Comparison

Interval Timer vs TrainUpp

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

TrainUpp

Features
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As easy as setting up your workout, rest times and number of sets and go burn calories or gain muscles! Includes multiple themes and sounds for both active and relaxing activities like Yoga or Pilates that might required smoothier sounds, backgrounds and animated watches, including vibration. It saves your training preferences for future sessions and tracks your activity so that you can see your evolution. The app is available in English, Spanish and Romanian.

Screenshots

Interval Timer4 screens
TrainUpp4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TrainUpp at none against Interval Timer's 7. TrainUpp also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. TrainUpp asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, TrainUpp every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Interval Timer versus TrainUpp: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval TimerTrainUpp
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (297 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings297 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB35 MB
Age rating+44+
DeveloperMiklos PavelAlejandro Henriquez Luis

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

TrainUpp

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

TrainUpp

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is TrainUpp free?
TrainUpp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Interval Timer or TrainUpp have ads?
Both Interval Timer and TrainUpp show ads.
Which is updated more often, Interval Timer or TrainUpp?
Interval Timer ships an update fortnightly, and TrainUpp every 5 days. Most recently, Interval Timer was updated on November 6, 2026 and TrainUpp on November 8, 2026.

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