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Your Apple Watch stopwatch forgets every workout. Stopwatch Max doesn't.

April 25, 2026

You finish a hard interval session, stop the clock, lower your wrist — and it’s gone. Apple’s stopwatch has no memory. No laps, no heart rate, no record.

Stopwatch Max running with live timer and heart rate

The problem with forgetting

Apple’s stopwatch shows laps in the moment. The second you reset, everything disappears. There’s no way to look back at last Tuesday’s intervals, compare rest times across sessions, or see how your heart rate moved through a workout.

For casual timekeeping, that’s fine. For anyone using their watch to train, it means every session starts with zero context.

Session history

Stopwatch Max 1.5 gives your Apple Watch stopwatch a history. Every session is saved automatically — no setup, no sync, nothing to configure. Stop the timer and the workout is logged: date, total duration, every lap split.

Stopwatch Max session list showing saved workouts

Session detail showing laps, average and max heart rate

Tap any session for the full breakdown: each lap, average heart rate, and max heart rate for that effort. If you ran five 400m reps last week, you can pull up the exact splits and HR data before you do them again today.

Live heart rate with every lap

Heart rate isn’t new in Stopwatch Max. In 1.5 it gets out of the way when you don’t need it — the HR pill hides automatically when heart rate monitoring is turned off. No empty space, no placeholder.

When heart rate is on, it sits live alongside your global timer and current lap time. Your effort, your split, your HR — one glance, no switching.

New settings: haptics, auto-lap, heart rate

Stopwatch Max settings page

A new Settings page:

Swipe left from the stopwatch to reach Settings. Swipe right to browse Sessions. Everything is one gesture away.

Stopwatch Max 1.5 is out now. Every session you run from here gets saved.

Download Stopwatch Max on the App Store

All data stays on-device. No accounts, no tracking.