Interval Timer vs HC HIIT Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interval Timer
This professional and easy-to-use interval timer allows for customizable circuit training plans with voice prompts and background operation. It supports music integration and Apple Health, making it ideal for various fitness routines.
- Customizable training plans
- Smart voice prompts
- Automatic music playback
- Background operation
- Apple Health integration
- Apple Watch support
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Congratulations! You have found the most professional and easy-to-use Interval Timer in App Store. This is different from those with complex operation or gaudy functions. It is easy to set up all kinds of circuit training plans. You can custom your exercise library, adjust theirs duration flexibly, and the dial interface is the settings page that allows you to complete most of the normal operations. WYSIWYG! Next time you work out, maybe you’d like to try this practical voice coach fitness app! This app also has more powerful and practical functions. It includes warm-up, cold-down, recover and work out sessions, and also theirs duration can be changed flexibly. It can change the music automatically during your workout if you have subscribed the apple music service. This app is suitable for personal trainers, fitness enthusiasts, bodybuilders, athletes, home exerciser and etc. Use with HIIT, Tabata, weight training, kettlebells, HIIT running, sprints, HIIT treadmill, and any interval fitness training. Help to establish a scientific, systematic, based on your characteristics and personalized training program and maximize your workout are all we can do. Depends on no equipment and exercise anywhere or anytime! Hope you enjoy it. AT A GLANCE: + Easy to customize you training plan + Smart voice prompts + Automatically play and change music + prompts the next workout name + Fully customizable times, cycles and repeats + Can run in the background + Clean and smart design + Great on iphone X + Support Siri ("Hey Siri, start a workout using Fit Now") + Support Apple Watch, Standalone Apple Watch workouts. Leave your iPhone at home! + Apple Health integration MORE INFORMATION: • Easy Customize Touch what you want to change to set work time, rest time, cycles, repeats, warm up time and cooldown time. Stopwatchs can be set in 1 second increments up to 60 minutes! • Customize your training plan You can custom every single attribute like moves and its duration, and accordingly the voice system will prompts you what the next move is. • Smart voice prompts system this app will alerts you when it is time to work, rest, warmup or cooldown, even when this app is running in the background. You can preset your workout names for per cycle, and this app will call out them while the timer begins working. You can turn off the voice prompts, and choose the vibration mode. • Automatically play music this app allows you to set different playlists for each of the work duration, rest duration, warm up duration and cool down duration, and is easy to change the currently playing song in iPhone control center. Or you can just choose any music app you like, this app supports multitasking. • Runs in the background When the timer starts working, you can lock screen and run it in the background, and have it play voice prompts. Once your training plan ends, it won't run in the background any more, in case of more battery drain.
HC HIIT Interval Timer
Create and manage custom interval training workouts with an integrated timer. Design workouts with specific actions, colors, names, and durations. Suitable for personal training or individual fitness routines.
- Create custom workouts
- Integrated workout timer
- Define actions with color, name, and duration
- Use default workouts
- Save and reuse workout routines
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This application is made by volunteers, trying to help their trainer to make things easy with their workouts for the members of the Health Club from Novi Sad, Serbia, but it can be used by anyone on the App Store! With HC HIIT Interval Timer you can keep your workouts simple and in one place with an integrated timer inside every action of workout. The goal of the application is to prepare workouts that can be used later for training. You can freely use the default workouts from the application, and you can make new ones for yourself. The main features of the application are adding and using workouts. Every workout is built from actions. Every action has color, name, and number of seconds for action. We wish you to create your best workouts and maintain your health!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HC HIIT Interval Timer at none against Interval Timer's 1. HC HIIT Interval Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (4.2 vs 3.8). Interval Timer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (28 vs 5). On price, 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. Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HC HIIT Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
HC HIIT Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 28 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of HC HIIT Interval Timer's.
Interval Timer ships an update weekly, HC HIIT Interval Timer every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer | HC HIIT Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (28 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宇超 朱 | Dejan Dragic |
Customer experience
Interval Timer
HC HIIT Interval Timer
In-app purchases
Interval Timer
- UNLIMITED HIIT TIMER$3.99
HC HIIT Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
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