Comparison

Twixt Time vs Watch Tuner

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Twixt Time

This app helps you track the long-term accuracy of your watches and clocks. By taking precisely timed photos of your timepiece's dial, it analyzes the time displayed against internet-accurate servers to calculate its rate and cumulative gain or loss.

Highlights
  • Track watch and clock accuracy
  • Precisely timed dial snapshots
  • Analyze rate and cumulative gain/loss
  • Supports various dial configurations
  • Automatic timezone monitoring
  • Works with GMT and chronograph watches
Features
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Twixt Time helps track the longterm accuracy of watches and clocks, by collecting & analyzing precisely timed snapshots of their dials. Use Twixt Time to take a picture of the dial of an analog clock or watch. Each picture captures the exact time displayed on the dial. Twixt also notes the precise instant that the each snapshot was taken, by communicating with highly accurate NTP timeservers on the Internet. A new snapshot of each timepiece can be added everyday. Using the information from 2 or more snapshots of the same timepiece, Twixt will calculate and show you how precisely the watch or clock is keeping time. Twixt tracks the most recent rate, overall average rate, and cumulative gain or loss for each timepiece. Supported dial configurations: * Hour & minute hands with a central seconds hand * Hour & minute hands with seconds displayed in a subdial * Hour & minute hands only Does Twixt Time work with GMT watches? Yes. Twixt Time does not need to track the 24 hour hand of GMT watches to measure their precision. It is only necessary to track the hour, minute, and second hands. For GMT watches with central seconds, select the "central seconds" layout. For GMT watches with an offset or subdial seconds hand, select the "subdial seconds" layout. Twixt Time automatically monitors timezone changes based on the timezone setting of the iPhone or iPod touch. Does Twixt Time work with chronograph watches? Yes. The chronograph functions of a watch do not need to be measured to track the precision of the watch. Twixt Time tracks the precision of chronographs, as well as watches with other complications, in the exact same way that it tracks the precision of a normal, time-only watch. If the central seconds hand can be stopped and reset with the chronograph function, select the "subdial seconds" layout to track the small seconds hand with Twixt Time. If the central seconds hand continues to move when the chronograph is stopped, but the small seconds hand stops, select the "central seconds" layout to track the central seconds hand with Twixt Time. Most chronographs will use a subdial seconds layout. Does Twixt Time work with watches that have an offset seconds hand? Yes. For watches with a second hand that is not concentric with the hour and minute hands, select the "subdial seconds" layout. Does Twixt Time work with quartz watches and clocks? Or other watches and clocks that are powered by batteries? Yes. Twixt Time works with battery powered watches and clocks that display the time with an hour, minute, and/or second hand. It does not work with watches or clocks that only display the time digitally. ---------- Twixt Time is not affiliated with or endorsed by any watch or clock brand. The timepieces shown are for demonstration purposes only.

About

Watch Tuner

This application tests mechanical and automatic watches by measuring rate, beat error, and amplitude using your device's microphone. It provides a history of results for tracking watch quality and stability. For best accuracy, use in a quiet environment.

Highlights
  • Measures rate, beat error, and amplitude
  • Uses device microphone for recording ticks
  • Provides results history
  • Supports iPhone and iPod
  • Quiet environment recommended for accuracy
Features
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Watch Tuner is a mechanical and automatic watch testing application designed to measure following parameters: - rate - beat error - amplitude - beats per hour The application uses the build-in or headset microphone to record audible ticks of the watch. You can measure now with your iPhone the quality and stability of the rate accuracy, amplitude and beat error of mechanical watch movements. You can also take advantage of results history. Use in a quiet environment. Any ambient noises can affect result accuracy. Complete silence is the best. Recommended way to record the ticks is to touch the crown of the watch with the headset microphone. You will get the best results using original Apple EarPods. If you don't need such advanced tool as Watch Tuner and all you need is to the check rate accuracy, maybe it's worth to try Watch Tuner Lite - a little brother of Watch Tuner application. If you need frequency diagram look at Watch Tuner Timegrapher - the most sophisticated app of Watch Tuner series.

Screenshots

Twixt Time4 screens
Watch Tuner1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Watch Tuner at $0.99 against Twixt Time's $9.99. Watch Tuner also leads on review sentiment (70% vs 39%). Twixt Time's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Twixt Time costs $9.99 and Watch Tuner $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for Twixt Time against 3.8 for Watch Tuner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Twixt Time's written reviews are positive against 70% of Watch Tuner's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Twixt Time versus Watch Tuner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTwixt TimeWatch Tuner
Price$9.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.9 (14 ratings) — better3.8 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews39.0% of reviews69.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperColdflower Design Corp.Bartlomiej Swiatek

Customer experience

Twixt Time

All ratings14 ratings
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive39.0%
Neutral8.5%
Negative52.5%

Watch Tuner

All ratings6 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral33.3%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive69.6%
Neutral8.7%
Negative21.7%

Bugs and requests

Twixt Time

Reported bugs

19 issues
  • Always displays 12+ hrs
  • Crashes constantly
  • App crashes every time you try to take a picture
  • App crashes when resizing a picture
  • Camera takes forever to come on or just does not
Show 14 more
  • Errors: hands not synchronized, internet not available
  • Unable to verify time errors
  • Camera function works much slower than native
  • Shutter does not open for the first picture
  • App cannot associate the correct time
  • App is fiddly to align hands manually
  • App reports variances of several minutes on watches running +/- 6 secs
  • App reports losing 1.2 minutes per day when actual is -1s/day
  • App does not work with separate second face
  • App has regressed, used to work
  • App struggles to discern minute points
  • App doesn't seem to be able to access camera
  • App accuracy affected by Daylight Savings Time changes
  • App averages +/- seconds by accumulated days instead of total running hours

Requested features

12 requests
  • Ability to export/import timelines
  • Delete a separate timeline
  • Reset button for manual time changes
  • Remove restriction on one snapshot a day
  • Allow manual entry of time
Show 7 more
  • Zoom in for better accuracy
  • Slider to move hands
  • 10-minute spread for marking noon
  • Ditch cute lens effects for speed
  • Allow deletion of individual snapshots
  • Faster entry process
  • Improve screen layout for iPad

Watch Tuner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Twixt Time

No in-app purchases

None

Watch Tuner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Twixt Time free?
Twixt Time costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Watch Tuner free?
Watch Tuner costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Twixt Time or Watch Tuner?
Twixt Time is rated higher. Twixt Time averages 3.9 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Watch Tuner averages 3.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Twixt Time or Watch Tuner have ads?
Neither Twixt Time nor Watch Tuner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Twixt Time or Watch Tuner?
Twixt Time ships an update every 2 months, and Watch Tuner every 2 months. Most recently, Twixt Time was updated on November 1, 2026 and Watch Tuner on November 13, 2026.

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