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How Gophin Works Behind the Scenes

Gophin does the busywork for you: it imports official results, scores every swim in World Points, charts progress, and follows unlimited swimmers.

📊 3 min read📅 Updated September 2026🏊 Feature: How Gophin works
TL;DR

Gophin does the busywork for you: it imports official results, scores every swim in World Points, charts progress, and follows unlimited swimmers.

The quiet things Gophin does for you

Most of what makes Gophin useful happens without you lifting a finger. These are the parts you never have to configure.

Knowing they are there helps you trust the numbers and spend your time reading them, not entering them.

Best times with World Points and a progression chart

What happens automatically

1

Results import themselves

Gophin pulls official meet results and links them to the right swimmer. There is no manual entry and no spreadsheet.

2

Every swim gets a World Points score

Each meters time is scored on the World Aquatics scale, so a 100 freestyle and a 200 backstroke become directly comparable across the whole app. Yards swims have no official World Points.

3

Progress is charted over time

Best times are plotted as an evolution chart per event, so a swimmer’s trend is visible at a glance, not buried in a list.

4

One account follows unlimited swimmers

Track your own athlete and anyone you want to measure against, all from a single account.

5

A dark theme is one step away

Select Dark Mode at the end of More on your phone, or at the bottom of the side menu on a computer, for an easier read late at night.

6

Times convert between pools

When a swimmer has no time in a standard’s pool type, Compare Standards uses their best from another pool, converted and marked conv. Best Times can also show a whole list converted to SCM or LCM.

Where to find it

Free, with a free account

Everything on this page is free. Create a free account, follow a swimmer, and the automatic parts start working.

Already signed in? It opens the screen directly.Open Gophin →

Tips

Common questions

Do I have to enter swim times myself?

No. Results import automatically from official competition records and link to the right swimmer. There is nothing to type in.

How many swimmers can one account follow?

As many as you want. A single account can track unlimited swimmers, free.

Does Gophin track training or practice?

Gophin is built on official competition results. It is not a workout log, but you can add practice times by hand in Custom Times and keep them next to race times.