Comparison

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer vs TimerWOD

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer

Create and customize interval training routines with simple text input. This app guides you through workouts with spoken cues, sound alerts, and large visual displays, allowing you to focus on your exercise. It supports various training styles like HIIT and Tabata, and can even manage music playback during sessions.

Highlights
  • Create custom interval workouts using plain text
  • Spoken exercise names, times, and notifications
  • Customizable sound cues and visual displays
  • Support for HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training
  • Mix timed and non-timed workout sections
  • Music ducking for notifications
  • Pre-loaded sample workouts
Features
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Define basic interval timers and custom interval workouts with ease:  Write the workout as plain understandable text and save it, launch the timer and start exercising! As an example, basic 'Tabata' interval timer can be defined by just typing this text: 8x 00:20 Work hard! 00:10 Rest Type those three lines in the text editor, save the file and launch the timer, then do your workout assisted by big display texts, spoken audio, sound cues and more. 8 rounds of 20 seconds of work, 10 seconds rest! Same way you can define more complex workouts, with multiple interval sections consisting of any number of exercises. Check out the screenshots! Running, cycling, kettlebells,..., yoga: Ultra Intervals speaks the exercise names and custom notifications as you define, being capable of guiding you through a full workout with 'phone in your pocket' mode - just *listen* to the instructions and focus on the workout. No need to see the device screen at all. Ultra Timer supports 20+ languages (most languages supporting the iOS text-to-speech functionality are supported). Intervals, HIIT, Tabata, Circuit...equally easy to set up. Customise each workout separately: Choose if you want to have the interval names and notifications spoken or rather have the timer beep instead. Customise colours as you like, all the way to having each exercise step shown with a different colour. Mix timed and non-timed sections in one workout: Ultra Intervals can also guide you through your gym workout or weight training, timing just the breaks and rest periods acting as your set coach. Play music with your favourite music player. Ultra Intervals 'ducks' the music during spoken notifications and brings the volume back on ones audio cue has ended. ULTRA INTERVALS FEATURES: CREATE AND EDIT WORKOUTS WITH EASE Type your workouts in as text plain text, following just few super simple rules. Since the workouts are defined as text, they can be edited on a Mac or PC and imported from cloud services. SPEAKS EXERCISE NAMES, TIMES AND NOTIFICATIONS. AND IT BEEPS TOO. Speaks exercise names, times and custom notifications as you define (or you can turn speech off altogether). You can customize the notifications as you like. Choose between various 'beep' sounds or turn them off as well. SAMPLE WORKOUTS - USE AS SUCH OR AS TEMPLATES Comes with plenty of example workouts and timers which can be used as such or as templates for new ones. Copying a workout file can be done with one swipe & tap. MULTIPLE SECTIONS IN ONE WORKOUT You can define multiple interval sections in one workout. Again, super easily - see the App Store screenshots to get the idea how simple this is! CLEAR DISPLAYS READABLE FROM AFAR Large animated display of time, current and up-next workout steps. Big text you can truly read from afar. CUSTOM NOTIFICATIONS WITH 'TOKENS' Define custom notification messages spoken during the workout, use 'tokens' in the notifications, for example referring to name of the current or the next exercise, time of the next exercise, time remaining of current exercise, interval round number, heart rate and more. MIX TIMED AND NON-TIMED WORKOUT STEPS Following a simple rule (just add the '&' character in the exercise name!), you can make the timer pause automatically for a 'manual' step in your workout and then with one tap restart for the rest period. RUNS IN THE BACKGROUND You can lock the screen, put the phone in the pocket and do the workout guided by the spoken audio instructions. IMPORT, COPY, EXPORT WORKOUTS Straightforward one-step functionality for importing text files from the cloud, copying files and exporting to cloud, email and more. MUSIC Allows you to listen to music during the workout, lowers the music volume for spoken audio. CUSTOMIZABLE FEATURES (CAN BE SET FOR EACH WORKOUT SEPARATELY) For *example*: Language spoken, silent mode, speech/beeps in use, speech/beeps options, countdown time, HR monitor in use, colors and many many more!

