XCube Timer vs SubX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
XCube Timer
This app provides a distraction-free timer for speedcubers to track their solves, organize practice sessions, and analyze performance with detailed statistics. It helps users improve consistency and focus on achieving personal bests.
- Distraction-free timer
- Track and manage solves
- Organize practice by sessions
- Detailed performance statistics
- Analyze trends and consistency
- Export and import data
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XCube Timer is a clean and focused cube timer built for speedcubers who want a simple way to track solves, review progress, and train with better insights. Track every solve with a fast and distraction-free timer, organize your practice into sessions, and explore detailed stats to understand your performance over time. Review recent solves, averages, trends, time distribution, and session comparisons in a clear interface designed for everyday practice. With XCube Timer, you can: - Save and manage your solves with ease - Organize training by sessions - Track averages and personal progress - Analyze trends and consistency - Review solve details and history - Export and import your data Upgrade to Pro to unlock advanced statistics and a deeper view of your training. Whether you are learning, getting faster, or chasing your next personal best, XCube Timer helps you stay consistent and focused.
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 XCube Timer's 3.7. SubX also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). XCube Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 15 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. XCube Timer sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SubX asks for nothing beyond the download.
SubX holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively.
XCube Timer ships an update weekly, SubX every 15 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | XCube Timer | SubX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (3 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 15 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bruno Morgan | Jesse Rubio |
Customer experience
XCube Timer
SubX
In-app purchases
XCube Timer
- Remove Ads$1.99
- XCube Timer Pro$7.99
SubX
No in-app purchases








