Cool Countdown vs Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Interval Timer
This interval timer is designed for HIIT and interval training. Easily set work and rest periods, sets, and rounds to guide your workouts. It supports background operation and music playback, with an Apple Watch companion app for heart rate monitoring.
- Customizable work and rest periods
- Set number of sets and rounds
- Background operation support
- Music playback compatibility
- Apple Watch integration
- Heart rate monitoring (Apple Watch)
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This app is handy interval timer that helps you keep track of your work and rest periods during your HIIT interval training and workouts. The application is very easy to use, enter the Work, Rest, Sets, Rounds and start workout. You can listen to music during workouts or use the timer in the background. There is also app on the Apple Watch that will allow you to monitor your heart rate during workouts. Apple Watch app features: - iCloud sync with iPhone - integration with the Health app - monitoring heart rate during workouts
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cool Countdown at none against Interval Timer's 1. Cool Countdown also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (250 vs 4) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cool Countdown asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Cool Countdown against 4.9 for Interval Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 250 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Cool Countdown's written reviews are positive against 84% of Interval Timer's.
Cool Countdown ships an update every 6 months, Interval Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cool Countdown | Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) | 4.9 (250 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 250 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Serhii Simkovskyi | Yosyp Hameliak |
Customer experience
Cool Countdown
Interval Timer
Bugs and requests
Cool Countdown
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Interval Timer
Reported bugs
9 issues- App pauses when phone is locked
- Sound notifications are inconsistent
- App doesn't run in background
- Watch app not opening or syncing
- In-app purchase issues
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- Timer not counting when phone is locked
- Voice/sound stops during exercises
- Incorrect number of sets displayed
- App crashes or freezes
Requested features
12 requests- Option for different/upbeat voice
- Ability to reorder saved timers
- Larger font size option
- Vibrate option
- Naming individual sets/exercises
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- Audio configuration for set completion
- Syncing workouts with health apps
- Option to keep app running when phone is locked
- Customizable warm-up per saved timer
- Option for giant font size for numbers
- Ability to move saved timers
- More sound options
In-app purchases
Cool Countdown
No in-app purchases
Interval Timer
- Remove Ads$4.99
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