Comparison

Recovery Timer vs AfterFire

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

Head to head
About

Recovery Timer

Optimize your workout recovery using your heart rate. This app calculates personalized rest periods for strength training, HIIT, and running, helping you maximize gains and improve speed. It synchronizes data with the Health app for comprehensive activity tracking.

Highlights
  • Heart rate-based rest period calculation
  • Customizable workout types
  • Configurable recovery heart rate
  • Heart-rate and time-based transitions
  • Health app synchronization
  • Maximizes strength and speed gains
Features
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Get stronger faster using your heart rate. Recovery Timer helps you do workouts - weight lifting, HIIT, running - where you do sets. Perform your workout set as usual, and Recovery Timer uses your heart rate to figure how long your rest period should be. You can specify your: * Workout type (Strength or weight training, HIIT, indoor run, outdoor run, other) * Typical resting time * Recovered heart rate * When to transition - this can be just heart-rate based, time-based, or both If you lift weights alone or train with a workout trainer, this app will help you maximize your workout and strength gains. If you run, this app will help you increase your speed when doing HIIT or fartlek interval training. Workout data synchronizes with the Health app, so you can then see your Activity results and close those rings! For your best workout, remember: It’s not rest - it’s recovery.

About

AfterFire

This app helps you build strength and understand your fitness progress with AI-powered coaching. Track workouts, nutrition, and recovery to get personalized insights and guidance. It's designed for general wellness and strength training, not medical diagnosis.

Highlights
  • Create, edit, and save strength workouts
  • Exercise library and guided sessions
  • Record sets, reps, weight, and rest
  • AI Coach for personalized guidance
  • Track nutrition, sleep, and body progress
  • Meal-photo analysis
  • Optional Apple Health connection
Features
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Build strength. Understand your progress. Keep your training connected. AfterFire brings strength workouts, fitness tracking, and contextual AI coaching together. Start with free workout tools, then add AfterFire Pro for coaching informed by the goals, equipment, training history, nutrition, and recovery information you choose to share. YOUR STRENGTH FOUNDATION — FREE • Create, edit, and save strength workouts. • Browse the exercise library and follow guided workout sessions. • Record sets, reps, weight, rest, and supersets. • Review workout history and keep building your routine. CONNECTED COACHING — AFTERFIRE PRO • Ask the AI Coach questions about your permitted training and wellness history. • Get help creating strength workouts and review proposed routine changes before applying them. • Track food, drinks, hydration, supplements, sleep, and body progress. • Use AI-assisted logging, including meal-photo analysis, and review estimates before saving. • Explore muscle-coverage insights, goals, trends, and recovery context. • Create reports from your recorded information. OPTIONAL APPLE HEALTH CONNECTION Connect selected Apple Health information to add context to your tracking and coaching. Access is optional and read-only. You control which information you share with Coach. CONTROL YOUR CONTEXT Manage AI data-sharing categories separately. Coach uses the information you allow, and proposed workout changes remain yours to review. AI answers and nutrition estimates may be inaccurate; check them before relying on them. AfterFire focuses on strength training. It is for fitness and general wellness, not medical diagnosis or treatment. AfterFire is free to download. Pro features require a subscription. Available plans, localized prices, and any eligible trial are shown before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple account settings. For adults 18 and older. Privacy Policy: https://afterfire.broadbrain.dev/privacy/ Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AfterFire at Free against Recovery Timer's $0.99. AfterFire also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 48 months). Recovery Timer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

AfterFire is free to download; Recovery Timer costs $0.99 up front. AfterFire sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Recovery Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Recovery Timer against 5.0 for AfterFire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Recovery Timer ships an update every 48 months, AfterFire daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Recovery Timer versus AfterFire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRecovery TimerAfterFire
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 48 monthsDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB79 MB
Age rating4+17+
DevelopervGenerator LLCJacob Broadhead

In-app purchases

None

Recovery Timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

AfterFire

Subscriptions2
  • AfterFire Pro Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • AfterFire Pro Annual7 Days trial$79.991 Year

Questions

Is Recovery Timer free?
Recovery Timer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AfterFire free?
AfterFire is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Recovery Timer or AfterFire?
Recovery Timer and AfterFire are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Recovery Timer or AfterFire have ads?
Neither Recovery Timer nor AfterFire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Recovery Timer or AfterFire?
Recovery Timer ships an update every 48 months, and AfterFire daily. Most recently, Recovery Timer was updated on November 3, 2026 and AfterFire on November 10, 2026.

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