Timeboxd vs Lumed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timeboxd
Catalog, organize, and showcase your watch collection with this premium digital watch box. Features AI-powered photo recognition, detailed tracking of watch specifications, and multiple display options for your timepieces. Securely back up and export your collection with ease.
- AI-powered photo recognition for watch details
- Detailed tracking of watch specifications
- Customizable organization with tags
- Elegant card, grid, and photo views
- Private iCloud backups
- Manual export and import for data portability
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Timeboxd is a premium digital watch box for cataloging, organizing and showcasing your watch collection. Designed for watch collectors and horology enthusiasts, Timeboxd helps you track, manage and present your mechanical and luxury watches in one beautifully crafted app. Add watches in seconds: • AI-powered photo recognition to extract watch details • Manual editing for complete control • Track movement, case size, dial, bracelet, reference number, purchase details and more • Add custom tags to organize your watch inventory Browse and showcase your collection: • Elegant card, grid and photo views • Flexible sorting by date, brand or price • Clean, collector-friendly watch cards for sharing Secure and portable: • Private iCloud backups to save and restore your collection • Manual export and import for full data portability • No account required Unlock unlimited watches with a simple one-time purchase. No subscription required.
Lumed
Effortlessly track your watch collection, log daily wear, and build a photo gallery for each timepiece. Analyze wear history and accuracy over time to understand your collection's usage and identify maintenance needs.
- Track daily watch wear
- Build a photo gallery for each watch
- Add detailed notes
- Measure real-world time accuracy
- View historical accuracy rates
- Browse collection stats
- Home screen widget for quick logging
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Lumed — Watch Collection Tracker Lumed is a simple, thoughtful way to track your watch collection. Log which watch you're wearing each day, keep photos and notes for every piece, and see your habits take shape over time. Lumed also tracks accuracy the way you actually wear your watches. Instead of a one-off timing session, you check in when you put a watch on and/or when you take it off, and Lumed builds a drift history from real wear. You'll know whether a watch is running inside spec, and spot the moment it starts drifting outside that spec. Track your collection — Log daily wear in seconds, or fill in several days at once — Photo gallery and notes for every watch — Collection stats: total value, most-worn pieces, recent activity — A two-week wear strip on each watch, at a glance — Wish list for the watches you're still hunting — Home screen widgets to log a wear or check the time fast — Export and restore your whole collection as a single file Track accuracy — Check in when you wear a watch to measure drift against an accurate reference clock — See rate history between wears and catch a movement going out of spec — Set per-watch tolerances so you know what "normal" looks like for each piece Chronometer — one-time purchase, no subscription — AI Detail-fill: paste a product link or type a brand and model, and Lumed fills in specs, photo, and estimated value — Identify a watch from a photo of the dial — Unlimited accuracy history and drift trends — Wear reminders and power reserve alerts — Private iCloud sync across your devices — Web companion at lumed.app Your collection stays on your device and syncs only to your own private iCloud account. No ads, no tracking, no account required. No clutter. No subscriptions. Just your watches.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Lumed at free against Timeboxd's free with in-app purchases. Lumed also leads on iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). Timeboxd's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, review sentiment, 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. Timeboxd sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lumed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Timeboxd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Timeboxd ships an update every 5 days, Lumed every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timeboxd | Lumed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David McMahon | Ben Wittbrodt |
Customer experience
Timeboxd
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In-app purchases
Timeboxd
- TimeBoxd Pro$2.99
Lumed
- Chronometer$4.99








