Martial Arts Timer vs Roll Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Martial Arts Timer
This interval timer is designed for martial arts training, offering built-in templates for various disciplines and the ability to create custom routines. It provides alerts for round starts, ends, and final seconds, ensuring a smooth training experience. The app also includes timer templates for other exercises like jump rope and planks.
- Built-in martial arts templates
- Customizable timer templates
- Round start/end alerts
- 10 seconds left alert
- Screen stays on during use
- Multiple timer themes
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Turn an idea into a complete martial arts workout—and let the app guide every round. Martial Arts Timer is a workout builder and training timer for boxing, Muay Thai, MMA, BJJ, wrestling, jump rope, and fight conditioning. Choose a ready-made session, build your own, or describe what you want to train and let AI create an editable round-by-round plan. TRAIN WITH A PLAN • Explore eight guided workouts for sparring, bag work, boxing fundamentals, grappling, MMA, and conditioning. • Preview the full session before you start. • Follow clear round names, exercise cues, and timing from start to finish. GENERATE A WORKOUT WITH AI • Use a guided setup or write your own prompt. • Tailor the discipline, goal, experience level, equipment, duration, and intensity. • Generate workouts from English or Hebrew requests. • Review and edit every round before training. BUILD YOUR OWN WORKOUTS • Choose from 41 boxing, Muay Thai, jump-rope, and bodyweight exercises. • Set names, coaching cues, work and rest durations for each round. • Add push intervals for changes of pace inside a round. • Reorder, duplicate, and save sessions for later. A TIMER BUILT FOR TRAINING • Customize rounds, work, rest, pre-work countdowns, and warning timing. • Train by sound and haptics without watching the screen. • Keep rounds and bells running when the app is in the background or the screen is locked. • Follow timer status from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island on supported iPhones. • Use the quick timer whenever you just need to start training. CORE ACCESS AND WORKOUTS UNLIMITED The core timer and one custom workout are available without an account. Workouts Unlimited adds the full guided library, unlimited custom workouts, every timer feature, no ads, and AI workout generation. AI requires sign-in and an active subscription and includes up to 10 requests in each 24-hour window. Whether you train at home, in the gym, on the mat, or at the heavy bag, Martial Arts Timer helps you show up with a plan and stay focused until the final bell.
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 monetization model: Roll Time at free against Martial Arts Timer's free with in-app purchases. Roll Time also leads on ratings volume (35 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Martial Arts 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Martial Arts Timer against 5.0 for Roll Time. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roll Time has 35 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Martial Arts Timer ships an update every 9 days, Roll Time weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Martial Arts Timer | Roll Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (35 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 35 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roy Shavit | Alexander Tsapaev |
Customer experience
Martial Arts Timer
Roll Time
In-app purchases
Martial Arts Timer
- Unlimited$5.99
Roll Time
- PRO Edition$9.99
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