Custom Interval Timers vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Custom Interval Timers
Design personalized interval timers for workouts or productivity. Its intuitive editor allows for custom flows with various settings like countdowns and personalized interfaces. Offers light/dark modes and an option to disable ads.
- Customizable interval flows
- Intuitive timer editor
- Count up or down timers
- Personalized running interface
- Light/dark mode
- Ad-free option
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Create highly customizable interval timers in a beautiful Interface. Interval timers are useful for exercise, like High-intensity interval training (HIIT) or Tabata, and can also be used to manage productivity, events, and more! This app provides a fascinatingly simple and intuitive editor for setting up your own custom timers. With just a few building blocks you can create the exact experience you want. Multiple settings to match your preferences: - Count up or down - Personalize the running interface to show what matters to you - Light/dark mode - Disable ads for free!
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 update cadence: Workout Timer at every 4 weeks against Custom Interval Timers's every 4 months. Custom Interval Timers's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 80%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Custom Interval Timers holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Custom Interval Timers's written reviews are positive against 80% of Workout Timer's.
Custom Interval Timers ships an update every 4 months, Workout Timer every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Custom Interval Timers | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | 4.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alex Rich | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Custom Interval Timers
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
Custom Interval Timers
No in-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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