HIIT Star vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HIIT Star
This app offers a straightforward way to create and manage high-intensity interval training routines. Customize work and rest periods, name exercises, and save custom workouts for easy repetition. It features a large, visible timer and audio cues to guide you through your sessions.
- Customizable work and rest periods
- Name exercises for prompts
- Save and reuse workout routines
- Large, visible timer
- Audio interval cues
- Dark mode support
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The quickest and simplest app for high intensity interval training. Completely free (no in-app purchase needed). Set your workouts to be as long or short as you wish. Features: • Super simple setup to get a workout up and running in seconds! • Work and rest periods you can set ranging from 5 seconds to 3 minutes • Name your exercises to get prompted during your workout • Save exercise lists to perform again next time • Large timer during workout mode visible when your phone is across the room. • Alternating colours for work and rest periods • Audio to cue when intervals are about to finish • Pause mid-workout • Session timer and indicators to let you know how long is left • Dark mode support Any feedback or suggestions? Get in touch at: support+hiit-star@strongr-app.com - Neil
Workout Timer
This app provides a customizable interval timer for HIIT and Tabata workouts. It offers unlimited timer creation with extensive sound and voice reading options, background notifications, and dark mode. All features are free to use.
- Unlimited timer creation
- Folder classification
- High timer setting freedom
- Variety of sounds and voice readings
- Favorite color and reading text
- Background notifications
- Dark mode
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It's a workout timer app suitable for HIIT and Tabata training. All features are completely free to use. Features: - Unlimited timer creation, folder classification is also possible - High degree of freedom in timer setting (supports rep and unlimited time) - A wide variety of sounds and voice readings (about 100 types of sounds) - Favorite color, reading text - Background notifications - Dark mode - Free URL scheme: workouttimer://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Workout Timer at 4.7 against HIIT Star's 1.0. Workout Timer also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 50%) and ratings volume (23 vs 1). HIIT Star's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Workout Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of HIIT Star's written reviews are positive against 80% of Workout Timer's.
HIIT Star ships an update every 3 weeks, Workout Timer every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HIIT Star | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Neil Smith Design | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
HIIT Star
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
HIIT Star
No in-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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