Session vs BellWork
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Session
This minimalist timer is designed for focused interval training. Quickly set work, rest, and round durations for boxing, HIIT, and circuit workouts. Stay on track with clear countdowns and audio cues.
- Simple round timer interface
- Adjustable work, rest, and rounds
- Optional warm-up timer
- Audio bells for round cues
- Clear countdown display
- Distraction-free design
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SESSION is a minimalist interval timer designed for real training. No clutter. No complicated setup. Just start your rounds and focus on the workout. Perfect for: • Boxing • Muay Thai • HIIT • Circuit training • Strength intervals • Home workouts SESSION lets you quickly set work time, rest time, and rounds so you can stay focused inside the round. FEATURES • Simple round timer interface • Adjustable work, rest, and rounds • Optional warm-up timer • Audio cues for work and rest intervals • Clear countdown display • Clean, distraction-free design Whether you're training in the gym, garage, or at home, SESSION keeps your workout structured and focused. Start the round. Stay in the round.
BellWork
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various training styles like combat sports and HIIT. It offers clear audio and haptic cues to guide users through workouts, with a focus on a clean, distraction-free interface. Users can review workout summaries to track progress and build consistency.
- Customizable training profiles
- Clear audio and haptic cues
- Full-screen timer display
- Workout summary review
- Flexible round controls
- Touch lock option
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BellWork: Rounds & HIIT is a focused interval timer for combat sports, HIIT, and structured conditioning. Build custom training profiles for boxing, kickboxing, MMA, bag work, circuits, sprints, and high-intensity workouts, then let clear cues guide every round. Set warm-up, prepare, work, rest, cooldown, round count, warning alerts, auto-start behavior, sound style, and haptics. BellWork gives you flexible controls without clutter, so setup stays fast before training begins. During a workout, a bold full-screen timer shows your current phase, round progress, and what is coming next. Countdown alerts, audio cues, haptics, and optional touch lock help you stay locked in without accidental taps or constant screen checks. After each session, review your workout summary and recent training history so you can see what you completed and keep building consistency. Clean, dark, and built to stay out of the way, BellWork keeps the round moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: BellWork at weekly against Session's every 2 months. Session's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Session against 5.0 for BellWork. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Session ships an update every 2 months, BellWork weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Session | BellWork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shane Landry | Daniel Chen |
Customer experience
Session
BellWork
In-app purchases
Session
No in-app purchases
BellWork
No in-app purchases









