Interval Timer & Boxing vs OpenWater
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interval Timer & Boxing
This app provides a customizable interval timer for various training styles like HIIT, Tabata, and boxing. It offers clear audio cues, haptic feedback, and widget support for seamless workout tracking. Integrates with Apple Health and syncs across Apple devices.
- Customizable workout plans
- Multiple sound cue options
- Audio cues and haptic feedback
- Apple Watch and Live Activity support
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Apple Health integration
- Workout history and streaks
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A focused interval timer for people who actually train. Tabata, HIIT, boxing rounds, EMOMs, running repeats, or your own plan — DIT runs every one with crisp sound cues so you keep your eyes on the work, not on the screen. • Presets: Tabata, HIIT, Combat rounds, 1-minute intervals • Custom workouts — any rounds, any work/rest, optional warm-up • 10 sound packs — ticks, bells, electronic, analog • Big timer, audio cues, haptics — train by sound, mute the screen • iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — iCloud-synced • Live Activity & Dynamic Island on iPhone • Home & Lock Screen widgets — start a session with one tap • Apple Watch complication + live heart rate with zone breakdown • DIT Cast — hand off the running timer between devices • Siri shortcuts and App Intents for every preset and saved workout • Apple Health integration — workouts land next to your other activities • History with streaks, weekly totals, 13-week heat-map Privacy: workout data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud. DIT never sells or shares your activity. Terms of Use: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/porconova/legal/refs/heads/main/DIT-Terms-of-Service
OpenWater
Track your speed and technique for various water sports using GPS. This open-source app works offline and offers detailed performance metrics for wingfoiling, kitesurfing, and more. Analyze your sessions with advanced visualizations and export your data.
- GPS speed and technique tracking
- Offline functionality
- Standalone Apple Watch app
- Detailed speed metrics
- Advanced session visualizations
- Data import and export
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openWater is a GPS speed and technique tracker for wingfoiling, parawinging, downwinding, windsurfing, kitesurfing and sailing. It is open source, works entirely offline, and never asks you to create an account. RECORD ON YOUR WATCH OR YOUR PHONE Start a session in one tap. The Apple Watch app runs standalone — it does not need your phone nearby, or even installed. Water Lock engages automatically, and the session keeps recording with the screen off and your wrist down. Your track is written to disk continuously, so a flat battery or a crash costs you seconds, not your session. Seven live screens: speed, splits, session totals, wind angles, foil time, controls, and a racing start countdown you can sync to the committee boat's gun. SPEED, MEASURED PROPERLY Every category the speedsurfing community actually uses: • 2 second peak • Best 10 seconds, and the average of your 5 best 10-second runs • 100 m, 250 m, 500 m, 1 km, 2 km, nautical mile, 5 km, 10 km • Alpha 500 — a 500 m run with a gybe, finishing within 50 m of its start • 30 minute and 1 hour averages • Any custom distance you add, applied retroactively to sessions you already recorded These are computed on the continuous track rather than snapped to the nearest GPS fix, because a single second of slop is ten metres at twenty knots. Speed comes from the receiver's Doppler measurement, not from differencing positions. SEE WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED An hour of winging in a bay is forty passes through the same water, and drawn as one line it is unreadable. openWater fixes that: • Flights are drawn bold, slow sections fade back, falls get a marker • Pick any single run and the other thirty-nine drop away • The Runs view drops the map entirely — one lane per run, stacked in time, so nothing overlaps. It reads top to bottom like a score. • Replay the whole session with a playhead, speed heatmap and live readout FOR FOILERS • Time on foil, number of flights, longest flight, takeoff speed • How long your pump-up takes • Falls counted separately from touchdowns, because they are not the same thing • Longest clean run — the metric that keeps improving long after top speed stops FOR WING AND PARAWING • Wind direction worked out from your own track, with no weather service and no internet needed • Polar curve, VMG upwind and downwind, tacking and gybing angles • Gybes and tacks detected and scored: entry speed, minimum speed, recovery time, and whether you stayed on the foil • Port versus starboard comparison, so you can see the side you have been quietly avoiding FOR DOWNWINDING • Glides detected from the pump-and-glide rhythm • Glide count, longest glide, and what share of the run was on foil • How often you linked to the next glide without dropping • The swell period you were riding YOUR DATA IS YOURS • Import GPX, TCX, FIT and CSV — Garmin, Coros, Suunto and most apps • Export GPX, TCX, CSV, GeoJSON, or a complete lossless archive • No account, no server, no tracking. Nothing leaves your device unless you send it. • Sharing trims the start and end of your track by default, because those are usually your car or your home
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenWater at none against Interval Timer & Boxing's 3. OpenWater also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Interval Timer & Boxing sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. OpenWater asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Interval Timer & Boxing against 5.0 for OpenWater. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Interval Timer & Boxing ships an update monthly, OpenWater every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer & Boxing | OpenWater |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 341 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dzianis Milasheuski | Laan Labs |
Customer experience
Interval Timer & Boxing
OpenWater
In-app purchases
Interval Timer & Boxing
- DIT Pro · Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- DIT Pro · Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- DIT Pro · Lifetime$14.99
OpenWater
No in-app purchases
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