Comparison

Train Like a Boxer vs Loadwave

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

Head to head
About

Train Like a Boxer

This app provides boxing-inspired workouts to build strength and improve physique. It offers 4-week training programs with exercises targeting the upper body, core, and full body, focusing on proper technique and common boxing moves.

Highlights
  • Boxing exercise instructions
  • Upper body strengthening
  • Core training
  • Lower body workouts
  • Full-body training
  • 4-week training programs
  • Proper techniques and stances
Features
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We offer instructions for exercises boxers use to get in fighting shape. Exercises focused on strengthening your upper body, core, and lower body as well as full-body training movements. We have multiple 4-week training programs filled with intense routines built from these exercises. All geared toward helping you reach your fitness and physique goals. At no point in following these programs will you have to take a punch, but once you've completed them you'll definitely look like you can throw one. The app contains proper techniques, starting stances, and common moves, such as jabs, uppercuts, and kicks.

About

Loadwave

Features
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One more set? Have I done enough? Am I overdoing it? You've been answering by feel. Loadwave answers with a light. Log a set — weight and reps — and you immediately see green, yellow or red. Green: keep going. Yellow: you're at the top edge. Red: that's enough for today. That's it. The maths runs underneath; you never have to learn it. WHY IT WORKS Every weight has an ideal number of reps. Fewer, and the stimulus is too small. More, and you accumulate fatigue and risk. Just right, and you get the most out of the session. A. S. Prilepin worked this out from the training logs of thousands of elite lifters, and it still underpins strength programming today. Loadwave measures every set against it — and on a mixed-zone day it switches to Hristov's INOL formula, so a textbook multi-zone session never triggers a false alarm. WHAT YOU GET • A live light after every set — at the bar, not in hindsight • Working-weight calculator: pick a percentage, get the kilos and the recommended sets and reps • Four lifts: squat, bench, deadlift, curl — with variations (paused, close grip, speed, tempo, pin, deficit, block) • Per-variation references you never have to test for: derived from your competition max • Weekly load chart across 8 weeks, with thresholds — see when you're drifting into too much • RPE drift detection: if the same weight feels heavier week after week, you hear about it early • INOL · NL · AWL for the curious — one tap away, never in the way • Export and restore — your data is yours, and opens in any spreadsheet HOW IT BEHAVES No account. No sign-up. No ads. No internet needed — reception in a gym is bad anyway. Everything stays on your phone. WHAT'S FREE Everything for the first 30 days, with no card required. Nothing starts charging; the trial simply ends. After that these stay yours with no time limit: logging, the light, the working-weight calculator, all four competition lifts, 30 days of history, and full export. Pro is a one-time purchase — no subscription. It opens the complete history, the weekly chart, RPE drift detection and the variations. Your sessions are never deleted. Older ones aren't shown without Pro, but they stay on your phone and in every export — and reappear the moment you unlock. WHO IT'S FOR Powerlifters and strength trainees who work with numbers but don't want to keep a spreadsheet. Competing or just getting stronger, the question is the same: was today enough? IMPORTANT Loadwave gives guidelines, not medical advice. Prilepin's numbers assume explosive sets taken short of failure. You know your body — the app is just a better pair of glasses.

Screenshots

Train Like a Boxer4 screens
Loadwave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Loadwave at none against Train Like a Boxer's shown. Train Like a Boxer's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Train Like a Boxer sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Loadwave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Train Like a Boxer versus Loadwave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrain Like a BoxerLoadwave
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSamantha RoobolBitagent Kft.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Train Like a Boxer

One-time12
  • Cardio Boxing to Lose Weight$1.99
  • Remove ads$1.99
  • Jump Rope like a Boxer$1.99
Show 9 more
  • Get a Fighter's Physique$1.99
  • Conditioning Circuit$1.99
  • Ultimate Fighter Workout Plan$1.99
  • Boxing Masterclass$1.99
  • Exercises for Beginners$1.99
  • MMA Workout Plan$1.99
  • The Spartan Challenge$1.99
  • Kickboxing Moves$1.99
  • Full Bundle$5.99
1 purchases

Loadwave

One-time1
  • Loadwave Pro$8.99

Questions

Is Train Like a Boxer free?
Train Like a Boxer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loadwave free?
Loadwave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Train Like a Boxer or Loadwave have ads?
Train Like a Boxer shows ads; Loadwave does not.

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