TickLab vs CaseBack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
TickLab
This app allows users to measure the accuracy of mechanical watches using their iPhone's microphone. It also helps manage watch collections, log wear and journal entries, analyze trends, and connect with a community of watch enthusiasts.
- Mechanical watch accuracy measurement
- AI diagnosis for watch health
- Collection management with specs and service records
- Life logging and journaling
- Analytics and trend tracking
- Community features with photo feed
- Home screen widget and Live Activity support
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TickLab is a watch life platform to record, manage, analyze, and share every moment with your watches. It started with accuracy measurement, but now covers measurement, collection, journaling, analytics, and community in one app. Accuracy Measurement and AI Diagnosis Measure the daily rate, beat error, and amplitude of a mechanical watch using only the iPhone microphone, with no extra hardware. Reliability grades and AI interpretation make results easy to understand, and automatic phone-clock calibration improves precision. A single measurement in the same position with a clean signal can land within about 2 seconds per day, and averaging several can narrow it to about 1 second per day. Use positional deviation analysis to gauge when a service is due. Collection Management Organize each watch with specs, photos, serial number, purchase price, and finances, and keep strap and service records. Overhaul timing and warranty expiry are tracked automatically. Warranty can be set up to 10 years, with reminders before and on the expiry date. Life Log Capture your moments with wear logs, a journal, memory highlights, event tags, and mood. Dream up your next watch with a wishlist. Analytics See your watch life at a glance with weekly, monthly, and yearly trends, a monthly wear heatmap, a year-end recap, and the global brand league. Community Like, comment, and follow in a photo feed, and collect badges. Kept safe with reporting, blocking, and content filters. Home Screen Widget and Live Activity View your latest measurement in a widget and log today's wear right from it. During a measurement, it appears in real time on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Privacy Measurement data, serial numbers, and purchase prices are stored only on your device and are never sent off it. Community photos are uploaded only after location data is removed and only when you tap the post button yourself. Privacy Policy https://moonkj.github.io/ticklab/privacy.html Terms of Use https://moonkj.github.io/ticklab/terms.html Support https://moonkj.github.io/ticklab/support.html
CaseBack
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Your watches deserve better than a spreadsheet. CaseBack is the private, offline home for your watch collection โ every reference, photo, value and service record, in one beautiful app that never asks you to sign in. Built for collectors who care about privacy: no account, no forced cloud, nothing leaves your iPhone without your say-so. Your serial numbers and values are yours alone. YOUR COLLECTION, ORGANIZED โข Add unlimited watches โ free, forever. Photos, movement, case size, reference, serial, box & papers. โข Search, sort and filter your grid at a glance. โข Watch your collection's total value update in real time. โข Native on iPad too, with a sidebar and large layouts. WEAR WHAT YOU OWN โข One tap to log the watch on your wrist today. โข See what you actually wear โ rotation stats, streaks, most- and least-worn pieces. โข Let CaseBack suggest your watch of the day. KNOW WHAT IT'S WORTH โข Track each watch's value over time, with a clean history and chart. โข Total value, breakdown by brand and movement. NEVER MISS A SERVICE โข Service reminders and warranty alerts โ a movement is never overdue. โข A full maintenance log: date, type, cost, watchmaker. READY IF THE WORST HAPPENS โข Export a polished insurance report (PDF & CSV): cover page, one page per watch, photos, serials and values. โข The file you'll be glad to have if a watch is lost or stolen. EVERY PAPER IN ITS PLACE โข Keep invoices, certificates, warranty cards and service papers as PDFs with each watch, up to 20 per watch. โข Preview them in the app and share the original file untouched. โข Your first 2 documents are free. PRIVATE BY DESIGN โข No account. No tracking. No ads. โข Face ID / Touch ID lock, free. โข Optional iCloud sync, encrypted on your own account. FREE VS PRO Free gives you unlimited watches, full detail, value, wear log, Face ID and 2 PDF documents โ for good. Unlock Pro once for: rotation stats & history, value charts, multi-collections, wishlist, strap inventory, warranty tracking, service log, insurance export, watch documents (PDF), iCloud sync and themes. One-time purchase. Yours forever. No subscription, ever. Download CaseBack and give your collection the home it deserves.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: TickLab at every 3 days against CaseBack's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. TickLab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and CaseBack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
TickLab ships an update every 3 days, CaseBack every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | TickLab | CaseBack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days โ better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | โ |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad โ better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | kyeongju Moon | Alex Masure |
In-app purchases
TickLab
- TickLab Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- TickLab Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
CaseBack
- CaseBack Pro$6.99









