WristBook vs Dial-Grid
Both replace your spreadsheet. Only one does the data entry.
Dial-Grid and WristBook pitch the same thing — inventory, clients, and accounting in one place, no QuickBooks. The gap opens the second a watch comes in. In Dial-Grid, you type it. In WristBook, you photograph it and the reference, model, and full spec fill themselves — or you drop an estate invoice and get a reconciled row per piece. Then when you sell, WristBook folds the service and trade-in costs into each watch, so the profit it shows you is the profit you actually made — not a number that looks right until tax season.
- You want to log a watch by photographing it, not typing it
- You want to bulk-add an estate invoice in one drop
- You want true net profit per flip — service and trade-in costs folded into each piece
- You also move jewelry and want it in the same book
- You want the lowest price it'll ever be, locked for life
- You want the simplest possible single plan
- You're fine typing every watch in by hand
- You deal watches only, with no jewelry side
- You don't need AI capture or per-piece profit accounting
Side by side
WristBook's claims are sourced from its public pages. Dial-Grid's are limited to what its site states publicly, as of January 2026.
| WristBook | Dial-Grid | |
|---|---|---|
| The pitch you'll hear from both | ||
| One platform, no QuickBooks | ✓ Inventory, buyers, deals, and real books in one place | ✓ Inventory, clients, sales, and accounting in one place |
| Client wishlists | ✓ Multiple wishlists per buyer, with full criteria | ✓ Client wishlists |
| Professional invoicing | ✓ Branded per-deal invoice, emailed to the buyer in-app | ✓ Professional invoicing |
| Dealer network | ✓ The founding Trading Floor — post pieces & wanted, DM in-app | ✓ Dealer network |
| Where WristBook pulls ahead | ||
| Log a watch | ✓ Photograph it — AI fills the reference, model & full spec from a verified catalog | Manual entry — no AI capture advertised |
| Bulk intake from an invoice | ✓ Drop a PDF, Excel, CSV, or photo of an estate ledger → a reconciled row per watch, landed cost allocated | Not advertised |
| Profit per watch | ✓ True net per flip — service, shipping, commission & trade-in costs folded into each piece's cost basis | Accounting + invoicing; per-piece profit depth not shown |
| Trade-ins & receivables | ✓ A watch taken in part-payment nets the deal and lands in inventory; installments tracked with a 30-day overdue flag | Not advertised |
| One-click Tax Pack | ✓ 5-sheet workbook for your accountant at year-end | Not advertised |
| Servicing into cost basis | ✓ Log a polish or full service and it capitalizes into the piece — so your real margin is never a guess after the work | Not advertised |
| Getting your data in | ✓ Free done-for-you migration for founding dealers — inventory, buyers & deal history brought across | Not advertised |
| Price to start | Founding: the full Pro toolset at $79/mo — locked for life | $99/mo, one plan |
| See it before you pay | ✓ Nine live demos + video walkthroughs, no signup, no card | 7-day trial — account required to see inside |
| Jewelry support | ||
| Jewelry & loose stones | ✓ Optional +$29/mo add-on — chains, rings, bracelets, designer pieces and loose stones logged with category, material, purity, weight, hallmarks & gemstones, in the same inventory as your watches | Watches only — no jewelry path documented |
Dial-Grid details reflect its public site as of January 2026, where “Not advertised” means we found no public mention — unknown, not necessarily absent. We'll update this page if Dial-Grid publishes more.
Drop one invoice. Log the whole lot.
Buying at scale, the worst part isn't the deal — it's the data entry afterward. WristBook's bulk-add reads a PDF invoice, an Excel sheet, a CSV, or even a photo of a handwritten estate ledger — and pulls every line item, the vendor, shipping and handling, into a pre-filled batch. Overhead is allocated across the lot, so per-piece landed cost is right from the first second, and every watch traces back to its origin batch.
Every other platform on this page makes you reformat a spreadsheet into their template first. WristBook reads the document you already have.
See how bulk-add worksWhy dealers choose WristBook
Where WristBook is genuinely better.
The app does the data entry
The reason your inventory is always one deal out of date isn't discipline — it's that logging a watch is a chore. WristBook removes it. Photograph the piece and the AI fills the reference, model, and full spec from a verified catalog; drop an estate invoice and every line becomes its own reconciled row with landed cost allocated. Dial-Grid gives you a nicer place to type it all in yourself.
Profit you can actually trust
“Accounting, no QuickBooks” is the easy part to promise. The hard part is getting watch-dealer money right. WristBook folds the service, shipping, and trade-in costs into each piece's cost basis, so when you sell, the net it shows is the net you actually made — then it tracks receivables when buyers pay over time and exports a one-click Tax Pack. Not a number that looks good until April.
Priced under them — and we move you in
As a founding dealer you get the full Pro toolset for $79/mo — below Dial-Grid's $99 — and that rate is locked for life. Our team migrates your inventory, buyers, and deal history across for free, so switching costs you an afternoon, not a weekend of retyping.
The honest part
When Dial-Grid is enough.
If you want the simplest possible single plan, it's a reasonable start. One price, one pitch, watches only. If you're moving a handful of pieces and you're happy typing each one in, it does the basics. Most dealers running real volume outgrow 'type it in and hope' fast — which is exactly where the photo capture, true per-watch profit, and done-for-you migration start paying for themselves.
Watches only. Jewelry lives in a second tool.
Dial-Grid is positioned for luxury watch dealers — that's the published scope, with no jewelry surface. WristBook's $29/mo add-on covers chains, rings, designer pieces, and loose stones in the same account, so the jewelry half of your business doesn't sit in a spreadsheet or a separate app.
Dial-Grid, January 2026: “The one platform for luxury watch dealers.” No jewelry features documented.
Log a watch from a photo. Right now.
No account, no card. Try the actual capture flow, then get started on the founding price — and we'll migrate your inventory, buyers, and deal history from whatever you run today.