Comparison

RoundFlow vs Rounds Coach

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

Head to head
About

RoundFlow

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various combat sports and fitness routines. It seamlessly integrates with music apps, allowing your playlist to continue uninterrupted during workouts. Features include coach voice prompts, combo calls, and workout tracking.

Highlights
  • Music integration with Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music
  • Customizable round, rest, and warm-up/cool-down timers
  • Recorded coach voice and combo callouts
  • Workout tracking with calendar and streaks
  • Apple Watch companion app with haptic feedback
  • Workout art generation for social sharing
  • Group session synchronization
Features
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RoundFlow is the round timer you can pay for once and keep forever, and it doesn't kill your music. It keeps timing with the screen locked, ducks your music for the bell, then hands the volume straight back. Start Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music, hit START, lock the phone and train. Your playlist never stops. A COACH IN YOUR CORNER • A real recorded coach voice calls your rounds, rests and the final "3-2-1" • Combo calls shout live combinations — "Jab, cross, hook!" • Bell, coach voice and haptics — or switch to a built-in system voice INTERVALS INSIDE THE ROUND • Split any round into hard and easy bursts — 10 seconds hard, 10 seconds pace, nine times, inside a 3-minute round • The bell still means the round. The switches are a short tick, high going in hard, low going easy — not 200 bells a session • The ring turns amber while you ease off, so you can read it from across the gym without counting • A longer break every fourth or eighth round, on top of the normal rest • One toggle and three numbers to set up, or start from a ready-made Burst Rounds, Sprint Rounds or Long Session HANDS-FREE WHEN THE GLOVES ARE ON • Hold a hand over the top of the phone for a second to pause, and again to carry on • Or say "Pause RoundFlow" to Siri — no glove comes off either way BUILT FOR EVERY ROUND • Boxing, Muay Thai, MMA, kickboxing, taekwondo, karate, CrossFit, HIIT, Tabata, sprints & running • Two custom profiles free, unlimited with Pro: rounds, round time, rest, warm-up, cool-down and warning • A big, glanceable timer ring you can read from across the gym RUN & SPRINT • Roadwork — a GPS run tracker built for fighters: distance, pace, kilometre splits and a goal for the session • Sprints — interval sprint sessions with the same bell, coach voice and rest countdown as your rounds • Every run lands in the same training log as your rounds MADE TO SHARE • Workout DNA — every session draws a one-of-a-kind piece of art from your training, ready for Instagram Stories • Your RoundFlow Year — a Wrapped-style recap of everything you've put in • Challenge a friend — send any workout as a link, then compare your scores TRAIN TOGETHER • Group sessions in perfect sync — everyone hears the bell at the same moment • Present mode — mirror the timer to a TV or projector for the whole class TRAIN WITHOUT LOOKING • Live Activity & Dynamic Island keep the round live on your Lock Screen • Apple Watch companion — a haptic on every bell, plus live heart rate, punch count and Effort Score. Leave the phone in your bag • Runs in the background with the screen off TRACK YOUR WORK • An automatic training log of every session, with a calendar and streaks • Stats: total workouts, time on the mat, weekly activity and trends • Earn belts and badges as you put in the rounds RoundFlow Pro unlocks unlimited profiles, the recorded coach voice and combo calls, the full Apple Watch experience (heart rate, punch tracking and Effort Score), group hosting, and complete stats and trends. Try Pro free for 7 days, or unlock everything forever with a one-time Lifetime purchase. The only timer that lets your music play. Ring the bell. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://zakin02.github.io/roundflow/privacy.html

About

Rounds Coach

This interval timer app provides a real coach's voice to guide you through workouts, offering customizable timers for HIIT, Tabata, and circuits. It integrates with music apps, Apple Watch, and Apple Health, with widgets for quick access.

Highlights
  • Real coach voice for interval guidance
  • Customizable HIIT, Tabata, and circuit timers
  • Music integration with Spotify and Apple Music
  • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
  • Apple Watch and Apple Health integration
  • Workout history and streaks tracking
  • Share timers via link or QR code
Features
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Rounds is an interval timer that doesn't hold features back. Everything is free — unlimited timers, compound timers, the coach voice, music, widgets, Apple Watch and Apple Health. A REAL COACH Liam calls every round, every interval and what's next — 400+ exercises, from burpees to the Pilates hundred — "Round 3 of 8! Work!", "Next up: squats!" — over your music, with the screen locked. BUILD ANY WORKOUT • HIIT, Tabata and circuit builders • Custom timers with repeating groups inside groups • Change every work or rest interval at once • Folders and search — drag timers to rearrange them, or drop one on a folder to file it • Starter workouts: Tabata, HIIT, the 7-Minute Workout, a Pilates mat class, EMOM, boxing rounds and focus sessions IN CONTROL MID-WORKOUT Jump straight to any interval from the list on the workout screen — handy when a class runs long or short. Pause, skip back or skip ahead any time. START WITHOUT OPENING THE APP • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets start a timer in one tap • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start Tabata in Rounds", "Start a 5 minute countdown in Rounds" YOUR MUSIC Works with whatever you're playing — Spotify, Apple Music, podcasts. The music dips while the coach talks, can pause on every rest, and pauses with the workout. Or pick an Apple Music playlist for any timer. ACTIVITY AND STREAKS Every workout lands in your history: your day streak, this week's minutes and a month calendar in your timers' colours. Workouts from your Apple Watch count too. SHARE A TIMER Send any timer as a link or a QR code. Friends open it and add it to Rounds in one tap. WITH THE PHONE IN YOUR POCKET The timer keeps running, beeping and talking with the screen off. The Lock Screen and Dynamic Island show the time left and where you are in the workout. APPLE WATCH Run any timer from your wrist with haptics, Liam's voice and live heart rate. Tap the next interval to skip ahead. APPLE HEALTH Finished workouts are saved to Health with the workout type you choose. ALSO A one-tap countdown for rest between sets, and a stopwatch with laps. No subscription. No ads. No account. Your timers stay on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

Screenshots

RoundFlow4 screens
Rounds Coach4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds Coach at none against RoundFlow's 3. Rounds Coach also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 11 days). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. RoundFlow sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Rounds Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RoundFlow against 5.0 for Rounds Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RoundFlow ships an update every 11 days, Rounds Coach daily. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
RoundFlow versus Rounds Coach: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoundFlowRounds Coach
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZakaria ElkassmiAryaman Ravi

Customer experience

RoundFlow

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Rounds Coach

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

RoundFlow

Subscriptions2
  • RoundFlow Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
  • RoundFlow Pro (Yearly)$7.991 Year
One-time1
  • RoundFlow Pro (Lifetime)$24.99
None

Rounds Coach

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RoundFlow free?
RoundFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Rounds Coach free?
Rounds Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RoundFlow or Rounds Coach?
RoundFlow and Rounds Coach are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do RoundFlow or Rounds Coach have ads?
Neither RoundFlow nor Rounds Coach shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RoundFlow or Rounds Coach?
RoundFlow ships an update every 11 days, and Rounds Coach daily. Most recently, RoundFlow was updated on October 10, 2026 and Rounds Coach on October 11, 2026.

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