Three Absolute Timer app screens showing an active round timer, the idle timer, and preset profiles.

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Absolute Timer – My Very Own Boxing Timer

ByDisco HQ Updated onSeptember 24, 2026

There are a million boxing, interval, MMA and HIIT timers. Some charge, some show ads, some have awful interfaces, and the rest are buried under so many App Store results that I can’t find them again. So I made Absolute Timer.

It’s perfect. For me, anyway. I built it exactly how I wanted it:

A simple, clean interface. A big timer I can read in the middle of a round.
No ads.
Free. I already pay about $150 a year for an Apple developer account. Sucks to be me, I guess.
Customisable, within reason. Set the round length, break length and number of rounds without wading through a billion options.
Apple Watch controls. I can control the timer from my watch. Why is this so rare?

There are ready-made profiles for boxing, MMA, EMOM and E2MOM. The timer has sound, voice and haptic cues, and it keeps counting in the background.

Absolute Timer active round screen showing 2:57 left in round 1 of 12. — The running timer keeps the round and remaining time easy to read.

Set the round length, break and number of rounds in a custom profile.

“Why make this?” you wonder. Because a) it was a fun project, b) I couldn’t find anything quite lik eit, and c) because I wanted to.

I wrote it in Swift. It’s entirely self-contained, doesn’t collect any data (you can’t sign up to anything), and works really nicely. Feedback welcome!

Anyway, here it is on the App Store. If you train with rounds, give it a go.