Round Timer vs Flow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Round Timer
This app provides a simple and clear interval timer for various workout types like HIIT, Tabata, and boxing. It offers quick start options, large visual cues, and voice prompts to keep you focused during your training sessions.
- Quick start for last workout
- Built-in workout presets
- Custom workout builder
- Large visual countdown
- Voice cues
- Lock Screen and Live Activity support
- Workout history tracking
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Stop fumbling with complicated timers and start your workout in seconds. Get clear interval cues, a big easy-to-read countdown, and a round timer that keeps pace without breaking your flow. Round Timer: HIIT & Tabata helps you start, run, and track interval workouts on iPhone. Built for people who want to drop the phone, glance once, and keep moving, this HIIT timer focuses on quick starts and clear feedback. The GO card always launches your most recent workout, so your usual Tabata timer or interval timer is never more than one tap away. When a workout is running, the Live Activity and Lock Screen card keep the current phase, time left, and controls in view, and you can pause, skip, or stop from there. If you train with music, voice cues speak over your audio and then your music returns to normal volume. That makes it handy for Tabata abs while watching TV, sprint repeats at the track, or boxing rounds in the gym. • Start your last workout instantly from the GO card on Quick Start. • Pick from built-in presets including Classic Tabata, Beginner HIIT, EMOM 10, AMRAP 20, Boxing Rounds, and Sprint Intervals. • Build custom workouts with your own work, rest, rounds, get ready, and cooldown times. • Choose a protocol like Tabata, HIIT, EMOM, AMRAP, Circuit, Rounds, Sprint, or Custom. • Add per-round labels so voice cues can say Burpees or Push-ups instead of a generic work prompt. • See a giant full-screen countdown with color changes for work, rest, prep, cooldown, and finish. • Keep the next step in view with the UP NEXT preview and the round counter. • Control a session with large Restart, Play or Pause, and Skip buttons. • Let a saved workout start a playlist from your music library automatically and stop it when the workout ends. • Keep cues going when the screen locks, with optional haptics on every phase change. • Check History for this week, total time, streak, and session details, then share or delete a session. • Start from Home Screen, Lock Screen, Control Center, or a shortcut for even faster access. It fits real training moments. Start Classic Tabata for a quick core set, throw together a Circuit for class, run EMOM 10 in a garage gym, use Sprint Intervals for repeats, or keep Boxing Rounds visible from across the room. If you want one clean workout record instead of a pile of tiny entries, Pro can save each completed session to Apple Health as a single workout. The free version lets you save up to 3 custom workouts. Pro removes that limit and adds Apple Health saving for completed sessions. Music access is only needed if you want to play a playlist from your library, and Health access is only needed if you choose to save workouts there. Pick a preset, tap GO, and turn your iPhone into a clear, dependable HIIT timer for Tabata, EMOM, AMRAP, boxing rounds, and more. Terms of Use (EULA) - http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula
Flow
This app provides a customizable round timer for combat sports training, allowing users to set work, rest, and warm-up intervals. It also records training sessions simultaneously, enabling users to review their form and progress.
- Customizable rounds, rest, and warm-up intervals
- High-visibility display
- Automatic video save to photo library
- Simultaneous timer and recording
- Clean, minimalist design
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Flow is the round timer built for fighters. Whether you're boxing, training MMA, or working combat sports drills, Flow gives you a clean, distraction-free timer that keeps up with your training. And records it! The Timer: Fully customizable round timer with work, rest, and warm-up intervals. Set your rounds, your rest, your pace. The Camera: Flow runs your timer and records your session at the same time. Review your form, track your progress, and save your rounds directly to your camera roll. Without taking off your gloves. Features: -Customizable rounds, rest periods, and warm-up intervals -High-visibility display readable across the gym -Automatic video save to your photo library -Clean & minimalist design that gets out of your way Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Flow at 5.0 against Round Timer's 2.0. Flow also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Round Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Flow sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flow holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Round Timer | Flow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandeep Bhandari | Pivot Point Labs |
In-app purchases
Round Timer
- Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Forever Pro$99.99
Flow
- Flow Pro$4.991 Month
- Flow Pro$29.991 Year









