Comparison

Interval Timer vs Chrona

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

Head to head
About

Interval Timer

This versatile timer app is designed for various fitness routines, including HIIT, Tabata, and boxing. It also functions as a productivity timer and a kitchen timer, offering customizable settings for intervals, rounds, and rest periods.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval and rest times
  • Preset templates for boxing and martial arts
  • Productivity/Pomodoro timer function
  • Kitchen timer for cooking
  • Supports HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training
  • Warm-up and cool-down timers
Features
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Nice and simple Interval Timer for your Workouts. Perfect for HIIT, Tabata, Boxing, WOD, Crossfit and Fitness. Tabata Timer: Interval Timer for HIIT Workout Simple and convinient interval workout timer app for high intensity interval training (HIIT timer). Perfect stopwatch or countdown timer for your workouts. Fitness Timer for Interval Training This Tabata Timer is perfect for home workouts and daily workout routines for all your main muscle groups. You can use this circuit timer at gym and for home workout. In just a few minutes a day, you can build muscles and keep fitness with just your body weight. Use this hiit timer for fitness training for high intensity interval training at home or at gym. Boxing Timer - Round Timer for Martial Arts This workout timer can be used as Boxing Timer. You can set the number of boxing rounds, length of each round and rest interval. Use boxing timer for martial arts. Boxing timer can save templates for different fighting sports: Boxing, MMA, Kickboxing, Karate, Judo, Taekwondo, Jujutsu, Muay Thai, Aikido, Krav Maga, Capoeira, Wrestling etc. Productivity Timer - Pomodoro Timer You can even use this timer as a productivity timer or pomodoro timer to focus on your work tasks. Stay focused and productive with pomodoro timer. Configure and save pomodoro preset to use this productivity timer as pomodoro timer. Home Workout Timer - 7 Minute Workout Looking for home workout timer? This interval timer is perfect for 7 minute workout. Do you like 7 minute abs workout, abs workout at home, home workout with no equipment? This tabata timer will be useful for home exercises, home training and fitness at home. Warmup Timer - Round timer for Stretching and Morning Exercises Warmup and stretching is an important part of workout. If you do stretching and morning exercises every day, use this Warmup timer. This fitness timer for morning exercises has templates feature that allows you to start morning exercises in 1 click. Kitchen timer - Steak Timer, Egg Timer, Cooking Timer Going to cook a steak? Have a lot of cooking recipes in your kitchen book? Use this timer as kitchen timer. Kitchen timer can be used as steam timer, egg timer. Egg timer is perfect for egg cooking, steak timer will help to cook a steak. You can use this cooking timer for any cooking recipes in your kitchen book. Easy configuration - fast timer setup - Set warmup seconds time - Configure seconds timer for workout interval - Configure rest interval seconds - Enter amount of workout sets - Click start button Perfect for all exercises This timer can be uses as: workout timer, interval timer, tabata timer, hiit timer or circuit timer for your workouts. Timer is perfect for all kinds of exercises, including: - Tabata workouts - Boxing rounds - HIIT workouts (High Intensity Inverval Training) - Home Workout - Gym Workout - Training with weights - Bodyweight exercises - 7 minute abs workout - Weight loss workout - 5K Run - Interval Running - Six pack abs workout - Yoga and Meditation - WOD - TRX - Cardio exercises - Calisthenics - Stretching exercises - Kettlebells - Crossfit - Cycling or Exercise bike - Circuit workout - or any other high intensity interval training MAIN FEATURES: - Nice and simple ui - Fast timer setup - Templates to save your settings Try Tabata Timer: Interval Timer for HIIT Workout now!

About

Chrona

Features
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Chrona is a timer you'll actually want to look at — with serious HIIT, Tabata, and EMOM interval training built in. Most timer apps show you numbers. Chrona makes time tangible: a candle that burns down in real time and gutters out at zero. An eclipse that slides toward totality. An hourglass whose sand trickles grain by grain. Restart it, and the whole glass turns over. A bezel of sixty lights going out one by one. Every face ends with its own choreographed moment, synced to the completion sound. TIMERS • Six faces: Digital, Analog, Hourglass, Eclipse, Bezel, Candle • Run multiple timers at once with a focused hero view • Favorites, recents, quick adjustments (+10s, −1m, and more) • Eleven completion sounds, from soft chimes to solar alarms • Home screen widgets and Live Activities keep timers on your screen INTERVALS • Simple mode with one-tap presets — Tabata 20/10, 30/15, 40/20, and more • Custom multi-block workouts with warmup, cooldown, and per-block rounds • Pyramid and Ladder structures generated in one tap • Phase-colored timeline preview and spoken-out motivation • Phase sounds that work with your music, even in the background STOPWATCH • A precision analog chronograph face with lap hand and 30-minute sub-dial • Laps with splits, deltas, and best/worst highlighting • Live Activity support on the Lock Screen PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your timers never leave your device. CHRONA PREMIUM — one purchase, yours forever Unlock the Hourglass, Eclipse, Bezel, and Candle faces, premium sounds, custom multi-block workouts, and recovery tools. One-time purchase; No subscription.

Screenshots

Interval Timer4 screens
Chrona4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Chrona at 15.1 against Interval Timer's 17.6. On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Chrona sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Interval Timer versus Chrona: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval TimerChrona
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (152 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews29.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings152 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 7 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB52 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDMYTRO DOLOTOV3POV Ventures, LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions1
  • 1 Month Access$1.991 Month
One-time2
  • Lifetime Access -50%$4.99
  • Lifetime Access$9.99
1 purchases

Chrona

One-time1
  • Chrona Premium$4.99

Questions

Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chrona free?
Chrona is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Interval Timer or Chrona have ads?
Neither Interval Timer nor Chrona shows ads.

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