Workout Timer Interval & HIIT vs Intervale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout Timer Interval & HIIT
This app offers customizable interval timers for various training styles like HIIT, Tabata, and Crossfit. Track your progress, enjoy background music, and switch between light and dark modes to enhance your fitness routine.
- Customizable interval timers
- Supports HIIT, Tabata, WOD, Crossfit, EMOM, AMRAP
- Historical workout tracking
- Background music playback
- Light and dark mode themes
- Intuitive interface
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The simplest way to time any workout. Set your intervals, hit start, and go. Free forever - no trials, no expiry, no catch. Whether you're doing HIIT, Tabata, boxing rounds, running intervals, circuit training, or just need a reliable stopwatch, Interval Trainer gets out of your way and lets you focus on the work. FREE - FOREVER - Unlimited interval timers with custom rounds, work, and rest periods - Segment-based timing with Warm-up, Prep, Work, Rest, and Cool-down phases - Color and sound cues so you never miss a transition - Runs in the background while your music keeps playing - 6 themes and light/dark mode PREMIUM - Workout history - track progress and stay consistent - Custom workout builder - save and reuse your favourite sessions - Ad-free experience Download free and start your first session in under a minute. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/6125dabf-a638-49d7-b81e-118dfbb88572
Intervale
Create custom interval timers for various workouts, including HIIT, rehab, and stretching. Get spoken cues and haptic feedback to guide you through each step. Seamlessly integrate with Apple Health to track your progress.
- Customizable named steps with work/rest times
- Spoken cues and haptic feedback
- Background operation with screen locked
- Routine creation for multiple timers
- Apple Health integration for workout tracking
- Siri and Shortcuts support
- Timer sharing via links or QR codes
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Intervale is an interval timer for HIIT, Tabata, circuits, physio and rehab exercises, and stretching. Build a timer from your own named steps, give each its own work and rest time, and run it with spoken cues and haptics on iPhone or Apple Watch. - Build named timers from your own steps, each with its own work and rest time. - Add both sides of an exercise in one go, and keep the left and right times in step if you like. - Repeat for as many rounds as you like, with an optional rest between rounds. - Big, glanceable countdown with colour-coded work and rest, and what comes next always on screen. - Sounds, spoken cues and haptics mark every change, so you never need to look at your phone. They play over your music without turning it down. - Keeps running in the background and with the screen locked. - Choose the cue sound and volume, and set the sound and haptics for each timer separately. - Favourite timers and routines start from the Home Screen icon's quick actions. ROUTINES - Put timers together in a routine, in the order you want, with a break between each one. - A break can be a set time, or wait until you tap Start now. - Timers are linked, not copied, so changing a timer changes it in every routine that uses it. APPLE HEALTH - Save finished timers to Apple Health as a workout (HIIT, strength, core, yoga, Pilates and more) or as mindful minutes. Pick the type for each timer. - Your step names are saved with the workout, so you can see the work in the Health app. - On Apple Watch, workouts record your heart rate and active calories and count towards your Activity rings. - On iPhone with iOS 26 or later, the workout is recorded live and Apple measures your active calories. Intervale never estimates calories itself. - It is optional. Every timer works the same without Apple Health, and you can switch it off at any time. - Your Health data stays on your device and is never sent anywhere. SIRI AND SHORTCUTS - Say "Start Leg day rehab in Intervale" on iPhone or Apple Watch to run one of your timers. - Ask "What timers do I have in Intervale" to hear your list. - Both are available in the Shortcuts app too, so you can add a timer to an automation or your Home Screen. SHARE AND DISCOVER - Send a timer as a link in one tap, with no upload, or make a page with a QR code that you can set to expire or stop. - Add timers other people share with you, and see how often your own links were viewed and added. - Discover ready-made timers, and change them once they are yours. - Ask for one of your shared timers to be featured on Discover. It is reviewed before anyone else sees it. APPLE WATCH - Run your timers from the wrist with taps for every change, even with your wrist down. - Sessions file into History on your iPhone. ACCOUNTS (OPTIONAL) - Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. You never have to: every timer works without an account. - Your timers appear on every device you sign in on. - Your shared links stay saved with your account, including on a new phone. - Delete your account in the app at any time. HISTORY AND FOLDABLES - History shows the workouts you have finished, with calories where they were saved. - On iPhone Duo, opened out sideways, your timers and the editor sit side by side, and the running timer shows the steps still to come. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Without an account, everything stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Intervale at none against Workout Timer Interval & HIIT's 3. Intervale also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). Workout Timer Interval & HIIT's advantage is ratings volume (146 vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Workout Timer Interval & HIIT sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Intervale asks for nothing beyond the download.
Intervale holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Workout Timer Interval & HIIT has 146 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Workout Timer Interval & HIIT ships an update fortnightly, Intervale every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout Timer Interval & HIIT | Intervale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (146 ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 146 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Jansen | Stephen Dawson |
Customer experience
Workout Timer Interval & HIIT
Intervale
Bugs and requests
Workout Timer Interval & HIIT
Reported bugs
24 issues- App stops in background
- Timer resets when phone sleeps
- Work/Rest options not accurate
- Cannot change interval times for multiple rounds
- App stops when phone goes to sleep
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- Free version unreliable
- App dies in foreground
- Watch app only works in foreground
- Update broke purchase history
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- App dies when you Lock Screen or switch to another app
- Timer stops when Watch is dark
- Cannot hear countdowns with music
- Nothing fits on screen
- Doesn't persist in background
- Voice volume too low
- Stops when leaving app
- Needs connection for a timer
- Unauthorized purchase
- Max rest time of 2 minutes
- Cannot set long work intervals
- Paid version not premium
- Limited flexibility
Requested features
18 requests- Add multiple voices
- Add sounds for cycle end
- Louder notifications/vibration
- Ability to add break between sessions
- Naming exercises
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- Skip function for faster work completion
- Increase pre-countdown time
- Create preset timers
- Ability to close app and timer keeps going
- Work:rest ratio option
- See countdown on main screen
- Pre-countdown before work starts
- Add a preparation period before starting
- Add rest at the end
- Different color and sound for rest
- Longer rest periods
- Higher work interval limits
- Add vibration capability
Intervale
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Workout Timer Interval & HIIT
- Monthly subscription$2.991 Month
- Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
- Premium$29.99
Intervale
No in-app purchases
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