# Emerald Chronometer HD — user reviews > 27 indexed App Store user reviews of Emerald Chronometer HD by Emerald Sequoia LLC, rated 5.00/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emerald-chronometer-hd/id435033000/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/emerald-chronometer-hd/id435033000.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 17 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0 ## Newest reviews (11 of 27) ### 5/5 — Very, Very Nice!!! *2013-06-14, version 3.8* The Emerald Chronometer is a really lovely app/ device/ design that is made up of 16 different types and styles of chronometers to suit nearly every need and whim. I'm pretty picky about whether or not a thing is designed well, and Emerald Chronometer is a beauty: the graphics are gorgeous, and the chronometers are very different from each other, not just a re-hash of the same information. As is noted in another review, I think the astrological signs are one sign behind what they really are. Some of the watch faces are as complicated as some wrist chronometers, so I'm not sure I'm reading it right. I will re-read the app info and email the developer, if the signs are off. It should be relatively easy to correct, and it doesn't distract me too much from the watch. (and I used to be married to an astrologer!). I love old (railroad) watches, , so EC is a wonderful surprise. Very Good Job! ### 5/5 — Passing The Time *2013-04-09, version 3.8* Pleasurably with these awesome timepieces that are impeccably made. Mesmerizing. Excellent job by a very conscientious programmer. Top notch. Can't wait till next new app from them. ### 5/5 — Time is an illusion *2012-06-18, version 3.8* Great work,they keep updating the app now with retina support. Who needs a 40k perpetual watch with this software, sorry Swiss guys.... ### 5/5 — Well Worth It! *2012-03-05, version 3.7.2* I wasn't thrilled with the high price of this app versus the same app on the iPod, but I can say it was well worth the cost to upgrade to the full-screen iPad version. Thanks Emerald Sequoia, please add more watches to this app or make more apps! ### 5/5 — Very cool! *2012-01-22, version 3.6.3* I'm not into watches, billionaires or "complications" but I am into applications that make great use of iPad's abilities. ### 5/5 — Complicated to the Max *2011-12-11, version 3.6.3* If you enjoy clock complications, this complete collection of classics and new is for you. Some I never knew. ### 5/5 — Changing my review *2011-11-19, version 3.6.3* I previously dinged this and gave it one star because it crashed every time I ran it. For no reason I can understand, it now seems to work perfectly. I'm not aware there was an update. At any rate, the chronometers are beautiful and seem very functional. I've only began to use this, but it's a thing of beauty. This seems to be true for all the apps this company sells. ### 5/5 — Amazingly Fun - Always works perfectly *2011-11-18, version 3.6.3* This is simply the most amazing watch app. It is full of eye candy. It works flawlessly and has many fun wrist watches. Each watch has different features. I really enjoy exploring each watch. Some have astrological information. Some are sophisticated time zone watches. There are many other types of interesting watches to explore. I always enjoy diving in deeply to each watch feature. This app is definitely a great buy and a great value. You will really have fun with it. Buy it! I have been using this App since a few days after the first iPad (iPad1) was introduced. My experience with this app has been flawless. I see that other people complain about stability. This app works flawlessly... It always has been stable. Another wonderful, eye candy app, that is made by this same company is Emerald Observatory. It is really beautiful. It is also the single app that I show people who are new to iPads. Emerald Observatory is definitely worth having. It is different and fun and it presents a full screen Chronograph that is full of information. Back to commenting on this app... I purchased both the iPad and the iPhone version. I am pleased with the app on both devices. It is a great value. I certainly will not be a complainer for the little extra money I paid to have both versions. ### 5/5 — Sure to please the hearts of the traditionalist navigators and time keepers! *2011-05-22, version 3.6* At first, I was hesitant ... but I am so thrilled to have succumbed! Is this app artwork, or science? It is both! Alas! The perfection of relaxation! A comforting chair, an engaging read, pleasant music, and the Emerald Chronometer! ### 5/5 — S/B universal! *2011-05-09, version 3.6* I give it five stars because it's an amazing app but these guys should be beaten severely for charging twice for the same app. There is NO DISCERNIBLE DIFFERENCE between this app and it's iPhone cousin. If they charged twice as much and made it universal I could probably tolerate that. So, be warned. If you have the iPhone version you're better off just taking the lower res than repurchasing this. I was sorely tempted to give it one star. ### 5/5 — Beautiful, excellent, yet "geeky" *2011-05-06, version 3.6* I have owned "Chronometer" for iPhone for years and use it frequently. Being a bit of a watch freak, I was too excited to find this app - you have instant access to beautiful, accurate simulations of watch movements that one could only plan on seeing in Basel, Geneva! All in one place! The quality and attention to detail of each watch bespeaks the finnesse of a master watch maker combined with the vision of an artist. I find myself just daydreaming as I watch time go by... Now that this is available in HD for iPad - shall we say "the time is right". It's Emerald Time! If I could make one suggestion: to the app surfer, if you like watches, you probably also like complex complications - if so, then check out "Observatory" by these same developers. The attention to detail and the clean presentation of TONS of data relating to the passage of time is exquisite. To the developer: please create an app which is perhaps a stripped down version of "Observatory", which would demonstrate the planets orbiting the sun, from above (as in Observatory), but without all of the dials. Perhaps surrounded by a blanket of stars. However, maintain the ability to "set" the planets in motion by minutes, hours, months,years, etc., just as in Observatory. In summary, a fully functioning planetarium, as viewed from above, with the ability to manipulate the passage of time. I will be the first buyer! HIGHLY RECCOMENDED APP AND DEVELOPER ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — $3 more for iPad version!?! *2011-09-19, version 3.6.3* Lots of