About

TimerWOD

This app provides a versatile gym clock for various workout formats like AMRAP, EMOM, and intervals. It features large, easy-to-read digits, on-time beeps, and saves workout logs with notes and photos. It's free, requires no account, and supports multiple languages.

Highlights
  • Multiple workout formats (AMRAP, EMOM, Intervals)
  • Large, clear LED digits
  • Audible beeps with music ducking
  • Workout logging and history
  • Customizable presets
  • Shareable workout results
Features
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The gym clock, in your pocket. From first rep to final beep. One timer for every workout: For Time, AMRAP, EMOM, intervals, or a Mix of all of them. Set it up in seconds, press START and train. Big LED digits you can read from across the gym, beeps that land on the second, and every workout saved to your log. Free. No account needed. EVERY FORMAT • For Time: count up to a time cap, or run with no cap. Tap + ROUND for every round and see your splits live. • AMRAP: as many rounds as possible in a set time. Count rounds with one tap and add the reps of your last round at the end. • EMOM: every minute on the minute, or every 2:00, every 0:30, whatever the workout says. Rounds, sets and rest between sets. Death By: one more rep every round. • Intervals: work and rest. HIIT 40/20, HIIT 30/30, Tabata and FGB are ready to go, or set your own numbers. • Mix: chain For Time, AMRAP, EMOM, intervals, work and rest blocks into one workout, in any order. One START for the whole thing, and a timeline that shows where you are. THE GYM CLOCK • Big LED digits: red for work, green for rest, amber for the countdown. You know the phase at a glance. • Turn the phone sideways and the clock fills the screen. • Beeps on time with the phone locked, the screen off or your music playing. The music is lowered for each beep and comes back. • Alerts on the lock screen while you train. • Warm-up, cool-down and rest after the last round in More options. Count up or count down. • The screen stays on for the whole workout. PRESETS AND QUICK START • Built in: HIIT 40/20, HIIT 30/30, Tabata, FGB, EMOM 10, EMOM 40, Death By and AMRAP 20. • Save any setup or finished workout as your own preset. Your last workouts sit under Quick start on the home screen: one tap and the clock is running. AFTER THE WORKOUT • Results with your time, rounds and reps, and every round time, the faster rounds in green. • How it felt, notes and a photo of the whiteboard, saved with the workout. • Workout log: every workout with its notes and photos, how many you did this week, and Repeat to run the same workout again. • Share image: your result on your own photo as a Gradient, a Dark card or a Scoreboard, or on a dark, light or sticker card. Story and square sizes, straight to Instagram or saved to your photos. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Spanish and Portuguese. The app follows your phone's language, or pick one in Settings. FREE, NO ACCOUNT NEEDED No sign-up. Open the app and train. Questions or ideas: support@timerwod.com

Screenshots

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer4 screens
TimerWOD4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Ultra Intervals Workout Timer at every 6 days against TimerWOD's every 2 weeks. Ultra Intervals Workout Timer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). TimerWOD's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Ultra Intervals Workout Timer against 4.6 for TimerWOD. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Ultra Intervals Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 88% of TimerWOD's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer ships an update every 6 days, TimerWOD every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ultra Intervals Workout Timer versus TimerWOD: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUltra Intervals Workout TimerTimerWOD
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings)4.6 (14 ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews — better87.5% of reviews
Number of ratings414 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTapio KuusistoClick Statement Inc

Customer experience

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

TimerWOD

All ratings14 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral7.1%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive87.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative12.5%

In-app purchases

None

Ultra Intervals Workout Timer

No in-app purchases

None

TimerWOD

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ultra Intervals Workout Timer free?
Ultra Intervals Workout Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TimerWOD free?
TimerWOD is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ultra Intervals Workout Timer or TimerWOD?
TimerWOD is rated higher. Ultra Intervals Workout Timer averages 4.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while TimerWOD averages 4.6 from 14 ratings.
Do Ultra Intervals Workout Timer or TimerWOD have ads?
Neither Ultra Intervals Workout Timer nor TimerWOD shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ultra Intervals Workout Timer or TimerWOD?
Ultra Intervals Workout Timer ships an update every 6 days, and TimerWOD every 2 weeks. Most recently, Ultra Intervals Workout Timer was updated on November 3, 2026 and TimerWOD on November 3, 2026.

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