill. Every dot represents a real lap you swim. Nothing resets. Take a break and resume from exactly where you left off.
Pricing

Free to download. The full app unlocks with a one-time $9.99 purchase. No subscription.

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A milestone tracker for iPhone. Set a target for swimming laps, log each lap, and watch the dot grid fill. No streaks. No resets. No subscription.

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