Book swim lessons anytime with experienced instructors

Propel is the easiest way to book flexible, effective swimming lessons, right now.

Pick an instructor, not a class
Select from top rated swim instructors and book hour long lessons that you can enjoy by yourself or with a friend.
Fit swim lessons into your life
Make your own lesson schedule with no registration days or rigid lesson sets. Reschedule or cancel anytime online.
Level up at your own pace
Progress through levels faster with direct and personalized feedback throughout every lesson.

Learn in a quiet setting, often with free amenities like wifi or towel service.

In 2015, we made it our mission to help the world learn how to swim by providing private lessons that are more affordable, accessible, flexible, and effective. Today, we build technology that helps swim instructors leverage their experience to better serve their communities as recreation entrepreneurs.

We connect thousands of swimmers and instructors, while providing under-utilized pools for them to have lessons in, creating an entirely new personal swim instruction industry.

As former lifeguards, co-founders Kiel Olver and Amie Nguyen each spent over ten years teaching public swimming lessons in their hometown of Vancouver, British Columbia. They learned that while being an instructor was fun and rewarding, being a learning swimmer was really frustrating; classes were packed, progress was slow, and waitlists were in the thousands, causing the process of registering for lessons to be more like buying concert tickets than signing up for neighborhood classes.

After teaching, Amie worked in marketing with a sports tech startup. Kiel went to engineering school, where he met Sean Hudson, a fellow engineering student and experienced web developer. The three became fast friends, and they formed Propel with the mission to break the status quo in the aquatics industry.