ROX vs iRox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ROX
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Blowing up at the wall balls because you went out too hard on run one? That's a pacing problem, not a fitness problem. ROX-strat builds a personalized Hyrox® pacing plan from your 5K time, your station PRs, and how aggressive you want to race. On race day, your Apple Watch or Garmin watch tells you whether you're ahead, on, or behind your plan — segment by segment, all 31 of them. New here? Your first 90 days of ROX-strat Pro are free, no card required. WHAT YOU GET (FREE) • PFT onboarding — a personal fitness test that captures your baselines • Simulator — a finish range from your 5K and two station times, narrowing with every station PR, a PFT or an imported race • Live Race Ghost on Apple Watch — ahead / on / behind and your heart rate, in real time • Garmin watch app — your race plan, live pacing and the PFT on your Garmin, paired with this app • Roxzone guide — pacing through every transition • Official result import — pull your HYROX result from the results site into Race History; your first import is free, and ROX-strat Pro covers every import after that WHAT'S IN ROX-STRAT PRO • Live Readiness Score — HRV and sleep from Apple Health, read as race-day readiness • Strava sync — read-only, to pull your training history • Fatigue Sliders — hand-tune the fatigue curve to your body • CrossFit Converter — turn CF benchmarks into Hyrox station projections HOW IT WORKS Run the PFT once to set your baselines. Simulate your race across 8 × 1km runs, 8 stations, and the Roxzone transitions — 31 segments in all (Ski Erg, Sled Push, Sled Pull, Burpee Broad Jumps, Rowing, Farmers Carry, Sandbag Lunges, Wall Balls). Then race with the ghost on your wrist. WHY ATHLETES TRUST IT Real race data — the Simulator reads how athletes at your running level actually race, and your raw Apple Health data never leaves your phone. You sign in with Apple, with Google or with a code we email you, so there's no separate password. Apple Watch native, with sub-100ms haptics. SUBSCRIPTION Every new install gets the first 90 days of ROX-strat Pro free — no card required. After that, ROX-strat Pro is $19.99/year, with a 3-month free trial for new subscribers. Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. terms of use (eula): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ privacy policy: https://roxstrat.com/legal/privacy ABOUT HYROX® Not affiliated with HYROX® or Hyrox World GmbH. PRIVACY Your training data syncs to our own server in Frankfurt (EU), so it follows you to a new phone and comes back after a reinstall. We don't store your name or your email (only a scrambled fingerprint of it, so your account can be found again), and your raw Apple Health data stays on your phone. Delete your account in the app and the server copy goes with it. We don't run ads or tracking.
iRox
This app transforms your Apple Watch into a dedicated timer for HYROX races, capturing your entire event as a single workout in Apple Health. It also allows you to import past race results and track your progress over time.
- Dedicated race timer for HYROX
- Captures entire race as one Apple Health workout
- Import past race results via screenshot or PDF
- Race history with full splits
- Progress tracking across races and stations
- No subscription or ads
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iRox — Fitness Race Timer Your entire race, timed as one workout. iRox turns your Apple Watch into a dedicated race timer for HYROX racing. One tap at the start, double tap through each run and station, and your whole race — splits, heart rate, pace — is captured as a single continuous workout in Apple Health. RACE ON APPLE WATCH — NO SUBSCRIPTION • Full race mode on your wrist: 8 runs and 8 stations with big, glanceable tap targets built for race intensity • Live splits, elapsed time, and heart rate at a glance • Your entire race saved as one Apple Health workout — no more stitching together segments NEW: IMPORT YOUR PAST RACES • Screenshot import — snap a photo of any past result from the HYROX website and import directly to iRox • PDF import — export a result from the HYROX website as a PDF and bring it straight in • Add your name once and iRox matches imported results to you, so every race lands on your profile with zero retyping TRAINING INSIGHTS • Race history with full splits for every run and station • Track your progress across races and watch stations improve YOUR DATA • Your name is used to match imported results to your profile — and, if you choose to share a result, to credit it to you in the community database. • iRox is crowdsourcing race results: in an upcoming update, results athletes choose to share will be searchable by everyone in the app. • Sharing is always your choice — nothing becomes public unless you opt in, and you can remove shared results at any time. • iRox never sells your data — shared or not. • Everything is stored securely on iRox servers, and you can delete your data at any time. One purchase unlocks iPhone + Apple Watch. No subscription. No ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: ROX at 16.0 against iRox's 26.5. On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. ROX sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and iRox sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ROX ships an update every 3 days, iRox every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ROX | iRox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mehmet Gencol | Mount Airy Tech LLC |
In-app purchases
ROX
- rox-strat pro3 Months trial$19.991 Year
iRox
- Apple Watch App$5.99









