Comparison

Martial Arts Timer vs AthleteRep

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Built-in martial arts templates
  • Customizable timer templates
  • Round start/end alerts
  • 10 seconds left alert
  • Screen stays on during use
  • Multiple timer themes
Features
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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.

About

AthleteRep

Features
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Bring your whole training day together with AthleteRep. Plan and log workouts, run interval sessions, track nutrition and hydration, and understand your fitness patterns without jumping between apps. WORKOUTS THAT STAY USEFUL • Build and schedule workouts • Log sets, reps, load, duration, distance, and notes • Start workouts live with set-by-set logging, rest timers, and supersets • Follow coach-assigned sessions in your own journal • Run configurable work-and-rest intervals with clear cues • Review training history and progress over time NUTRITION IN THE SAME JOURNAL • Track meals, calories, macros, and water • Search foods, scan barcodes, and reuse saved meals • Add foods manually when you want full control • Optionally share a new or corrected food with Open Food Facts after a clear, one-time consent choice SLEEP, STRAIN, AND RECOVERY Connect Apple Health to calculate fitness-focused Sleep, Strain, and Recovery estimates on your device. See the inputs and methodology behind each score. Health data is read only. Raw HealthKit samples and calculated scores remain on your device; workouts you choose to log from Apple Health keep only their name or activity type and start and end times in your journal, which syncs to your account when you're signed in. PRIVATE COACH COLLABORATION Connect with your coach through an invitation. Your coach can assign workouts and review shared training content within that private relationship. Either participant can remove the relationship at any time. OPTIONAL AI FEATURES With your affirmative consent, AthleteRep can send selected food text, meal photos, or form-check frames to an AI service for a calorie estimate or exercise technique feedback. AI output can be inaccurate and is not medical advice. AthleteRep contains no advertising and does not track you across apps or websites. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Martial Arts Timer4 screens
AthleteRep4 screens

Verdict

The call

Martial Arts Timer and AthleteRep are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Martial Arts Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and AthleteRep sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Martial Arts Timer ships an update every 9 days, AthleteRep every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Martial Arts Timer versus AthleteRep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMartial Arts TimerAthleteRep
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB21 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRoy ShavitMartin Stoyanov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Martial Arts Timer

One-time1
  • Unlimited$5.99
1 purchases

AthleteRep

Subscriptions1
  • AthleteRep Monthly$5.991 Month

Questions

Is Martial Arts Timer free?
Martial Arts Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AthleteRep free?
AthleteRep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Martial Arts Timer or AthleteRep have ads?
Neither Martial Arts Timer nor AthleteRep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Martial Arts Timer or AthleteRep?
Martial Arts Timer ships an update every 9 days, and AthleteRep every 5 days. Most recently, Martial Arts Timer was updated on October 19, 2026 and AthleteRep on October 29, 2026.

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