GymRest vs Custom Fitness Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GymRest
This app provides a streamlined interval timer designed for focused workouts. It features simple tap controls for starting, stopping, and resetting sets, with automatic cloud saving of timer settings. Alarms and notifications alert you when time is up.
- Tap to start/stop
- Long press to set duration
- Set and reset counting
- Alarm and notification alerts
- Automatic cloud saving
- Minimalist interface
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The most focused interval timer built for weight training. Features: · Tap to start / stop · Long press to set duration · Count your sets, long press to reset · Alarm and notification when time's up · Timer settings saved to the cloud automatically No menus. No settings screens. Just what you need.
Custom Fitness Timer
Create and manage custom timers for various fitness activities like countdowns, intervals, and work/rest periods. Features include intuitive navigation, a press-and-hold stopwatch, and optional sound alerts. Personalize timers with custom names and colors to match different phases.
- Unlimited custom timer creation
- Countdown timer
- Interval timer
- Work/Rest timer
- Press and hold stopwatch
- Optional timer sounds
- Color-coded timer phases
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This custom fitness timer application offers: -Intuitive navigation -A Press and Hold Stop Watch -Free unlimited new timer creation -Three timer varieties: -Countdown -Interval -Work/Rest -Optional timer end and warning sounds -Color change to indicate timer phase -Customer timer naming
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Custom Fitness Timer at 100% against GymRest's 0%. Custom Fitness Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 22 months). GymRest's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). 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.
Custom Fitness Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Custom Fitness Timer has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of GymRest's written reviews are positive against 100% of Custom Fitness Timer's.
GymRest ships an update every 22 months, Custom Fitness Timer every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GymRest | Custom Fitness Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 22 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Seito Horiguchi | Jared Rosenthal |
Customer experience
GymRest
Custom Fitness Timer
In-app purchases
GymRest
No in-app purchases
Custom Fitness Timer
No in-app purchases
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