Captime vs Personal Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Captime
This app provides a professional gym clock experience for athletes, featuring large, high-contrast digits and voice control. It supports various workout formats and includes a unique video overlay for progress tracking and social sharing.
- Video overlay for progress filming
- Large, high-contrast digits
- Zero-touch voice control
- Supports AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, For Time
- Music ducking for audio cues
- Multiple interval timers
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Stop Fiddling with Your Phone. Own Your WOD. Designed by athletes for athletes, Captime is the only CrossFit timer that stays out of your way while you push your limits. No more distractions—just the precision of a professional gym clock right on your iPhone. WHY ATHLETES CHOOSE CAPTIME: - Film Your Progress: Built-in video overlay—perfect for the CrossFit Games or your IG feed. - Built for Distance: Massive, high-contrast digits you can read from across the box. - Zero-Touch Control: Hands covered in chalk? Just yell "START" to kick things off. - The Full Arsenal: AMRAP, EMOM, Tabata, For Time, Intervals, and the Sally Challenge. - Smart Audio: Automatically ducks your music so you never miss a beep. LEVEL UP YOUR TRAINING. Join thousands of athletes using the most intuitive HIIT timer on the App Store. >>> Get Captime for FREE and train like a pro today!
Personal Interval Timer
This app helps you manage timed workouts for sports like boxing, HIIT, and Tabata. It offers customizable presets, workout history tracking, and works with a locked screen and background music. Share your routines with friends and receive voice or bell notifications.
- Works with locked screen
- Plays with background music
- Saves custom presets
- Share workouts with friends
- History and progress charts
- Voice or bell notifications
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Simple interface to do sport without wasting time. Personal Interval Timer is good for Boxing, MMA, BJJ, HIIT, Tabata, and any activity with intervals. Features: - Works with the locked phone with a black screen - Works while your music is playing - Saving your customized presets/workouts - Sharing workouts with friends - Shows your history and the progress in charts - Voice or bell notifications
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Personal Interval Timer at 100% against Captime's 62%. Personal Interval Timer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Captime's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (64 vs 14). 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
Both are free to download. Captime sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Personal Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Personal Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 64 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Captime's written reviews are positive against 100% of Personal Interval Timer's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and August 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Captime | Personal Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (64 ratings) | 4.8 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 14.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Leduc IT | AlexApps.Net Co |
Customer experience
Captime
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In-app purchases
Captime
- PRO Monthly$2.991 Month
- PRO$2.997 Days
- PRO$3.991 Month
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- PRO$7.991 Month
- PRO7 Days trial$25.491 Year
- One time offer1 Year trial$25.491 Year
- PRO$41.991 Year
- PRO$49.991 Year
- PRO3 Days trial$54.991 Year
- PRO$149.99
Personal Interval Timer
- Remove Ads$5.99
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