A swimmer in a sunlit pool, smiling, a hand to the SPRTN Swims bud in her ear

You can use SPRTN Swims in every run.ride.lift.climb.row.other workout.other workout.

And you can swim with them too.

10hours onboard

Your playlists live on the buds.

Bluetooth does not travel through water, so nothing streams down there. That is why the music is already on you. Load your playlists onto the earbuds, leave the phone in the locker, and it plays from your ears. Back on the deck, they are everyday Bluetooth earbuds again.

With the case
40 hours
Above water
Bluetooth 5.4

Don’t take our word for it.

The same song, the same second, two ways. Press play and switch.

Now Playing

All the Stars

Kendrick Lamar, SZA

A phone, the player on its screen

Best with headphones. Flip the toggle mid-song. That jump is the whole point.

Bone conduction is a studio simulation of the real thing.

What else you could be swimming in

SPRTN Swims

Bone conduction

Truly wireless earbuds that seal in your ear, hold music on board, and swim.

Open-ear headphones that send sound through the cheekbones instead of the air.

Plays underwater

2.4GHz radio does not travel through water, so nothing streams down there

SPRTN Swims: Yes
Bone conduction: Yes

Full-range sound wet

Bone conduction transmits through the skull. It is narrow-band, and it leaks

SPRTN Swims: Yes
Bone conduction: No

Seals in your ear

SPRTN Swims: Yes
Bone conduction: No

Music without your phone

SPRTN Swims: 10 hours onboard
Bone conduction: Varies

Works as everyday earbuds

Above water SPRTN is a normal Bluetooth pair

SPRTN Swims: Yes
Bone conduction: Yes

Submersion rating

SPRTN Swims: IPX8
Bone conduction: Varies
FeatureSPRTN SwimsBone conductionRegular earbudsWaterproof MP3
Truly wireless earbuds that seal in your ear, hold music on board, and swim.Open-ear headphones that send sound through the cheekbones instead of the air.Everyday wireless earbuds that stream from a phone over Bluetooth.A second device for the pool, with music loaded onto it beforehand.
Plays underwater2.4GHz radio does not travel through water, so nothing streams down thereYesYesNoYes
Full-range sound wetBone conduction transmits through the skull. It is narrow-band, and it leaksYesNoNoVaries
Seals in your earYesNoYesVaries
Music without your phone10 hours onboardVariesNoYes
Works as everyday earbudsAbove water SPRTN is a normal Bluetooth pairYesYesYesNo
Submersion ratingIPX8VariesNoneVaries

Categories rather than brands: each column describes how that kind of device works, not any particular product.

Sealed, and built to stay sealed.

IPX8 is a continuous-submersion rating, not a splash rating: chlorine, salt and open water. Four tip sizes and three hook styles dial in a lock that holds through turns, dives and push-offs. And if one ever does come out, it floats.

Rating
IPX8
Tips and hooks
4 + 3
If it comes out
It floats

Flagship-phone silicon, in your ear.

Qualcomm Snapdragon runs the audio. It is the same class of chip that drives a flagship phone, not the low-power part a waterproof MP3 player makes do with, and it is what delivers ten hours of playback and full-range sound that holds up underwater.

Qualcomm Snapdragon runs the audio. Flagship-phone silicon, for ten hours of full-range sound underwater.

Snapdragon
A SPRTN Swims earbud, opened up
  • SiliconQualcomm Snapdragon
  • CodecsaptX Adaptive, Lossless
  • Playback10 hours

Stop thinking. And swim.

Your music endsat the surface.

Ours doesn’t.

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