Comparison

Rounds Coach vs Kettlebell Workout

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

Head to head
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.

About

Kettlebell Workout

Features
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LiftTakt guides your kettlebell workouts with spoken cues, rest timers and haptics. Choose from 72 workouts matched to the weights you own, and learn 49 movements with animated illustrations. Train free with two coached sessions a day. One-sided sets include a spoken side-switch cue halfway through. Premium adds two 8-week programs, progression and your own workout builder. Works with the Apple Health app: every finished session can be saved there as a Functional Strength Training workout. WHAT YOU GET, FREE 49 movements, each with an animated illustration that loops, a setup, three coaching cues, two common faults, the muscles it works and how to breathe. Swing, snatch, Turkish get-up, clean and press, goblet squat, windmill, bent press, carries and more. 72 workouts, from a first session with one bell to double snatch conditioning. Filter by level, length, focus, and by what your rack can actually do. Two fully coached sessions a day, with every cue, every rest timer, and the finished workout saved to Apple Health. BUILT FOR THE BELLS YOU OWN Tell the app which weights you have. Every workout scales to your rack, and a workout that needs a weight you do not own is never shown at all. No guessing which bell "moderate" means. A COACH THAT KEEPS TIME PROPERLY Every cue for the whole session is prepared before your first rep and played against the audio clock, so the switch call lands on the exact midpoint of every set. It ducks your music instead of stopping it. The screen stays awake while you train, and if you leave the app, the session pauses until you come back. It does not drift. Movement names are pronounced properly, too. Turkish get-up is not read as three separate words. APPLE HEALTH Connect the Apple Health app and every finished session is saved there as a Functional Strength Training workout, with its duration and an estimated active energy burn. The app asks first, on a screen that says exactly what it writes, and it only ever writes: it never reads your weight, heart rate, sleep or anything else. Turn it on or off any time in Settings, under Apple Health. PREMIUM Two 8-week programs, Swing & Get-Up Base and Snatch Conditioning Ladder, with week-by-week prescriptions and a deload every fourth week. A progression engine that reads your rack: add reps, then add a round, then move to the next bell you actually own. EMOM, AMRAP, Tabata and ladder modes, and your own rest time on any movement in any workout. Your own workouts in the builder, plus the full training log, per-movement volume and CSV export. NO ADS Not in the free plan, not anywhere. There is no ad SDK in this app. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-in, no tracking. Your training history is stored on your device. Apple Health access is write only; the app never reads your health data. LiftTakt Premium Premium unlocks the 8-week programs, the progression engine, every interval mode, the workout builder and the full training log. Premium is available as a weekly or yearly auto-renewing subscription, or as a one time lifetime purchase. Subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Cancel anytime in your Apple Account Subscriptions settings at least 24 hours before the renewal date. The lifetime unlock is a one time purchase and does not renew. Kettlebell training is strenuous. This app is general fitness information, not medical advice. Privacy policy: https://app.innovaapps.ai/privacy Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Rounds Coach4 screens
Kettlebell Workout4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rounds Coach at none against Kettlebell Workout's 3. Rounds Coach also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Kettlebell Workout sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Rounds Coach asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rounds Coach ships an update daily, Kettlebell Workout every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Rounds Coach versus Kettlebell Workout: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRounds CoachKettlebell Workout
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAryaman RaviAlex Gameli Heyman

In-app purchases

None

Rounds Coach

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Kettlebell Workout

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Rounds Coach free?
Rounds Coach is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kettlebell Workout free?
Kettlebell Workout is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rounds Coach or Kettlebell Workout have ads?
Neither Rounds Coach nor Kettlebell Workout shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rounds Coach or Kettlebell Workout?
Rounds Coach ships an update daily, and Kettlebell Workout every 5 days. Most recently, Rounds Coach was updated on October 31, 2026 and Kettlebell Workout on November 3, 2026.

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