Herotime, for
your story.
Background, facts, pictures, and logos — everything you need to cover the patented single-button multi stopwatch. For anything else, ask directly: marco@bluemedialabs.com.
Background
Herotime exists because its maker is a competitive swimmer who watched coaches lose valuable performance data every single session — juggling handheld stopwatches and transcribing wet notepads after training.
Marco Bremer, a long-time competitive (now Masters) swimmer based in Berlin, invented a new way of timing not just one athlete but several at once — with a single button. After extensive experimentation starting in 2015, with input from top international coaches, the method was filed for patent protection and granted as U.S. Patent 11,080,947 B2 in December 2021.
The method — Tap & Arrange™ — also solves the one shortcoming of a smartphone versus an old-school handheld stopwatch: the lack of a central physical button with immediate haptic feedback. Herotime explicitly supports the iPhone's volume button as the timing button, so a coach can time by feel with eyes on the athletes.
Highlights
The world's first single-button multi stopwatch — the only stopwatch app that truly replaces a traditional handheld stopwatch, or several of them, for sports timing at full precision.
- Patented Tap & Arrange™ technology — the first practical solution to timing multiple athletes at once, without looking at the screen (US 11,080,947 B2).
- Physical button support via the iPhone's volume buttons.
- Groups in seconds — static and temporary squads via group tags.
- Full timing history — every start, split, finish, and per-split stride/stroke rate.
- CSV export through the iOS Share Sheet — opens straight in Excel.
Fact sheet
- Product — Herotime · Smart Multi Stopwatch (iOS), on the App Store
- Pricing — 1-month full-feature free trial, then an annual subscription: introductory relaunch price $9.99/year (regularly $49.99/year).
- Patent — US 11,080,947 B2, granted December 19, 2021
- Inventor & maker — Marco Bremer
- Company — blue media labs GmbH, Berlin, Germany (bluemedialabs.com)
- Press contact — marco@bluemedialabs.com
Pictures
Professional photography, cleared for press use (see the rights note below). Click to open the full-size file; fresh app screenshots of the modernized app follow at relaunch.
Logos & wordmark
The HEROTIME wordmark with the katakana/kanji subtitle mark, on light and dark:
