MultilaneStopwatch

If you're a coach or just helping someone track their performance, you might understand and appreciate the importance of having a trustworthy stopwatch to help you simplify your work.

Although not a physical device, MultilaneStopwatch is one of the many stopwatch applications that can be of use in the situation depicted above.

What makes this app stand out among others is that it offers you the ability to track up to ten lanes by simply activating them and then using their dedicated controls in the main window.

However, the response is rather clunky, as sometimes during or testing we weren't able to start the timers on all the lanes (although they were active) and clicking the "Start All" button after stopping all the timers often triggers no effect. This may be due to the fact that this application was designed for being used on tablets with touch input.

MultilaneStopwatch creates new text documents on your computer automatically, where the time values that you recorded will be exported, so that you can use these parameters with other applications or even print them if you like.

Within the text files you can find the lane number, the amount of laps covered by the runner, the total time elapsed and the lap time. Recording a lap time can be done by clicking the double-arrow button assigned to each lane. Hitting "Protocol" will prompt you with a preview of the generated text file.

MultilaneStopwatch can be helpful if you're planning to track and record time for multiple lanes at once, but sometimes the app might fail to behave as it should. Its interface is simplistic and its controls can be quickly learned by virtually anyone.