Swim Meet Toolkit is built on SDIF — swimming's standard data format — and opens your existing HY-TEK files too. Run the whole meet end to end on macOS: connect the timing console on deck, seed and score, publish live results, print every report, and export results straight to the SWIMS database. No Windows. No Parallels. No workarounds.
You don't have to rebuild a thing. Swim Meet Toolkit opens the files you already have — entries, rosters, events, records and standards — and can recover an entire meet straight from a HY-TEK .mdb database. Run your next meet on a Mac without leaving your data behind.
Pulling from online entries? Drop in an export zip from OME / SWIMS, TeamUnify, or SwimTopia and every entry file inside is found and merged.
What it does
Everything a meet needs, on the platform you already use.
From the first import to the last award label — the same workflow you know, rebuilt as a real Mac app.
Event 01 — Run the meet
The run screen, lane by lane.
Pull times from the console, watch splits and live team scores update as you go, and handle the messy parts cleanly: no-shows, DQs, declared false starts, judges' decisions, scratch-downs and swim-offs.
Pad time plus three backup buttons captured per lane (B1·B2·B3)
Calculate Times resolves backups when the pad is off
DQ codes for USA Swimming and World Aquatics
New: League Data Check report for officials to verify time handling
Event 02 — On the deck
Talks to your timing system.
Connect the console you already run with and pull race results straight into the meet — over a standard serial link and a USB-C adapter on the Mac.
Colorado System 5, System 6 and Gen 7
Daktronics OmniSport 2000
Test Communication confirms the link before racing
Event 03 — Spectators
Live results, on every phone in the stands.
Publish a self-contained results site that updates on its own and never gets stuck in a browser cache. Spectators get results, heat and psych sheets, and standings — with full splits on every swim, and a light or dark view. Host it free on Cloudflare R2, push it to your own SFTP/FTP server, or write it to a folder you serve yourself.
Results, heat sheet, psych sheet and standings in one page
Updates automatically — no refresh, no stale cache
Free hosting option, with its own shareable link per meet
Event 04 — The scoreboard
A live scoreboard, in every pocket.
Plug a $25 serial adapter into your timing console — Colorado System 5/6 or Daktronics OmniSport 2000 — and the Mac serves a live web scoreboard: the running clock, real names pulled from your heats, splits as they land, places at the touch. Anyone on the pool WiFi scans a QR code and it’s on their phone. Flip one switch and the same board joins your published live results as a Live Board tab — clock still ticking — for the folks watching from home.
Tenths-live on pool WiFi — any browser, QR hand-off, nothing to install
Reads Colorado System 5/6 and Daktronics OmniSport 2000 consoles
One toggle adds a “Live Board” tab to the published results site
Event 05 — Many hands
Backup times from any device on deck.
Meet staff and volunteers connect in seconds to type in backup times and print reports — from an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple silicon Mac, whatever's already in their hand. The free companion app, Swim Coach Toolkit, runs on all three, so nobody's tied to one kind of device while your meet Mac stays the one and only writer of official times.
Join from iPhone, iPad or Apple silicon Mac — no special hardware
End-to-end encrypted — a wrong password can't even connect
Live "all backups in" cue, and one source of truth — no merge conflicts
Event 06 — Paper
Every report, ready to print.
Psych sheets, meet programs, lane and timer sheets, results, team scores, award labels, exception reports and more — filtered by session, gender or team, in one, two or three columns, straight to a Mac printer or PDF.
20+ report types covering the whole meet
Separate everyday and award-label printers
Scratch-down and check-in sheets included
Event 07 — Pre-meet
Seed and score it your way.
Seed standard or circle, slow-to-fast or fast-to-slow, in bulk or event by event, with optional strict lane assignment. Then score any format — place-points tables with ready presets for NCAA and high-school duals, USA Swimming, and your own custom point systems.
Prelims / finals, relays and diving
Entry limits and per-event caps enforced
Start a meet from an NCAA or NFHS dual template
Make it yours
Built to fit how you — and your whole crew — work.
The same meet, set up the way each person on deck needs it.
Scalable interface
Size the content and sidebar up or down to whatever's comfortable — big and readable across the table, or dense for a power user — without losing your place.
