Workout Timer vs HIITLY
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://
HIITLY
This interval timer app allows for quick setup of custom workouts with adjustable intervals, rest periods, and rounds. It offers voice cues or beeps, background functionality, and detailed workout history to track progress. Ideal for HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training.
- Customizable intervals, rest, and rounds
- Voice cues or beeps
- Background functionality
- Detailed workout history and stats
- Repeat past workouts
- Unlimited custom timer creation
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A simple and beautiful interval timer built for your workouts. Set it up in seconds: Just drag to customize your intervals workout, rest, rounds, and more. Tap to start. That’s it. Your music stays in control: ∙ Continue using your favorite music apps during workouts. ∙ Choose between voice cues or beeps for each interval. ∙ Multitask freely — audio guides keep you on track even when you switch apps or follow an online workout. No more manual tracking: ∙ Access detailed history and stats to monitor your progress. ∙ Instantly repeat past workouts without setting them up again. Perfect for HIIT, Tabata, Stretch and circuit training. The app is designed for high-intensity interval training with features made for serious results: Display rounds, cycles, and durations clearly. Built-in interval stopwatch. Fully functional in the background. Create and save unlimited custom timers. Voice guidance to keep you focused. Got ideas to make the app better? Tap “Contact Support” in the app and share them with us — we’re always working to improve our Interval Timer!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HIITLY at none against Workout Timer's shown. HIITLY also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 weeks). Workout Timer's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HIITLY holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Workout Timer ships an update every 4 weeks, HIITLY every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer | HIITLY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FugaPiyo Inc. | Matys Bouziane |
Customer experience
Workout Timer
HIITLY
In-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
HIITLY
No in-app purchases
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