features but they are basically the same features as iPhone version and then to gouge iPad customers for 3 dollars more for what should be a universal app. just to get landscape orientation...get serious! ### 3/5 — Nice app *2014-10-10, version 3.9* There are some nice watch faces in this app. Only three stars because I specifically would like to see both an astrology face that shows Asc and moon phase as well as planetary alignments, and a skeleton watch that shows the gears moving. ### 3/5 — Beautiful and useful *2011-12-15, version 3.6.3* If you've ever wanted -- or just be fascinated by $100K watches, or if you've ever wandered outside then the app is a "gotta have." My two favorites are Geneva (a complication that could belong on a billionaire's wrist, and which shown you everything from the year and century to whether this is a leap year to when the sun and moon rise and set. A simply hypnotic chronometer. My second favorite is Miami, which shows at a glance what planets are visible and when they rose and set. Incredibly useful for the amateur astronomer, or anyone who occasionally wander which of the bright lights in the sky are planets (the ones that don't twinkle). Each watch has a small manual explaining the watch face. Some of them are so complicated you'll need to keep referring to them until you get comfortable with the one you're using. Actually, you get almost twice the number of chronometers since most of em have a different watch on the obverse side. If you have an iPad it's worth the couple if extra dollar to buy the hd version. It's gorgeous! This app will make your iPad look like a million box when it's running. Can't recommend it too highly. ### 3/5 — cool clocks, bad graphics *2011-08-31, version 3.6.3* the clocks are decent enough, but the graphics are not HD quality as described. there are noticeable "jaggies" around the clock faces. the clocks should also be larger in favor of showing a lot of wrist band. i can't recommned this application because of these significant flaws. ### 3/5 — Eh *2011-06-23, version 3.6.2* Great, because it is Emerald Chronometer on the iPad. I am however not impressed with the graphic interface, I would certainly not call it "HD". Especially considering I (you) am charged for it twice (iPhone&iPad)...there should definitively be a discernible difference. ### 3/5 — But *2011-05-10, version 3.6* It is beautiful but the settings do not work, even on " Terra". I have had the iPhone app since it came out, it is 5 stars. Not this one, expected more. ### 5/5 — Thank You forOne of My All-time Favorites *2023-09-18* This has been one of my very favorite programs for many years. I understand the authors’ need to end their support, but still I am sorry to see it go. I’m very grateful to have had it so long. ### 5/5 — A venerable Timepiece App *2023-03-15* I’ve had this timepiece app for most of its existence from 2008. It still holds up very well with solid graphics and numerous watch faces and functions. When the first Apple Watch came out in 2015, it no doubt adversely impacted dedicated iPad watch apps but the developer of this app kept until last year. Hopefully it’s not the end of updates for the app but it will likely work for a long time to come. ### 5/5 — It’s Complicated *2021-05-17, version 3.9.8* I’ve used the “Chronometer” for iPad and for iPhone for years and visit the various faces everyday. My favorite is the Geneva, because there is just so much information there. I really wish there were a face for the Apple Watch, but I understand that Apple has restrictions. I wish it could be worked out somehow, because there aren’t any more beautiful watch faces for astronomy lovers than the ones that the Chronometer shows. I tried buying a watch that ran WearOS, but the experience just wasn’t as good as the Apple watch. So I went back to the Apple Watch and just visit the Chronometer faces on my iPhone and iPad. ### 5/5 — Exquisite *2019-12-19, version 3.9.5* Amazing. We all have preferences for how some things should be different, feature requests, and so on, but the only real hope I have is that this will stay compatible with the upcoming OS releases in at least the foreseeable future. ## Most praised reviews (6 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — instant analog IT fan - astronomy v astrology *2018-05-20, version 3.9.5* As a many-decades expert of both Information Technology, and privately as an Astrologer, went looking recently for an analog equivalent summary of datetime for casual glances at an iPad while working on a Windows laptop in languages Python and R. R of course is Linear Algebra, which in Western 'science' was borrowed very recently in the 19th Century from Babylonian and Chinese matrix mathematics circa 100 BCE. Similarly, Astrology was the root knowledge modern Astronomy dervied from, and similarly neither has gone away today. The analog depictions in the current App are fun, a few touch on the eye-visible 7 traditional planets, however use rise / set Geocentric visible times for location v. Astrological Asc / Desc calculations. What could be added? (1) Pluto, Neptune, Chiron, Uranus, the Nodes of the Moon. (For full Astrological calculations, depictions, see AstroGold for comparison.) (2) Add also a Settings switch between contemporary astronomical Zodiac calculations (which drift over time), or optionally Astrological Zodiac (30 degrees each, 12 signs, positions set to fixed reference roughly 2000 years ago). Fun! -reminder everything we do with digital hand-held devices has roots in the Real World, get grounded now! ### 5/5 — All TIME Favorite *2015-07-10, version 3.9.2* This was one of my first app purchases, and it is still my favorite of all. Beautiful display(s) and astronomical accuracy. You will learn a great deal. ### 5/5 — Great Watch for iPad *2015-02-05, version 3.9.1* Just bought this app for my iPad Air 2. Was using the iPhone version on my iPad. The iPad version is a major improvement over the iPhone version and well worth the five dollar price. You can select multiple clocks and see them actually working in horizontal mode! ### 5/5 — Great *2015-01-05, version 3.9* What can I Say!!! Great. Amazing. Love it. Thanks ### 5/5 — Great *2014-03-17, version 3.9* Beautiful displays! I love these watches. I wonder if any are available for purchase... Likely way beyond my price I'm sure. Thanks Emerald, I love your software. Also Check out their Observatory, another hit. ### 5/5 — Excellent *2013-09-11, version 3.8* One of my favorite apps. The balance of aesthetic and mechanics are just right. I hope they continue to add more. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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