A run screen that adapts
Show, hide and resize the run-screen panels — heats, splits and live scores — so the layout matches the meet you're running, on any size of display.
Multiple languages
Run the whole app in the language your officials and volunteers are most comfortable in — a real help at invitationals and international meets.
The full set
A meet manager and a team manager, made to fit your setup.
Swim Meet Toolkit is the meet manager; its free companion, Swim Coach Toolkit, is the team manager — together a complete pair across Mac, iPhone and iPad. With full SDIF support and LXF (Lenex) meet-entry files, it reads and writes the standard files, so it sits comfortably alongside HY-TEK Meet Manager and Team Manager.
SDIF (.sd3 / .cl2) interchange with SWIMS & Team Manager
Yes
Yes
Timing consoles — Colorado & Daktronics
Yes
Yes
Pad + multi-button backup capture & resolution
Yes
Yes
Seeding, prelims/finals, relays, diving, full scoring
Yes
Yes
Live-results website
Available separately
Built in · free hosting option
Officials' time-handling verification report
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League Data Check
Backup-time entry from phones, iPads & Macs on deck
Networked multi-user option
Encrypted Meet Hub
Scalable UI, modular run screen & multiple languages
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Yes
Lined up by what each set does for an Apple user, based on publicly available information about HY-TEK; feature sets change, so confirm current details before you rely on them. Because Swim Meet Toolkit reads and writes the standard meet files, it's built to work alongside your current tools, not against them. HY-TEK®, Meet Manager® and Team Manager® are trademarks of their respective owner; Swim Meet Toolkit and Swim Coach Toolkit are independent products and are not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by HY-TEK.
The whole program
One app, deck to awards.
A look around the rest of Swim Meet Toolkit.
Scoring & entry rules
Meet setup
Event builder
Sessions & timeline
Records
Time standards
Teams & athletes
Officials & staff
Relay management
Publish & hosting
Entry fees
Meet checklist
The full checklist
Everything in the box.
If you run a meet with it, it's here.
⇄Import & export
HY-TEK entries (.hy3) and full meet databases (.mdb)
Meet events (.hyv / .ev3)
SDIF interchange (.sd3 / .cl2) — SWIMS, Team Manager
LXF (Lenex) meet-entry files — international standard
Export HY3, SDIF & results — including SWIMS result uploads
◷Setup & pre-meet
Sessions, events, age groups
SCY, SCM and LCM courses
Individual, relay and diving events
NCAA & NFHS dual-meet templates
Teams, athletes, officials & meet staff
Entry fees
⇅Seeding & scoring
Standard, circle, slow→fast, fast→slow
Bulk or per-event, strict lane assignment
Prelims / finals advancement & scratch pad
Place-points tables, NCAA / NFHS / USA presets
Custom point systems & entry limits
Ties, swim-offs and judges' decisions
▶Run the meet
Heat grid with live splits & team scores
Modular run screen — show, hide & resize panels
Pad + three backup buttons per lane
Calculate Times backup resolution
No-show, DQ & declared-false-start handling
USA Swimming & World Aquatics DQ codes
Start lists sent to the console
⌖Timing & devices
Colorado System 5, 6 and Gen 7
Daktronics OmniSport 2000
Serial (RS-232) over a USB-C adapter
Meet Hub for iPhone, iPad & Apple silicon Mac
Free Swim Coach Toolkit companion app for staff
Encrypted, single-writer architecture
Live "all backups in" workflow
Live web scoreboard — taps Colorado & Daktronics consoles, streams to any browser on the WiFi
▤Results & reports
Psych sheet, meet program, results
Lane / timer & split sheets
Team scores, medal count, point systems
Award labels, check-in & warm-up sheets
Exception report & League Data Check
Live-results site + free hosting · light & dark UI
Scalable interface · multiple languages
Live Board tab on the published results site — running clock, splits and places for fans at home
● Made for Mac
Run your next meet on the Mac you already own.
Import your existing files, plug in the console, and go — with Swim Coach Toolkit on every phone and iPad on deck. A full meet-and-team manager, on the Apple gear you already own.
