# WindUp: Watch Collection — Set, learn & collect watches

> Mechanical watch tools, museum, and collection management with interactive learning. (iPhone/iPad app by Sameer Bhutani.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windup-watch-collection/id6798121124 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sameer Bhutani](https://appshunter.io/developer/1773434301)
- Category: Utilities, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Rating: 5.00/5 from 2 App Store ratings · 1 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 27 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-09-23
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windup-watch-collection/id6798121124/reviews.md

## What is WindUp?

WindUp is the all-in-one app for mechanical watch lovers: precision tools to set and regulate your watch, a hands-on museum that teaches you how it works, and a beautiful vault for your collection. Set it. Learn it. Collect it.

THE TOOLS
• Set Assistant — set your watch against atomic time, to the second, and track how many seconds a day it really drifts
• Beat Rate — hold your watch to the microphone and hear its beat, or compare two movements ear to ear
• Chronograph — laps, splits, flyback, and the tachymeter explained with your own runs
• Power Reserve — wind it on screen, track it per watch, know before it stops
• Service — every service interval tracked, so nothing is ever overdue
• Fitting Room — chalk-fit any case size to your own wrist before you buy

THE MUSEUM
Eighteen interactive rooms you walk into and touch — scrub a single beat of the escapement frame by frame, wind a mainspring in the engine room, seat all seventeen jewels of a movement, dive to the Mariana Trench to find your watch's depth limit, and more. Every complication, hands on.

THE COLLECTION
• An acquisition timeline of every piece you own, with photos, specs, and values
• A ranked wishlist — promote a watch to the collection the day it arrives
• Paste a product link and the form fills itself; one-tap photo background removal
• Dashboard: your pieces, brands, what you paid, what it's worth today
• Share it: publish your collection at windup.web.app with full control over what shows

WIDGETS
Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: an analog dial dressed to match your own watch, moon phase, power reserve, next service, and your collection at a glance.

The tools and the museum run entirely on your device — no account, no tracking. The collection takes an optional free sign-in with Apple or Google.
For people who wind their watch and mean it.

## Key features

- Set Assistant for atomic time synchronization
- Beat Rate analysis via microphone
- Chronograph with tachymeter
- Power Reserve tracking
- Interactive watch museum
- Digital watch collection management
- Home and Lock Screen widgets

## Recent user reviews (1 of 1)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windup-watch-collection/id6798121124/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Absolutely beautiful app

*2026-09-02*

Love to use, helps me with my collection

## Frequently asked questions about WindUp

### Does WindUp have ads?

No, WindUp is ad-free. The app is designed to provide a seamless experience without any advertisements interrupting your use.

### What devices does WindUp support?

WindUp is currently supported on iPhones. Future support for other devices may be announced by the developer.

### How often is WindUp updated?

The latest version of WindUp was released on September 2, 2026, indicating regular updates. Users can expect ongoing improvements and new features.

### What is the age rating for WindUp?

WindUp has an age rating of 4+, making it suitable for a wide range of users. This rating suggests content is appropriate for young children.

### Is WindUp free to download and use?

Yes, WindUp is available for free. There are no costs associated with downloading or using the core features of the app.

### How does the Set Assistant in WindUp work?

The Set Assistant synchronizes your watch to network-checked atomic time, down to the second. It also logs your taps and displays your watch's daily drift.

### Can I manage my watch collection with WindUp?

Yes, WindUp allows you to create a digital watch case in your pocket. You can add photos, specs, values, and track your acquisition timeline and wishlist.

### What kind of interactive experiences are in the WindUp museum?

The museum offers hands-on exploration of watch mechanics, such as scrubbing escapement frames, winding mainsprings, disassembling movements, and interacting with complications like GMT bezels.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.3 — 2026-09-22

• A new name on the App Store: WindUp: Watch Collection
• Layout refinements on every screen size, including larger displays
• Stability and under-the-hood improvements

### 3.2 — 2026-09-02

THE VAULT — the Collection tab is now the museum's private wing.

- Watch boxes: every piece in your collection lives in its own box. Pick from twelve shells — walnut, racing green, midnight, saddle tan and more — and dress the room to match.
- A wishlist worth wanting: wished pieces now sit behind boutique glass on a velvet pillow, with a dealer's card and a brass GOT IT stamp.
- The acquisition ceremony: when a wish comes true, the shop glass cracks, bursts, and your new piece flies into the box you chose. Confetti included.
- Living tiles: every tool tile now moves — slow-beating mechanisms, drifting light, rising bubbles, shooting stars.
- Breaking the frame: tiles lean out of their borders — the caliper's beam, the chronograph's pushers, the moon cresting its card.

Plus small fixes and polish throughout.

### 3.1 — 2026-09-01

The dashboard comes alive.

Every tile on the home screen is now a living miniature of its room — and this release sets them all in motion:

• Breakout elements — hands, balance wheels, crowns and crests lean out of their tiles, overflowing the frame like exhibits escaping their cases
• Ambient animation — meteors streak across the moon tile's night sky, clouds drift over the sun, the equation-of-time bead pulses on today, and the day-date disc rocks as the gears never quite let it sleep
• Slow-motion escapement — the Heartbeat tile now plays the real escapement cycle geared down: lock, unlock, impulse and drop, one full beat stretched across eight seconds so you can finally watch what your watch does 28,800 times an hour

Wind it up and watch the wall tick.

### 3.0.1 — 2026-09-01

A clearer welcome. The listing now says plainly what WindUp is — tools to set your watch, a museum to understand it, a home for your collection — and the app gets a round of small polish to match.

• Tools: set assistant with atomic-time check, beat rate listener, chronograph lab, power reserve, service tracking
• Museum: eighteen interactive rooms, every complication hands-on
• Collection: timeline, wishlist, and a shareable profile at windup.web.app

### 3.0 — 2026-08-31

WindUp 3.0 is a museum. Every page has been rebuilt as a room you walk into — its own light, its own walls, nothing left to read that you can't touch.

• The Watchmaker's Workshop — the beat rate bench after hours, one hanging lamp, dust in the beam
• The Midnight Salon — day-date in bottle-green velvet and lamplit gold
• The Navigator's Lounge — GMT over a dot-matrix world map
• The Engine Room — wind the mainspring from a riveted boiler room below decks
• The Machine Hall — a colossal calibre running under a glass gallery floor
• The Escapement Theater — one beat, frame by frame, under the limelight
• The Signal Tower — nixie tubes and a radio time signal decoded live
• The Clock Tower — behind the great dial, driving the motion works by hand
• The Precision Bureau — set your watch against network time, to the tick
• The Atelier — a whole service scrubbed under one finger
• The Fitting Room — any case chalk-fitted to your own wrist
• The Tannery — straps aged under your thumb
• The Reading Room — the glossary as a card catalogue, with an exam
• Plus the solar observatory, the sun's road, the chronograph test lab, and the dive to the trench

Eighteen rooms. Touch everything.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-23.*
