Comparison

SubX vs Cube Color Trainer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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/

About

Cube Color Trainer

This app assists in memorizing the color order of a cube by presenting a game where users identify side center colors based on top and bottom colors. It offers various memorization techniques and customizable settings for practice.

Highlights
  • Color order memorization
  • Multiple memorization techniques
  • Customizable settings
  • Simple memorization game
  • Practice and skill testing
Features
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Cube Color Trainer helps you memorize the color order of the cube. My Story: While working to improve my f2l solving speed, I constantly messed up the white cross. I knew opposite color pairs like blue/green and red/orange, but struggled to remember if red was to the right of blue, and so on. So I scratched my own itch and created Cube Color Trainer for this single purpose. How It Works: Imagine holding a real cube and focusing on its center piece. Based on the current top and bottom colors, your task is to identify the center piece colors to the left or right. You do this by trying to hammer the color order into your head, using any of the techniques offered. Free: Since I’m not sure if anyone else but me will find this app useful, I’m releasing it for free for now. Features: * Multiple Memorization Technique modes: Choose from 'Colors Only', 'Make up a Story' and 'Letters'. * Customizable Settings: Adjust top and bottom color combination, direction, number of color clues, sound and more. * Simple Memorization Game: Practice and test your skills with a simple memorizationgame.

Screenshots

SubX4 screens
Cube Color Trainer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: SubX at 6 against Cube Color Trainer's 1. Cube Color Trainer's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cube Color Trainer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SubX has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SubX versus Cube Color Trainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSubXCube Color Trainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 15 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJesse RubioStefac Carlsson

Customer experience

SubX

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Cube Color Trainer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

SubX

No in-app purchases

None

Cube Color Trainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SubX free?
SubX is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cube Color Trainer free?
Cube Color Trainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SubX or Cube Color Trainer?
Cube Color Trainer is rated higher. SubX averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Cube Color Trainer averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do SubX or Cube Color Trainer have ads?
Neither SubX nor Cube Color Trainer shows ads.

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