For iPhone · iOS 26.5 or later

Your iPhone,
reimagined as a
mechanical watch.

ChronoSet is a composition engine for watch faces — every dial, colour, hand, bezel and complication is a choice you get to make.

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ChronoSet Diver face running on an iPhone in light mode ChronoSet Diver face running on an iPhone in dark mode

The collection

Five faces. Each in light and dark.

Toggle the theme (top right) and the whole page — including these faces — switches between day and glowing night.

The engine

Composition, not presets.

Nothing on a ChronoSet face is baked in. Choose a face, then reshape it — the defaults are only a starting point.

Deep customisation

Dial colours & finishes, hand shapes & metals, hour and minute markers, bezel designs, and dual lume — mixed and matched per face.

Real complications

Mechanical moon phase, battery power reserve, pointer date, and an aviation-style slide-rule bezel on the chronograph.

Digital & Set Time

An optional retro seven-segment readout below the dial shows live time — or the exact minute to set a real watch to.

Lume that glows

Primary and secondary lume light up as the watch darkens. A Darkness Level lets night mode go from dusk to pitch black.

Tuned to feel real

Selectable beat rate, detented bezel rotation with haptics, a gyro-reactive sapphire crystal, and a countdown timer with beeps.

Desk Stand Mode

While charging and stationary, ChronoSet fades away the controls, holds the display awake and leaves the watch face on black after one minute.

Go further

More craft. More complication.

The same five faces, pushed further with configurations made possible by the optional premium packs.

Display Time

Your desk’s daily driver.

While your iPhone is charging, you can use Widgets to display any of the five watch dials in StandBy mode, or when you leave the ChronoSet app running it will display the dial using its own Desk Stand Mode.

StandBy compared with Desk Stand Mode
Feature iOS StandBy Desk Stand Mode
Security Phone is locked Phone is unlocked
Appearance Dark Light or Dark
Time Display Hours, Minutes Hours, Minutes, Seconds

Signature Collection

Five original marques. Yours from the start.

ChronoSet includes five fictional watch houses created for the app. Their logos are free for everyone and show how a dial changes when it carries a distinct identity.

Nereus

Deep-water divers built around one obsession: legibility at depth.

Haldane

Understated English dress watches, in the maison tradition since 1911.

Mercator

Cartography-inspired GMT and world-timer watches for the frequent traveller.

Kestrel

Rugged field and pilot tool watches, sharp-eyed and built to take a knock.

Terzo

Motorsport chronographs measuring life in thirds of a second.

Use the mark, the name, or both — in the brand artwork or rendered monochrome to match the dial.

Built with accessibility in mind — VoiceOver reads the time aloud, and the app’s animations follow your Reduce Motion setting.

Pricing

A generous free core. Two optional packs.

Every face type, and enough dials, hands, markers and complications to build watches you'll love, are free. Go deeper with a one-time unlock — no subscription.

Customisation

$3.49 one-time

Premium dial colours & finishes, masterpiece painting dials, crafted handsets, hand metals, GMT hands & colours, hour & minute markers, lume colours, sculpted bezels, and dial-text fonts.

Complications

$3.49 one-time

Power reserve, large moon phase, slide-rule bezel, sub-dial finishes, pointer date, high-beat frequencies, darkness level, sapphire crystal, and ceramic bezel.

One-time purchases via the App Store. Restore anytime. Prices shown in USD; your local price is set at purchase.

Private by design

ChronoSet needs no account. Configuration analytics contain no free text, account ID or persistent device ID. The privacy policy explains the fields collected, network processing and retention. You can switch analytics off in the app’s Settings.

Read the privacy policy

Say hello

Questions, bugs, or a face you'd love to see?

hello@chronoset.app

Support & FAQ