Comparison

BoxRound vs BoxBell

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

Head to head
About

BoxRound

This app provides a customizable timer for boxing and HIIT workouts, featuring clear visual cues, authentic bell sounds, and haptic feedback. It automatically tracks your workout history with detailed stats and streaks, and includes a built-in stopwatch for freestyle timing. Train effectively with its intuitive interface and offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Customizable round and rest timers
  • Authentic boxing bell and warning sounds
  • Haptic feedback for alerts
  • Workout history and stats tracking
  • Built-in stopwatch
  • Offline functionality
  • Dark UI mode
Features
Read full description

BoxRound is a modern boxing round timer and workout tracker built for fighters and fitness fans. Pick a preset or dial-in your own rounds, rest, prep, and warning times—then tap Start and focus on training while BoxRound handles the bell, haptics, and countdowns. Why you’ll love it • One-tap presets: Amateur, Professional, Championship • Fully customizable round, rest, prep, warning, and total-round settings • Clear visual timer with animated bell and easy-to-read digits • Authentic boxing-bell + 10-second warning sound with haptic feedback • Skip, pause, and reset controls at your fingertips • Automatic workout history with charts, stats, and streak tracking • Built-in stopwatch for free-style timing • Clean dark UI that looks great in the gym and saves battery • Works offline and plays nicely with your music or podcasts Train smarter, push harder, and step into every round with confidence—download BoxRound today!

About

BoxBell

Features
Read full description

Pay once. No ads. No subscription. No account. Ever. BoxBell is a boxing round timer that does one job properly. Set three numbers — rounds, round length, rest length — hit START, and train. The countdown fills the screen so you can read it from across the gym: green for work, red for rest. A real boxing bell rings every round in and every round out, and a wooden clacker warns you at the last 10 seconds. FREE, FOREVER · Classic 3:00 rounds with 1:00 rest, any number of rounds · The full-screen countdown, the real bell, the 10-second warning · A 10-second prep countdown before round one · Bell volume, haptics, sounds on or off · No ads. Not now, not later. BOXBELL PRO — ONE PAYMENT, US$5.99 · Custom round and rest lengths · Saved presets · Sound packs — Deep and Bright bells alongside Classic · Voice round announcements One payment. Yours forever. No subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel. (US price; your store shows your local price.) IT DOESN'T DIE MID-ROUND Keeps running with the screen locked, in the background, with your music playing. The bell ducks your music for a moment, then hands it straight back. The bell rings even with the silent switch on. The clock is built on elapsed time, not ticks, so it can't drift or skip while your phone sleeps. WHO IT'S FOR Boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, MMA. Shadowboxing, heavy bag, pad work, sparring rounds. HIIT and circuit work too — any interval that needs a bell and a number you can read from the floor. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No workout logging. No coaching content. No social feed. No account, no sign-up, no email. No ads, and no ad identifiers in the app at all. It sends crash reports and basic usage counts so I can fix what breaks — that's the whole list, and it's in the privacy policy. Built by one person who got tired of paying for a timer twice.

Screenshots

BoxRound4 screens
BoxBell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BoxRound at none against BoxBell's 1. BoxBell's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.2). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. BoxBell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. BoxRound asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BoxRound ships an update every 4 days, BoxBell weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
BoxRound versus BoxBell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoxRoundBoxBell
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNomadic Spaces Inc.Nurshat Bakytzhan

In-app purchases

None

BoxRound

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

BoxBell

One-time1
  • BoxBell Pro$5.99

Questions

Is BoxRound free?
BoxRound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BoxBell free?
BoxBell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BoxRound or BoxBell have ads?
Neither BoxRound nor BoxBell shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BoxRound or BoxBell?
BoxRound ships an update every 4 days, and BoxBell weekly. Most recently, BoxRound was updated on September 21, 2026 and BoxBell on October 10, 2026.

Other comparisons