Speed! Cube Timer vs SubX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Speed! Cube Timer
Track your cube solve times with a sleek timer featuring customizable scramble sizes and inspection times. Share your results with friends via iMessage. Supports 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4 cubes.
- Customizable scramble size
- Adjustable inspection time
- Dark/light mode
- Track 2x2, 3x3, 4x4 solves
- Share solve times via iMessage
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A simple cube timer with sleek animations and visuals. With the app you can keep track of your solves for 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4. The timer consists of a range of features such as, changing scramble size, changing inspection time, dark/light mode, and a way to send your solve time and scramble to your friends through iMessage! I hope you enjoy!
SubX
This app provides a modern and intuitive timer for speedcubing enthusiasts. It allows users to log and track solves, view results and averages, and share best times with friends. Customize your experience with different cube types, sessions, and haptic feedback options.
- Log and track solves
- View results and averages
- Share best solves with scrambles
- Select cube type for scrambles
- Create multiple sessions
- Pre-inspection countdown
- Haptic and confetti feedback
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Get faster. Understand every solve. SubX is a modern speedcubing timer built for cubers who want more than a stopwatch. Time your solves with a fast, distraction-free interface, then turn your results into meaningful insights that help you improve. BUILT FOR SPEED Hold to ready, release to start, and tap to stop. SubX combines responsive controls, haptic feedback, scramble generation, inspection, +2 and DNF penalties, and Zen Mode into a timer designed to stay out of your way. UNDERSTAND YOUR SOLVES Go beyond basic averages with detailed performance analytics. Follow your personal bests, explore trends and solve distributions, and see how your performance changes over time. SET GOALS. CHASE SUB-X. Create performance goals and track your progress toward faster singles and averages. COMPARE YOUR TRAINING Compare sessions to see how different cubes, routines, or practice styles affect your speed and consistency. PRACTICE LIKE IT COUNTS Competition Mode gives you a focused average-of-five experience with inspection, penalties, individual results, and competition-style averaging. YOUR CUBING HISTORY Organize solves into sessions, review your history, track PB progression, and keep your practice organized in one place. Filter your solves by personal bests, penalties, date, and speed to quickly find the results that matter. SHARE YOUR PROGRESS Turn your solves into polished SubX share cards. Share individual results, Ao5s, and Ao12s with times, penalties, dropped solves, PBs, and scramble details beautifully presented. GAN HALO TIMER SUPPORT Connect a compatible GAN Halo smart timer over Bluetooth for hardware timing while keeping your solves and analytics inside SubX. SUBX PRO The core SubX experience is free. SubX Pro unlocks advanced training tools including deeper trends and distributions, goal tracking, PB progression, session comparison, and advanced performance insights. SubX Pro is available as a one-time lifetime purchase. No subscription. Whether you're chasing your first sub-30, sub-20, sub-10, or your next personal best, SubX gives you the tools to measure your progress and keep improving. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.jesserubio.com/subx/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SubX at 4.8 against Speed! Cube Timer's 4.5. Speed! Cube Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.4 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
SubX holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 5 respectively.
| Parameter | Speed! Cube Timer | SubX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Daniel Madjar | Jesse Rubio |
Customer experience
Speed! Cube Timer
SubX
In-app purchases
Speed! Cube Timer
No in-app purchases
SubX
No in-app purchases







