Comparison

Boxing Coach Workout Timer vs Heavy Bag Workout

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Boxing Coach Workout Timer

This app provides a customizable boxing round timer with voice guidance and personalized workouts. It offers preconfigured or custom sessions with flexible phases, favorite combo selection, and AI-powered coach voices. Enjoy an ad-free, hands-free experience with Siri and HealthKit integration.

Highlights
  • Customizable boxing round timer
  • Personalized workout creation
  • AI-powered voice coaching
  • Favorite combo selection
  • Siri shortcuts for hands-free control
  • Ad-free experience
  • HealthKit integration
Features
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Elevate your boxing training with the Boxing Coach and Workout Timer, your ultimate companion for boxing classes, sparring sessions, shadow boxing, or punching bag workouts. Designed to optimize your training, this app offers personalized workouts, real-time coaching, and an audio-supported boxing round timer. Optimized for both iPhone and iPad, with a layout that adapts to every screen so you can train seamlessly on any device. Key Features Personalized Workouts • Preconfigured schedules: Access ready-to-use boxing workouts to start training immediately. • Customizable sessions: Create unlimited personalized workouts tailored to your goals. • Flexible phases: Define warm-up, up to 18 boxing rounds with breaks, and cool-down phases with full control over durations. Boxing, Kickboxing, and Defensive Combos • Boxing combos: Classic punch combinations to sharpen your hands. • Kickboxing combos: Add kicks and knees for full kickboxing sessions. • Defensive combos: Train slips, rolls, blocks, and counters to round out your skills. • Favorite combos: Choose your preferred combinations across all three disciplines. Enhanced Training Experience • Audio and voice support: Optional voice guidance and sounds to keep you focused and motivated. • Music compatibility: Continue listening to your favorite music apps during workouts. • Community leaderboard: Stay motivated by comparing your progress with the global community through weekly, monthly, yearly, and all-time rankings. • AI-powered voice coaching: Choose from six distinct boxing coaches, each with their own style, to guide you through combos and rounds in real time for a truly personalized workout. Widgets • Home Screen widgets: Launch your favorite workouts and keep your training front and center with quick, one-tap access right from your Home Screen. User-Friendly Interface • Intuitive design: Clean and simple interface with color-coded workout phases. • No sign-up required: Start using the app immediately, no registration needed. • Ad-free experience: Enjoy uninterrupted training without distracting advertisements. Seamless Integration • HealthKit integration: Sync workouts and body measurements seamlessly for comprehensive tracking. Free & Pro The core experience is completely free, with no ads and no sign-up: • A variety of preconfigured boxing programs, ready to train immediately • Full boxing, kickboxing, and defensive combo libraries • Audio and voice support • Home Screen widgets • Community leaderboard • HealthKit integration Upgrade to Pro to unlock: • Custom workouts: create your own unlimited boxing workouts tailored to your goals. • Combo callouts during workouts: have your selected boxing, kickboxing, and defensive combos called out in real time as you train. Why Choose Boxing Coach and Workout Timer? • Optimize your training: Maximize results with personalized workouts and real-time coaching. • Stay focused: The app's intuitive design and voice support help you concentrate on your training, not your phone. • No distractions: Enjoy an ad-free experience with no sign-up barriers. Transform Your Boxing Training Today! Download the Boxing Coach and Workout Timer now and take the first step towards more effective and enjoyable boxing workouts! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Heavy Bag Workout

This fitness app provides audio-guided boxing workouts with a professional coach. Follow punch combinations, improve your body shape, and reduce stress with routines ranging from single rounds to a full 10-round session. It cleverly balances coaching audio with your music library for an engaging experience.

