Comparison

Cool Countdown vs Interval Timer

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

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About

Cool Countdown

This app provides a visually engaging countdown and count-up timer with an authentic design. It's ideal for managing time for various activities, from children's tasks to personal projects, offering animated visuals and customizable durations.

Highlights
  • Stylish design with animated time flow
  • Visual and sound notifications
  • Works in device lock or sleep mode
  • Wide range of time durations (seconds to 100 hours)
  • Counts time past completion
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Countdown timer with an authentic design. This perfectly shaped timer is a great way to measure and visualize time. Counts time up and down. It's perfect for when you need your kids to wait patiently for a few minutes or to do homework for a certain length of time. Features: - Stylish design; - Animated time flow and backgrounds; - Visual and sound notifications; - Ability to fire even in device lock or sleep mode; - Wide range of time duration available—from as couple of seconds to 100 hours; - Counts time past timer completion; - User-friendly — even for kids! If you want an excellent visual time indicator for your activities, try the Cool Countdown.

About

Interval Timer

This versatile timer assists with various fitness routines, including HIIT, Tabata, and boxing. It also functions as a productivity timer for tasks like Pomodoro. Easily configure intervals, sets, and rest periods for personalized workouts.

Highlights
  • HIIT and Tabata workout timer
  • Boxing and martial arts round timer
  • Productivity and Pomodoro timer
  • Customizable interval and set configurations
  • Templates for quick setup
  • Supports various fitness exercises
Features
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Nice and simple Interval Timer for your Workouts. Perfect for HIIT, Tabata, Boxing, WOD, Crossfit and Fitness. Tabata Timer: Interval Timer for HIIT Workout Simple and convinient interval workout timer app for high intensity interval training (HIIT timer). Perfect stopwatch or countdown timer for your workouts. Fitness Timer for Interval Training This Tabata Timer is perfect for home workouts and daily workout routines for all your main muscle groups. You can use this circuit timer at gym and for home workout. In just a few minutes a day, you can build muscles and keep fitness with just your body weight. Use this hiit timer for fitness training for high intensity interval training at home or at gym. Boxing Timer - Round Timer for Martial Arts This workout timer can be used as Boxing Timer. You can set the number of boxing rounds, length of each round and rest interval. Use boxing timer for martial arts. Boxing timer can save templates for different fighting sports: Boxing, MMA, Kickboxing, Karate, Judo, Taekwondo, Jujutsu, Muay Thai, Aikido, Krav Maga, Capoeira, Wrestling etc. Productivity Timer - Pomodoro Timer You can even use this timer as a productivity timer or pomodoro timer to focus on your work tasks. Stay focused and productive with pomodoro timer. Configure and save pomodoro preset to use this productivity timer as pomodoro timer. Home Workout Timer - 7 Minute Workout Looking for home workout timer? This interval timer is perfect for 7 minute workout. Do you like 7 minute abs workout, abs workout at home, home workout with no equipment? This tabata timer will be useful for home exercises, home training and fitness at home. Warmup Timer - Round timer for Stretching and Morning Exercises Warmup and stretching is an important part of workout. If you do stretching and morning exercises every day, use this Warmup timer. This fitness timer for morning exercises has templates feature that allows you to start morning exercises in 1 click. Kitchen timer - Steak Timer, Egg Timer, Cooking Timer Going to cook a steak? Have a lot of cooking recipes in your kitchen book? Use this timer as kitchen timer. Kitchen timer can be used as steam timer, egg timer. Egg timer is perfect for egg cooking, steak timer will help to cook a steak. You can use this cooking timer for any cooking recipes in your kitchen book. Easy configuration - fast timer setup - Set warmup seconds time - Configure seconds timer for workout interval - Configure rest interval seconds - Enter amount of workout sets - Click start button Perfect for all exercises This timer can be uses as: workout timer, interval timer, tabata timer, hiit timer or circuit timer for your workouts. Timer is perfect for all kinds of exercises, including: - Tabata workouts - Boxing rounds - HIIT workouts (High Intensity Inverval Training) - Home Workout - Gym Workout - Training with weights - Bodyweight exercises - 7 minute abs workout - Weight loss workout - 5K Run - Interval Running - Six pack abs workout - Yoga and Meditation - WOD - TRX - Cardio exercises - Calisthenics - Stretching exercises - Kettlebells - Crossfit - Cycling or Exercise bike - Circuit workout - or any other high intensity interval training MAIN FEATURES: - Nice and simple ui - Fast timer setup - Templates to save your settings Try Tabata Timer: Interval Timer for HIIT Workout now!

Screenshots

Cool Countdown4 screens
Interval Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cool Countdown at 100% against Interval Timer's 29%. Cool Countdown also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (149 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cool Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cool Countdown holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 149 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Cool Countdown's written reviews are positive against 29% of Interval Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cool Countdown ships an update every 6 months, Interval Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cool Countdown versus Interval Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCool CountdownInterval Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better4.5 (149 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better29.4% of reviews
Number of ratings4149 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size78 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSerhii SimkovskyiDMYTRO DOLOTOV

Customer experience

Cool Countdown

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Interval Timer

All ratings149 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral5.4%
Negative7.4%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive29.4%
Neutral5.9%
Negative64.7%

In-app purchases

None

Cool Countdown

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions1
  • 1 Month Access$1.991 Month
One-time2
  • Lifetime Access -50%$4.99
  • Lifetime Access$9.99

Questions

Is Cool Countdown free?
Cool Countdown is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cool Countdown or Interval Timer?
Cool Countdown is rated higher. Cool Countdown averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Interval Timer averages 4.5 from 149 ratings.
Do Cool Countdown or Interval Timer have ads?
Neither Cool Countdown nor Interval Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cool Countdown or Interval Timer?
Cool Countdown ships an update every 6 months, and Interval Timer every 5 months. Most recently, Cool Countdown was updated on September 26, 2026 and Interval Timer on October 1, 2026.

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