Meet DM Track Remote — Time a Race with Just Your iPhone

Every race has a moment you wish you’d caught cleanly — who crossed first, and exactly when. Most of the time you’re one person with a stopwatch, watching lane 4 while lanes 6 and 7 finish behind your eyes. DM Track Remote is a track & field timer for iPhone built for exactly that: it hears the gun, runs the clock, records the finish on video, and lets you fix everything afterward against the footage.

Time a race with just your phone

Point the phone at the finish and tap Arm gun. When the starter fires, the clock starts on its own — the phone is listening. Tap the lane numbers as athletes cross. Tap Stop. That’s a timed race, and it needs nothing but the phone in your hand: no other equipment, no network, no account.

Prefer to trigger it yourself? A manual Start button is right there. Want the run-up on tape? Hit Record first and the video rolls before the gun — the app remembers exactly where the start falls inside the footage.

Then true it up against the video

This is the part a stopwatch can never do. Every race is saved with its video and an audio waveform, so you can see the gun as the loudest spike in the clip. Open a finish and the video jumps to that moment. Off by a hair? Nudge it a hundredth at a time, or scrub to the exact frame and set it there.

• Add a finish you missed — scrub to the crossing and drop it in; it sorts into its real place.
• Fix the start — find the gun in the waveform and re-zero every time at once.
• Shoot at up to 240 fps — that’s about 4 milliseconds per frame, roughly eight times finer than ordinary 30 fps video.

Built to grow with your program

The Solo Timer is the front door. The same app is one device in a larger DM Track system — several camera phones, an iPad running DM Track Timer or a Mac coordinating the meet, an Apple TV scoreboard, live results, and video review across angles. Start with one phone at practice; add pieces when a full meet asks for them. Team and meet data can sync privately across your own devices when you choose to turn it on.

Private by default

Solo Timer recordings and times stay on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, there are no ads and no trackers, and cloud sync is opt-in and off until a coach deliberately enables it. You can read the full DM Track Privacy Policy for the details.

Coming to the App Store

DM Track Remote is heading to TestFlight and the App Store now, alongside DM Track Timer for iPad and the Mac control-room app, DM Track Booth. If you coach or officiate and want early access, get in touch at josh@dependentmedia.com. Setup questions are answered on the support page.