Which Android app logs both swimming and lifting? (2026)

Quickstart

Kinoku and Strand log both a pool swim and a gym set with weight and reps on an Android phone, with no watch needed. Garmin Connect logs both through a Garmin watch, and Samsung Health and MySwimPro describe swims but no gym sets. Each group follows the apps’ own pages and runs from A to Z.

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Which Android apps log both swims and gym sets?

A lifter who swims needs two kinds of record in one place. A gym set is a weight and a number of reps, and a swim is a distance, a time and a stroke, often split into short repeats with rest between them. Most apps start from one side, so the question is whether the other side is a real log or just a name on a list of sports.

The five apps here fall into three groups by what their own pages describe.

• Both, on the phone: Kinoku and Strand. Strand’s page lists “Laps, pool length and stroke” for a swim and “Sets, reps and weight” for the gym. Kinoku logs each swim set as a distance and a time, next to lifting sets with weight and reps.
• Both, through a watch: Garmin Connect. Its homepage says “Whether you run, swim, kayak or lift weights… whatever you do, Garmin Connect can track it,” and its watch manual describes recording strength sets on the watch.
• Swims, with no gym sets described: MySwimPro and Samsung Health. MySwimPro is a swim coaching app, and Samsung Health names swimming among its activities, but neither page describes logging a set with weight and reps.

When we searched this question on October 21, 2026, most results were iPhone App Store listings, which is why this page sticks to apps that run on Android.

Side by side

Every cell comes from the app’s own pages, and “Not stated” marks a cell that none of the pages we opened cover.

Each app, in its own words

Kinoku

Best for: Lifters who swim and want every set and every swim kept free, with no account.

Kinoku is a free Android training app that keeps gym sessions, swims, GPS runs and daily steps in one history on the phone.

• What it does well: A lifting set carries its weight, reps, effort and set type, and a swim set carries its distance and its time. Each stroke is its own exercise, from Freestyle Swimming and Backstroke to Kickboard Drills and Pull Buoy Drills, so a session of eight 200 m repeats reads as eight sets.
• What its pages say about swims: Swim logging is free, and so are the swim tips, the swim achievements and the Swimmer’s Dryland starter pack. One swim challenge, 50 km, is Pro, while the 1 km, 10 km and four-hour challenges are free.
• Where it is the better pick: A lifter who swims once or twice a week and wants both in one free record with no sign-up.
• What Kinoku does not do: There is no lap counter, pool length setting or SWOLF (swim golf, strokes plus seconds for one length), and you type each swim set in yourself. It has no iPhone version yet, and two phones keep separate records.

Strand

Best for: Hybrid athletes who want laps, pool length and stroke beside their lifts.

Strand is a training log for people who mix sports, and its homepage sums it up as “Runs, lifts, swims and race-style circuits in one app.”

• What it does well: Its tracker page lists “Laps, pool length and stroke” for a swim and “Sets, reps and weight, 180+ exercises, volume worked out for you, personal records” for the gym. Its FAQ says “Strand logs gym sessions, GPS runs and swims in one training log, with nutrition alongside.”
• What its pages say about plans: The free Starter plan covers “gym, run, swim and hybrid logging” with “30 days of history”. Plus is £7.99 a month or £49.99 a year and adds unlimited history, and Pro is £12.99 a month or £99.99 a year.
• Where it is the better pick: Someone who wants each swim recorded by laps, pool length and stroke, with GPS runs and a calorie counter in the same app.
• Where it differs: Free history covers 30 days, and the page describes sign-up with Google, Apple or email. Watch swims arrive through Health Connect, and cycling is “Not yet” covered. Official listing: Google Play.

Garmin Connect

Best for: Garmin watch owners who swim and lift with the watch on.

Garmin Connect is the phone app that goes with Garmin’s watches.

• What it does well: Its homepage says “Whether you run, swim, kayak or lift weights… whatever you do, Garmin Connect can track it.” The watch manual describes recording sets during a strength session, adding the reps and the weight, and sending it to your Garmin Connect account.
• What its pages say about devices: “Garmin Connect is an extension of your Garmin device,” and the listing says you review your tracked activities once you pair a compatible Garmin device.
• Where it is the better pick: Anyone who already trains with a Garmin on the wrist, in the pool and in the gym.
• Where it differs: The pages we opened name swimming but do not describe how a pool swim is recorded, so the table leaves that detail unstated. Official listing: Google Play.

