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All I wanted was: set rounds, set rest, press start, hear a bell. That's it.

Every timer app I found was either full of ads, required a subscription, or had 47 features I didn't need. I just want to hit the bag without watching a 30-second ad between rounds.

So I built BoxTime — a dead-simple round timer for boxing, Muay Thai, MMA, whatever. You set your rounds, rest time, and go. No account, no subscription, no interruptions.

Features I actually use:

  • Custom round/rest times
  • Warning bell at 10 seconds
  • Different sounds for round end vs rest end
  • Works with screen off (this was huge for me)

But honestly, even a kitchen timer taped to your wall works. The point is having STRUCTURE in your training. Random bag work without timed rounds is just cardio with extra steps.

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[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Paypal on android has 500MB. An app that displays a number and some text.

And a great open source meditation timer app uses 30MB storage with 20MB apk https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nyxkn.meditation

An open source app on android that has interval timers has a 50MB apk as well https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.codepup.workout_timer

[-] qprimed@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

totally understood and differences in frameworks, features, etc make a difference. however there are currently maintained android interval timer apps that are much smaller (all fdroid links)...

TimeR Machine - 4.85MiB

Interval Timer (privacy friendly build) - 7.89MiB

I have no apple to apple (heh!) comparisons, but these seem similar.

edit: if a simple app extends past 15MiB, it gets a serious glare from me. even a reasonably complex app like BareSIP (audio codec only build) is only 22.69 MiB

[-] illusionist@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Thanks!

I didn't intend to defend op. Just wanted to add context

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