FINIS Smart Goggle Kit - Swim Goggles and Smart Coach for Swim Training - Unisex Adult Swimming Goggles and Fitness Tracker

At first I found the readout a bit distracting, but that's due to the fact that I was just staring at the numbers. Eventually I was able to stop staring, but would worry about someone who is hyper obsessed with time. As a swimmer for over 30 years I found the goggles to be comfortable, easy to adjust and the variety of nose pieces allows for different sized faces. The goggles were very easy to assemble and the set up process for the app was very straight forward they synched up right away.The Ciye app offers a ton of great data to analyze your swim similar to what you can pull off your Garmin for a run or ride. As a swim coach I will definitely use these with some of our athletes and as a triathlete I look forward to testing these out in open water. This was my first smart goggle experience and I was very impressed with the quality of the goggle and the data provided. I look forward to continued usage.

I am a full time swim coach with 28 years of experience at every level, including Olympic Trials. My athletes train with the Finis Smart Goggle and we love it! It keeps track of the swimmer's laps, and most importantly the individual lap splits and running time of every swim within a set. The goggle display shows the swimmer how fast they are going, giving crucial feedback on speed and pacing. If we want to swim a 200 or 500 and even or negative split, this provides instant feedback. If we are sprinting a 75, they can see each 25 as they race.The swimmer can make effort and race pattern adjustments to go faster and achieve goal pace in real time. This improves focus, training, pacing and fitness. Instead of waiting to get the time after a swim, the swimmer knows as it's happening.Also for large training groups of swimmers, now they don't have to rely on the coach to get their splits. They know them already. For the coach, we can never get all the swimmers splits at once, so now the swimmers can ALL get their times and splits ON EVERY REPEAT within each set The software records the training data from each practice onto the app, where both the athlete and the coach can access it and track it for improvements.I think this is the next generation in swim training technology. For any swimmer or tri athlete looking to make serious improvements, or any coach seeking the same for groups, this product is a MUST.Get a pair now.

I am a 60+ woman who is not a competitive swimmer. I've been swimming morning laps for over a year, but I felt like my workout was becoming ho-hum. I ordered these goggles to help me count laps, but am happily surprised that they have transformed my workout.Pros: they are very easy to use. The goggles themselves are comfortable and, with the exception of some peripheral vision loss, are easy to see through. The customer support is very responsive. The data provided in the goggles is easy to read and is very helpful. In the 'I Swim Laps' mode, it keeps a running tally of my laps throughout the workout, as well as counts laps in sets. It shows splits and overall time as well. The app has nearly comprehensive detail about the workout, and includes different strokes, even when I use a kickboard. I love seeing the average split times for my sets.Cons: the app doesn't show total laps per workout. I can add up all the laps listed in each set, but it would be great if it showed the total laps for each workout.The app doesn't allow you to enter a specific number of feet in describing pool length. You can only enter round numbers of yards or meters. My community pool is 70 feet long, which is 23.3 yards. I could only enter 23 yards so I am not getting a truly accurate report of my swim.Sometimes the chip randomly resets, if I am swimming slowly. The lap will be counted, but it will start with a new set. There is only a 4 second rest time before it starts a new set. I would prefer the rest time would be longer.I am very happy I made this purchase and recommend this product.

Review reduced to one star:Charging cable no longer works. I cannot find a replacement on Amazon. The manufacturer has a website but it barely works. Go check it out and see if you can get it to work. They obviously made a profit on $200 goggles, so it's not much to ask for minimal support. They don't offer that.First thing's first, these are pretty good goggles, the tracker does work, and it's helpful when swimming laps, sets, generally normal swim practice.The thing ships in nice boxes, a separate one for the tracker and goggle, and it's highly giftable if you have a swimmer you're trying to gift this to. It looks great coming out of the box and is a bit of an event. I didn't really appreciate that I have to install the tracker in the goggle, but I think the point is that the tracker can be reinstalled in a new pair of goggles. The goggles are equivalent to a nicer TYR, Speedo, or Nike pair, with silicone straps that don't pull the hair (and were pretty narrow but comfortable) and changable nose pieces instead of the kind that can push in to your nose. You get several nose pieces that just slide out of place. I found the ones already in the goggles worked perfectly, but they were easy to swap. The straps were fine for holding a little mp3 player, and had plenty of slack.The tracking device clips into the goggles with two loud clicks, so there's no doubt it's in place. It doesn't move at all, and you can charge it without removing it, and in fact I don't plan to ever remove it unless the goggles fail (even then, I'd just change the strap or nose piece). There's a fairly thick, kinda greasy anti-fog applied, more than I'm used to, in the goggles, and when I installed the tracker I got a huge thumbprint on the anti-fog I had to try to smooth out. As most swimmers know, you try not to touch the inside of new goggles for this very reason, and I was very annoyed that my expensive goggles were smudged, almost by design, for no reason.All that aside, it was fun to swim with these. Setup in the app was easy, but the app takes a long time to start each time. Once you're setup you need to tell it where the pool is (no good reason for this except to sell the data) and the length of the pool. I have a pretty bad astigmatism and the readout is very easy for me to read. You have to deliberately look to the left to see the number (the position of which is adjustable in the app). You lose a little of your view to the left, but it's actually not a distraction when you swim because it's way over to the left, but it's still very easy to see whenever you want. While swimming, I noticed the tracker corrects itself. If it thinks you did a flip turn, but you are resting, it fixes it. If it thinks you're resting but you continued your set a little slowly, it corrects it. It does make mistakes, but rarely. So long as you're finishing your length of the pool, it will know your distance.I appreciate that it tells me how long I've been swimming, the actual time of day, and when resting how long I've been resting. It's gentle encouragement to keep swimming. You also obviously get how many laps you have swam (lengths of the pool, not laps, are reported). I can swim a 500 or a mile without debating how many laps I've done when I'm at 16 or 20, which is particularly great as I listen to music when I swim. It's a total game changer for me.When you are done swimming, you hit the single button on the outside of the goggle and an amber light blinks for a few minutes, when the tracker is trying to pair with your phone. All you have to do is open the app, and it should transfer the swim data. The phone app takes so long to open this can be annoying, holding your phone right out of the pools, dripping everywhere, so I try to open the app before I swim. I've had mixed results getting the goggles to actually transfer data, but for me, just knowing how long and far I swam during my workout is good enough. The app clearly needs some work.This is only a three star product because it is obviously very overpriced for a waterproof accelerometer and nice goggles. I like it, and I use it, but the value isn't there. I hope when the company takes off they lower the price quite a lot, because the size and limited scope of what this does is perfect for a lot of swimmers, and it's an easy to use device.