Comparison

Core Advantage Interval Timer vs Interval Timer Plus

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

Head to head
About

Core Advantage Interval Timer

Create and follow custom interval training routines or choose from pre-built workouts. This app supports various training styles, from high-intensity sprints to tempo control and stretching protocols, with adjustable music volume.

Highlights
  • Customizable workout builder
  • Pre-built workout library
  • Adjustable interval volume
  • Training metronome
  • Repeat sprint timer
  • Tempo control timer
Features
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Welcome to the Core Advantage Interval Timer. Choose from our list of pre-built workouts or build & save your own with custom. Listen to music while you train with adjustable interval volume levels. Workouts include: - 8:12s. The most effective and efficient way to improve anaerobic fitness on a spin bike - Fartlek Timer. Swedish for speed play, use for a randomised workout of hard, moderate and easy effort - Game Fit. The world’s best sports replication drill designed to replicate the movement patterns, muscle groups and fitness demands of team sport - Training Metronome. Use this simple tool to improve your running cadence or lifting tempo. - Repeat Sprints. Long slow cardio is ineffective for power athletes get fit with repeated high-velocity sprints - Stretching. Custom built for the Core Advantage Crouching three stretching protocol - Tempo Timer. Use to accurately control your strength training tempo - Custom. Build and save your own timing protocols with our workout builder. [www.coreadvantage.com.au](http://www.coreadvantage.com.au/) Updates: **Version 2.1.0*** - Introducing a training metronome! This is a key tool that we often use in the gym for improving running and cycling cadence or building rhythm and coordination on movements. Set up a duration for the timer then pick a cadence, you can even adjust the tempo from within the timer. - A little styling change here and there, with some streamlined button sizes and font adjustments - Added titles to the top of each page and shortened up the menu item names for slick-ness ***Version 2.0.1*** Squashed a few little bugs that had snuck into the apps functionality with the last big update. - Thanks to Glenn for this one: Remember me functionality. Hate re-typing your email? Tick the remember me box and suffer no longer as your details will be saved. - A few athletes pointed this one out too: Music & podcasts will now play again while you are training hard, sorry you had to sweat in silence these past few weeks. - Somehow our gym open times had -1 instead of 0 for empty time slots. Not even sure how you do that, but it's fixed now so we will stop the philosophical pondering on negative attendance. - Adjusted interface for Core Advantage members booking class times - buttons now look more button-y and the words are good-er. - Bug work in progress: There may still be some delay between setting up an ongoing bulk enrollment and it becoming visible in your schedule, we did a little work to speed this up, but stay patient with it, as they might not all appear straight away. ***Version 2.0.0*** Core Advantage members can now book and change their training schedule. Simply log in using your account email address and date of birth (DDMMYY format) to view and book times in the gym. *Parents and guardians can also log in using their email address with the date of birth of any of their children/dependents ***New in version 1.2.0*** - Fartlek Timer. Swedish for speed play, use for a randomised workout of hard, moderate and easy effort - Tempo Timer. Use to accurately control your strength training tempo - Independent volume control. So you can keep the music pumping and the bells in the background

About

Interval Timer Plus

This versatile timer app offers a simple yet powerful way to manage timed activities. Customize multiple intervals with individual colors and sounds, and save them as presets for quick access. It's designed for ease of use and visibility, even from a distance, and works seamlessly in the background.

Highlights
  • Customizable intervals
  • Named intervals with voice readout
  • Individual colors and sounds
  • Count time or repetitions
  • Unlimited presets
  • Works in background
  • Full screen color coding
Features
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Free, simple and easy to use all purpose Interval Timer SIMPLE AND FREE INTERVAL TIMER + 1-Tap Quickstart + No signup required, download and get going immediately GLANCEABLE + Very Big Fonts, visible from everywhere + Full screen color coding, works like a traffic light right in front of you + Portrait or landscape, always uses the full screen space POWERFUL ADVANCED PRESETS + Multiple intervals, each individually customizable + Name your intervals and have Interval Timer read it out to you + Individual colors and sounds + Count time or repetitions + Unlimited amount of presets ACCESSIBLE + Works with locked screen or while in another app + Reads out the interval name, so you know exactly what’s on + Vibration or silent mode, for the times when you need to tune it down + Works great with headphones and your own music + Supports dark and light mode REPEAT YOUR ROUTINE + Prepare and save your settings in presets + Pick your presets and start with just 1-tap OPTIMIZE ALL OF YOUR ACTIVITIES + Tabata timer + HIIT training + Crossfit + Circuit training + Fitness routines + Home workouts + Boxing round timer + Calisthenics circuit timer

Screenshots

Core Advantage Interval Timer4 screens
Interval Timer Plus4 screens

Verdict

The call

Core Advantage Interval Timer and Interval Timer Plus both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of Interval Timer Plus's written reviews are positive against 50% of Core Advantage Interval Timer's. Interval Timer Plus also leads on ratings volume (6K vs 4). Core Advantage Interval Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 14.3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer Plus sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Core Advantage Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Core Advantage Interval Timer against 4.9 for Interval Timer Plus. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer Plus has 6K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Core Advantage Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 95% of Interval Timer Plus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on August 17, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Core Advantage Interval Timer versus Interval Timer Plus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCore Advantage Interval TimerInterval Timer Plus
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better4.9 (6K ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews95.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings46K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS11.0 — better14.3
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCore Advantage Pty LtdSu-Au Hwang

Customer experience

Core Advantage Interval Timer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Interval Timer Plus

All ratings6,038 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews657 reviews
Positive95.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.6%

Bugs and requests

Core Advantage Interval Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Interval Timer Plus

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Audio alerts not working when app is in the background

Requested features

2 requests
  • Support for Apple Watch integration
  • Ability to delete saved workouts

In-app purchases

None

Core Advantage Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Interval Timer Plus

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Core Advantage Interval Timer free?
Core Advantage Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Interval Timer Plus free?
Interval Timer Plus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Core Advantage Interval Timer or Interval Timer Plus?
Core Advantage Interval Timer is rated higher. Core Advantage Interval Timer averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Interval Timer Plus averages 4.9 from 6K ratings.
Do Core Advantage Interval Timer or Interval Timer Plus have ads?
Neither Core Advantage Interval Timer nor Interval Timer Plus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Core Advantage Interval Timer or Interval Timer Plus?
Core Advantage Interval Timer ships an update every 2 months, and Interval Timer Plus every 2 months. Most recently, Core Advantage Interval Timer was updated on August 17, 2026 and Interval Timer Plus on September 25, 2026.

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