Search “boxing apps” in either app store and you get a wall of round timers, follow-along workouts and a few games with cartoon fighters. What you will not find easily is anything that tells you where the actual fights are. That gap is the reason this list starts where it does.
Below is a working guide to the boxing apps worth installing, grouped by what you actually want to do: find a live event, train at home, keep time on the bag, follow the sport, or just play. Every app here is real and available now. Where one has a weakness, it is noted.
FightMap: Find Local Fights Near You
Every weekend there are boxing cards in armories, high school gyms, hotel ballrooms and rec centers across the country. Golden Gloves qualifiers, club shows, small-hall pro cards with six-rounders on the undercard. Most fight fans never hear about them because the promoter’s marketing plan is a flyer at the gym and an Instagram story that disappears in twenty-four hours.
FightMap exists to fix that. It is a fight discovery app for fans and a marketing channel for promoters, and it covers boxing alongside MMA, jiu jitsu, Muay Thai and kickboxing, amateur and professional. Open the app, allow location, and you see the cards happening around you on a map. Tap one and you get the date, venue, disciplines, number of bouts and a link to tickets.
How FightMap works for fans
The whole process is three steps. Find fights, get tickets, show up.
Finding fights means opening the map and looking at what is near you. Filter by sport, by date, by distance or by amateur versus pro. If you only care about boxing, set it to boxing and everything else drops away. If you are traveling for work, drop the pin on the city you will be in that weekend and see what is on.
Getting tickets happens inside the app, through the promoter directly. No scalper markups, no guessing whether the link in someone’s bio is still live, no calling a gym to ask if they have seats left. You buy from the person putting on the show.
Showing up is the part no app can do for you, but it is the point of the whole thing. Amateur boxing in a packed gym has an energy that no broadcast replicates. You are close enough to hear the corner between rounds. The fighters are people from your area. The ticket costs less than a pay-per-view.
Browsing is free and does not require an account. Creating one lets you follow local gyms and promotions and get alerts when a new card is posted in your area, which matters because small shows often announce only two or three weeks out.
The range of events is wider than most people expect. Sanctioned amateur boxing shows, Golden Gloves rounds, club fights between local gyms, small-hall professional cards, regional MMA promotions, jiu jitsu opens, Muay Thai smokers and kickboxing shows all live on the same map. If you have only ever watched the sport on a screen, the first time you see how much is happening within a thirty-minute drive is usually a surprise.
How FightMap works for promoters
This is the side of the app that does not exist anywhere else.
Regional promoters have always had a distribution problem. They can put on a good card, but reaching fans who would actually attend means fighting an algorithm that buries their posts, buying local radio spots nobody hears, and hoping the fighters sell tickets to their families. FightMap gives promoters a place where the audience is already looking for exactly what they are selling.
A promoter can list an event in a few minutes with the date, venue, card and ticket link. The event shows up on the map for every fan searching that area. Tickets sell directly, so the promoter keeps the customer relationship and the customer data rather than handing both to a third-party ticketing platform. When a fighter pulls out and the card changes, the promoter pushes an update and everyone who saved the event sees it.
Over time, promoters build a following inside the app. Fans who came to the last show get notified about the next one. That turns a one-off event into a recurring audience, which is the thing every small promotion in the country needs and almost none of them have.
It also fixes a quieter problem. Fighters on small cards are often expected to sell their own tickets, which means they spend fight week chasing friends and coworkers instead of resting. When the promoter has a real channel to the public, that pressure eases, and the fighters can focus on the fight.
Why FightMap is first on this list
The other apps below help you train, keep time, follow results or play a game. FightMap is the only one that gets you into a building to watch a live fight. If you are a boxing fan, that is the experience the sport is built on, and it has been the hardest one to access. FightMap is available on the web at fightmap.app and is coming to the App Store and Google Play.
Boxing Training Apps
These are the apps for the hours between fight nights.
FightCamp
FightCamp is the closest thing boxing has to Peloton. You get a free-standing bag, punch trackers that clip into your wraps, and a library of trainer-led workouts that count your punches and rate your output in real time. The production quality is the best in the category and the roster of coaches includes recognizable fighters. The trade-off is cost. The full experience requires the hardware, which puts the entry price in the hundreds before the subscription. Without the sensors and bag, it becomes a follow-along video app, which is fine but not what makes it special.
The Shadow Boxing App
The Shadow Boxing App is an audio coach that calls out punches, combinations, defensive moves and footwork cues during timed rounds. You keep your eyes up and react rather than reading a screen. It was built for boxing rather than adapted from a generic fitness template, and it shows in how technically sound the callouts are. A good option if you train alone and want something that feels closer to pad work than a workout video.
