Stoppuhr

A careful management of time is sure to boost efficiency in any domain of activity. This doesn’t really need to be a complex operation, and it might just be enough to count the time it takes to perform specific tasks. In this regard, Stoppuhr comes as a slim desktop counter to start counting and ending when the task is done to view the total time.

On the bright side of things, the application saves you the entire effort of going through with a setup process, and can be taken for a spin right after it lands on your computer. This also means you can easily take it with you on a thumb drive to use on other computers, without having to worry about the health status of the target PC, because registry entries are not altered during runtime.

All it has to offer is found in a pretty compact main window. There are no accommodation problems you run across, with all buttons and functions in an organized layout. System time is also shown so you have a right point of reference to start and stop the counter. The two toggle options do exactly what the tags state.

The main window sits on top of every other window, and there’s no built-in option to toggle this state, and minimizing it only sends it to the taskbar, not the tray area. There are no alerts to configure, or possibility to pause and resume later on. What’s more, only one instance of the application can be active at a time, which means task don’t need to be too complex.

However, the most impact on practicality is delivered by the counter itself. Poor programming makes the counter offset by almost a second, which drastically reduces overall accuracy. This can easily be observed by the difference with the system clock which is also shown in the main window.

Stoppuhr comes with good intentions, in a lightweight package you can carry around, and in an intuitive window to be easy to use by everyone. Sadly, the core function badly malfunctions, with a huge offset with real time, cutting off practicality almost entirely because it can’t be relied on for accuracy at all.