Timer Plus vs MegaCron
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer Plus
This interval training app supports HIIT, circuit, and Tabata workouts with customizable rounds and cycles. It offers background operation, screen flashing, and voice guidance for an enhanced fitness experience. An Apple Watch companion app is also available.
- Customizable rounds and cycles
- Interval stopwatch
- Background timer operation
- Informative screen flash
- Save and history of timers
- Voice guidance
- Apple Watch app
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Interval Training Timer perfect for HIIT Circuit and Tabata Workouts Timer Plus is an easy to use special app for high intensity interval Training. -Ability to display the number and duration of rounds and cycles. -Interval Stopwatch -Timer works in background mode -Informative screen flash -Create an infinite number of timers, save them in the history of workouts. -Voice guidance Use our Timer Plus app while training at home, at the gym, boxing, MMA, Bodyweight exercises or other fitness activities. Timer Plus comes also with an Apple Watch app that allows you to use your saved custom workouts from the iPhone on your Apple Watch. This app uses Apple Health Kit in order to run the Apple Watch app in the background. Terms of Use: https://argames.in/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://argames.in/privacy.html
MegaCron
This app acts as a personal trainer, guiding you through custom workouts with voice prompts. Create and share routines, track exercises like Tabata and HIIT, and receive audio cues for every stage of your training.
- Voice-guided interval training
- Customizable workout presets
- Share routines with friends and students
- Create personalized exercise routines
- Supports Tabata, HIIT, Functional, Calisthenics
- Audio prompts for exercise start/end and breaks
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Invest in yourself, invest in your body. Train more and better with your personal trainer. Tell MegaCron how much you want to train and enjoy! Now you can share your presets with your friends, colleagues and students! Are you a fitness instructor or personal trainer? Create new routines and send them to your students to manage training groups wherever you are! Try their custom presets or create your own! Stretch with MegaCron after running or training: * Tabata * HIIT * Functional * Calisthenics and much more! Create personalized workouts indicating the number and duration of the exercises to be performed, their names to listen to them during the workout, the number of rounds and the duration of the breaks. Choose your preferred voice options and hear prompts for: * Name of the next exercise * Start of exercise * Start of exercise break * Start of lap break * Last exercise of the lap * Half of the exercise * End of training It's more than a smart watch: It's a gym coach, it's an emom timer, it's a crossfit clock... it's everything you need it to be Let him be your personal fitness trainer and companion, every time, every day and everywhere!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MegaCron at none against Timer Plus's 2. MegaCron also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Timer Plus's advantage is ratings volume (60K vs 5) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads 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
Both are free to download. Timer Plus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. MegaCron asks for nothing beyond the download.
MegaCron holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timer Plus has 60K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Timer Plus ships an update every 3 weeks, MegaCron monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Timer Plus | MegaCron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (60K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 60K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ArGames | Gabriel Bosco |
Customer experience
Timer Plus
MegaCron
Bugs and requests
Timer Plus
Reported bugs
3 issues- Timer stopping unexpectedly due to notifications or phone calls
- Inconsistent volume changes when using music
- Difficulty finding and loading saved timers
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to name and save custom workouts
- Option to turn off countdown sound
- Customizable alert sounds
- Ability to skip or pause rounds
- Connection to health/fitness tracking apps
MegaCron
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Timer Plus
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Lifetime Premium$19.99
MegaCron
No in-app purchases
Questions
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