About Widdershins
Widdershins is a journal for the watches you actually wear. Log the one on your wrist today, and honest stats about your collection take shape: which pieces you reach for, which sit in the box, how your rotation really looks over a year, not how you imagine it looks.
The name
Widdershins means counterclockwise: old dialect for going against the sun’s path, the wrong way round a churchyard, the direction a watch’s hands never turn. It’s a quiet name for a quiet habit: the two seconds it takes to note what you’re wearing, going the other way from every app that wants your attention for longer. It’s why the mark up in the corner turns the way it does.
What you can count on
- Private by default. Your journal is yours. We don’t publish it, sell it, or use it to sell you anything else.
- Export anytime. A CSV or JSON of everything you’ve logged, whenever you want it, no questions asked.
- Not a shop. No marketplace, no affiliate links, no “watches you might like.” We’re not in the business of selling you a next watch.
How this stays alive
Widdershins is built and run by one person. It costs very little to run — Cloudflare hosts all of it — and it will be funded by an optional paid tier, never by ads, affiliate links, or selling your data. Until that tier exists, it’s free.
If Widdershins ever shuts down, you’ll get at least 90 days’ notice and an export of your watches, your wears, and your photos — the same export that’s built in today. It’s one click, unless your photos add up to more than 500 MB; then we’ll send them to you on request.