LapTrak vs Ready Steady

LapTrak is a running activity tracker with features designed for speed, interval, and lap training. Activities can be tracked using the LapTrak iPhone or Apple Watch app. If you have an Apple Watch, you can leave your iPhone at home, with activities syncing back to the iPhone app upon completion. Integration & Compatibility: LapTrak integrates with HealthKit, Strava, and the Health & Activity apps, allowing your runs to contribute to your daily stats. You can upload activities to Strava with one tap or export them in TCX format for other platforms. Core Features: LapTrak excels at tracking and analyzing individual laps, regardless of their time or distance. You can manually track laps with the large lap button or let a training program handle it automatically. • Classic Laps: Free program for manual or auto lap tracking with customizable lap distances. Great for sprints, intervals, splits, and reminders like halfway points or gels. • Upgraded Programs: Available for purchase and fully customizable: • Lap Repeats: Fast + recovery laps by time, distance, or location. • Pyramid Laps: Intervals with increasing and decreasing durations. • Tabata: 8x 20-second sprints with 10-second recoveries. • Tempo: Target a hard pace based on your 5K time. • Yasso 800s: Predict and train for marathon goals. During the Run: LapTrak offers interval and total run stats at a glance, with optional spoken feedback. Switch between interval and overall stats mid-run with a tap. Both iPhone and Apple Watch apps include outdoor and indoor modes: • Outdoor: Tracking via GPS • Indoor Manual: Input treadmill speed yourself. • Indoor Bluetooth: Automatically track speed with compatible treadmills. LapTrak also features a cadence training aid, providing audio feedback to help you hit your target cadence. Post-Run Analysis: After your run, LapTrak provides a detailed breakdown of overall and interval stats. On the iPhone app, view summaries, interactive maps, and tables of interval splits, including pace, distance, time, elevation, heart rate, and cadence. Select intervals for deeper analysis, including pace graphs and rankings. LapTrak also highlights fast intervals, showing specific stats alongside overall results. For back-and-forth sprints or track workouts, LapTrak groups points for clearer analysis. Additional Features: • Social media sharing with detailed stat views. • KM/mile support, pause & auto-pause, heart rate tracking, and warmup/cooldown options. • Highly configurable to suit any running style.

Ready Steady is made for your training runs on the track: An accurate stopwatch that records heart rate and pace, and lets you easily time your rests. Features include: • Acoustic pacemaker. • Records heart rate and pace. • Your training session will show in Apple’s Fitness App on the iPhone. • Stop the run by tapping anywhere on the screen. Ready Steady prevents the display from sleeping on wrist-down. Also, con­sid­er setting the wake du­ra­tion to 70 s and activating “Wake on Wrist Raise”). • Long-sleeve mode (bump to stop). Works even if the watch is covered by a sleeve or glove: just give the watch a hard tap or bump your palms against each other. This works even if the display is sleeping. • Using the 3-second acoustic countdown means you do not even need to start the stopwatch manually, which makes the measurement even more accurate. • During the rests, Ready Steady shows the current rest as count-up, as well as a progress bar (if you have set a target rest, which is optional). • The little Bluetooth icon is shown if an external heart rate sensor is connected. • The current heart rate is shown even before the first run begins. • Optionally, choose to proceed to the next run automatically after the given rest time. • On the Apple Watch, you can see an overview of the runs and rests so far, including minimum and maximum heart rates. • Ready Steady on the iPhone lets you inspect your training session in more detail, including heart rate and pace. • The pace can be shown in m/s, s/100m, min/km or min/mile. • Use a two-finger pinch to zoom in and out of the heart rate and pace graph. • Tap on a run or rest to automatically zoom and scroll to the respective section. • See the average heart rate and pace in the currently visible section. • The list shows the minimum heart rate during the rests, and the maximum during the run – this includes up to 30 s after the run as the highest heart rate reading usually occurs shortly after you cross the finish line.