Workout Timer vs Intervals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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).
Intervals
Design custom interval training routines for high-intensity workouts. This free timer app offers large, clear visuals and audible cues for seamless transitions between exercises. It's ideal for home or outdoor fitness sessions, including Tabata and yoga.
- Custom interval workout creation
- Large font and contrasting colors
- Audible interval transition cues
- Supports Tabata and yoga workouts
- No account or personal data required
- Offline workout storage
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Use HIIT Builder Lite as a free interval timer to manage your High Intensity Interval Training to maximize your fitness. Create custom interval workouts to energize your personal training. The workout is stored on your device. There is no need to create an account. We don’t ask for any personal health data. HIIT Builder Lite is a great interval training app for home workouts or workouts at the park. You can create Tabata workouts or any HIIT workout of your choice. The ability to customize any interval workout to your needs allows you to take control of your fitness using HIIT Builder Lite as an interval timer for high intensity interval training. HIIT Builder Lite can also be used for custom yoga and other custom movement workouts. HIIT Builder Lite uses large fonts and contrasting colors to make it easy to see where you are in an exercise in your interval workout. Interval transitions are easy to see on the user interface. The app also rings bells when switching from one workout interval to the next workout interval. Each interval workout can be completely customized. You can have each exercise interval be the same length or you can modify each interval’s length to get exactly what you need from the exercise. Create as many interval workouts as you want. Download HIIT Builder Lite for a free interval timer. Thoughts, concerns, suggestions? We're always trying to improve. Please email us at info@hiitbuilderapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Workout Timer at 555 against Intervals's 1. Intervals's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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
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 — 4.9 for Workout Timer against 5.0 for Intervals. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 555 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Workout Timer ships an update every 6 months, Intervals every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | Intervals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (555 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 555 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Shogo Yoshida | Curtis Wichern |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
Intervals
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Intervals
No in-app purchases
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