Tabata Timer vs Start Your Workout Plans
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tabata Timer
This app provides a straightforward timer for Tabata-style workouts, featuring 4-minute sessions with 8 rounds. It's designed for users who want an effective method to burn fat and improve fitness. Download this free application to enhance your training.
- Tabata timer
- 4-minute workouts
- 8 rounds per session
- Fat burning
- Muscle conditioning
- Anaerobic and aerobic capacity improvement
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Tabata Timer for HIIT, gym sessions, and classic 20/10 × 8 — simple to start, solid when it counts. Open the app, tap a timer, and train. Big work and rest phases, optional beeps and spoken cues, and a countdown you can trust with the phone locked. Live Activity and Dynamic Island keep the interval visible. CLASSIC TABATA & MORE • Traditional Tabata: 8 rounds, 20 seconds work, 10 seconds rest (~4 minutes) • Beginner Tabata, HIIT 40/20, Norwegian 4×4, boxing rounds • Full custom: rounds, work, rest, countdown, warm-up, cool-down • Optional exercise names per round (shown and spoken) BUILT FOR REAL WORKOUTS • Glanceable gym-first UI • Accurate timing with lock screen / background use • Live Activity + Dynamic Island • Haptics, beeps, and announcements you can mute • Screen stays awake while the timer runs PHONE & SHORTCUTS • Favorites and recent timers • Reorder, duplicate, and edit • Siri / Shortcuts • History of completed sessions • Optional Apple Health HIIT logging This app is a training timer, not medical advice. Always train safely and consult a professional if you have health concerns. Download free and run your next Tabata or HIIT session with less friction.
Start Your Workout Plans
Create and manage multiple daily workout routines with ease. Utilize sound effects to guide your training sessions without interrupting your music playback, ensuring a seamless workout experience.
- Create multiple workout plans
- Daily workout scheduling
- Integrated sound effects for training
- Non-interrupting music playback
- Easy-to-use interface
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Simple and clear easy to use. Create multiple plans for your daily workout. Use the sound effects to help you train, without interrupting music playback, keep music nonstop.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Start Your Workout Plans at 5.0 against Tabata Timer's 4.0. Start Your Workout Plans also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Tabata Timer's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price 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. Tabata Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Start Your Workout Plans asks for nothing beyond the download.
Start Your Workout Plans holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Tabata Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, Start Your Workout Plans every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabata Timer | Start Your Workout Plans |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Rockett | ChiaKun Chen |
Customer experience
Tabata Timer
Start Your Workout Plans
In-app purchases
Tabata Timer
- Remove ads$0.99
Start Your Workout Plans
No in-app purchases
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