Comparison

Ultimate Stopwatch vs Rise

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Ultimate Stopwatch

This professional timing tool allows coaches and trainers to track multiple athletes and events simultaneously. It offers unlimited stopwatches, flexible race management, and detailed reporting for comprehensive performance analysis. Designed for efficient team and individual tracking.

Highlights
  • Unlimited stopwatches
  • Flexible race management
  • Unlimited laps
  • Background operation
  • Flexible timing adjustments
  • Detailed reporting
  • Customizable activity list
Features
Currently charting
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The Ultimate Stopwatch is a professional timing tool, essential for coaches, trainers, and PE teachers who need to track multiple athletes across multiple events. Simple to use, but powerful enough to handle all your needs, designed specifically for iPhone and iPad. Unmatched Functionality with No Limits • Unlimited Stopwatches: Track any number of users; up to 180 stopwatches can be displayed simultaneously on an iPad Pro for a single race. • Flexible Race Management: Create unlimited races with customizable locations and notes, switching between them with a single swipe. • Laps Without Limits: Record unlimited laps per stopwatch, with the last 4 to 16 laps displayed. • Background Operation: Watches continue running even when the app isn't running, ensuring you never lose track. • Flexible Timing Adjustments: Save temporary laps or stops to assign later, ensuring accuracy even when multiple runners arrive simultaneously. • Undo mistakes: False Start or tapped wrong person? Undo it! Got the wrong time? Edit it anytime. Add or delete watches, even while race is ongoing. Complete Control at your Fingertips • Customizable Activity List: Tailor the built-in activity list to the sports or events you track. • Individual and Master Controls: Start, stop, or reset each watch independently or all at once. • Diverse Stopwatch Formats: Choose from 25 different layouts to suit your needs, controlling watch/button/text size. • Advanced Timing Options: Switch between split and cumulative displays at any time, and control the precision of time display down to thousandths of a second. Comprehensive People Management • Organize your People: Group individuals into teams or classes for streamlined tracking. • Detailed Reporting: Access race history and performance metrics for each participant, including their personal bests. • Easy Importing: Import contacts directly from your address book, complete with photos and emails. • Photos: so you can tell who's who in a large group. Flexible Launch Choices • Quick Race Launching: Use the volume button to start races without needing to look at your device. • Visual Organization: Automatically sort watches (as each person completes a lap, they drop to the bottom, so next lap they're easy to find) or manually arrange as needed. • Staggered Starts: Spread out your runners over time. • Full-Screen Launch Board: Let each runner knows it's their time to go. • Batch races: launch another group all at once. • Simultaneous Races: Easily navigate between multiple ongoing races. Dynamic Reporting • Add Personal Notes: Enhance reports with notes for each race or participant. • Sorting and Graphing: Sort reports by time or name, or graph your results. • Exporting: Use your data in other apps, like Excel. • Activity Tracking: Monitor which types of activities are timed and locate races by name or map. • Find a race: Search by name, or use the map to find it by location. The Ultimate Stopwatch is not just a tool; it’s a game-changer for anyone serious about timing in sports. With robust features and user-friendly design, it empowers coaches and trainers to focus on performance while effortlessly tracking times.

About

Rise

This app helps archers track their progress with detailed scoring, advanced statistics, and goal setting. Connect with a community of archers, join groups, and compete on leaderboards. It supports various scoring systems and offers tools for form analysis and practice.

