Comparison

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero vs Intervale

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

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About

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero

Create custom interval workouts for HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training. This app offers detailed programming with custom intervals, colors, and icons. Stay focused with large controls, clear cues, and optional heart rate training.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval programming
  • Heart rate training integration
  • Live Activities and Dynamic Island support
  • Siri and Shortcuts integration
  • Workout history and calorie tracking
  • Apple Watch app
  • Shareable timers
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

Intervale

Create custom interval timers for various workouts, including HIIT, rehab, and stretching. Get spoken cues and haptic feedback to guide you through each step. Seamlessly integrate with Apple Health to track your progress.

Highlights
  • Customizable named steps with work/rest times
  • Spoken cues and haptic feedback
  • Background operation with screen locked
  • Routine creation for multiple timers
  • Apple Health integration for workout tracking
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
  • Timer sharing via links or QR codes
Features
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Intervale is an interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, physio and rehab exercises, and stretching. Build a timer from your own named steps, give each its own work and rest time, and run it with spoken cues and haptics on iPhone or Apple Watch. - Build named timers from your own steps, each with its own work and rest time. - Add both sides of an exercise in one go, and keep the left and right times in step if you like. - Repeat for as many rounds as you like, with an optional rest between rounds. - Big, glanceable countdown with colour-coded work and rest, and what comes next always on screen. - Sounds, spoken cues and haptics mark every change, so you never need to look at your phone. They play over your music without turning it down. - Keeps running in the background and with the screen locked. - Choose the cue sound and volume, and set the sound and haptics for each timer separately. - Favourite timers and routines start from the Home Screen icon's quick actions. ROUTINES - Put timers together in a routine, in the order you want, with a break between each one. - A break can be a set time, or wait until you tap Start now. - Timers are linked, not copied, so changing a timer changes it in every routine that uses it. APPLE HEALTH - Save finished timers to Apple Health as a workout (HIIT, strength, core, yoga, Pilates and more) or as mindful minutes. Pick the type for each timer. - Your step names are saved with the workout, so you can see the work in the Health app. - On Apple Watch, workouts record your heart rate and active calories and count towards your Activity rings. - On iPhone with iOS 26 or later, the workout is recorded live and Apple measures your active calories. Intervale never estimates calories itself. - It is optional. Every timer works the same without Apple Health, and you can switch it off at any time. - Your Health data stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS - Say "Start Leg day rehab in Intervale" on iPhone or Apple Watch to run one of your timers. - Ask "What timers do I have in Intervale" to hear your list. - Both are available in the Shortcuts app too, so you can add a timer to an automation or your Home Screen. SHARE AND DISCOVER - Send a timer as a link in one tap, with no upload, or make a page with a QR code that you can set to expire or stop. - Add timers other people share with you, and see how often your own links were viewed and added. - Discover ready-made timers, and change them once they are yours. - Ask for one of your shared timers to be featured on Discover. It is reviewed before anyone else sees it. APPLE WATCH - Run your timers from the wrist with taps for every change, even with your wrist down. - Sessions file into History on your iPhone. ACCOUNTS (OPTIONAL) - Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. You never have to: every timer works without an account. - Your timers appear on every device you sign in on. - Your shared links stay saved with your account, including on a new phone. - Delete your account in the app at any time. HISTORY AND FOLDABLES - History shows the workouts you have finished, with calories where they were saved. - On iPhone Duo, opened out sideways, your timers and the editor sit side by side, and the running timer shows the steps still to come. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Without an account, everything stays on your device.

Screenshots

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero4 screens
Intervale4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervale at none against Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero's 2. Intervale also leads on ads (none vs shown). Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero's advantage is ratings volume (441 vs 5). On price, rating, update cadence 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 for HIIT | Cero sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intervale asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero against 4.8 for Intervale. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero has 441 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero ships an update every 3 days, Intervale every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero versus Intervale: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval Timer for HIIT | CeroIntervale
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (441 ratings)4.8 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings441 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlawless Studio LLCStephen Dawson

Customer experience

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero

All ratings441 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive74.6%
Neutral10.2%
Negative15.3%

Intervale

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Interval Timer for HIIT | 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

Intervale

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero

Subscriptions1
  • Cero Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
One-time1
  • Cero Pro$14.99
None

Intervale

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero free?
Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Intervale free?
Intervale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero or Intervale?
Intervale is rated higher. Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero averages 4.7 out of 5 from 441 ratings, while Intervale averages 4.8 from 5 ratings.
Do Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero or Intervale have ads?
Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero shows ads; Intervale does not.
Which is updated more often, Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero or Intervale?
Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero ships an update every 3 days, and Intervale every 5 days. Most recently, Interval Timer for HIIT | Cero was updated on November 11, 2026 and Intervale on November 10, 2026.

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