Heavy Bag Pro
Heavy Bag Pro is designed specifically for bag work rather than shadow boxing. The combination library runs well past a thousand entries and covers boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai and K-1 in one app, with guided sessions that include warmup, cooldown, speed rounds and power rounds. The built-in round timer works on its own if you would rather run your own session.
FightFlow
FightFlow builds live rounds that mix offense, defense, footwork and target calls with changing rhythm, so you have to listen and adapt rather than memorize a sequence. It is the app that most resembles having a pad holder who resets you and makes you move. Covers boxing, kickboxing and Muay Thai.
Boxx
Boxx leans toward fitness boxing rather than technical training. Sessions are structured as cardio-forward boxing workouts you can do with or without a bag. If your goal is conditioning and you like the rhythm of boxing without the intent to compete, it is a solid daily driver.
Crossrope
Not strictly a boxing app, but jump rope is half of every boxing warmup ever done, and Crossrope is the best rope app on the market. Guided sessions, a jump counter, and weighted rope options that make it a conditioning tool rather than a skipping game. Worth a look if your roadwork needs variety.
Boxing Timer Apps
Simple, essential, and easy to get wrong.
Boxing Timer Pro
Boxing Timer Pro is free, with no ads and no subscription. Large display readable from across a garage, authentic bell sounds, color-coded work and rest phases. The standout feature is a reaction training mode that fires random audio cues mid-round, which turns a timer into a drill. You can also split rounds into segments and set intra-round signals for combo changes.
Boxing Interval Timer
Boxing Interval Timer is a straightforward round timer on Android with adjustable rounds, rests and warning bells, and profiles you can rename for different sessions. Loud enough to hear over music, which is the main thing a timer needs to do.
Timer Plus
Timer Plus does one thing, timing rounds, and does it well. The display is big enough for a gym wall and it handles Tabata and interval formats as well as standard boxing rounds. A lot of gyms run this on a tablet by the ring.
Boxing News, Records and Results
BoxRec
BoxRec is the record book of professional and amateur boxing. Fighter records, upcoming bouts, ratings, results and event listings going back over a century. It is a database rather than a consumer app, so the interface is functional at best, but if you want to know a fighter’s record before you buy a ticket, this is where you check.
Tapology
Tapology is better known for MMA, but it tracks boxing events, fighter records and fan predictions as well. Useful for cross-discipline fans who follow both sports and want one place for schedules.
DAZN
The streaming home for a large share of major boxing cards. If you are following the sport at the top level, the DAZN app is where a lot of the big fights live. Subscription pricing has shifted around over the years, so check the current tier before you commit.
ESPN
ESPN covers fight results, news and schedules for the major promotions, plus streaming for cards on ESPN+. Broad rather than deep, but reliable.
Boxing Games
For when you want the sport without the bruises.
Undisputed
Undisputed is the only modern, fully licensed boxing simulation on console and PC. Over a hundred real fighters, a deep career mode, and a control scheme that rewards footwork, timing and range over button mashing. As of mid-2026 it is on Xbox Game Pass. If you want a serious boxing game, this is the one.
The Thrill of the Fight 2
The Thrill of the Fight 2 is VR boxing at its most physical. Physics-based hit detection means your real punch speed and angle determine what lands, opponents adapt to your style, and the sequel adds online multiplayer. It doubles as a hard workout. Requires a Meta Quest or PC VR headset.
Creed: Rise to Glory
Creed: Rise to Glory is the cinematic VR option. Train under Adonis Creed, fight through arenas from the films, and feel body shots differently from head shots through the controller haptics. More arcade than simulation, and the best-looking VR boxing game available.
Punch Club and Punch Club 2
Not a fighting game in the traditional sense. Punch Club is a management RPG where your fighter’s success depends on how you train, eat, work and manage relationships outside the ring. Pixel art, sharp humor and a surprising amount of depth. The sequel adds a time-travel story and runs on almost everything including Switch.
Real Boxing: KO Fight Club
Real Boxing: KO Fight Club is the best arcade boxing on mobile. Responsive punching and blocking, a career mode, and multiplayer events that occasionally have real prizes attached.
Boxing Star
Boxing Star is cartoonish, fast and addictive. A story mode with over-the-top characters and enough customization to keep you tinkering. Good for a five-minute session on the train.
Which Boxing Apps to Install First
If you train, pick one coaching app and one timer and ignore the rest until you outgrow them. If you follow the sport, BoxRec and DAZN cover most of what you need. If you want to play, Undisputed on console or The Thrill of the Fight 2 in VR are the two that reward time invested.
And if you are a fan who has never been to a live local card, download FightMap and find fights near you. Amateur boxing in a packed gym on a Saturday night is the version of the sport that made you a fan in the first place. It has been hiding in plain sight. Now there is a map.
If you promote fights, create a promoter account and list your next card. The fans are already looking.
Disclaimer: This list reflects the opinion of the author. The apps are presented in no particular order and inclusion is not a ranking.