Parqet on Your Apple Watch: Portfolio Complications, Both Metrics, No Phone Tap

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If you use parqet.com to track your portfolio and you own an Apple Watch, sooner or later you ask the obvious question: can I just see my portfolio’s gain/loss on the watch face? There is no first-party Parqet app for the Apple Watch, so by default the answer is no. PulseFolio is the answer for “yes” — it is built around exactly that workflow.

This post is for the Parqet user who would never search “PulseFolio” — because that’s a brand they have not heard of yet — but who would type parqet apple watch or depot komplikation apple watch into Google. So let’s spell out what is actually on offer.

What “Parqet on the watch face” really means

A complication is one of those small status fields you can add to most Apple Watch faces — corner, circular, rectangular, or inline. PulseFolio puts your Parqet portfolio’s headline number into one. You long-press your watch face, edit a complication slot, and pick PulseFolio. From that moment on, your watch face quietly shows:

  • gain or loss for your selected period
  • return percentage (TTWROR or IZF/XIRR — your pick)
  • a trend indicator
  • on the Rectangular style, a small sparkline so you see the shape, not just the number
  • on the Circular gauge, a magnitude-aware arc — small gains show small arcs instead of always being pegged to full

A tap on the complication opens its own portfolio in the app. No fishing for your phone, no opening Parqet, no unlocking — that is the whole point.

A different portfolio per complication

This is the bit that most people only realise after they have set it up: each complication can show a different Parqet portfolio. Long-press the face, edit slot one to your savings plan, slot two to your long-term ETF basket, slot three to your high-conviction picks. Tapping each complication opens that portfolio in the app. Multiple portfolios on a single watch face, no manual switching.

TTWROR and IZF/XIRR — both, side by side

Parqet shows two return metrics that work very differently. TTWROR strips out the timing of your deposits and tells you how the strategy performed. IZF / XIRR (the same thing, different name in German vs English) tells you how your money performed including when you put it in. Most apps make you pick one. PulseFolio shows the headline in whichever metric you have selected — and the other one alongside it, smaller, so you never have to choose blind. You can switch which is the headline directly on the watch.

Swipe between time periods like real tabs

1D, 1W, MTD, YTD as full swipeable tabs — with haptic feedback, no flicker. From the watch’s full picker you can also reach 3M, 6M, 1Y, 3Y, 5Y, 10Y, and Max. None of that requires reaching for your iPhone. A 7-day delta on the main view stays visible regardless of which period you are on, so today’s move never disappears just because you are looking at YTD.

For the periods that matter most, the Stats view under the picker shows period high, period low, drawdown from the high, total range, and a full breakdown of returns — context the headline number alone cannot give you.

Smart Stack and auto-refresh

During market hours, PulseFolio’s relevance score rises and your portfolio surfaces in the Apple Watch Smart Stack — the auto-rotating widget that appears with a turn of the wrist. Complications themselves auto-refresh at sensible intervals during market hours; you can also pull-to-refresh inside the app at any time. An “updated X minutes ago” timestamp keeps you honest about how fresh the number is.

Privacy: no password, no account, no middleman

PulseFolio talks to Parqet’s API directly through the OAuth 2.0 + PKCE flow that Parqet itself supplies. The app never sees your Parqet password. Your access token lives in the iCloud Keychain on your devices. There is no PulseFolio server in the middle, and there is no separate PulseFolio account to create.

The iPhone companion app

The iOS app handles setup and the deeper views: connect Parqet, pick a portfolio, choose the metric, the period, and the trend color palette (Classic, Color-Blind Friendly, or Monochrome). A Watch sync status row tells you whether the watch is reachable and when it last updated. A setup checklist walks you through pairing, installing the Watch app, and adding a complication. Top Holdings with sortable columns and an infinite-scroll Recent Activity feed give you the deeper dive that a 41 mm screen cannot. Settings sync live — change something on iPhone, the Watch picks it up immediately, no relaunch.

If you want to try it before you connect Parqet, Preview Demo Data loads a fake portfolio so you can play with complications, time tabs, Stats, and the trend palette without signing out of anything.

Languages

PulseFolio is fully localized in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese — Watch app, iPhone app, complications, and VoiceOver labels. Pick whatever your iPhone is set to.

The practical setup

  1. Install PulseFolio from the App Store on your iPhone — it installs the Watch app for you.
  2. Tap Connect to Parqet. The OAuth flow opens, you sign in to Parqet, and you are back in the app a moment later.
  3. Pick the portfolio (or portfolios) you want, and the trend color palette.
  4. On the watch, long-press your face, edit a complication slot, and choose PulseFolio.
  5. Done. Glance at your wrist for the headline number, swipe inside the app for periods, tap Stats for the breakdown.

That is the whole loop. From the moment you tap Connect to Parqet to the first complication on your watch face is usually under two minutes.

PulseFolio is available on the App Store for iPhone and Apple Watch.