2.7.0
2020-10-30
New lap Countdown Mode ("3 laps To Go")
Reports across an entire team of people
Trackpad support for iPad
Blackout Mode for individual use (e.g. running with your phone in a pocket)
FirstWatch mode now affects first running watch
Delete all members of a team
2.6.5
2019-11-16
2.6.5: Fix for potential crash while searching your contacts to add to Watches
Dark mode (w/ improved battery life)
Swipe left or right on main screen's title (race name) to quickly switch between active races.
Stagger start now only waits 2 seconds for first runner.
Three new huge watch faces
2.6.4
2019-10-28
Dark mode (w/ improved battery life)
Swipe left or right on main screen's title (race name) to quickly switch between active races.
Stagger start now only waits 2 seconds for first runner.
Three new huge watch faces
Minor changes:
iPhone 11 and iOS 13 support
Performance tuning in screen updating
Include seconds when reporting race time (to allow comparison)
Misc bug Fixes
2.6.3
2019-03-03
Bug fixes:
More reliable volume-control buttons.
Exports to CSV and Text more compatible with Excel.
Recent Races!
In one way or another, multiple people have asked to make it easier to switch between recent races. Either they are editing them, or they are tracking multiple groups in simultaneous races, or they want to set up several races for a day, and quickly access them.
In the Main menu, I've added an option for "Recent Races", which shows the last few races. (You can easily add/remove them from this list) Then with two taps, you can switch back and forth between these races.
2.6.2
2018-09-16
Recent Races!
In one way or another, multiple people have asked to make it easier to switch between recent races. Either they are editing them, or they are tracking multiple groups in simultaneous races, or they want to set up several races for a day, and quickly access them.
In the Main menu, I've added an option for "Recent Races", which shows the last few races. (You can easily add/remove them from this list) Then with two taps, you can switch back and forth between these races.
2.6.1
2018-08-16
Thank you for your enthusiastic support! Here's a few bug fixes:
Can now "Add new people" from "All People" screen
"Select from Contacts" visible on iPhoneX
Plugged minor memory leak
2.6.0
2018-06-23
There is now an "Intervals (Auto Laps)" option in Preferences.
When enabled, when you Stop a watch, and then restart it, it automatically records a Lap at the Stop time.
This is designed for interval training (everybody does a lap, then pause, then another lap etc), each interval will then be recorded as a separate lap, and the cumulative will show the sum of all active intervals.
You can restart with Individual start buttons, or All Start, or Staggered Start.
We have removed "Force Touch" from the main watch screen, as it was sometimes being accidentally triggered during the excitement of a race.
2.5.1
2017-11-15
Graphs! (For both individuals and races)
Full iPhoneX and 10.11 Support.
No more Ads.
Easier to delete multiple people or races.
Per request, 3 and 4 minute stagger start times
2.5.0
2017-11-13
Graphs of individual and race performance.
iPhoneX and 10.11 Support
Removed Remove Ads/Donation request from In-App purchase
Requested improvements:
Easier to delete multiple people or races.
3/4 minute stagger times
2.0.5
2017-03-17
Support for Interval Training (see below*)
Converting "Remove Ads" to "Support Watches"
Allows deleting photo
Fixes:
Black background icon
Fixes iPad import of photo
Column problem when importing CSV to Excel or Numbers
*At the request of a coach, the latest version has better support for interval training. For example, if you have a group that is doing 8 laps, with a brief break in between, then just start them the normal way, with or without using Staggered Start. As each person finishes, hit their individual Stop button. After the break, when you’re ready for the next lap, just hit the master Start (either Stagger Start or Start All) again. Watches now recognizes this case (last button pressed was an individual Stop and then a master Start), and automatically record the individual times as Laps.
This seems a very useful behavior across multiple sports, but if you don’t want it, for the last person, simply hit "All Stop" instead of their individual Stop button Also, let me know; if enough people need it, I’ll make it a configuration option.
2.0.4
2016-11-02
2.0.x: bug fixes (esp auto-sort under iOS 10)
2.0:
The Ultimate Stopwatch 2.0 is a massive update involving almost all aspects of Watches. A long list of new features requested by our users to make using Watches better in real-world situations are included, as well many little fixes and performance enhancements. Although Watches has many new capabilities and options, we continue to strive to make it easy to use. We hope it does what you need. If it does, there's nothing better for a developer than a good review (see the menus), or you could buy the ad-removing upgrade (see the menus). If not, let us know at our support site (you guessed it, in the menu) how we can help!
