Workout Timer vs Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA
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).
Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA
This multi-timer app helps manage intervals for various activities like fitness, study, or work. Easily set training and break times, repeat cycles, and reorder routines. Automatically log results with optional memos and customize the app's appearance.
- Customizable training and break times
- Set number of repetitions
- Swipe to switch timer settings
- Reorder timer sequences
- Automatic result logging
- Add memos to records
- Theme and icon customization
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"Training Timer" is a multi-timer app that can be used for muscle training, fitness, study, work, etc. You can easily switch the timer setting that sets repeat and break. ------------------------- ■ function ------------------------- - Set training time, break time, and number of repetitions. - Swipe the timer screen to switch settings. - Change the order of timer settings from the management screen. - When the timer expires, the result can be automatically registered on the recording screen. - You can add a simple memo to the record. - You can change the theme color and icon set of the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA at weekly against Workout Timer's every 6 months. Workout Timer's advantage is ratings volume (555 vs 2). 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
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 Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 555 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA's.
Workout Timer ships an update every 6 months, Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (555 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 555 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Shogo Yoshida | arakawa yuichiro |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Training Timer | HIIT & TABATA
No in-app purchases
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