Watch Tuner Timegrapher vs Kitpick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Tuner Timegrapher
This application analyzes the performance of mechanical watches by using your device's microphone to record ticking sounds. It generates a frequency diagram and provides measurements for rate, beat error, amplitude, and beats per hour.
- Frequency diagram display
- Measures rate accuracy
- Measures beat error
- Measures amplitude
- Measures beats per hour (BPH)
- Uses device microphone
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Watch Tuner Timegrapher is an app for testing mechanical watches — both automatic and manual winding. It displays a frequency diagram of your watch and measures the rate, beat error, amplitude, and beats per hour (BPH). The app uses your device’s built-in microphone or a headset mic to record the audible ticks of the watch. For best results, use the app in a quiet environment. Background noise can affect accuracy — complete silence works best, though the built-in noise-cancelling algorithm can filter out minor sounds. The microphone must be in contact with the watch to clearly capture the ticking sound; ideally, place it against the watch’s crown during recording.
Kitpick
Organize your scale model kit collection, track your building progress with photos and notes, and get random project suggestions. This app offers a comprehensive way to manage your hobby inventory and build history.
- Stash and wishlist management
- Build progress tracking with photos
- Random next build suggestions
- Collection stats and overview
- PDF build journal export
- Offline functionality
- Customizable themes
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Your scale model stash, organized. Kitpick is a personal kit manager for scale model builders. Track your stash, document builds with photos and notes, and let the app pick your next project when you can't decide. STASH & WISHLIST - Add kits with photos, brand, scale, category, and price - Filter and browse in grid or list view - Search kits on Scalemates and eBay - Keep a wishlist for kits you're planning to buy BUILD TRACKING - Start a build from your stash with one tap - Document progress with timestamped photo updates and notes - Pause builds and pick them up later - Mark builds complete with ratings and notes - Export your build journal as a PDF PICK NEXT BUILD - Can't decide what to build next? Let Kitpick pick for you - Daily random kit suggestion from your stash - Exclude kits you're not ready to build yet STATS & COLLECTION OVERVIEW - See your stash at a glance: counts, brands, categories - Track completed builds and ratings - View your longest-sitting kits and newest additions - Stash value overview THEMES & CUSTOMIZATION - Multiple dark and light themes - Grid layout options (2, 3, or 4 per row) - Grid and list view modes CURATED RESOURCES - Discover tab with hand-picked YouTube channels and modeling resources Kitpick is fully offline. No ads, no accounts, no data collection, no internet required. Your collection stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kitpick at 5.0 against Watch Tuner Timegrapher's 3.8. Kitpick also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%) and price ($0.99 vs $1.99). Watch Tuner Timegrapher's advantage is ratings volume (80 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Watch Tuner Timegrapher costs $1.99 and Kitpick $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kitpick holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Tuner Timegrapher has 80 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Watch Tuner Timegrapher's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kitpick's.
| Parameter | Watch Tuner Timegrapher | Kitpick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $0.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (80 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 80 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bartlomiej Swiatek | Jussi Seppala |
Customer experience
Watch Tuner Timegrapher
Kitpick
Bugs and requests
Watch Tuner Timegrapher
Reported bugs
11 issues- App crashes on certain iOS versions (iPhone X with iOS 14.6)
- Incompatible with older devices (iPod Touch 6, iOS 8.4)
- Blank white screen on some devices
- Quality reporting inconsistency between live reading and saved history
- Cannot store more than 16 history files (save button grays out)
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- Doesn't work properly with Samsung headsets on iPad
- External microphone recognized but won't provide/analyze data
- Auto-detect mode fails to recognize BPH correctly
- App becomes unresponsive and requires phone restart
- Incompatibility with latest iOS versions for audio spectrum analysis
- Microphone collection starts immediately on app launch
Requested features
13 requests- Audio monitoring function to optimize microphone placement before measuring
- Audible ticking sound output (like professional models)
- Extended beat rate range to include mechanical clocks
- Only request microphone permissions when actually measuring
- History feature to save and track measurements over time
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- Ability to share graphs as photos or export to email
- Larger display for complete timestamp visibility
- Increased history file storage (currently limited to 16 files)
- Korean language support
- Japanese language support
- Dedicated hardware microphone option
- Better auto-detection for BPH to avoid manual input
- Ability to add watch information and photos to measurements
Kitpick
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Watch Tuner Timegrapher
No in-app purchases
Kitpick
No in-app purchases
Questions
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