LapTracker - Auto Timer Hack 4.0.1 + Redeem Codes

Used this today to work on improving my lap times at my local RC track. Put my phone on a little bendy tripod pointed across the start/finish line and set the zone height to cover the whole width of the lane. I wasn’t sure if the spoken lap times would work with bluetooth but was pleasantly surprized to hear the lap number and time spoken through my airpods up on the driver’s stand. Excited to try the “Stop after X Time” and “Finish Last Lap” options to simulate a 5 minute qualifier or Main next time I use this.

Of course, the timing only worked accurately because I was the only one on the track - multiple cars passing through the timing zone would have completely messed up the timing. Sure you can set multiple timing zones or “lanes” but this only really works for slot-cars, hotwheels or other activities where the object being timed stays in a specific lane on every pass. RC cars and their drivers are far less predictable. Still, for the price and what i needed this for it works great!

Saved a bundle over diving headlong into an Arduino board, LCD, reed magnetic switches, tracking down someone who knows C++, and everything else it would have taken to set up a home made electronic lap timer for my slot car track. Instead, I dug some poster tack out of the junk drawer, and a juice glass out of the cabinet to hold my iPhone at the right angle, and paid $1.99 for an app. BOOM! Now I have an awesome lap timer. My brain is racing, thinking about all the things I can time, like my 5 year old running figure eights around our house chasing monsters on his Vtech watch, or how fast I run to the pantry and back when I’m making curry, because my misen place skills are crap and I never have everything I need at hand. If it moves, you can time it... this is sooooo good for my OCD, you have no idea.

I am using this app for my home use AFX four lane track set up. I simply mounted the iPhone over the track using a suction cup Bendy rod iPhone mount like you would use on a car windshield. The phone can be positioned perfectly with the bendy/rod to get perfect angle for lane identification from the app set up using the camera. Simple to use app extremely cost efficient as compared to the light optics/ laptop set up’s. 2 bucks vs 200 bucks! (Would be great a great enhancement to be able to customize the voice using the iPhone voice choices.)

I’ve always done manual lap counting, pressing a button with each pass, not very accurate. Now thanks to Laptracker, and a little camera bridge, I have a decent lap counter and timer. What’s not to like about the price. There are a few glitches with the voices/ sounds, though. But the timer works every time. I look forward to any updates in the future.

I use it on an old iPhone to track slot cars. The camera has to be reset every time the unit is turned on, will not hold the setting. Has a habit of randomly either timing both lanes with one car, or timing the car twice a lap, choosing it’s own start/finish line. When it works, witch is often, it’s great.

I’ve been using it for a while now and couldn’t be happier. It is everything I could ask for in a slot car timer. If you have slot cars, get this app.

I use this for timing my rc car laps on a track i set up in my driveway and it works great!! Only reason i didnt give 5 stars is i wish that when you email the results it would give you the average and best lap times like it does on the screen when app is open. Please update and make that happen!!

The last time I got the slot car bug, a few years ago, I looked for an app like this and was disappointed. Thank you for building such a great one!

Good app, easy to use and was accurate. Only complaint is that it displays times only in seconds so you have to then do some calculations to determine lap times if over 1 minute. Kind of a big oversight.

This worked fantastic for timing laps on my AFX racetrack for slot car racing. I just used an iPhone holder and point it at the track lanes. Awesome.