Comparison

SplitVault vs Race Timer

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

Head to head
About

SplitVault

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SplitVault is a training journal built for competitive swimmers, runners, and athletes who track performance over time. Time races and training sessions with a precision stopwatch that captures lap splits, weather conditions, and location — all saved automatically to your history. MULTI-ATHLETE PROFILES Track multiple athletes from a single device. Each athlete gets their own categories, timings, and history. Perfect for coaches and parents with more than one competitor. GOAL TIMES Set target times for any event and see your progress at a glance. A green delta means you beat your goal. The goal line appears on your performance chart so you can see exactly where you stand. MANUAL TIME ENTRY Add historical results from past competitions. Bring in your personal bests and race history so your training journal is complete from day one. LAP SPLITS Record splits during a session and see each lap broken down. Your fastest lap is highlighted automatically. PERFORMANCE CHARTS Visualise your progress over time with trend charts for every event category. See how training translates to results. CATEGORIES Organise timings by event — 50m Freestyle, 200m IM, 400m Relay, or whatever you train. Each category tracks its own history, personal best, and goal. EXPORT & SHARE Share individual results or export an entire category as CSV. Great for sending to coaches or keeping a backup. WEATHER & LOCATION Each timing automatically captures temperature, humidity, wind, and conditions using Apple Weather, plus your GPS location. Know exactly what the conditions were on your best day. ICLOUD SYNC Your data syncs across iPhone and iPad via iCloud. Start a session on one device, review it on another. IPAD OPTIMISED A side-by-side layout on iPad gives you the timer and full history on one screen — no tab switching needed. Whether you're a coach, a parent, or an athlete — SplitVault keeps every time in one place.

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Race Timer

Features
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Race a mate down a bit of trail you made up that afternoon. One of you stands at the top and starts a timer. The other stands at the bottom and stops it. The server works out the difference, so both phones agree on the time even though their clocks do not. HOW IT WORKS Start a room and read the six character code out. Everyone else types it in. Add riders by name, by number, or both. Hit START as somebody drops in, and whoever is at the bottom hits STOP as they cross the line. Either phone, either order. BUILT FOR TRAILS WITH NO SIGNAL The moment you need the handoff is usually the moment neither phone has bars, so none of this needs a connection. Times are captured on the phone and go up on their own once signal comes back. There is a screen for stopping a rider with no connection at all, where you hit the slab first and say who it was afterwards, and a mode for timing a whole session with no server involved that uploads later. Two phones can also sync to each other over the radio. Count each other in, both hit the mark, and from then on your times agree even if neither phone can reach anything. HONEST ABOUT ACCURACY Two people with two thumbs are good to about a tenth of a second, so a tenth is all it shows. Every phone measures how far its clock is from the server and corrects for it before recording anything. Three seconds of clock drift on a two minute run just reads as a bad run, and nobody would ever catch it. RESULTS A leaderboard of everyone's best time. Share a picture of it for the group chat, or export the lot as a spreadsheet. Any run can be corrected or binned if a thumb slipped, and the app flags the ones that look wrong. NO ACCOUNTS Nothing to sign up for and nothing to fill in. No adverts, no tracking, and the app never asks where you are. A room and its times are deleted a week after the last run, so export anything you want to keep.

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Verdict

The call

SplitVault and Race Timer are too close to call on the numbers: across 3 compared parameters — price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
SplitVault versus Race Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSplitVaultRace Timer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 5 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Devices—iPhone — better
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSumit RajanHIMON SOFTWARE LTD

In-app purchases

None

SplitVault

No in-app purchases

None

Race Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SplitVault free?
SplitVault is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Race Timer free?
Race Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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