# Watch Tuner Timegrapher

> Utilities

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id991367080](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id991367080)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id991367080`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bartlomiej Swiatek
- **Category:** Utilities
- **Rating:** 3.80 / 5 (80 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.31
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-18
- **First published:** 2015-05-14
- **Size:** 1.83 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-23
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watch-tuner-timegrapher/id991367080)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://sites.google.com/view/watch-tuner-privacy-policy](https://sites.google.com/view/watch-tuner-privacy-policy)

## Description

**Watch Tuner Timegrapher** is a diagnostic utility for testing automatic and manual-winding mechanical watches. It uses your iPhone or iPad’s built-in microphone—or a headset microphone—to capture watch ticks and display a frequency diagram.

Measure rate, beat error, amplitude, and beats per hour (BPH). For the most accurate results, record in a quiet environment with the microphone touching the watch, ideally near the crown. Built-in noise cancellation helps filter minor background sounds.

## Rankings

- #158,250 — Overall

## Review summary

Overall, the app is an affordable, useful at-home tool for measuring and regulating mechanical watches, with clear charts and broad mic compatibility. When conditions are right, it yields accurate beat error and rate readings and can save money over a dedicated timegrapher. However, results are inconsistent across watches and setups, it requires deliberate tweaking and a quiet environment, auto-detect is unreliable, and history/export features are limited.

### Pros

- Great value for money and affordable compared to a dedicated timegrapher.
- Useful for at-home regulation of mechanical watches; can save time and money.
- Works with common hardware (phone mic and wired EarPods) to produce usable measurements.
- Clear, readable charts that quickly convey amplitude, beat error, and rate.
- Relatively intuitive to use after initial setup; many users report good results once configured.

### Cons

- Readings can be inconsistent across watches and highly sensitive to microphone placement.
- Requires experimentation and tweaking of settings; not plug-and-play.
- Performance depends on ambient noise and hardware quality; needs a quiet environment or muffling.
- Auto-detect mode is not reliably robust; manual mode is often required.
- Limited history storage (about 16 records) and no easy way to share/export graphs or data.

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