We Redesigned the Website to Show You the App

We just shipped a redesign of this website, and the idea behind it fits in one sentence: you should be able to see the app before you install it. More screenshots, more videos, real reviews from real users, and a straight answer to the question everyone actually has, which is what’s free and what isn’t.

Why we changed it

The Shadow Boxing App is a small independent app, and we’ve always preferred putting our time into workouts and features over marketing. The old site reflected that a bit too well. It told you what the app did, but it didn’t really show you, and for a training app that’s the wrong way around. Whether the coaching style, the callouts and the video breakdowns work for you is something you can judge in about thirty seconds of actually looking at them.

So the new site is full of the app itself. Screenshots of the real screens on nearly every main pages, videos of rounds being called out, and clips from the technique catalogue. If you browse the workouts page, you’re seeing the same cards and sessions you’d scroll through on your phone.

Real reviews, in one place

Over 8,000 boxers have rated the app, and the average sits at 4.9 out of 5.

We’re proud of that, so we gave reviews their own dedicated page and pulled some onto the homepage too. They’re written by people who train with the app daily, and they’ll tell you more about what it’s like than we can.

What’s free, what’s not

The part we most wanted to fix. Plenty of fitness apps blur the line between free and paid until you’ve already installed, created an account and hit a paywall mid-workout. We don’t work that way: there’s no account at all, no ads, and a real free tier you can train with indefinitely.

The new start page lays it out plainly. For free you get workouts, the beginner program, the full technique catalogue, warmups, bodyweight training and a completely free boxing timer. One subscription unlocks the rest of the catalog when you decide you want more. You can now read exactly where the line is before downloading, which we think is how it should work everywhere.

iOS and Android

The app runs on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android, and the site now makes that harder to miss. The Android version has been catching up to iOS fast over the past year, and both stores are linked from every page.

That’s the whole announcement. The app didn’t change today, the way we present it did. If you’ve been on the fence, the new site should make the decision easier in either direction: have a look around, watch a few rounds, read the reviews, and if it looks like your kind of training, the download is free.