Comparison

Interval Timer vs HC HIIT Interval Timer

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

Head to head
About

Interval Timer

This app provides a customizable timer for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), Tabata, and other workout styles. It offers clear visual cues and sound notifications to guide users through work and rest periods, allowing them to focus on their exercise. Users can save routines, set reminders, and integrate with music playback.

Highlights
  • Customizable work and rest intervals
  • Sound cues for phase transitions
  • Background operation
  • Landscape mode support
  • Save custom routines
  • Workout reminders
  • Clear phase color indicators
Features
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Set your work and rest intervals, press start, and focus on your workout. PureHIIT is a simple timer for HIIT, Tabata, EMOM, circuits, and boxing rounds. • Adjust work, rest, and round settings to suit your session. • Follow sound cues as you move from one phase to the next. • Keep listening to your music while you train. • Use the timer in the background or in landscape mode. • Start with a prebuilt routine or save your own. • Set workout reminders to help you keep a routine. Getting started is simple: choose a routine or set your intervals, check the number of rounds, and press start. Clear phase colors help you see when to work and when to rest. Free to download, with optional in-app purchases. Apple Watch features require Premium. On Apple Watch, the app integrates with Health to record heart rate and energy used. Make time for your next workout with PureHIIT. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

HC HIIT Interval Timer

Create and manage custom interval training workouts with an integrated timer. Design workouts with specific actions, colors, names, and durations. Suitable for personal training or individual fitness routines.

Highlights
  • Create custom workouts
  • Integrated workout timer
  • Define actions with color, name, and duration
  • Use default workouts
  • Save and reuse workout routines
Features
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This application is made by volunteers, trying to help their trainer to make things easy with their workouts for the members of the Health Club from Novi Sad, Serbia, but it can be used by anyone on the App Store! With HC HIIT Interval Timer you can keep your workouts simple and in one place with an integrated timer inside every action of workout. The goal of the application is to prepare workouts that can be used later for training. You can freely use the default workouts from the application, and you can make new ones for yourself. The main features of the application are adding and using workouts. Every workout is built from actions. Every action has color, name, and number of seconds for action. We wish you to create your best workouts and maintain your health!

Screenshots

Interval Timer4 screens
HC HIIT Interval Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Interval Timer at 4.8 against HC HIIT Interval Timer's 4.2. Interval Timer also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (297 vs 5). HC HIIT Interval Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Interval Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. HC HIIT Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 297 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of HC HIIT Interval Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, HC HIIT Interval Timer every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Interval Timer versus HC HIIT Interval Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval TimerHC HIIT Interval Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (297 ratings) — better4.2 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings297 — better5
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 21 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB2 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMiklos PavelDejan Dragic

Customer experience

Interval Timer

All ratings297 ratings
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.7%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%

HC HIIT Interval Timer

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Interval Timer

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Advertisements still present after paying for removal
  • App requires premium to start timer (recent change)

Requested features

8 requests
  • Remove the cap on rounds
  • Add a background click feature (e.g., every second)
  • More sound options
  • Option for more than one workout
  • Add a halfway beep
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  • Add a countdown for the workout interval
  • Beep once at 15 seconds for a 30-second workout interval
  • Countdown the last 3 seconds of a workout interval

HC HIIT Interval Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Custom sounds$1.99
  • Premium features$4.99
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  • Premium features$9.99
  • Premium features$14.99
None

HC HIIT Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HC HIIT Interval Timer free?
HC HIIT Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Interval Timer or HC HIIT Interval Timer?
Interval Timer is rated higher. Interval Timer averages 4.8 out of 5 from 297 ratings, while HC HIIT Interval Timer averages 4.2 from 5 ratings.
Do Interval Timer or HC HIIT Interval Timer have ads?
Interval Timer shows ads; HC HIIT Interval Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Interval Timer or HC HIIT Interval Timer?
Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, and HC HIIT Interval Timer every 21 months. Most recently, Interval Timer was updated on November 2, 2026 and HC HIIT Interval Timer on November 3, 2026.

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