Comparison

WatchVault vs Pulso

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

Head to head
About

WatchVault

Organize and manage your watch collection with detailed records, wear tracking, and virtual strap try-ons. Generate insurance reports and share your collection visually. Syncs across devices with secure access.

Highlights
  • Organize watches by collection, brand, or custom tags
  • Detailed watch records including specs, condition, and service history
  • Track wear time and receive reminders for unworn watches
  • Virtual strap try-on feature
  • Generate insurance PDFs and share collection images
  • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad
Features
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WatchVault is a full-featured watch collection manager for collectors who take their timepieces seriously. YOUR COLLECTION, BEAUTIFULLY ORGANISED Track every watch across multiple collections, separate boxes, brands, or however you organise your pieces. Browse with grid, list, or icon views. Filter by movement type, lug width, or custom tags. DEEP WATCH RECORDS Log everything: reference number, calibre, year, case dimensions, dial colour, condition, box & papers, serial number, service history, and more. Attach photos and add personal notes. WEAR & ROTATE Start and stop wear sessions to track total time on wrist. Get a nudge when any watch passes 30 days unworn, with per-watch or bulk snooze options. VIRTUAL TRY ON Try any strap on any watch. Swipe to cycle compatible straps, analyse colour harmony, and composite a strap directly onto your watch photo. Save your favourite pairings. STATISTICS Most-worn watches by days and hours, movement breakdown, lug width distribution, and portfolio totals. EXPORT & INSURANCE Generate a premium insurance PDF, branded cover, 3 watches per page, full specs and service history. Share individual watch cards or your full collection as social-ready images. BUILT TO LAST • iCloud sync across all your devices • Face ID / Touch ID lock • Backup and restore • Light, Dark, or System appearance • 13 currency options • iPhone and iPad support Purpose-built for watch enthusiasts, from the weekend wearer managing a handful of pieces to the serious horologer tracking a full rotation.

About

Pulso

Features
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Pulso is a watch collection tracker for watch collectors who actually wear their watches. Made for iPhone and fully optimised for iPhone Duo. Add a watch, and Pulso fills in the details and gets out of the way. Log what you wore today with one tap. Over months the numbers build up until you can see plainly which watches earn their place on your wrist and which are just sitting in the box. MADE FOR IPHONE DUO Open it flat and every tab uses both halves: your list on one side, the watch on the other, never split across the fold. Stand it half open on your desk and Pulso becomes a desk clock to set your watch by, with the full date on the upright half and today's watches and your wear history within reach on the half lying flat. COLLECTION Every watch with its calibre, case size, lug width and water resistance. Use your own photos, or a stock image if you would rather not take one. Gifted and sold pieces keep their own view, so nothing disappears from your history. WEAR AND COST PER WEAR One tap logs a wear. Pulso keeps the count, the last-worn date and a running cost per wear, so a cheap quartz that goes on every week can quietly out-earn something far more expensive. POWER RESERVE For automatics and hand-wounds, Pulso tracks how much reserve is left and tells you when a watch is about to stop. VALUE An estimated market value for each watch, refreshed in the background, alongside what you actually paid. Insights shows your collection total, the paid-versus-estimated gap, and which watches you actually reach for, over all time or the last thirty days. SERVICE Log services and timegrapher readings, and set the next service date so it stops living in your head. WISHLIST AND ROADMAP Keep the watches you want in one place, with price alerts. The roadmap sorts them by style (diver, dress, field, chronograph and more) into Entry, Step-up and Goal rungs, so a wishlist becomes a plan. Share your wishlist as a link when someone asks what you are after. STORIES Every watch carries a reason. Add the occasion, the photos and the notes, and the collection reads like a record of your life rather than a spreadsheet. WIDGETS, SIRI AND THE LOCK SCREEN Today's pick, what you are wearing, collection value, rotation and power reserve on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, with a button that logs a wear without opening the app. Say "Wear today's pick in Pulso" to Siri, or use the Control Center button. Lookups show their progress as a Live Activity. SHARING Share a card of today's watch, your last 30 days, your collection or your month, designed to look good in a message or a story. A NOTE ON VALUES Estimated values are indicative, generated from public market data. They are not a formal valuation, and not an offer to buy or sell. Built by one person who wears his watches. Feedback goes straight to me.

Screenshots

WatchVault4 screens
Pulso4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulso at none against WatchVault's 3. Pulso also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). WatchVault's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.1). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. WatchVault sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pulso asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WatchVault ships an update every 2 months, Pulso every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
WatchVault versus Pulso: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWatchVaultPulso
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.1
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJOHN ALAN TUCKEYYeison Ospina

In-app purchases

3 purchases

WatchVault

One-time3
  • Buy me a coffee$1.99
  • Buy me a lunch$5.99
  • Buy me a dinner$12.99
None

Pulso

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WatchVault free?
WatchVault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pulso free?
Pulso is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WatchVault or Pulso have ads?
Neither WatchVault nor Pulso shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WatchVault or Pulso?
WatchVault ships an update every 2 months, and Pulso every 3 weeks. Most recently, WatchVault was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pulso on November 6, 2026.

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