Boxing Interval Timer vs Roll Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boxing Interval Timer
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various round-based sports and high-intensity interval training. Easily set times and sounds for preparation, rounds, and rest, with visual and auditory alerts to keep you on track during your workouts.
- Configurable sounds and times
- Set preparation, round, and rest intervals
- Inner round alerts
- Color phase indication
- Blinking warning alerts
- Multiple custom profiles
- Screen stays on automatically
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Boxing Interval 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, or for any other round timer needs. It’s simple, modern and effective and works well also for HIIT trainings like TABATA, CrossFit. FEATURES: * Fully configurable sounds & times * Set times & sounds for preparation, round, warning, and rest * Inner round alerts * Color indication of phase * Blinking to alert warning * Screen stays on automatically * Works with screen on, or off * Multiple profiles to select * Create custom profile for different sports * Can be used for TABATA, CrossFit and other HIIT exercises * Easy to use Use the timer for when exercising in the gym, running, doing bodyweight exercises, sprints, high-low intensity cycling, boxing, MMA or other martial arts. Even though it says Boxing Interval Timer, you can use it for your TABATA, HIIT(High Intensity Interval Training), CrossFit or circuit training
Roll Time
This app is a professional round timer designed for coaches in combat sports like BJJ, MMA, and boxing. It features a large, high-contrast display, customizable sound alerts, and the ability to mirror the timer to a TV for a wall-timer experience. Coaches can save unlimited presets for different training formats and even display their gym's logo.
- Customizable work, warning, and rest intervals
- Optional prepare and cooldown phases
- Unlimited saved presets for classes and drills
- Loud sound and voice alerts
- Smart Volume for music adjustment
- High-contrast, large timer display
- TV mirroring for wall-timer setup
- Gym logo display
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Roll Time is a professional gym round timer and TV display built for coaches running real classes — not just a workout timer. Designed for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MMA, boxing, and other combat sports, Roll Time helps you run rounds, drills, sparring, in-house matches, and full class blocks with a big, high-contrast display your entire room can see. Connect Roll Time to your gym TV for a dedicated big-screen experience. While no timer is running, Gym Display turns the screen into a branded hub for announcements, seminars, open mats, promotions, schedules, and more. When it’s time to train, the timer takes over automatically. Create custom Gym Display cards with your own images, colors, text, and highlights. Schedule when they appear, rotate through multiple cards, and feature important announcements full-screen. Show your gym logo on the timer, run in-house tournaments with competition-style match presets, and start classes quickly with saved timers. Built for combat sports: • BJJ academies, MMA and boxing gyms, wrestling rooms, and martial arts dojos • Sparring rounds, positional rounds, competition matches with score tracking, HIIT intervals, open mats, and solo training Key features: • Flexible round timing with Work, Warning, Rest, Prepare, and Cooldown phases • Saved timers for classes, sparring rounds, drills, and matches • Competition-style match timers with score tracking • Gym Display for announcements, seminars, promotions, schedules, and more • Custom display cards with your own images, colors, text, and scheduling • Dedicated TV experience for the timer and Gym Display • Loud sound and voice alerts built for noisy gyms • Custom sounds and announcements — record your own timer alerts • Smart Volume lowers music while you coach, then brings it back during rolls • Big, high-contrast timer display visible across the mats • Simple touch controls — start, pause, reset, and adjust rounds quickly • Gym logo display — showcase your academy brand on the timer and TV • iCloud Backup — restore your timers later or move them to another device • Built for class. Free from unnecessary distractions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Roll Time at 100% against Boxing Interval Timer's 59%. Roll Time also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). Boxing Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 25) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Boxing Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Roll Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roll Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boxing Interval Timer has 13K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Boxing Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Roll Time's.
Boxing Interval Timer ships an update every 3 months, Roll Time weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boxing Interval Timer | Roll Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (13K ratings) | 5.0 (25 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thang Nguyen | Alexander Tsapaev |
Customer experience
Boxing Interval Timer
Roll Time
Bugs and requests
Boxing Interval Timer
Reported bugs
4 issues- Timer stops when switching apps or locking phone
- Ads interfere with timer functionality
- Inconsistent timer performance (slowing down, stopping)
- Inability to close ads or navigate around them
Requested features
5 requests- Allow timer to run in background
- Add more sound/alert options (e.g. boxing bell, countdown)
- Improve ad placement to avoid interrupting workouts
- Provide more customization options for timer settings
- Implement tracking features (e.g. total time, weekly progress)
Roll Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Boxing Interval Timer
- Pro Upgrade$5.99
Roll Time
- PRO Edition$9.99
Questions
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