Comparison

Roll Time vs Tabata Flow

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Tabata Flow

Features
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Simple and effective Tabata timer for your HIIT workouts. Set your work and rest intervals and start your training. Perfect for home workouts, gym, or outdoor activities.

Screenshots

Roll Time4 screens
Tabata Flow4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tabata Flow at none against Roll Time's 1. Roll Time's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Roll Time sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tabata Flow asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roll Time ships an update weekly, Tabata Flow every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Roll Time versus Tabata Flow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoll TimeTabata Flow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (25 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings25 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander TsapaevAMAT plus s.r.o.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Roll Time

One-time1
  • PRO Edition$9.99
None

Tabata Flow

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roll Time free?
Roll Time is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tabata Flow free?
Tabata Flow is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Roll Time or Tabata Flow have ads?
Tabata Flow shows ads; Roll Time does not.
Which is updated more often, Roll Time or Tabata Flow?
Roll Time ships an update weekly, and Tabata Flow every 5 days. Most recently, Roll Time was updated on September 21, 2026 and Tabata Flow on September 24, 2026.

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