Comparison

Tabata Timer vs Intervl

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Tabata timer
  • 4-minute workouts
  • 8 rounds per session
  • Fat burning
  • Muscle conditioning
  • Anaerobic and aerobic capacity improvement
Features
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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.

About

Intervl

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various activities like workouts, cooking, and focus sessions. It features large, readable displays, voice cues, and the ability to create and chain multiple routines. Track your progress and stay on schedule with ease.

Highlights
  • Customizable phase names
  • Large, readable display
  • Voice and beep cues
  • Lock screen and Live Activity support
  • Routine chaining
  • Activity tracking
  • Timer import/export
Features
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Intervl is an interval timer you can read from across the room. Build any routine of repeating phases, start it with one tap, and let the cues carry you, even with your phone locked. Use it for anything that repeats • Workouts: Tabata, HIIT, EMOM, circuits and boxing rounds • Running: run and walk repeats • Stretching and breathwork • Focus and study: Pomodoro sessions • Cooking: sourdough folds, steak flips, anything on a schedule Name your own phases Work and Rest can become Stir and Simmer, Focus and Break, or Breathe in and Breathe out. Your names show on the timer, in the voice cues, on the lock screen and in the Live Activity. Read it from across the room The phase color fills the screen and the countdown is huge. "Next" tells you what's coming, and the big pause button sits right under your thumb. Cues that keep going Beeps and an optional voice keep playing when your phone is locked, alongside your music. Choose Voice, Beeps or Silent for each timer. Every timer at a glance Each timer is drawn as a strip of its phases, to scale, so you can tell a Tabata from a boxing session before reading a word. Set work, rest, rounds and sets with steppers and watch the total update as you go. Routines Play timers back to back: a warm-up, three rounds of intervals, a cool down. Put them in any order and repeat a timer as often as you like. Your week Activity shows your minutes per day, your streak and every finished session. Also • Live Activity on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island • Open-ended timers that repeat until you stop, with your best set count • Export and import your timers • iPhone and iPad, light and dark mode, large text Free, with no ads, no account and no tracking.

Screenshots

Tabata Timer4 screens
Intervl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Intervl at 5.0 against Tabata Timer's 4.0. Intervl also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Tabata Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tabata Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Intervl asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intervl holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tabata Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, Intervl every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 3 level
Tabata Timer versus Intervl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTabata TimerIntervl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings4 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 12 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAaron RockettJinnius Labs Inc.

Customer experience

Tabata Timer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Intervl

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tabata Timer

One-time1
  • Remove ads$0.99
None

Intervl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tabata Timer free?
Tabata Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intervl free?
Intervl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tabata Timer or Intervl?
Intervl is rated higher. Tabata Timer averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Intervl averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Tabata Timer or Intervl have ads?
Tabata Timer shows ads; Intervl does not.
Which is updated more often, Tabata Timer or Intervl?
Tabata Timer ships an update every 3 weeks, and Intervl every 12 months. Most recently, Tabata Timer was updated on September 28, 2026 and Intervl on October 24, 2026.

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