Simple Workout Timer vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Simple Workout Timer
This app provides a customizable timer to support your workouts. It can send notifications, record active energy and workout data to Apple Health, and display your workout history. Calculate active energy burned with detailed input options.
- Customizable workout timer
- Workout notifications
- Record to Apple Health
- View workout history
- Active energy calculation
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This App will support workout. Timer can be customized. Main Function ・Workout timer. ・Notifications. ・Record Active Energy and Workouts to Apple Health. ・View history. Active Energy ・Ex. METs 3.5, Weight 50 kg, Time 30 min. (3.5 - 1) x 50 x (30 / 60) x 1.05 = 65.6 kcal. Optional permission requests ・Apple Health: It is used to record data in Apple Health. ・Tracking: It is used to deliver personalized ads to you. ・Notifications: It is used to sending notifications. Languages ・Japanese, English.
Workout Timer
This versatile timer supports various training styles including HIIT, Tabata, and circuit workouts. Customize your work and rest intervals, track sets, and adjust sound and vibration settings for a personalized fitness experience. It's suitable for gym sessions, home stretching, yoga, and even non-fitness activities like studying and meditation.
- Customizable workout and rest intervals
- HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training support
- Set number of sets and cycles
- Easy time and round adjustment
- Adjustable sound and vibration settings
- Track remaining time at a glance
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This timer is designed for workout, stretch and high-intensity interval training, such as HIIT, Tabata workout and circuit training. You can set your own workout times, rest times, and rest times between cycles. So you can train at your favorite intervals. The remaining time is shown at a glance, and the number of sets can be easily checked. The setup is simple and you can easily change the time and the round you want to work out. You can also change the sound and vibration settings. It can be used for training at the gym, stretching and yoga at home, boxing, cardio, studying, meditation, and much more! The sound source was borrowed from Otologic (CC BY 4.0).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Workout Timer at 527 against Simple Workout Timer's 21. Workout Timer also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Simple Workout Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Workout Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 527 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Simple Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 94% of Workout Timer's.
Simple Workout Timer ships an update every 3 months, Workout Timer every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Workout Timer | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21 ratings) | 4.9 (527 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 93.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 527 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intersect | Shogo Yoshida |
Customer experience
Simple Workout Timer
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
Simple Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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