Workout Timer vs Round Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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://
Round Timer
This interval timer offers extensive customization for workouts, training, or any timed activity. Features include custom presets, sound libraries, voice announcements, and detailed session tracking. Enjoy an intuitive, ad-free experience designed for flexibility.
- Customizable colors
- Custom presets
- Rich sound library
- Voice announcements
- Proximity sensor support
- Shake-to-pause
- Detailed session summaries
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Round is the ultra-customizable interval timer designed to supercharge anything you do. It’s packed with features like customizable colors, custom presets, a rich library of sounds, voice announcements, proximity sensor support, shake-to-pause, and precise time entry. Track your sessions with detailed summaries, enable tick sounds, and enjoy an intuitive, ad-free interface. Perfect for any activity, from sports to work.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Workout Timer at none against Round Timer's 1. Workout Timer also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 67%). Round Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Round Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Workout Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Round Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 23 and 14 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Round Timer's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Workout Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, Round Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | Round Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 4.9 (14 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Yauhen Bahdanovich |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
Round Timer
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Round Timer
- Round Pro$0.99
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