Tabata Timer vs Intervl
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.
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.
- Customizable phase names
- Large, readable display
- Voice and beep cues
- Lock screen and Live Activity support
- Routine chaining
- Activity tracking
- Timer import/export
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Tabata Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Intervl asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Tabata Timer | Intervl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Aaron Rockett | Jinnius Labs Inc. |
Customer experience
Tabata Timer
Intervl
In-app purchases
Tabata Timer
- Remove ads$0.99
Intervl
No in-app purchases
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