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Ultimate Stopwatch app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 7360 ratings )
Utilities Sports
Developer: Pinetree Software
1.99 USD
Current version: 2.8.4, last update: 2 months ago
First release : 17 Dec 2013
App size: 6.61 Mb

The Ultimate Stopwatch is a professional timing tool, essential for coaches, trainers, and PE teachers who need to track multiple athletes across multiple events.

Simple to use, but powerful enough to handle all your needs, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad.


Unmatched Functionality with No Limits

• Unlimited Stopwatches: Track any number of users; up to 180 stopwatches can be displayed simultaneously on an iPad Pro for a single race.
• Flexible Race Management: Create unlimited races with customizable locations and notes, switching between them with a single swipe.
• Laps Without Limits: Record unlimited laps per stopwatch, with the last 4 to 16 laps displayed.
• Background Operation: Watches continue running even when the app isnt running, ensuring you never lose track.
• Flexible Timing Adjustments: Save temporary laps or stops to assign later, ensuring accuracy even when multiple runners arrive simultaneously.
• Undo mistakes: False Start or tapped wrong person? Undo it! Got the wrong time? Edit it anytime. Add or delete watches, even while race is ongoing.

Complete Control at your Fingertips

• Customizable Activity List: Tailor the built-in activity list to the sports or events you track.
• Individual and Master Controls: Start, stop, or reset each watch independently or all at once.
• Diverse Stopwatch Formats: Choose from 25 different layouts to suit your needs, controlling watch/button/text size.
• Advanced Timing Options: Switch between split and cumulative displays at any time, and control the precision of time display down to thousandths of a second.

Comprehensive People Management

• Organize your People: Group individuals into teams or classes for streamlined tracking.
• Detailed Reporting: Access race history and performance metrics for each participant, including their personal bests.
• Easy Importing: Import contacts directly from your address book, complete with photos and emails.
• Photos: so you can tell whos who in a large group.

Flexible Launch Choices

• Quick Race Launching: Use the volume button to start races without needing to look at your device.
• Visual Organization: Automatically sort watches (as each person completes a lap, they drop to the bottom, so next lap theyre easy to find) or manually arrange as needed.
• Staggered Starts: Spread out your runners over time.
• Full-Screen Launch Board: Let each runner knows its their time to go.
• Batch races: launch another group all at once.
• Simultaneous Races: Easily navigate between multiple ongoing races.

Dynamic Reporting

• Add Personal Notes: Enhance reports with notes for each race or participant.
• Sorting and Graphing: Sort reports by time or name, or graph your results.
• Exporting: Use your data in other apps, like Excel.
• Activity Tracking: Monitor which types of activities are timed and locate races by name or map.
• Find a race: Search by name, or use the map to find it by location.

The Ultimate Stopwatch is not just a tool; it’s a game-changer for anyone serious about timing in sports. With robust features and user-friendly design, it empowers coaches and trainers to focus on performance while effortlessly tracking times.

Pros and cons of Ultimate Stopwatch app for iPhone and iPad

Ultimate Stopwatch app good for

This stopwatch does everything a coach could ask for and more. Well thought out with many options to suit your needs!
I run Nordic ski time trials in the winter. These are very loose and informal with changes taking place on the fly. I needed an app with multiple, individually-controlled watches that could also be used in mass start mode. This app does that. Our time trialers sometimes straggle in late but still want to get a time. This app allows that. The setup is good and flexible enough to allow a participant to sign up for one lap, say, and then, in real time, add more to the total. There are no Nordic races in the default race type but they can be added to the list easily. After the fact, its pretty trivial to email results to participants and to copy results into another app. I maintain a web site where results are archived and this app allows me to do that without going through an online service. The results formatting is simple and easy to read. I tried other apps but found this one to be the best for my use.

Some bad moments

The app does not work in the background, constantly resets the data. Please fix it.
I tried every interval-based watch on the App Store to help w distance pacing and stats for track, they are all pretty much frustrating or impractical except for this one. The main buttons need to be bigger, but with that my review changes to a resounding 5 stars.
Phenomenal watch! Especially great for time groups or multiple people at once. I highly recommend this app!
This is fabulous. Multiple stopwatches and lap times. Simple, effective, brilliant!
I really like this app, especially with the way that you can add a brief description of the stopwatch and edit the total time on it. I have used these stopwatches to set and roll the numbers to hours and minutes played on a game I downloaded off the Internet called Farming Simulator 2013. This eliminates the need to actually let the stopwatch run to a particular time. I can actually roll the numbers to where I need them to display the correct time played. Still like it and use it! Thanks a million!
This program has been exceptional until today. I just updated the app and it crashed! I use this app every week for my students 1-mile run. Please get this back on track!