Workout vs Best Interval Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Workout
This app helps manage and control interval training sessions. Define work and rest periods, set the number of cycles, and choose audio feedback to guide your workouts. It's useful for enhancing fitness and structuring repetitive tasks.
- Customizable work and rest intervals
- Adjustable number of cycles
- Audio feedback options (alert/sound)
- Background music compatibility
- Versatile for various repetitive tasks
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Interval training is one of the best methods to enhance your physical fitness and burn calories and is therefore a basic part of many physical exercise and workout sessions. It is broadly defined as repetitions of high-speed/intensity work followed by periods of rest or low activity. This application helps to manage and control the intervals. Just define the duration of the work and relax periods and the number of cycles you want to do. You can choose whether you want audio feedback by alert or sound. So you can listen to your music without monitoring the screen. Despite enhancing your health this application can be used to structure any kind of repetitive work.
Best Interval Timer
This app acts as your personal coach, guiding you through workouts with customizable routines. Focus on your exercise while it manages timing for warm-up, high/low intensity intervals, cool-downs, and rest periods.
- Customizable workout routines
- Warm-up, intensity, cool-down, rest periods
- Background and multitasking support
- Adjustable interval sounds and vibrations
- Workout practice tracking
- Landscape and portrait orientation
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This app is like your personal coach, just focus on your workout without having to worry about time, Best Interval Timer will lead you to finish them perfectly. There is one default routine in this free version, but you can edit it to your own one which include warm-up, high/low intensity, cool down and rest time etc, you can custom as many sets as you wish to do. Key Features: ⁃ One default routine. ⁃ Big readable counting down time. ⁃ Start, pause or reset routine. ⁃ Warm up, low intensity, high intensity, cool down, rest time. ⁃ Support background, foreground playing and multitasking. ⁃ Music plays. ⁃ Vibrate or not. ⁃ 15 interval switch sounds. ⁃ 12 background interval pictures available. ⁃ Show number of times you have practiced of one routine. ⁃ Support landscape and portrait. ⁃ Create one reminder to alert you doing your workout. ⁃ Supports universal version. If you have any question or suggestion, please send email to our support userfeed@vip.tom.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Best Interval Timer at 89% against Workout's 30%. Best Interval Timer also leads on price (Free vs $1.99) and rating (4.6 vs 3.0). Workout's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On update cadence, in-app purchases, 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
Best Interval Timer is free to download; Workout costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Best Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Interval Timer has 81 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 30% of Workout's written reviews are positive against 89% of Best Interval Timer's.
Workout ships an update every 8 months, Best Interval Timer every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Workout | Best Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (81 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.0% of reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 81 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 8 months — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Piet Jonas | 倩 赵 |
Customer experience
Workout
Best Interval Timer
Bugs and requests
Workout
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Best Interval Timer
Reported bugs
7 issues- App stops working after rating notification
- Buttons don't work after rating notification
- Crashes when saving timers
- Crashes when editing exercises
- Freezes and stops working
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- Lost all timers after reinstalling
- Side view unusable
Requested features
10 requests- Ability to save multiple intervals/routines
- Voice cues for start/stop
- Apple Watch compatibility
- Larger buttons and text
- Option to save different schedules (e.g., Tabata)
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- Fix crashing when saving timers
- Fix crashing when editing exercises
- Improve side view usability
- Remove ads or reduce frequency
- Option to have cool down at the end of all intervals
In-app purchases
Workout
No in-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Workout free?
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