Watch Tracker

Well-designed, just like my watch :) This app omits questionable features such as ‘magnetism detection’ or calculations made from audio recordings of your watch. Instead, I would call this app a (very user-friendly) specialized calculator. The time source it synchronizes with is quite good. Although a spreadsheet is capable of doing the same math, this app is worth the money (in my opinion) because of a specific feature: a button that will instantly record atomic time when pressed. Pressing this button also simultaneously records a predetermined hh:mm:ss. The user plugs in some time in the near future and presses the button when their watch reaches that time. Therefore, each data point contains two pieces of information from that instant: standard time and your watch’s time. This operation would be difficult to perform without a specialized program. Another method might be to use a high-speed camera that takes a picture of the watch next to some time standard. However, processing this data would require more time as the watch reading would need to be interpreted from a picture. I like this app because you can press a button and then bam, it’s done and it’s even calculated averages including all your previous data points :) very well done app

I have been using WatchTracker for a few months now, and find it to be a valuable tool for tracking the accuracy of both mechanical and quartz watches. Particularly in the case of mechanical watches, being able to spot and document a change in accuracy can be helpful in spotting and perhaps even diagnosing problems. I have recorded accuracy data for multiple watches, sometimes with very surprising results. This app has helped to identify some really surprisingly accurate watches as well as to demonstrate a need for service for other watches. This type of app, which merely records user-input data points, does not carry the same risk of magnetizing a watch that a timegrapher app would carry. I highly recommend this app for anyone who wears or collects mechanical watches.

Watch Tracker is a great little app. I own multiple mechanical watches and Watch Tracker is a great app for discerning the timing rate of each of my watches. No crashes, works well, and is easy to use. The graphs are easy to read, and the variance calculation and rate calculation are great features. My only suggestion is to add a little color, perhaps bring the Description field up a level such that it is in the watch’s main screen, and maybe an archiving feature for the watches I don’t own/track anymore. These are piddly app addition suggestions because the Watch Tracker’s main functions are flawless. Update: love the comments section and default comment drop down menu. Can you add to the menu "face up Overnight".

I recently acquired a couple nice automatic watches and became interested in tracking their accuracy. I had downloaded another app before this one (which was free) but it did not work well for me, so I thought I would give this one a try. I usually don’t spend money on apps but this one was worth the price. I am very pleased with this app. I love how you can take measurements anytime you feel like it and then see exactly how much time your watches have gained or lost. If you are at all interested in mechanical watches and keeping accurate time, I recommend this app. It is well designed and easy to use. Will definitely stay on my iPhone and get used often.

It takes a few days to figure out the best way to use the app. My suggestion is to do one timing point and then don't do another for AT LEAST a whole day, preferably longer. Otherwise, you get skewed results given that if one makes a timing point too soon after the previous point, and if one's response time is off by a fraction of a second, the app will extrapolate that into a large gain or loss. Whereas, if one waits a day or more the timing points will give a pretty accurate sense of your watches accuracy.