Highlights
  • Text and target face score recording
  • Support for multiple scoring systems (USAA, NFAA, 3D)
  • Advanced statistics and charts
  • Goal setting and tracking
  • Connect with other archers and join groups
  • Customizable rounds and loadouts
  • Form analysis tools
Features
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The cleanest and most intuitive archery tracking app on the App Store, and the only place to track your development and connect with other archers. Rise is an archery scoring app designed to help you to track your archery development with advanced charts and statistics. Whether you’re shooting at your local range for fun or gearing up for international competitions, Rise makes it easy to save your sessions, set goals, and get instant statistics each time you practice. FEATURES • NEW! Tournament Simulations: Simulate hundreds of real USA Archery, World Archery, and Korea Archery Association tournaments, including National Team qualifiers, World Cups, Indoor World Series events, National Championships, collegiate competitions, and the Olympic Games. Shoot qualification and elimination rounds, compete against real historical results, and see how you rank against real competitors • Text and target face score recording options • Target faces for USA Archery, World Archery, NFAA, 3D (ASA/IBO/OPA), and Imperial scoring • Practice, scoring, arrow counter, and Olympic Round modes • Create an account and access your archery data from any supported device • Profile customization with name, division, and profile photo • Connect with other archers and share your recent sessions • Join and create groups for archery ranges, teams, JOAD clubs, and more • Join a group to compete in monthly leaderboards with other group members • Preloaded with USAA indoor and outdoor rounds — or create your own custom rounds! • Autosave feature that lets you pick up where you left off • Number your arrows and see how different arrows group • Advanced statistics for every saved scoring and practice session • Group scoring rounds together when they’re part of a tournament or to view group statistics • Add notes or tags to each session to track form changes, shooting conditions, injuries, etc. • Filter by distance, loadout, date, and tags • Create multiple loadouts for your different setups or bows, apply them to history items, and view loadout-specific statistics • Track your set up tuning details for each loadout, including brace height, nock height, poundage, arrow spine, sight settings, and more • Save and track your goals • Delayed camera feed for viewing your form as you shoot • Built in Countdown timer to help practice shot timing • Simulate a competition environment by scoring against Rise Bot, whose scores are based off your own recent performance • Support for metric and imperial distances • Support for light and dark modes • Export a saved scoring round as a CSV or PDF • Export your entire shooting history as a CSV Rise is constantly growing, and new updates are always in the works! If you have any questions or want to suggest a feature, please email us at support@risearchery.com, or follow the Facebook page, Rise - Archery Scoring.

Screenshots

Ultimate Stopwatch4 screens
Rise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rise at Free against Ultimate Stopwatch's $3.99. Rise also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). Ultimate Stopwatch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and chart position (#179 vs unranked). On rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Rise is free to download; Ultimate Stopwatch costs $3.99 up front. Rise sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Ultimate Stopwatch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Ultimate Stopwatch against 4.8 for Rise. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 155 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Ultimate Stopwatch's written reviews are positive against 76% of Rise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultimate Stopwatch ships an update every 4 months, Rise every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Ultimate Stopwatch versus Rise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltimate StopwatchRise
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (71 ratings)4.8 (155 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.3% of reviews — better75.7% of reviews
Number of ratings71155 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#179 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPinetree SoftwareCampbell Affleck

Customer experience

Ultimate Stopwatch

All ratings67 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%
Written reviews55 reviews
Positive87.3%
Neutral5.5%
Negative7.3%

Rise

All ratings155 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral1.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive75.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative21.6%

Bugs and requests

Ultimate Stopwatch

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes after update
  • App does not work in the background
  • Constantly resets data
  • UI keeps crashing

Requested features

17 requests
  • Make the lap button larger
  • Cloud space for data
  • Share data between staff members
  • Apple Watch app
  • Sort history by best lap
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  • Best lap on timing screen
  • Stopwatch for multi-run downhill races
  • Link with social media
  • Ability to customize distance
  • Button for intermediate times for all athletes ("lap all" in addition to "stop all")
  • Cloud sync between devices
  • Ability to time legs rather than split times
  • Dark mode option
  • Advanced analytics dashboard
  • Import student lists from address book
  • Ability for 5 users to split duties (start/finish)
  • Functionality with locked device for volume button control

Rise

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Ultimate Stopwatch

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Rise

Subscriptions4
  • Rise Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Rise Coach Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Rise Pro Yearly$49.991 Year
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  • Rise Coach Yearly$149.991 Year
One-time1
  • Rise Pro Lifetime$199.99

Questions

Is Ultimate Stopwatch free?
Ultimate Stopwatch costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Ultimate Stopwatch or Rise?
Rise is rated higher. Ultimate Stopwatch averages 4.7 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Rise averages 4.8 from 155 ratings.
Do Ultimate Stopwatch or Rise have ads?
Neither Ultimate Stopwatch nor Rise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ultimate Stopwatch or Rise?
Ultimate Stopwatch ships an update every 4 months, and Rise every 4 weeks. Most recently, Ultimate Stopwatch was updated on November 1, 2026 and Rise on October 29, 2026.

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