MySwimPro

Best for: Swimmers who want swim workouts written for them, in a pool or open water.

MySwimPro is a swim coaching app with workouts, plans and a swim tracker.

• What it does well: Its page offers “unique workouts tailored to your speed, goals, & skill level”. You can “Log swims on your phone, or just tap “Start” on a smartwatch to track a swim in any pool,“ and open water swims show distance, pace and a map afterwards.
• What its pages say about devices and plans: Its FAQ says you can use workouts, plans and analytics “all on your iPhone or Android”, and it recommends a smartwatch for more detailed analytics. It starts with a 7-day free trial, then costs $99 a year or $19 a month.
• Where it is the better pick: A swimmer who wants a coach’s sessions and plans, with lifting kept in a separate log.
• Where it differs: No page we found describes logging gym sets, so it covers the swim half of this question only.

Samsung Health

Best for: Galaxy owners who want swims beside their steps and runs.

Samsung Health is Samsung’s health app, and its product page says other Android phones and iPhones can install it too.

• What it does well: Its Play listing puts swimming on its list of fitness activities next to running and cycling, and its product page describes routine workouts built from more than 100 moves.
• What its pages say about limits: Samsung’s support page says that from version 6.15 on, you sign in with a Samsung account before you can use the app. The listing adds that some content needs a paid subscription, which it calls optional.
• Where it is the better pick: A Galaxy owner who wants swims in the same app as steps and runs, with lifting logged elsewhere.
• Where it differs: No page we could open describes logging a gym set with weight and reps. Official listing: Google Play.

How Kinoku logs a swim

Kinoku treats a swim as an ordinary workout, so it sits in the same history and on the same calendar as your gym days.

1. Pick the stroke. The catalog has 11 swim exercises: Swimming, Freestyle Swimming, Backstroke, Breaststroke, Butterfly Stroke, Individual Medley (IM), Kickboard Drills, Pull Buoy Drills, Swim Sprints, Open Water Swimming and Treading Water. Kinoku also ships a built-in Pool scene, which has no GPS.
2. Log each set. Every swim set records a distance and a time, typed at the wall or after you get out of the pool, while Treading Water records time only.
3. Mix it with lifting if you like. A swim can be its own session, or a cool-down swim can go at the end of a gym session. Your swim distance and swim hours count every swim set wherever it was logged.
4. See it in your week. Each swim earns training load from its minutes times how hard it felt, using the effort you logged or a per-stroke estimate. The load lands on the same free Form curve as your lifts and runs.
5. Bring in watch swims. With Health Connect import on, pool and open water swims that another app saved there arrive as swims, each with its distance, time and top heart rate.

A free Swimmer’s Dryland starter pack adds two gym routines, Swim Shoulder Prehab and Swim Power, planned for two days a week at about 30 minutes each. The swim training page shows a logged session.

How this list was checked

Each swim or gym fact about another app is quoted from a page its own maker publishes, and a script matched every quote against its live page on October 21, 2026.

• Where the quotes come from: Play listings, homepages, help and FAQ pages, Strand’s own guides and, for Garmin, the watch manual. We did not install the four other apps, so a blank cell means their pages are silent, not that the feature is missing.
• Kinoku: we read the app’s own code for the swim exercise list, the distance-and-time set type, the Health Connect import and the training load formula, so Kinoku’s row describes the shipping app.
• Left out: we also read Strong’s and GymRun’s pages, and none we opened mentions swimming. An app called Active Log did not turn up as an Android app on any page we could open.
• Order: both halves on the phone come first, then both through a watch, then swims only, and each group runs A to Z. No app paid for its place.

Frequently asked questions

Is there one Android app that logs both swimming and lifting?

Yes. Kinoku and Strand both log a pool swim and a gym set with weight and reps on an Android phone, with no watch needed. Garmin Connect covers both when a Garmin watch records them. Samsung Health and MySwimPro describe swims, but their pages do not describe logging a gym set.

