Comparison

Intervals vs Orbit

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

Head to head
About

Intervals

Create custom workout timers with adjustable durations, repeat counts, and rest periods. The app remembers your settings for quick access to your favorite routines.

Highlights
  • Customizable timer duration
  • Adjustable repeat counts
  • Configurable rest times
  • Saves previous settings
  • Simple, no-fuss interface
Features
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This is a no-fuss fitness timer: - Set timer duration - Set timer repeat amount - Set rest time between repeats - Remembers your settings for next time

About

Orbit

Features
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Orbit is a focus timer designed for brains that drift — built for ADHD, friendly for everyone. Start a focus block and watch the ring fill like an orbit. Each completed block is one orbit — no streaks to shame you, no harvest to lose. Just gentle momentum you can actually feel. FOCUS, SIMPLY • A large, glanceable countdown ring • Turn the Digital Crown (watch) to set your focus length • Distinct haptics for focus and break completions • Automatic focus → break → long-break cycles ON YOUR WATCH FACE • Add a complication and your countdown lives right on your watch face • Glance from the Smart Stack without opening the app BUILT TO ADAPT • Orbit learns from your finished blocks and "I got distracted" taps • Optional heart-rate awareness suggests shorter blocks when you're agitated • Every suggestion is transparent — you stay in control GENTLE MOTIVATION • Orbits completed today, focus minutes, and a no-pressure streak • A 7-day chart and a focus heatmap of your history • End-of-block alerts so you never lose track iPHONE + APPLE WATCH • Start on your phone, continue on your wrist — they sync live • History follows you through iCloud PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device and your own iCloud • Completed focus time can be saved to Health as Mindful Minutes Find your orbit.

Screenshots

Intervals4 screens
Orbit2 screens

Verdict

The call

Intervals and Orbit are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Intervals versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIntervalsOrbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMatthew WalerTejas Bharambe

In-app purchases

None

Intervals

No in-app purchases

None

Orbit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Intervals free?
Intervals is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Intervals or Orbit have ads?
Neither Intervals nor Orbit shows ads.

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