Comparison

Hero Timer vs WOD Timer by Atlon

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

Head to head
About

Hero Timer

This app provides customizable timers for various workout types like Tabata, HIIT, AMRAP, and EMOM. It allows users to create custom routines, review past sessions, and offers a landscape view for a professional timer experience.

Highlights
  • Tabata timer
  • HIIT timer
  • AMRAP timer
  • EMOM timer
  • Custom workout creation
  • Workout review and sharing
  • Landscape orientation
Features
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Train your body as you were at your favorite Box or at the Gym. Select your workout type, configure the time and start training! Hero Timer is perfect for every workout type. It includes a: - TABATA workout timer - HIIT workout timer - AMRAP workout timer - EMOM workout timer - FORTIME workout timer Need a chronometer? Use the COUNT UP timer or the COUNT DOWN option. What else? - Create multiple AMRAP rounds - Create multiple TABATA sets - Configure EMOMs as you wish. - Create Custom workouts mixing together multiple workouts types for a complete training session! - Use the the landscape orientation to have the same experience of the physical professional timers available on the market. - Review your workouts, share or even repeat them. Be a HERO

About

WOD Timer by Atlon

This app automatically tracks functional fitness exercises without manual input, offering detailed insights into strength, skill mastery, and performance metrics. It features customizable workout timers on Apple Watch and provides monthly progress summaries.

Highlights
  • Automatic exercise tracking
  • Customizable Apple Watch timers
  • Consistency and effort score
  • Intelligent workout generator
  • Rep speed analysis
  • Monthly progress reports
Features
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Press start on your Apple Watch and train. Atlon recognises your exercises, counts your reps and rounds, and times your work and rest, so you never type a thing between sets. Atlon is built for functional fitness: WODs, HIIT, metcons, strength days and everything in between. Your watch does the logging. Atlon turns it into a training history you can watch grow. More than 28 million reps and 170,000 workouts have been tracked with Atlon so far. SIX WAYS TO TRAIN ON YOUR WATCH • Just train: no timer, no setup. Every exercise tracked. • Strength: just lift. Atlon logs every set at the weight you set. • AMRAP, RFT (rounds for time), EMOM and Intervals: set up in seconds with a slider, no crown needed. MADE FOR THE MIDDLE OF A WORKOUT • Big, clear numbers: your work or rest timer leads, with total time and heart rate beside it. • A live strip of your session shows every set: how long it lasted and how hard you worked. • Count a round with one tap, or with a double tap of your fingers on supported watches. Hit it twice? Undo. • Pause, resume and end from one page, with a confirmation so you never end a workout by accident. YOUR IPHONE AS A GYM TIMER Prop your iPhone up and it shows the workout running on your watch, big enough to read across the room, with countdown beeps everyone in the gym knows. Your watch stays in control, so there's no second timer to start in sync. STRENGTH THAT LOGS ITSELF Atlon detects each set as you lift and names the exercise. Correct it once and Atlon remembers next time. Set the weight while you load the bar, and see your last set at a glance. RESULTS ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR IPHONE After every workout, right on your wrist: your points, time, rounds, heart rate, effort and top exercises. On your iPhone, the Workouts tab shows all of it and every set, and a class recorded in pieces (warm-up, strength, WOD) counts as one workout. ADD THE WORKOUT IN SECONDS Type the workout, paste a screenshot or snap the whiteboard. Atlon's AI writes it up as the day's plan, and you can change it in your own words. POINTS THAT ADD UP Reps, minutes and kilos don't compare, so Atlon scores every workout in points. Home on your iPhone shows your points for the month, the year or all time, how you're pacing against last month, what's new since you last looked, your training days and your week streak. On the 3rd of every month, your recap shows how the month went: points against last month, your month day by day, your streak, your top exercises and how you compare with other Atlon athletes. 37 EXERCISES, RECOGNISED ON YOUR WATCH Including air bike, bench press, bike erg, box jumps, box step-ups, burpees, carries, cleans, clean and jerks, deadlifts, devil presses, double-unders, front squats, GHD sit-ups, handstand push-ups, handstand walks, kettlebell swings, lunges, muscle-ups, overhead squats, planks, pull-ups, push-ups, ring rows, rowing, running, shoulder-to-overhead, single-unders, sit-ups, ski erg, snatches, squats, thrusters, toes-to-bar, wall balls and wall climbs. Recognition runs on your watch, in every workout mode, and gets better with every release. WORKS WITH APPLE HEALTH Atlon uses your heart rate and calories during workouts and saves your workouts to Apple Health, so your Activity rings stay up to date. Atlon requires an Apple Watch.

Screenshots

Hero Timer4 screens
WOD Timer by Atlon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WOD Timer by Atlon at none against Hero Timer's 3. WOD Timer by Atlon also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.4 vs 4.1). Hero Timer's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hero Timer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. WOD Timer by Atlon asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

WOD Timer by Atlon holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WOD Timer by Atlon has 59 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Hero Timer's written reviews are positive against 67% of WOD Timer by Atlon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hero Timer ships an update monthly, WOD Timer by Atlon every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Hero Timer versus WOD Timer by Atlon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHero TimerWOD Timer by Atlon
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (9 ratings)4.4 (59 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings959 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrancesco MisciaWOD Scribe ApS

Customer experience

Hero Timer

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%

WOD Timer by Atlon

All ratings59 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral1.7%
Negative8.5%
Written reviews42 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral4.8%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hero Timer

One-time3
  • Custom Workouts$0.99
  • ADS Free$0.99
  • Premium Version$4.99
None

WOD Timer by Atlon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hero Timer free?
Hero Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WOD Timer by Atlon free?
WOD Timer by Atlon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hero Timer or WOD Timer by Atlon?
WOD Timer by Atlon is rated higher. Hero Timer averages 4.1 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while WOD Timer by Atlon averages 4.4 from 59 ratings.
Do Hero Timer or WOD Timer by Atlon have ads?
Hero Timer shows ads; WOD Timer by Atlon does not.
Which is updated more often, Hero Timer or WOD Timer by Atlon?
Hero Timer ships an update monthly, and WOD Timer by Atlon every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hero Timer was updated on November 3, 2026 and WOD Timer by Atlon on November 3, 2026.

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