Interval Timer vs Tabata Interval Stopwatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Customizable work and rest intervals
- Sound cues for phase transitions
- Background operation
- Landscape mode support
- Save custom routines
- Workout reminders
- Clear phase color indicators
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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/
Tabata Interval Stopwatch
This app helps you manage exercise intervals with a simple and precise timer. Create custom exercise lists with countdowns, repeat patterns, and descriptions. Its intuitive interface makes it easy to use at the gym or home.
- Customizable interval timer
- Create exercise lists
- Repeat patterns
- Add descriptions
- Intuitive interface
- Countdown timer
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Simple and precise timer app will help keep track of the exercise time and create your own exercise list. It allows you to set a countdown timer for specific intervals of time, add repeat patterns and description. The app's interface is simple, intuitive, and easy to use, making it ideal for quick use, whether at gym or at home.
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Verdict
Interval Timer and Tabata Interval Stopwatch both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tabata Interval Stopwatch's written reviews are positive against 73% of Interval Timer's. Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (297 vs 3) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Interval Timer sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Tabata Interval Stopwatch sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Interval Timer against 4.7 for Tabata Interval Stopwatch. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 297 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tabata Interval Stopwatch's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer | Tabata Interval Stopwatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (297 ratings) — better | 4.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 297 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Miklos Pavel | Maksims Puskels |
Customer experience
Interval Timer
Tabata Interval Stopwatch
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
Tabata Interval Stopwatch
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Interval Timer
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Custom sounds$1.99
- Premium features$4.99
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- Premium features$9.99
- Premium features$14.99
Tabata Interval Stopwatch
- Weekly$0.997 Days
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly$24.991 Year
Questions
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