Better Race Starts:
Enable a huge Start button
Launch a group as a batch during a race
Do a Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Add a person to current race from their history
Start a race without looking with iPhone/iPad's volume control
During race, use volume buttons to create an unassigned Lap (or Stop), and assign it later
Better Device Support:
Optimized for all iOS8 and 9 devices (iPhone 4s up through iPad Pro)
Use Split Screen Support (on compatible iPads)
Humongous watch face to read at distance (for iPads)
Force-push Peek and Pop to preview details and reports (on iPhone 6s & 6s+)
More popups (on iPad and larger iPhones)
Restructured and easier Preferences with help Text
Better Reporting:
Dual-views in Landscape for People and Reports (on larger devices)
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times simultaneously
Separate splits-display and time-unit options for watches vs reports
Locations now show up as text in reports rather than lat/long
Runner's photos and Race-Type columnin HTML report
Choice of CSV or tab-separated exports
Include seconds in date in CSV and Text
Better Editing:
Add a lap while editing a Watch
Make notes on people across all races
While editing runner names, choose from existing ones to merge runners
Edit current Race Info and any historic races as well
Specify default Activity Types
FEATURES:
Split Screen Support (including smaller faces for iPad)
Big Start Button option
Force-push Peek and Pop
Add these watches and launch
Use Volume Control for starting a race without looking
Use Volume Control during race if you don't know who the lap or stop is for and assign it later
Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Splitviews in Landscape for People and Reports
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times
2.0.3
2016-09-22
2.0.3: Fixes Auto-sort for iOS 10
2.0:
The Ultimate Stopwatch 2.0 is a massive update involving almost all aspects of Watches. A long list of new features requested by our users to make using Watches better in real-world situations are included, as well many little fixes and performance enhancements. Although Watches has many new capabilities and options, we continue to strive to make it easy to use. We hope it does what you need. If it does, there's nothing better for a developer than a good review (see the menus), or you could buy the ad-removing upgrade (see the menus). If not, let us know at our support site (you guessed it, in the menu) how we can help!
Better Race Starts:
Enable a huge Start button
Launch a group as a batch during a race
Do a Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Add a person to current race from their history
Start a race without looking with iPhone/iPad's volume control
During race, use volume buttons to create an unassigned Lap (or Stop), and assign it later
Better Device Support:
Optimized for all iOS8 and 9 devices (iPhone 4s up through iPad Pro)
Use Split Screen Support (on compatible iPads)
Humongous watch face to read at distance (for iPads)
Force-push Peek and Pop to preview details and reports (on iPhone 6s & 6s+)
More popups (on iPad and larger iPhones)
Restructured and easier Preferences with help Text
Better Reporting:
Dual-views in Landscape for People and Reports (on larger devices)
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times simultaneously
Separate splits-display and time-unit options for watches vs reports
Locations now show up as text in reports rather than lat/long
Runner's photos and Race-Type columnin HTML report
Choice of CSV or tab-separated exports
Include seconds in date in CSV and Text
Better Editing:
Add a lap while editing a Watch
Make notes on people across all races
While editing runner names, choose from existing ones to merge runners
Edit current Race Info and any historic races as well
Specify default Activity Types
FEATURES:
Split Screen Support (including smaller faces for iPad)
Big Start Button option
Force-push Peek and Pop
Add these watches and launch
Use Volume Control for starting a race without looking
Use Volume Control during race if you don't know who the lap or stop is for and assign it later
Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Splitviews in Landscape for People and Reports
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times
2.0.2
2016-04-18
2.0.2: A few minor cleanups and requests from the first few weeks of our big 2.0 launch:
Smooths out Race Type editing glitches
Removes potential crash in Runner name autocompletion
Eschews unnecessary margins in Notes fields
Sorting by name now sorts by ... name
Race reports show position (#1, #2 ...).
Immediately reflects merging runners in UI (and avoids an occasional crash).
Now avoids accidental time travel by preventing negative lap times in watch editor.
All Stop should appear when it is supposed to (when all watches started, and at least one still running)
For those who like to read release notes, it'd be great if you'd file a review (just go to the main menu)!
