Whistle Timer vs Gymborg Boxing Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Whistle Timer
Create custom workout schedules with customizable work and break intervals. Save your training plans for future use and focus on your fitness goals. The app can run in the background to keep your workout on track.
- Customizable workout schedules
- Add custom breaks
- Save training plans
- Background operation
- Whistle sound option
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Whistle Timer lets you create a customised working schedule without anything unnecessary. - Blow a whistle forever - Add customised breaks - Focus on your workout! - Save your plans for further use - Run on the background
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 ads: Whistle Timer at none against Gymborg Boxing Timer's shown. Gymborg Boxing Timer's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (50% vs 29%). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Whistle Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gymborg Boxing Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Gymborg Boxing Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 99 and 109 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Whistle Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Gymborg Boxing Timer's.
Whistle Timer ships an update every 10 months, Gymborg Boxing Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Whistle Timer | Gymborg Boxing Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (99 ratings) | 4.8 (109 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 28.6% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 99 | 109 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Thang Nguyen |
Customer experience
Whistle Timer
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In-app purchases
Whistle Timer
- Unlock all settings$2.99
Gymborg Boxing Timer
- Pro Upgrade$5.99
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