Boxing Timer vs Muay Thai Coach
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boxing Timer
This app provides a customizable round timer for combat sports and HIIT workouts. It features hands-free voice control, randomized combo callouts from a virtual coach, and adjustable settings for rounds, rest, and alerts. The app is designed for use during intense training sessions.
- Hands-free voice control
- Randomized coach combo callouts
- Customizable round and rest times
- Adjustable alerts and sounds
- Full-screen color options
- Pre-set workout modes
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Shadow is the round timer for boxing, Muay Thai and kickboxing, built for one rule: once your wraps are on, you don't touch your phone. A COACH IN YOUR CORNER Six coaches, each with their own voice, call your rounds out loud: "one-two, slip, two", "teep, one-two, body kick". Two coaches per sport: old-school boxing, power and defense, Muay Thai pads and clinch, fast kicks, Dutch-style kickboxing, cardio kickbox. Every coach has their own guided sessions, with a focus for each round, a tip during the rests and a word at the end. Combos are drawn at random, so no two rounds sound the same. VIRTUAL MITTS Put your phone at head height and step back. Like a pad holder in front of you, two mitts pop up for each punch the coach calls: flat for the jab and the cross, on their side for the hooks, facing down for the uppercuts, low for the body. A mitt flies at you: slip. One sweeps across: roll under it. SHADOWBOXING DRILLS Split a round into blocks and pick what the coach calls in each one: footwork only (shuffles, pivots, slips and rolls), lead hand only, everything, or switch stance. The ready-made Shadowboxing timer does exactly that: one minute of feet, one minute of lead hand, one minute of everything. EVERY MOVE, EXPLAINED The Moves tab shows every move the coaches call, from the jab to the switch kick, with a photo of a coach doing it and how to do it in a few short steps. A TIMER YOU CAN READ FROM ACROSS THE GYM - Giant digits and one full color per phase, in portrait or landscape - Rounds, round length, rest and warm-up, set in seconds - Named blocks inside a round: 20 s explosive, 10 s power - A last-10-seconds warning and a countdown before the next round - 34 sounds: ring bell, gong, air horn… and a meme pack - Ready-made timers: Boxing, Pro 12 rounds, Muay Thai, MMA, Cardio box, Shadowboxing, HIIT bag HANDS-FREE Say "pause", "go" or "skip" and the timer obeys. Lock your screen and drop your phone in your bag: the rounds keep turning and the bell keeps ringing. SHADOW PRO Shadow Pro unlocks the six coaches, their sessions, the mitts and the drills, and the coach on your own timers, with no ads. Yearly, monthly or lifetime. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel them in your App Store account settings. A one-time Remove Ads purchase is also available. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://yacinekahlis.github.io/punchclock/privacy.html
Muay Thai Coach
This app provides timed Muay Thai combinations for heavy bag training. It calls out strikes and allows for custom programs, tracking your progress over time. Train effectively without needing to look at your screen.
- Timed Muay Thai combinations
- Round clock with voice calls
- 89 authentic combinations
- 30 pre-made training programs
- Customizable workout programs
- Session history and progress tracking
- Offline functionality
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A round clock that calls muay thai combinations out loud, so a bag session runs with the screen off, the phone set down and nothing to look at. The interval is the product. Most round timers call on a fixed beat. A jab-cross takes about a second to throw; a jab-cross-hook-low kick takes three and a half, and the bag then swings away for most of another. Combo Caller times every call from the cycle of the strikes in it plus the bag's own return, so the gap after a low kick is longer than the gap after a jab and you are never rushed into a combination you have not finished. A hundred and forty-four combinations, met in training. Numbered hands, hands into legs, the Dutch four-count, elbows and knees, clinch entries, counters, feints and defences. They come from real coaches in France and in Thailand, from online courses and from published curricula, and every combination screen writes down the strategy behind it: why it works, who it works against and how to throw it. Twenty-seven programs, and every one is built on a named source. A program with no source fails the app's own test suite, so the rule is held by the data and not by good intentions. Like a fight mixes attacks, feints, counters and defences the way a real round does; Everything, mixed walks the whole catalogue, twenty new combinations a session. Build your own if none of them fit. A Workouts tab for the days without a bag. Seventeen guided sessions: fight rounds, EMOM, rope, power, core, kicks, hip mobility, a warm-up and a stretch. The coach counts the reps, calls the holds and gives a form cue, a small animated figure shows each exercise, and a tap tells you how to do it and why. It is a demonstration: nothing watches you. Strength that climbs on its own. Five movements, pull, squat, the back of the legs, push-ups and core, each a ladder of harder versions, with no equipment or in the gym with loads. Tick your sets; after two sessions at the top of the range, the next version comes up by itself. What is free. Every combination, eight programs, the timers and the bips, two cardio workouts, the editor with three programs of your own, and the history. Nak Muay adds the nineteen tactical programs, the rest of the Workouts tab, Strength, and as many programs of your own as you want: one purchase, no subscription, and what comes later is included. If you had the app before Nak Muay existed, it is already yours. Set tonight's session. Change the rounds, the rest, the count-in or the shape of the round (one combo on repeat, one combo with a few strikes between, or everything mixed), and keep the change as a copy of your own if you like it. The original never changes. A coach between the calls. Short cues, like "shin, not foot" or "back to guard", slipped into the silences and never over a call; a combo repeated back to back is simply called "Again". Choose how often, or mute any of them. It runs with the screen off. Set the phone down and leave it. The screen stays on while you want it and the coach keeps calling once it is off, through the silent switch, with the round and the clock on the lock screen. Keep your own music playing if you want; calls duck it and it comes back. It remembers what you did. Every call is logged: your sessions by date, filtered by type, a round-by-round breakdown of any of them and a CSV of its calls. If you allow it, each session goes to Apple Health as a workout, with the calories estimated from your weight. What it will never do. There is no camera and no sensor, so the app makes no claim about your technique: it counts the calls it made and says so. There is no account, no sign-up and no network connection of its own: the whole thing, voice included, is on the phone. Nothing you do here leaves the device, because there is nowhere for it to go. English and French.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Muay Thai Coach at none against Boxing Timer's shown. Muay Thai Coach also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Boxing Timer's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Boxing Timer sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and Muay Thai Coach sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Boxing Timer against 5.0 for Muay Thai Coach. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boxing Timer | Muay Thai Coach |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yacine Kahlis | THEO MARTIN |
Customer experience
Boxing Timer
Muay Thai Coach
In-app purchases
Boxing Timer
- Shadow Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
- Shadow Pro Yearly7 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Shadow Pro Yearly14 Days trial$59.991 Year
- Remove Ads$6.99
- Shadow Pro Lifetime$99.99
Muay Thai Coach
- Nak Muay: Tactical Workouts$9.99









