CaseBack vs Pulso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Pulso
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pulso at none against CaseBack's 1. CaseBack's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. CaseBack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pulso asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CaseBack | Pulso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 โ better | 26.1 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Masure | Yeison Ospina |
In-app purchases
CaseBack
- CaseBack Pro$6.99
Pulso
No in-app purchases









