One thumb.
The whole squad
Herotime is the patented single-button multi stopwatch for coaches. One button — even your iPhone's volume button — times many athletes at once, eyes up the entire session.
THE OLD WAY
Retire the fistful
of stopwatches.
Three stopwatches around your neck, splits scribbled on a wet notepad, head down at the exact moment your athletes hit the line — and an evening of transcribing afterwards.
Herotime replaces all of it: one phone, one button, every time captured and organized the moment it happens.
How tap & arrange works
One button. The mode of tap assigns the time. Try each gesture — then run the splits.
Two or more quick taps record one shared group start — one athlete per tap. The gun for a heat.
Each tap starts the next single athlete in the starting order — stagger a lane at a time.
Hold to start everyone still waiting — clears the rest in one gesture.
Once athletes are running, every tap records the next split and assigns it automatically to the least-recently-timed athlete — around the circle, in order. When someone overtakes, one drag on the time record fixes the order.
Built for the moment the whistle goes.
Time everyone at once
One button times the whole squad — group starts, staggered lanes, every split. Never miss a time again.
Skip the paperwork
Every start, split, and finish is captured and organized automatically. Export a clean CSV when you're done.
Eyes on the athletes
Tap by feel — even on the volume button. Watch the technique, the touch, the finish. Coach, don't transcribe.
Everything a timing session needs.
Tap & Arrange™
The patented one-button method: the mode of your tap assigns the time.
Volume-button timing
Use the iPhone's physical volume button — time without looking at the screen.
Athletes in seconds
Add, remove, and reorder athletes in seconds, right before the set.
Group tags
Organize squads into groups and switch between them mid-session.
Timing history & review
Every session stored — review starts, splits, and finals athlete by athlete.
Cadence per split
Stride and stroke rates captured for every split, not just the total.
CSV export
Share clean CSV through the iOS Share Sheet — opens straight in Excel.
Invented poolside.
Granted in Washington.
Tap & Arrange — timing many athletes with a single button, where the mode of tap decides the assignment — is the world's first practical solution to manual multi-entity timing. The method is protected under U.S. Patent 11,080,947 B2, granted December 19, 2021.
What coaches say.
“As a swim coach, timekeeping is everything. Saving the effort to take written notes in between is a game changer! And then, keeping times for my entire team at once is amazing.”
“Why hasn’t anyone come up with this earlier? Glad I didn’t fall for the high-end stopwatch with detachable printer on Amazon. What a waste of money.”
“Can’t wait to hold the final version in my hands. Anyone needs my three old stopwatches?”
“I don’t need to time-keep lots of people. But even for my occasional stopwatch session, just sharing the time series is gold for me!”
“Wow, a stopwatch smarter than me? Give, asap, please!”
“Awesome!”
From the Journal.
All posts →Herotime returns: the single-button multi stopwatch, rebuilt
Nearly ten years on, Herotime — the single-button multi stopwatch for coaches — is about to relaunch, rebuilt for the latest iOS. Here's what changed.
BY MARCO BREMER February 13, 2022Good things take time: U.S. Patent 11,080,947, granted
Six years after filing, Tap & Arrange — the single-button multi-timing method behind Herotime — is a granted United States patent. Here is what it covers, in plain language.
BY MARCO BREMER February 9, 2017New version live: groups and longer athlete codes
Version 2.1 doubles athlete codes to 12 characters and adds tag-based groups, so big squads stay organized and every code finally reads like a name.
BY MARCO BREMER