Optimal° vs Watchism
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Optimal°
This app provides remote control and monitoring for a specific brand of tankless water heaters. Users can adjust temperature, track performance metrics, and receive diagnostic information for efficient hot water management.
- Set water heater output temperature
- Monitor unit activity state
- Track flow rate and energy consumption
- View inlet and outlet water temperatures
- Access diagnostics and error codes
- Enable Vacation Mode
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Control and Monitor your Optimal Opti Tankless Water Heater with the Optimal° connected app. Optimal° app allows you to control temperature, monitor performance and unit diagnostics, giving you full control of our hot water services. Optimal's patent pending ultrasonic flow sensors allow you to add your water heater to your smart home intelligence. Optimal° allows you to precisely customize how hot water is delivered to your faucets. Save money, be efficient and that's Optimal. Current App Version functionality. - Set water heater output temperature - Unit activity state (heating / not heating) - Gallons / min flow rate - Kilowatts per hour rate - Inlet Water Temperature - Outlet Water Temperature - Input Voltage - Available Flow Rate - Heater Capacity - Vacation Mode - Diagnostics / Error Code Reporting
Watchism
This app provides a precise reference clock using various network time sources and a private digital vault for documenting your watch collection. Track wear, view insights, manage wishlists, and store photos and notes securely on your device.
- Precise reference clock
- Multiple time source options
- On-device watch collection vault
- Wear tracking and insights
- Wishlist management
- Photo and note storage
- Browser integration for online watches
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Watchism is a privacy-first iPhone app for people who care about trustworthy time and the watches they live with. The Clock gives you a disciplined local reference time built from traditional NTP, HTTPS Date, or Roughtime as the selected primary source, followed by enabled fallback methods in a visible consultation order. Watchism keeps uncertainty visible, shows the active reference source, and helps you understand how much precision the app can honestly defend. The Watches area is an on-device collection workspace for documenting watches, organizing photos, maintaining a wishlist, and recording timing observations. You can add watches manually, attach photos from the camera or photo library, crop images while preserving originals, and review measurements in a way that stays grounded in the actual reference clock. Watchism also helps you understand your collection over time. Track wear logs, open Wear Insights for 30-day, 180-day, and all-time views by watch, weekday, and rotation balance, and keep archival context for pieces that have left the collection. Private pricing and valuation history can be grouped by currency, with amounts hidden when you want the summary without exposing the numbers. Wishlist entries stay separate from owned-watch timing workflows and instead focus on acquisition priority and research. Built-in browser tools make it easy to save interesting watches you discover online, attach brand imagery to watches you already own, and carry forward useful page context into your notes. Metadata suggestions are best-effort and on-device where possible, with the user always in control of the final saved record. Privacy is the point, not a footnote. Watch data, measurements, photos, layouts, saved zones, and boutique notes stay on-device. Watchism does not use analytics, ad SDKs, or hidden telemetry. Network access is limited to configured reference-time endpoints for the selected primary source and any enabled fallback sources such as NTP, HTTPS Date, or Roughtime, plus explicit user actions such as opening watch websites or importing a selected browser image. Whether you want a trustworthy reference clock, a serious watch vault, or both in one place, Watchism is built to stay clear, honest, and local.
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Verdict
Optimal° and Watchism both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Watchism's written reviews are positive against 60% of Optimal°'s. Watchism also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 5 months). Optimal°'s advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Optimal° against 5.0 for Watchism. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of Optimal°'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Watchism's.
Optimal° ships an update every 5 months, Watchism every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Optimal° | Watchism |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Its Optimal LLC | Aldo Gonzalez |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Optimal°
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases









