# WindUp — The mechanical watch companion

> The mechanical watch companion (iPhone/iPad app by Sameer Bhutani.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windup/id6798121124 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Sameer Bhutani](https://appshunter.io/developer/1773434301)
- Category: Utilities, Lifestyle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 24 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-08-18
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/windup/id6798121124/reviews.md

## What is WindUp?

WindUp is the complete companion for your mechanical watch — a dashboard of interactive tools that teach you how your watch works, and a collection that keeps every piece you own in your pocket.

THE TOOLS
A dashboard of live tiles — a reference clock accurate to the second, a sweeping analog dial, and fourteen full-screen showcases you can touch, turn and scrub:
• Set Assistant — a countdown to push the crown at the exact second, against reference time accurate to the tick
• Moon Phase — a real, rendered moon under real light; scrub through the whole lunar cycle
• World Time / GMT — a 24-hour hand and a rotating bezel; turn it to read a second time zone
• Chronograph — pushers, laps, a tachymetre scale, and the column wheel explained
• Day · Date — the disc, the jump at midnight, and the five mornings a year the date lies
• Beat Rate — hear a movement tick at 18,000, 21,600, 28,800 or 36,000 beats per hour, and listen to your own
• Sun — sunrise and sunset computed on your device, with the watches that show them
• Equation of Time — how far a sundial runs from your watch today, and why
• Movement — an annotated calibre, part by part, from mainspring to balance
• Escapement — a Swiss lever escapement beating in slow motion
• Power Reserve — the mainspring gauge, and a winding log for each of your watches
• Service — service history and reminders, tracked per watch
• Water Resistance — an interactive descent from the surface to the floor of the Mariana Trench, with a line at exactly where your watch taps out
• Glossary — the vocabulary of horology, illustrated

Every tool explains the complication behind it: what the mechanism is, how it moves, why watchmakers built it that way.

MY COLLECTION
Your watch case in your pocket:
• An acquisition timeline of every piece you own, with photos, specs and values
• A ranked wishlist for the ones still out there — promote a watch to the collection the day it arrives
• Paste a product link and the form fills itself
• Photos with crop and one-tap background removal
• A collection dashboard: pieces, brands, what you paid, what it's worth today
• Power reserve and service tracked per watch

SHARE IT
Publish your collection at a link — a profile page with your timeline, wishlist and stats. You decide exactly what the page shows: hide prices, hide values, hide the wishlist, or keep the whole thing private. Share a card of your collection with friends.

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

The watch tools run entirely on your device — no account, no tracking. My Collection is optional and takes a free sign-in with Apple or Google, so your collection can follow you across devices.

For people who wind their watch and mean it.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 2.0 — 2026-08-20

WindUp 2.0 is a new app.

MY COLLECTION
• Build your watch timeline — every piece you own, with photos, specs and values
• Keep a wishlist, and promote a watch to the collection the day it arrives
• Paste a product link and the form fills itself
• A collection dashboard: pieces, brands, paid, worth today
• Share your collection with friends: a public profile page at your own link, with full control over what it shows

THE TOOLS, REBUILT
• 14 interactive showcases — moon phase, GMT, chronograph, day-date, beat rate, sun, equation of time, movement, escapement, power reserve, service, water resistance, set assistant and glossary
• Every tool explains how its complication works mechanically
• Turn the GMT bezel. Watch the escapement beat. Scrub through the whole lunar cycle
• Power reserve and service now tracked per watch in your collection

WIDGETS
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets — analog dial, moon, power reserve, service, collection

And a design overhaul throughout.

### 1.0 — 2026-08-18

No release notes.

## More apps by Sameer Bhutani

- [Magic Roulette Wheel](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-roulette-wheel/id6736842754)
- [Post Borders For Instagram](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/post-borders-for-instagram/id6737579356)
- [Simple Splitter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simple-splitter/id6738398117)
- [Magic Coin Flip](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/magic-coin-flip/id6741247900)
- [Blockhaus](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/blockhaus/id6797107710)

All apps by Sameer Bhutani: https://appshunter.io/developer/1773434301

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