Comparison

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero vs Diet Score Tracker

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

Head to head
About

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero

This interval timer app enhances various workouts like HIIT, Tabata, and yoga with intuitive design and customizable timer modes. Create and save custom intervals, track calorie expenditure, and sync settings across devices, including Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timers
  • Simple and advanced timer modes
  • Create and save multiple workout settings
  • Apple Watch compatibility with heart monitor
  • Automatic calorie tracking to Apple Health
  • Cross-device sync
Features
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Build an interval workout around the way you train. Cero is a flexible interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuit training, WODs and HYROX preparation. Set up a quick work/rest timer or program each interval in detail. Distinct colors, large controls and reliable cues keep you focused on the session instead of the clock. BUILD YOUR SESSION • Set work, recovery, sets, warm-up and cool-down. • Create advanced workouts with custom intervals, colors, icons and intensity levels. • Save, duplicate and reorder timers. • Share timers by file or QR code. • Review completed sessions in workout history. STAY IN THE WORKOUT • Follow compatible sessions with Live Activities and Dynamic Island. • Start saved or recent timers from Home Screen widgets. • Use Siri and Shortcuts to start, pause, resume and stop a timer. • Put Gym Display on a larger screen or mirrored TV. • Choose a default song or assign music to individual intervals. • Customize sounds, voice cues, vibrations and background alerts. TRAIN BY HEART RATE Adaptive HR can extend recovery until you reach your target heart rate, then guide hard efforts with low and high alerts. Pair a Bluetooth heart-rate monitor with iPhone or train with heart-rate data from Apple Watch. COUNTDOWN AND STOPWATCH The built-in countdown and lap stopwatch cover warm-ups, station changes, rest periods and race-day practice. Stopwatch sessions continue after you close and reopen the app. ON APPLE WATCH Run saved workouts from your wrist, follow heart rate and use the standalone countdown and stopwatch. Cero can save completed workouts and estimated calories to Apple Health. Automatic iCloud backups help protect saved timers and custom intervals. Useful for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, EMOM-style workouts, boxing rounds, strength and conditioning, indoor cycling, running intervals and hybrid race preparation. Feedback and suggestions: hi@flawless.studio Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Diet Score Tracker

This app scores your last seven days of meals against four popular dietary patterns. Simply photograph a plate, confirm the dish, and receive scores based on MIND, DASH, Mediterranean, and HEI-2020 guidelines. All data is processed and stored locally on your device.

Highlights
  • Photograph meals for scoring
  • Scores against 4 dietary patterns
  • Local data processing and storage
  • No grams or guessing required
  • Export log and settings
  • Single purchase, no subscription
Features
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Adherence scores your last seven days of meals against four published dietary patterns — MIND, DASH, Mediterranean and HEI-2020. Photograph a plate, confirm what it is, and the score follows. HOW IT WORKS Point the camera at a plate. The app proposes what it recognises — five dishes, then five more if none of those fit, and a way to describe your own if the catalog doesn't hold it. Nothing is logged until you confirm it. Recognition proposes; you decide. FOUR DIET SCORES Each of the four is a published instrument with its own definition of a good week, and they disagree with each other — which is the point. A week that scores well on one and poorly on another is telling you something a single number cannot. Every component is shown with the rule it was scored against, so no figure is unaccountable. Run all four, or switch off the ones you aren't interested in. NO GRAMS, NO GUESSING A photograph cannot recover grams — the oil in the pan, the depth of the bowl — so the app does not pretend otherwise. Portions are four coarse steps. A dish you described yourself gets no invented nutrient figures, and where a rubric needs a measurement that was never taken, it leaves the plate out rather than scoring you on a number nobody has. A missing measurement is not a low one. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR PHONE No account, no sign-in, no server holding your meals. Photos are never uploaded, your log is never transmitted, and every score is arithmetic that runs on the device. The app sends anonymous milestone events — that it was opened, that a trial started, that a purchase completed — so we know it is being used. Never a dish, a photo, a score, or anything you typed. ONE PAYMENT Free for seven days, and the clock starts when you log your first plate rather than when you install — so you can take a photo, see what it recognises and read how the scoring works before anything begins. After that Adherence is a single purchase. No subscription. Nothing renews. YOUR LOG IS YOURS Export your log and settings to a file in Files or iCloud Drive, and read it back on a new phone. No account means nothing to lock you out. Adherence is a general wellness app. It is not a medical device, it does not give medical advice, and it does not diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Its scores describe what you logged; talk to a doctor or a qualified professional before making changes because of anything it shows you.

Screenshots

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero4 screens
Diet Score Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Diet Score Tracker at none against HIIT Interval Timer | Cero's shown. Diet Score Tracker also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). HIIT Interval Timer | Cero's advantage is ratings volume (435 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. HIIT Interval Timer | Cero sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Diet Score Tracker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Diet Score Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HIIT Interval Timer | Cero has 435 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero ships an update every 3 days, Diet Score Tracker every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HIIT Interval Timer | Cero versus Diet Score Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHIIT Interval Timer | CeroDiet Score Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (435 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings435 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlawless Studio LLCKlodian Dhana

Customer experience

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero

All ratings435 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive74.6%
Neutral10.2%
Negative15.3%

Diet Score Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App runs in background draining battery
  • Rotation broke after update
  • Apple workout app overrides Cero app on Apple Watch
  • Interval signals too weak or not working

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to group timers
  • Option to add warm-up and cool-down features
  • Ability to type numbers for time adjustment
  • Timer sounds through headphones or interrupting music
  • Ability to change exercise names

Diet Score Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HIIT Interval Timer | Cero

Subscriptions1
  • Cero Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Cero Pro$14.99
1 purchases

Diet Score Tracker

One-time1
  • Full Access$9.99

Questions

Is HIIT Interval Timer | Cero free?
HIIT Interval Timer | Cero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Diet Score Tracker free?
Diet Score Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HIIT Interval Timer | Cero or Diet Score Tracker?
Diet Score Tracker is rated higher. HIIT Interval Timer | Cero averages 4.7 out of 5 from 435 ratings, while Diet Score Tracker averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HIIT Interval Timer | Cero or Diet Score Tracker have ads?
HIIT Interval Timer | Cero shows ads; Diet Score Tracker does not.
Which is updated more often, HIIT Interval Timer | Cero or Diet Score Tracker?
HIIT Interval Timer | Cero ships an update every 3 days, and Diet Score Tracker every 4 days. Most recently, HIIT Interval Timer | Cero was updated on October 16, 2026 and Diet Score Tracker on October 7, 2026.

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