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 app provides a customizable interval timer for HIIT and Tabata workouts. It offers unlimited timer creation with extensive sound and voice reading options, background notifications, and dark mode. All features are free to use.
- Unlimited timer creation
- Folder classification
- High timer setting freedom
- Variety of sounds and voice readings
- Favorite color and reading text
- Background notifications
- Dark mode
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It's a workout timer app suitable for HIIT and Tabata training. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited timer creation, folder classification is also possible - High degree of freedom in timer setting (supports rep and unlimited time) - A wide variety of sounds and voice readings (about 100 types of sounds) - Favorite color, reading text - Background notifications - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: workouttimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Workout Timer at every 4 weeks against Simple Workout Timer's every 3 months. Simple Workout Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Simple Workout Timer against 4.7 for Workout Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 21 and 23 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Simple Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 80% of Workout Timer's.
Simple Workout Timer ships an update every 3 months, Workout Timer every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Simple Workout Timer | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (21 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Intersect | FugaPiyo Inc. |
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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