Searching for a good mystery stopwatch app

For over 10 years I have used mystery stopwatch but when I upgraded to my newest phone that app is no longer in the Play Store. On another form someone suggested I use shop it but that also is no longer available. Certainly there has to be something better than using the Dreadful stopwatch feature on the Android that's built in with the phone. Can anybody point me to an app that works for what we do in our line of work?

Big Ed
Mystery shopping in the Great Smokey & Blue Ridge Mountain ranges of Southern Appalachia (GA, NC, SC, & TN)
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I have used the Shop-It! app, from Just-shop-it.com, that I found in the play store probably 10 years ago. I have transfered it from one phone to another for years, but they no longer exist, the website it gone, it's no longer in the play store. When I have to change phones again I can only hope that it transfers again without a problem.

I have looked several times for other apps for helping with mystery shopping, but they seem to have all gone by the wayside.

I have forgotten to mark time and had to go searching for a time on my phone. text messages have the time of each text, from each of the parties, I text and/or PM on messenger to myself, when I need to remember something. And if I neglect to mark my end time or even the start time of a shop (start time isn't usually a problem), I can look at my Google Maps timeline to see when I arrived and departed from a given location.

I have a Google Pixel, so the clock stopwatch function displays days:hours:minutes:seconds, but even by taking a screen shot, the end times come out blank. I've learned that with the stopwatch you have to hit "lap" at the end, or the end time that you need will be flashing and the screen shot won't capture it. And then you can do a screen shot to keep your times and all of them will show up.
At one time, there was an app called something like world time. ? This showed hours:minutes:seconds and permitted one tap per time marker. There was an option to work in any time zone...

Maybe that's what living is-- recognizing the marvels and oddities around you. (S. K. Ali)


Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/22/2025 10:03PM by Shop-et-al.
I use the timer in my iPhone's clock for elapsed times like gallons of Chevron gas. I use an app called Exact Time when I need timings for fast food shops and the like. The app stays open and I keep my fingers in position on the buttons to snag screenshots at each timing point.

Have synthesizers, will travel...
I use "MultiTimers: Multiple timers" in the Google PlayStore. I can run several timers with different starting intervals simultaneously. I label them as well.
I just record sound for the entire transaction. It offers time stamps and I can review as needed to complete the reports.
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