Tabata training vs Best Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tabata training
This app offers quick, 4-minute HIIT interval workouts for home. It features a customizable timer, an exercise library, and progress tracking to help you burn calories and build endurance efficiently.
- 4-minute HIIT interval workouts
- Customizable Tabata timer
- Extensive exercise library
- Create custom workouts
- Weight and progress tracking
- Workout statistics
- Integrated workout music
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Tabata — HIIT interval workouts at home in just 4 minutes a day. A convenient Tabata timer helps you burn calories, build endurance, and stay in shape without long workouts. In the app: • Tabata / HIIT timer with interval settings (work/rest/rounds) • Large exercise library and the ability to create your own workout • Auto exercise selection — a new routine every time • Repeat your favorite days/workouts • Weight tracking and a clear progress chart • Workout and activity statistics • Multiple themes • Workout music: choose from options or play your own from your library Set a goal and train with Tabata together with us — fast, simple, and consistent.
Best Interval Timer
This app helps you manage workout intervals with customizable exercise, rest, and round durations. It provides audio and visual cues to guide you through your training sessions, whether at home, the gym, or outdoors. Perfect for various fitness activities like HIIT, cycling, and weightlifting.
- Customizable exercise, rest, and round durations
- Audio and visual interval cues
- Supports HIIT, cycling, running, weightlifting, and more
- Pause functionality during rest periods
- Adjustable number of sets and countdown time
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Simple. Beautiful. Effective. • Drag to select duration for exercise, rest, rounds, etc. • Exercise! It's as simple as that. ***Free and reliable. Perfect for use at home, at the track or in the gym. We’re proud to introduce this handy little app that helps you keep track of your work and rest periods during workouts. Whether your into cycling, running, lifting weights, exercise, workout, stretching, boxing, MMA or HIT, this interval timer will prove to be an invaluable asset to you. Running foreground, this reliable app allows you specify an overall time as well as program High/Low intensity interval and rest time between sets. Key Features: - Customizable sets, high/low intensity interval and rest for your own need - Retina display, iOS4 and multitasking Customizable Features: - Number of Sets - Countdown Time - Set Time - Low Interval time - High Interval time - Rest Time - Pause during Rest Features: + Audio and visual hints for exercise periods, rest periods during exercises! Subscription Information: - Remove all ads with a monthly or yearly auto-renewable subscription. - Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. - Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. - You can manage and cancel your subscriptions in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://daturit.github.io/runner_studio/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tabata training at 4.5 against Best Interval Timer's 3.5. Tabata training also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). Best Interval Timer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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. Tabata training sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Best Interval Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tabata training holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Interval Timer has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Tabata training's written reviews are positive against 100% of Best Interval Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tabata training ships an update every 5 months, Best Interval Timer every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tabata training | Best Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 3.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ewgeniy Isurov | Quang Huy Vo |
Customer experience
Tabata training
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In-app purchases
Tabata training
- No Ads$1.99
Best Interval Timer
- Support we $4.99/month$4.991 Month
- Billed yearly$26.991 Year
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