Workout Timer vs Workout & Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Timer
This app provides customizable timers for various training styles including HIIT, Tabata, and circuit workouts. Easily set your own workout and rest intervals, and track your progress with clear visual cues. Adapt it for gym sessions, home stretching, or even non-fitness activities.
- Customizable workout and rest intervals
- HIIT and Tabata timer
- Circuit training support
- Simple setup and easy adjustments
- Sound and vibration settings
- Track remaining time and set count
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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).
Workout & Interval Timer
This app provides a customizable timer for fitness routines, including Tabata training. Easily set workout durations, intervals, and sets, with options for sound and vibration alerts. Save frequently used timers for quick access.
- Customizable workout intervals
- Set number of sets
- Save frequently used timers
- Sound and vibration alerts
- Read aloud function
- Simple and easy interface
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Workout & Interval Timer can be used for fitness or workouts, especially suitable for Tabata Training. You can configure workouts, intervals, and sets. As the interface is easy and simple, you can start it quickly. Functions ■ Timer ・ You can set duration for workouts or intervals from 5 seconds to 59 minutes 55 seconds. ・The number of sets can be set from 1 to 99 sets. ■ Menu ・You can easily register the timer you often use. ・Up to 100 lists can be registered. ■ Sound, Vibration ・You can set on and off respectively. ・In silent mode, sounds aren’t available. ■ Read aloud ・You can set on and off. ・When reading aloud, the workout time and break time that you set are read aloud. ・There is no sound in the silent mode. Sound material: OtoLogic(https://otologic.jp) Sound material: MaouDamashii Please use for simple training or fitness.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Workout Timer at none against Workout & Interval Timer's 1. Workout Timer also leads on ratings volume (559 vs 29) and review sentiment (93% vs 85%). Workout & Interval Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ads 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. Workout & Interval Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Workout Timer against 4.8 for Workout & Interval Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 559 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 85% of Workout & Interval Timer's.
Workout Timer ships an update every 2 months, Workout & Interval Timer every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | Workout & Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (559 ratings) — better | 4.8 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better | 84.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 559 — better | 29 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shogo Yoshida | Masafumi Negishi |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
Workout & Interval Timer
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Workout & Interval Timer
- Hide Ads$3.99
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