Tabata Timer □ vs Timeline
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 and visually appealing timer for Tabata workouts. Easily customize workout intervals and rest periods by dragging elements. It offers audio guidance, background music support, and workout history tracking.
- Customizable workout intervals
- Drag-and-drop interface
- Audio guidance
- Background music support
- Workout history and statistics
- Load previous workout settings
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A Tabata workout timer that is simple, clear, and beautiful. 1. Drag to set your rounds, rest, work, etc 2. Tap to workout. While the app is ultra-simple to use, we didn't skip any necessary features: ∙ Listen to your music apps while you workout. ∙ Audio guides you through the workout, so you don't have to be looking at the screen. ∙ You can leave the app and still listen to the audio guides, in order to follow a workout you found online. ∙ History and statistics pages to review your previous workouts. ∙ You can even load the settings from any previous workout! If you have any questions or suggestions, simply tap "Contact Support' and tell us! We'll try to include your idea in our next update. This app includes an optional auto-renewable subscription (Premium Pass): Premium Pass beings with a free trial period, then an auto-renewable monthly subscription when trial ends. Payment will be charged to your Apple account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration/price selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hrs before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your Apple Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of the free initial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://float.support/tabata-timer/privacy Terms of Use: https://float.support/tabata-timer/terms
Timeline
This app provides a highly customizable interval timer for various activities, including fitness, exercise, and productivity. Create and manage timer sequences with intuitive gestures, utilize ready-made templates, and share your routines with others. Enjoy spoken prompts and motivational messages to stay on track.
- Flexible interval timer design
- Intuitive gesture-based timer creation
- Ready-made schemes and templates
- Manage and arrange timers by category
- Share timers with friends or clients
- Spoken timers and motivational messages
- Continuous alarm option
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Timeline is the most flexible interval timer. Ideal for fitness, running, exercise, productivity and more. It gives you intuitive, powerful and practical controls to run timer sequences or to create your own routines. • FLEXIBLE BY DESIGN Whether it is for sports such as fitness, running, cycling, high-intensity training, tabata, circuit training, yoga and more. Or if you want to time your daily routines, stay productive, stay focused or need to clock your tasks. Timeline has got you covered. • CREATE TIMERS USING INTUITIVE GESTURES You can create your own sequences of timers quickly using intuitive gestures. There are no difficult menus and options to go through. Just swipe, pinch, pan, tap and group to build any sequence you can imagine. What you see is what you get. You can always edit your timers, even after you have started playing them. • READY-TO-USE SCHEMES AND TEMPLATES Start right away with ready-made schemes and templates. Get into running with 56 weeks worth of training schemes to run from 0 to 5 km up to a full marathon. Use or create your own templates as the starting point for your custom timers. You can import ready-made timers, build your own on your computer or open them directly from websites. • MANAGE AND ARRANGE YOUR WAY Whether you want to arrange your timers per category, or want to separate your clients from your personal timers. Timeline gives you the freedom to manage and arrange your timers the way you want. Creating, moving or copying timers and folders are all only a few taps away. • SHARE WITH FRIENDS OR CLIENTS Share any number of timers and folders at once with your friends or clients. You can also publish them on your website so your audience can directly open them in the Timeline app. • SPOKEN TIMERS AND MOTIVATION IN YOUR LANGUAGE Have your timers and countdown spoken out loud in your own language. You don't have to look at your screen and can keep your device locked or in your pocket. Spoken motivational messages support you through your extensive workouts and sessions. • CONTINUOUS ALARM OPTION TO NEVER MISS A MOMENT Sometimes it is critical to know the end of your timers. You don't need to stay with your device all the time. Just turn on the continuous alarm. It works like your alarm clock and will pause your timer until you have confirmed the alarm. • PRACTICAL FEATURES YOU WILL LOVE Timeline is a premium-quality interval timer app. You can play your own music through Timeline or via your preferred music app. Timeline works fully in the background and can alert you with sounds, vibrations and speech. Run it in the foreground and it will keep your screen turned on if you want. Resume timers where you previously left off. Choose from different color themes. Get personal assistance from the developer. Plus more practical features to ensure you'll enjoy using Timeline. • UPGRADE TO TIMELINE PRO You can use all main features of Timeline completely free. However, to create more than 5 timelines or to share your timers, please upgrade to Timeline Pro with a one-time purchase. You thereby also support an individual developer. Timeline is designed to be your flexible interval training timer. Download Timeline now and start achieving your personal goals.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tabata Timer □ at monthly against Timeline's every 22 months. Tabata Timer □ also leads on ratings volume (10K vs 9) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). Timeline's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and monetization model (free vs freemium). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Timeline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tabata Timer □ holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tabata Timer □ has 10K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Tabata Timer □'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Timeline's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tabata Timer □ ships an update monthly, Timeline every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabata Timer □ | Timeline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10K ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 71.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Float Tech, LLC | Fly Your Vision B.V. |
Customer experience
Tabata Timer □
Timeline
Bugs and requests
Tabata Timer □
Reported bugs
2 issues- Timer stopping unexpectedly when phone is locked or app is backgrounded
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between exercises or rounds
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save and reuse custom workout settings
- Option to disable voice instructions and use only audio cues
- Integration with Apple Watch or other wearables
- More advanced analytics and workout tracking
Timeline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tabata Timer □
- Premium Pass7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Premium Pass7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Unlock One Workout$0.99
- Lifetime Pass$14.99
- Lifetime Pass$19.99
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- Premium Forever Promo$29.99
Timeline
- Timeline Interval Timer Pro$4.99
Questions
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