LiveSplit

LiveSplit is a publisher whose entire catalog revolves around one purpose-built application: a lightweight, modular timer engineered for the speedrunning community. LiveSplit lets runners dissect every segment of a game, compare current splits against personal bests or world records, and display real-time delta information in a transparent overlay that sits unobtrusively above any DirectX, OpenGL, or Vulkan title. Beyond basic start, split, and reset commands, the program offers automatic splitting via image recognition or memory monitoring, variable refresh-rate support for high-frame-rate capture, and a rich scripting interface that can hook into emulator APIs or PC games to trigger events without manual input. Layouts are completely user-definable—fonts, colors, gradients, graphs, and even GIF animations can be arranged in drag-and-drop fashion—so streamers can brand their timer to match channel aesthetics. Integration with Speedrun.com, Twitch, and OBS is built in, allowing PBs, sum-of-best calculations, and predicted times to be pushed to audiences instantly. Additional plugins extend functionality to leaderboards, racetime.gg relays, and custom cues for sound or lighting hardware. While the scope is narrow, the depth is considerable; every setting is exposed for tinkering, and an active open-source community continually refines components for new titles or routing strategies. LiveSplit software is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.