Tabaline vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tabaline
This app provides a customizable timer for high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and other workout types. It features a clean design, voice guidance, and background operation. Track your progress and sync with your health data.
- Customizable Tabata and HIIT timers
- Voice guidance for workouts
- Background operation support
- Workout tracking
- Health app integration
- Universal app support (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch)
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Tabaline is a clean, simple, but powerful timer app for Tabata, also for HIIT, Crossfit, Running, Cycling, etc. Tabaline has the most unique personality with stunning design. The function is powerful enough, but not too complicated to make you confused like some other apps. It is the right app for you. Have a try, you’ll fall in love with it, and can't work without it. Main Features: - Clean & Clear & Graceful use logic and UI - Universal app, works on all devices! (iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, etc) - Easy to create any kind of Tabata timer - Portrait and landscape mode are supported - Voice guide you through your workout - Track your workout - Runs in the background - Apple watch app - Integrates with the Health app
Workout Timer
This versatile timer supports various training styles including HIIT, Tabata, and circuit workouts. Customize your work and rest intervals, track sets, and adjust sound and vibration settings for a personalized fitness experience. It's suitable for gym sessions, home stretching, yoga, and even non-fitness activities like studying and meditation.
- Customizable workout and rest intervals
- HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training support
- Set number of sets and cycles
- Easy time and round adjustment
- Adjustable sound and vibration settings
- Track remaining time at a glance
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This timer is designed for workout, stretch and high-intensity interval training, such as HIIT, Tabata workout and circuit training. You can set your own workout times, rest times, and rest times between cycles. So you can train at your favorite intervals. The remaining time is shown at a glance, and the number of sets can be easily checked. The setup is simple and you can easily change the time and the round you want to work out. You can also change the sound and vibration settings. It can be used for training at the gym, stretching and yoga at home, boxing, cardio, studying, meditation, and much more! The sound source was borrowed from Otologic (CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
Tabaline and Workout Timer both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 94% of Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tabaline's. Workout Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (527 vs 1). Tabaline's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months). On price and rating 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. Tabaline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tabaline against 4.9 for Workout Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 527 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 0% of Tabaline's written reviews are positive against 94% of Workout Timer's.
Tabaline ships an update every 3 days, Workout Timer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabaline | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.9 (527 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 93.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 527 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.3 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 林 卢 | Shogo Yoshida |
Customer experience
Tabaline
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
Tabaline
- Pro Features$2.99
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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