Long Whistle

Race yesterday's you

Live swim pacing for parents

Tap each wall as your swimmer turns. The whole screen goes green or red, with one big number: how far ahead of the goal they are, or how far behind. The goal can be their own best time or the next time standard they’re chasing.

How it works

The race screen at the 50-yard wall of a 100 freestyle, tinted green, showing AHEAD minus 0.8 seconds and a projected finish of 1:05.8.

Chase the next standard

Set the goal to a time standard — B, BB, A and up — and Long Whistle paces the race against it, wall by wall. Before the race, with a swimmer saved, you can see where their best sits among the standards. The moment they touch, you see which standard the swim reached and how many seconds it is to the next one.

The standards line in amber: BB time, 4.21 seconds to A.
The setup screen for a girls 11 to 12 100 freestyle, with goal choices from the swimmer's best time and from each time standard.

Read the race

When the race is over, every split sits next to its target, wall by wall, with each lap coloured on a lane-rope bar, so you can see where the race was won and where it slipped away.

The results screen: 1:08.20, under the goal of 1:09.39, a BB time 4.21 seconds from A, with a table of splits against their targets.

Plan the next one

Choose any goal time and Long Whistle splits it into a target for every wall. Read it on your phone or print it as a race sheet to take on deck.

The race plan for a 1:09.39 100 freestyle, with a target split for each 50 and buttons to print it or start the race.

Keep every swim

Save a race to your swimmer's log and it stays there with its splits. Their best time in each event is tagged, and you can see every time they dropped time, in order. Import their history from meet results and times-history files, and back up your whole family's record to one file you control.

A swimmer's log grouped by event, with personal bests tagged PB and filters for course, stroke and distance.

No head-to-head

Long Whistle has no leaderboards, and it doesn’t line your swimmer up against other kids or collect their times. Each swim is compared to two things: your swimmer’s own best, and the published time standards.

Nothing is sent to us

There is no account, no ads, and no tracking. Your family's swims are stored on your phone and are not sent to us. Read the privacy policy.

Built by a swim family

Made by a swim family, for the people in the stands. It is not a club management system, and you do not need a team to set anything up.

Free to pace

Two paced races a day, with the race plan and the results, are free. A subscription adds every swimmer in your family, unlimited pacing, a log of every race, and importing their history. See pricing.