Gym Timer vs Gymborg Boxing Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gym Timer
This app helps you track gym sessions and manage rest times between sets. It's designed for use on a smartwatch, allowing you to leave your phone behind. The app alerts you when it's time to train again, ensuring your workout flows smoothly.
- Track gym sessions
- Time rest periods between sets
- Smartwatch optimized
- Phone-free gym experience
- Alerts for training intervals
- HealthKit integration
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Gym Timer helps you tracking your gym sessions and timing rest time. - You can leave your smartphone in the locker room: An app designed from the concept of the Apple Watch's app to give you the best mobility in the gym, without the need to lug around the smartphone. It's all on your wrist. With CareKit and HealthKit integration, your workout will never be interrupted if your Apple Watch goes into standby mode. - It does everything: With Gym Timer, you just set the number of sets and the rest time between one set and the other, then you just need to start the timer at the end of each set. When is time to start to train again, it will alert you. Follow us on our social media to be the first to know about new features we're developing, to get in touch with our community and give us a feedback. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gymtimer/ Instagram: @gym_timer Twitter: @gym_timer Gym Timer uses Health Kit for some functionalities like staying active while your watch screen is off.
Gymborg Boxing Timer
This app provides a customizable round timer for various combat sports, HIIT, and interval training. Easily set up profiles for different sports, manage round durations, and receive alerts for transitions. Enjoy seamless music playback during your workouts.
- Customizable round profiles
- Round and break alerts
- Adjustable warm-up time
- Music playback integration
- Color-coded intervals
- Always On mode
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Gymborg Boxing Timer is a round timer designed for training in any round sport such as Boxing Martial Arts, Wrestling, Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), Muay Thai, Kick Boxing, BJJ, Yoga or for any other round timer needs. It’s simple, modern and effective and works well also for HIIT trainings like TABATA, CrossFit. Use it whenever you want, wherever you are for boxing training, MMA, HIIT, Tabata, Yoga, Muay Thai, BJJ, Kick Boxing, Superset, Inverval Training or any other sport requiring rounds or intervals. Features: - Easy-to-config multiple profiles - Round end, break end warning - Inner round alert - Customizable warm up time - Always On mode (adjustable). - Playing music and training with Gymborg Boxing Timer at the same time - Color code for Warm Up, Fight, Break or customise as you want - Round intervals can be change - Create custom profiles to suit your need - Create each profile for each different sport - Mute the app if you want it - Create alarms to remind you in app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gym Timer at none against Gymborg Boxing Timer's 1. Gym Timer also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Gymborg Boxing Timer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Gymborg Boxing Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gym Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gymborg Boxing Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 460 and 109 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 55% of Gym Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Gymborg Boxing Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gym Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, Gymborg Boxing Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gym Timer | Gymborg Boxing Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (460 ratings) | 4.8 (109 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 460 — better | 109 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giuseppe Fasano | Thang Nguyen |
Customer experience
Gym Timer
Gymborg Boxing Timer
Bugs and requests
Gym Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Timer resets unexpectedly
- Set/rep count not updating correctly
- Syncing issues with Apple Watch
- Notifications not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Add option to track exercise time
- Implement workout history/progress tracking
- Provide Apple Watch complications
- Offer paid ad-free version
Gymborg Boxing Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gym Timer
No in-app purchases
Gymborg Boxing Timer
- Pro Upgrade$5.99
Questions
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