2.0.1
Let iOS8 play along
Adds Restore purchases for ad-removal
The Ultimate Stopwatch 2.0 is a massive update involving almost all aspects of Watches. A long list of new features requested by our users to make using Watches better in real-world situations are included, as well many little fixes and performance enhancements. Although Watches has many new capabilities and options, we continue to strive to make it easy to use. We hope it does what you need. If it does, there's nothing better for a developer than a good review (see the menus), or you could buy the ad-removing upgrade (see the menus). If not, let us know at our support site (you guessed it, in the menu) how we can help!
Better Race Starts:
Enable a huge Start button
Launch a group as a batch during a race
Do a Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Add a person to current race from their history
Start a race without looking with iPhone/iPad's volume control
During race, use volume buttons to create an unassigned Lap (or Stop), and assign it later
Better Device Support:
Optimized for all iOS8 and 9 devices (iPhone 4s up through iPad Pro)
Use Split Screen Support (on compatible iPads)
Humongous watch face to read at distance (for iPads)
Force-push Peek and Pop to preview details and reports (on iPhone 6s & 6s+)
More popups (on iPad and larger iPhones)
Restructured and easier Preferences with help Text
Better Reporting:
Dual-views in Landscape for People and Reports (on larger devices)
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times simultaneously
Separate splits-display and time-unit options for watches vs reports
Locations now show up as text in reports rather than lat/long
Runner's photos and Race-Type columnin HTML report
Choice of CSV or tab-separated exports
Include seconds in date in CSV and Text
Better Editing:
Add a lap while editing a Watch
Make notes on people across all races
While editing runner names, choose from existing ones to merge runners
Edit current Race Info and any historic races as well
Specify default Activity Types
FEATURES:
Split Screen Support (including smaller faces for iPad)
Big Start Button option
Force-push Peek and Pop
Add these watches and launch
Use Volume Control for starting a race without looking
Use Volume Control during race if you don't know who the lap or stop is for and assign it later
Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Splitviews in Landscape for People and Reports
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times
2.0.1
2016-03-31
(2.0.1: Fixed startup crash in iOS 8 on some devices)
The Ultimate Stopwatch 2.0 is a massive update involving almost all aspects of Watches. A long list of new features requested by our users to make using Watches better in real-world situations are included, as well many little fixes and performance enhancements. Although Watches has many new capabilities and options, we continue to strive to make it easy to use. We hope it does what you need. If it does, there's nothing better for a developer than a good review (see the menus), or you could buy the ad-removing upgrade (see the menus). If not, let us know at our support site (you guessed it, in the menu) how we can help!
Better Race Starts:
Enable a huge Start button
Launch a group as a batch during a race
Do a Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Add a person to current race from their history
Start a race without looking with iPhone/iPad's volume control
During race, use volume buttons to create an unassigned Lap (or Stop), and assign it later
Better Device Support:
Optimized for all iOS8 and 9 devices (iPhone 4s up through iPad Pro)
Use Split Screen Support (on compatible iPads)
Humongous watch face to read at distance (for iPads)
Force-push Peek and Pop to preview details and reports (on iPhone 6s & 6s+)
More popups (on iPad and larger iPhones)
Restructured and easier Preferences with help Text
Better Reporting:
Dual-views in Landscape for People and Reports (on larger devices)
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times simultaneously
Separate splits-display and time-unit options for watches vs reports
Locations now show up as text in reports rather than lat/long
Runner's photos and Race-Type columnin HTML report
Choice of CSV or tab-separated exports
Include seconds in date in CSV and Text
Better Editing:
Add a lap while editing a Watch
Make notes on people across all races
While editing runner names, choose from existing ones to merge runners
Edit current Race Info and any historic races as well
Specify default Activity Types
FEATURES:
Split Screen Support (including smaller faces for iPad)
Big Start Button option
Force-push Peek and Pop
Add these watches and launch
Use Volume Control for starting a race without looking
Use Volume Control during race if you don't know who the lap or stop is for and assign it later
Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Splitviews in Landscape for People and Reports
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times
2.0.0
2016-03-24
(Note: there is a possible startup crash with certain devices under iOS 8. A fix has ben submitted.)
The Ultimate Stopwatch 2.0 is a massive update involving almost all aspects of Watches. A long list of new features requested by our users to make using Watches better in real-world situations are included, as well many little fixes and performance enhancements. Although Watches has many new capabilities and options, we continue to strive to make it easy to use. We hope it does what you need. If it does, there's nothing better for a developer than a good review (see the menus), or you could buy the ad-removing upgrade (see the menus). If not, let us know at our support site (you guessed it, in the menu) how we can help!
