Very close to great follow-up issue
If you use iCloud for everything,maybe you won’t have this issue. But I keep lots of photos and games on the device I have this app on, and too much data to use iCloud for backup. It is really disappointing the airdrop doesn’t work because at least that can be done for a single app, instead of a full device backup. This issue drops my score from 4 to 2 stars. Which is sad because I otherwise had a good experience with this app.
This app is a nice way to keep the no on all my watches. It is pretty easy to load them, if you gather the info such as serial number, movement, etc. first. Adding photos is a snap and everything is well laid out.
Here’s what would make this a five star app.
There isn’t a lace to add certain bezel types. I suggest for ease of adding, make these ‘complications (I know they’re not really, but it’s an easy way to add them): 60 click unidirectional dive bezel, 120 click unidirectional dive bezel, bidirectional slide rule bezel, and bidirectional timing bezel.
There is no place to add an important measure, which is the Lug to lug’ measurement in millimeters.
There also doesn’t seem to be a way to add ‘wear days’ for a watch manually. A nice thing to have would be a calendar that allows you to click on a date and add that as a day a wa ch was worn. Maybe not unlimited but 60-90 days back would be nice for people like me loading up a collection.
The documents are nice. A great layout for the screen showing the watch collection would be something that looks like a glass top watch box.
Anyway, overall a really nice way to keep info on a watch collection. Nice job!
Response from developer
When switching to a new device, to get a full Watchee collection (with photos and everything) it is best to utilize iCloud backups and setup the new device based on the latest backup, very easy and convenient. Apple has done a great job in providing this functionality and we likely could not make it any better and thus are not re-inventing the wheel. Hope this helps.
I use it daily!
It’s easy to add a watch and “hide” one that’s been sold. It handles all the information I need for each watch and I really like that I can add notes to each watch.
My preferred screen is the one that shows the wear count, I wish it would stay on that screen every time launch the app, but that’s a small complaint considering the capabilities of this app.
Looking forward to future updates.
Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback, we are very happy to hear that you like Watchee and we hope that you will like the future updates as well.
Fantastic. I just wish…
I kept track of my watches and wear rate religiously on my old phone. Then when I had to switch to a new one, I lost it all (and so didn’t reinstall the app as I couldn’t face loading all the data again).
Response from developer
Thanks for the review! For Watchee, when you switch to a new device, the whole collection gets copied to the new device if you set up the new device from an iCloud backup (it will restore all the apps and their data, Watchee collection along with it). Another option (for WatcheePro only) is to do an import of watches from an export file that can be taken from Watchee or WatcheePro. It will transfer most of the data (not images and such). I hope this explains it. It was an early design choice of Watchee that the collection always sits 100% on the user's device. This way the app will continue to fully work even if the network on the device is down.
Great app for tracking your watch collection!
Response from developer
Hi Nate19772, Thank you for your review. It's nice to hear that you like the app. Really appreciate your good suggestions also! I'm sure some of those will find their way already to the next update. Thank you once again for helping to make the app even better! ** Edit Nov. 21st ** Hello again. The latest update released today (v1.6.4) includes the additional predifined complications that you've suggested. I'm also noting down the other suggestions, so stay tuned for future updates as well. Wanted to thank you for helping to make the app that much more comprehensive! Cheers! Addition 10th Jan 2024. We have just released the "WatcheePro for iPad" version of the app that is a fully independent version of the app especially tailored for iPad users to better utilize the bigger screens and capabilities of iPad. Also the iPad version will have more features since the iPad devices enable more things to be shown on the screen etc. If you have an iPad, perhaps consider checking it out. Cheers, Anssi
Great app for managing watch collection
- Would be great to have a place to store photos or pdf scans of the warranty card/paper
- Would be great to have a place to input whether the watch is insured, insured value, insurance company and policy number.
- Allow place for additional pictures (more than just the current two)
- Allow backing up the data to iCloud.
Response from developer
Hi Nate19772, Thank you for your review. It's nice to hear that you like the app. Really appreciate your good suggestions also! I'm sure some of those will find their way already to the next update. Thank you once again for helping to make the app even better! ** Edit Nov. 21st ** Hello again. The latest update released today (v1.6.4) includes the additional predifined complications that you've suggested. I'm also noting down the other suggestions, so stay tuned for future updates as well. Wanted to thank you for helping to make the app that much more comprehensive! Cheers!