Highlights
  • Audio coaching for punch combos
  • Customizable round and rest times
  • Music library integration
  • Single and multi-round workouts
  • Professional boxing coach guidance
  • Improve body shape and fitness
Features
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Box 4 Fitness - Heavy Bag Workout is a Fitness app that gives the most incredible workout with your own pro boxing coach. Get lean, toned and strong whilst boxing your way from Novice to Pro!! The app provides: - detailed instructions and AUDIO COACHING 100% along the way, even between rounds!! - the ability to punch along to the punching combos while listening to your favorite workout tracks You get all this in the palm of your hand and your own professional boxing coach, Rick Sweeny, in your ear to keep you motivated, keep you improving your skills and to give you an overall body workout that is unbeatable! Workout routines: - Single round workouts (2 and 3 minutes) - you punch along to the punches called out by your coach - multi round workouts, up to 10 round workouts where you get to control how long your rests are (30 or 60 seconds) and how long the rounds are (2 or 3 mins). Work all your way up to a 10 round workout with 3 minute rounds and 30 second break for the ultimate workout!!!! Works great with your music library: the app cleverly balances the volume between the coaching and your music - the perfect balance that will keep you motivated round after round!! Benefits of Heavy Bag Training: 1. Improve Body Shape 2. Improve Aerobic Fitness 3. Improve Power 4. Improve Coordination & Core Stability 5. Develop Self Defense Skills 6. Decrease Stress 7. Low cost - just the bag, wraps and gloves for your hands and this app! Who's Rick Sweeney? Your personal coach, Rick Sweeney, was born June 8, 1959. He boxed as an amateur from 1982-1986, with a 10-2 record. He was Adirondack Golden Gloves champion at 152 lbs. in 1985. Rick became a professional in 1986 with a 2-0 record, before opening Sweeney’s Boxing in 1994. He’s been vice president of amateur boxing in the Adirondack region since 2004. He’s a professional and amateur boxing trainer, cut man, and promoter, as well as a fitness and weight loss trainer. Rick has trained such fighters as Frank Houghtaling when he won the IBC America’s title and New York State’s junior middle-weight title, and Teresa Perozzi when she won the NABC women’s world title in Bermuda and defended it in Sweden. He’s worked the corner in 7 title fights, and he’s the trainer of former WIBC Light Welterweight champ Sarah Kuhn.

Screenshots

Boxing Coach Workout Timer4 screens
Heavy Bag Workout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Boxing Coach Workout Timer at Free against Heavy Bag Workout's $2.99. Boxing Coach Workout Timer also leads on ratings volume (582 vs 9) and rating (4.5 vs 4.2). Heavy Bag Workout's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Boxing Coach Workout Timer is free to download; Heavy Bag Workout costs $2.99 up front. Boxing Coach Workout Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Heavy Bag Workout asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Boxing Coach Workout Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxing Coach Workout Timer has 582 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Boxing Coach Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Heavy Bag Workout's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Boxing Coach Workout Timer versus Heavy Bag Workout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoxing Coach Workout TimerHeavy Bag Workout
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (582 ratings) — better4.2 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews55.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings582 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNils AckermannPeter Rogers

Customer experience

Boxing Coach Workout Timer

All ratings582 ratings
Positive87.3%
Neutral4.5%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews88 reviews
Positive55.7%
Neutral17.0%
Negative27.3%

Heavy Bag Workout

All ratings9 ratings
Positive77.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Boxing Coach Workout Timer

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Sound/speech issues
  • Timer inaccuracies
  • Crashes and technical issues
  • Login/purchase required for full features

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to create and save custom workouts/combos
  • Option to add body shots to combos
  • Warning sound before round ends
  • Workout history/analytics tracking
  • Defensive combo presets

Heavy Bag Workout

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Boxing Coach Workout Timer

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99
None

Heavy Bag Workout

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Boxing Coach Workout Timer free?
Boxing Coach Workout Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Heavy Bag Workout free?
Heavy Bag Workout costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Boxing Coach Workout Timer or Heavy Bag Workout?
Boxing Coach Workout Timer is rated higher. Boxing Coach Workout Timer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 582 ratings, while Heavy Bag Workout averages 4.2 from 9 ratings.
Do Boxing Coach Workout Timer or Heavy Bag Workout have ads?
Neither Boxing Coach Workout Timer nor Heavy Bag Workout shows ads.

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