Better Race Starts:
Enable a huge Start button
Launch a group as a batch during a race
Do a Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Add a person to current race from their history
Start a race without looking with iPhone/iPad's volume control
During race, use volume buttons to create an unassigned Lap (or Stop), and assign it later
Better Device Support:
Optimized for all iOS8 and 9 devices (iPhone 4s up through iPad Pro)
Use Split Screen Support (on compatible iPads)
Humongous watch face to read at distance (for iPads)
Force-push Peek and Pop to preview details and reports (on iPhone 6s & 6s+)
More popups (on iPad and larger iPhones)
Restructured and easier Preferences with help Text
Better Reporting:
Dual-views in Landscape for People and Reports (on larger devices)
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times simultaneously
Separate splits-display and time-unit options for watches vs reports
Locations now show up as text in reports rather than lat/long
Runner's photos and Race-Type columnin HTML report
Choice of CSV or tab-separated exports
Include seconds in date in CSV and Text
Better Editing:
Add a lap while editing a Watch
Make notes on people across all races
While editing runner names, choose from existing ones to merge runners
Edit current Race Info and any historic races as well
Specify default Activity Types
FEATURES:
Split Screen Support (including smaller faces for iPad)
Big Start Button option
Force-push Peek and Pop
Add these watches and launch
Use Volume Control for starting a race without looking
Use Volume Control during race if you don't know who the lap or stop is for and assign it later
Staggered Start with fullscreen launch board
Splitviews in Landscape for People and Reports
Personal-Best tracking by race type
Option to show both split and cumulative times
1.1.5
2015-05-02
Fix for obscure crash, and new data model for next release.
1.1.4
2015-03-13
Major bug hunting expedition; all known bugs terminated.
Annoying gray bar gone
Keyboard works in Notes field after leaving and coming back in
Fix for a strange negative time possibility
Saves more frequently during a race
A few typos remedied
Two obscure crashing bugs gone.
To save battery, if you have more than 8 watches running on the screen at once, we now slow the screen updates down. This has no effect on accuracy; it's strictly visual.
We're already working on the next release with several significant new features that are just about done. If you'd like to try these out, sign up for the beta test in Help>Feedback Forum>Subscribe to 1.2 Beta.
Finally, I don't want to interrupt your usage of Watches with review requests, but if you like the product, submitting a review is the best thing you can do for us! Just go to the menu and Recommend Watches.
1.1.3
2014-10-29
Bug fixes for 8.0
1.1.2
2014-10-10
Bug fix.
If you have any problems or suggestions, please go to the Help command in the menu to leave us a note.
Note: this release does not take full advantage of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. It runs fine, but at the zoomed up resolution. Look for that soon.
1.1.1
2014-10-04
A couple of minor requested features, and several bug fixes mostly related to iOS8.
Lap buttons now show which lap you will be creating (aka which one the runner will be completing).
Thanks to Asskdghdasdd for pointing out the problem in removing ads and ccolburn for an iOS8 issue. If you have any problems or suggestions, please go to the Help command in the menu to leave us a note.
Note: this release does not take full advantage of the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. It runs fine, but at the zoomed up resolution. Look for that soon.
1.1
2014-06-01
Simpler management of races and a new menu:
Simpler save process:
- New races now created with unique name including date (Updated upon start of race )
- No more “Current Race” temporary name
- No more "Rename old race” to create new one
- Make a race in History active again with “Make Current Race" button on iPad (still menu on iPhone)
New sidebar menu; use menu button or right-swipe
- Create a new race
- If a group has a follow-on race, just hit “New race for these runners”
- Reset Race to zero
- Settings
- Help
- Recommend Watches option, to submit a review to iTunes
- About Watches
New watch formats with bigger buttons, particularly good for iPad Mini
Simplified Edit Watch header
Animated lap Timings to make sure they’re seen
1.0.6
2014-04-02
Fixed two display problems:
Splits/Seconds only text
Races list disappearing in Portrait mode
I don't put any nagging messages in, but if you like the program, please let others know by doing a review on iTunes.
And if you really like it, please make the in-app purchase, which will also remove the ads for you.
1.0.5
2014-03-10
Fixed bug in version 1.0.4 that broke Auto-sorting
1.0.4
2014-03-05
Update: please note: this version has broken auto-sorting. Please turn this feature off in Settings until 1.0.4b is approved by Apple.
Restored Swipe-to-delete
Fixed obscure crash problem.
1.0.3
2014-01-20
Performance tuning