School Run Timer: Routes

Which way to school is actually quicker? Not the way a map guesses, but the way it really goes, with your car, your junctions and your traffic. School Run Timer is a stopwatch that remembers. Add the two, three or four ways you already know. Press Start as you pull away and Arrived as you pull up. Do that a handful of times down each road, and the app tells you which one is quicker, by how much, and what that adds up to over a school year. It is honest about what it knows. A road takes a different time every morning: a garbage truck, a red light, a school bus. The app only names a quickest route when the gap between two routes is bigger than that day-to-day swing. Until then it says the answer is too close to call and asks for a few more runs. And if you have been setting off on one route at eight o'clock and on another at twenty past, it says so, because ten minutes earlier beats any…