About ChronoLog

ChronoLog transforms how you understand and care for your timepieces. Whether you own a vintage Rolex, a modern Omega, or your first mechanical watch, ChronoLog helps you track, analyze, and optimize your watch's performance over time.

What ChronoLog Does

At its core, ChronoLog provides precision timing measurements by comparing your watch's time against atomic reference standards. With just a few taps, you can capture point-in-time accuracy readings that reveal how your watch performs in real-world conditions.

Performance Analytics That Matter

Each measurement builds a comprehensive picture of your watch's behavior. Track daily rate changes, identify patterns related to different wearing conditions, and receive alerts when sudden changes might indicate a problem requiring attention. Our intelligent tagging system lets you understand how factors like temperature, activity, or winding affect performance.

Your Complete Watch Collection

Beyond performance tracking, ChronoLog serves as your digital watch vault. Document your collection with photos, track purchase details, and maintain a complete history of each timepiece's accuracy journey. Whether you're a casual enthusiast or serious collector, ChronoLog helps you stay connected to what matters most about your watches.

ChronoLog makes the invisible visible—turning every watch into a source of fascinating data and helping you become a more informed owner.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why am I seeing large and varied measurements?

The most likely cause is taking measurements too close together. Every measurement has inherent human error, but over longer time periods, these errors become negligible. We recommend waiting at least 8 hours between measurements for the most accurate results.

What are the COSC, METAS, and Superlative tags I see?

These are prestigious industry standards that watch brands pay to have their timepieces certified against. Each standard has specific accuracy requirements and testing conditions. When your timing measurements meet these professional standards, ChronoLog displays the appropriate certification tag—giving you insight into how your watch performs compared to these elite benchmarks.

What do Offset, Rate, and Change mean?

Offset is the total time difference between your watch and the reference time. Change shows how much the offset shifted since your last measurement. Rate calculates your watch's average daily gain or loss by dividing the total change by the time elapsed—expressed in seconds per day.

Is this a timegrapher? Should I get a timegrapher instead?

ChronoLog is not a timegrapher. Timegraphers are professional tools that provide instant, precise measurements but require specialized hardware. ChronoLog offers a more casual and fun approach that works entirely on your phone, making watch performance tracking accessible to everyone without additional equipment.

Why isn't ChronoLog free?

Honestly? I'd like to buy more watches and can use the revenue from this app to do it guilt-free! But seriously, the premium features help support ongoing development, new features, and keeping the app ad-free while maintaining the highest quality experience.

How does the audio timegrapher measurement work?

ChronoLog's audio mode listens to the ticking sound of your mechanical watch through your phone's microphone — similar to how a professional timegrapher works. It analyzes the timing between ticks to calculate rate (seconds per day) and beat error.

What are the limitations of the audio measurement?

Audio measurement works best in a quiet environment. Background noise, loud ticking from other clocks, or very quiet movements can affect accuracy. For best results: place your watch directly on a hard surface near your phone's microphone, minimize background noise, and hold the phone steady. The audio method is best suited for mechanical watches with audible ticks — it won't work well with quartz watches that tick once per second. Results may vary by movement and phone model, so treat it as a useful guide rather than an absolute reading.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2025

Usage Analytics, Debugging, and Product Development

To help us improve ChronoLog, we collect anonymous in-app usage data entered by the user. This includes timepiece information and timing measurement data; excluding images which do not leave the device. These data are used for analytics, debugging, and product development purposes.

No personal information is collected or stored.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy on this page.

Contact

Questions? Contact us at tylerjaywood+chronologwebsite@gmail.com