Stretch vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stretch
This app provides a simple countdown timer with large, preset buttons for various activities. It runs in the background, offers customizable durations, and tracks how many times timers have been used. Ideal for workouts, cooking, or any timed task.
- Preset countdown timers
- Large, easy-to-use buttons
- Background operation
- Timer duration editing
- Timer run count tracking
- Repeat timers indefinitely
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Stretch - A continuous period of time. Stretch is a count down timer. It's designed to be to as simple as possible. It comes with five large buttons, each of which starts a preset count down timer, and a large reset button to stop the count down should you wish. It also keeps a count of how many times the count down has been run. Stretch is useful for lots of things. Here's a quick list of things you might time with Stretch: - Stretching! - Exercising - Rest periods - Boiling eggs - Steeping tea - Brewing coffee - Naughty corner Stretch timers will run in the background and while your device is locked and the alerts will mix nicely with other audio if it's playing. There are options to disable the auto-lock, and to repeat timers indefinitely. Instructions: - Timer durations can be edited by tapping and holding a button until the editor opens. - The count can be reset by tapping it.
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://
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stretch at none against Workout Timer's shown. Stretch also leads on ratings volume (231 vs 23) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Workout Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Stretch against 4.7 for Workout Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Stretch has 231 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Stretch's written reviews are positive against 80% of Workout Timer's.
Stretch ships an update every 2 months, Workout Timer every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stretch | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (231 ratings) — better | 4.7 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 231 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Runloop Ltd | FugaPiyo Inc. |
Customer experience
Stretch
Workout Timer
Bugs and requests
Stretch
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on Launch
- Freezes and Becomes Unresponsive
Requested features
6 requests- Reset Count Option
- Multiple Timers
- Countdown Warnings
- Vibration Option
- Apple Watch Support
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- Customizable Sounds
Workout Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stretch
No in-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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