Which app records laps, pool length and stroke for a swim?

Strand’s own page lists laps, pool length and stroke for its swim log. Kinoku records each swim set as a distance and a time, and the stroke is the exercise you pick, such as Freestyle Swimming or Backstroke. Kinoku has no lap counter and no pool length setting.

Do I need a smartwatch to log swims?

Not with every app. Kinoku and Strand let you type a swim in on the phone, and MySwimPro says a smartwatch is optional, though it recommends one for more detailed analytics. Garmin describes its app as an extension of your Garmin device, so the watch does the recording.

Does Garmin Connect log gym sets as well as swims?

Its homepage says it can track you whether you run, swim, kayak or lift weights. Its watch manual describes recording each strength set on the watch, with reps and the weight, and then sending it to your Garmin Connect account. The phone app shows what the watch recorded.

Does Samsung Health track swimming and weightlifting?

Its Play listing names running, cycling and swimming among the activities you can record, and its product page describes routine workouts built from more than 100 moves. No page we could open describes logging a gym set with weight and reps, so this page does not claim it.

Is MySwimPro also a gym tracker?

Its pages describe swimming only: logging swims on your phone or a watch, open water tracking with maps, and swim workouts tailored to your speed and goals. We found no page about logging gym sets, so a lifter who uses it would keep a second app for the weights.

Can I import swims from my watch into a gym app?

Often, through Android’s Health Connect. Strand says it imports the runs, swims and gym sessions your watch records. Kinoku brings in pool and open water swims that another app saved to Health Connect, each as a swim with its distance and time. The watch’s own app has to write the swim there first.

Does Kinoku show SWOLF or pace per 100 meters?

No. SWOLF, short for swim golf, adds your strokes to your seconds for one length, and Kinoku records neither strokes nor pool lengths. You get each set’s distance and time, the session’s totals, and swim distance and hours across all your sessions, so you can work out a pace yourself.

How does a swim count toward training load in Kinoku?

Kinoku scores a swim by its length in minutes times how hard it felt, using the effort you logged or, when there is none, an estimate for that stroke. The result lands on the same free Form curve as your lifting and runs, so a week of swims no longer looks like a week off.

Should I swim before or after lifting?

Strand’s guide to swimming in a lifting week puts the session you care most about first, which for most lifters means the gym, with an easy swim after. It also suggests you keep hard swims away from heavy upper-body days, because swimming works the same lats, shoulders and chest.

Which of these apps are free?

Kinoku logs swims and lifts for free with no time limit. Strand’s free Starter plan covers gym, run, swim and hybrid logging with 30 days of history, and its paid plans add unlimited history. MySwimPro starts with a 7-day free trial, and the Garmin and Samsung pages we read state no price.

What does Kinoku not do for swimmers?

Kinoku has no lap counter, pool length setting, stroke count or SWOLF, and no GPS track for an open water swim. Its Wear OS app has no swim mode. A swim it writes to Health Connect goes out as strength training without its distance. It runs only on Android, and two phones keep separate records.

Related pages

• All-in-one fitness tracker apps for Android: Ten apps compared by how many kinds of training they keep, swims included.
• Best apps for lifting and running in one app: The lifts-and-runs version of this question, with Hevy, Strong and Strava.
• Best hybrid training apps for Android: The plan-led apps for athletes who mix strength and endurance.
• Free workout trackers with Health Connect: Which apps read and write Android’s health store, where watch swims arrive.
• Swim training in Kinoku: The pool log, the strokes and how swim volume feeds your week.
• Form curve: How lifts, runs and swims add up to one training load.

Which one fits you

• Choose Kinoku if you want your lifts and your swims in one free history on an Android phone, with no account and no watch.
• Choose Strand if you want laps, pool length and stroke recorded for each swim, plus runs and food, and 30 days of free history is enough or a paid plan is fine.
• Choose Garmin Connect if you wear a Garmin and record both your swims and your strength sets on it.
• Choose MySwimPro if swimming comes first, you want workouts and plans written for you, and you keep your lifting log somewhere else.
• Choose Samsung Health if you own a Galaxy phone or watch and want swims next to your steps and runs, with lifting logged elsewhere.