Interval Timer vs Quick Steps
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Interval Timer
This app helps you manage workout intervals with customizable work and rest periods. It runs in the background and allows music playback, with options to save settings and share progress. Integrates with Apple Health for heart rate monitoring.
- Customizable sets, intervals, and rest times
- Runs in background and with screen locked
- Music playlist integration
- Save settings as templates
- Apple Health integration for heart rate
- Post workouts to social media
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***Free and reliable. Perfect for use at home, at the track or in the gym. We’re proud to introduce this handy little app that helps you keep track of your work and rest periods during workouts. Whether your into cycling, running, lifting weights, exercise, workout, stretching, boxing, MMA or HIT, this interval timer will prove to be an invaluable asset to you. Running foreground, background or with device locked, this reliable app allows you specify an overall time as well as program High/Low intensity interval and rest time between sets. Produced by Polycents! Key Features: - Customizable sets, high/low intensity interval and rest for your own need - Retina display, iOS4 and multitasking - Continue to run even when screen is locked - Play your song or playlist during your workout - Post your workout to Facebook or Twitter - Save settings as templates Customizable Features: - Number of Sets - Countdown Time - Set Time - Low Interval time - High Interval time - Rest Time - First Interval (low or high) - Sound Volume - Timer Sounds - Auto Lock - Vibrate - Pause during Rest - Playlist - New Each Set APPLE HEALTH: -Interval Timer can use Apple Health to show heart rate in Apple Watch App. # Subscription Details # - Monthly and annual subscriptions are available. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. - Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period. - Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription. - Subscriptions can be managed by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/18915396 Privacy Policy: https://www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/18915396
Quick Steps
This app helps runners improve their stride rate to increase speed and reduce injury risk. It provides audio cues to guide your pace and tracks your running activity, even when in the background. Customize your target cadence for personalized training.
- Improve running cadence
- Audio step-sound cues
- Customizable target cadence
- Background activity tracking
- Run summary with average cadence
- Reduce injury risk
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Quick Steps is a fitness app to help improve your running cadence (steps per minute). 180 steps per minute has been recognised as the ideal running cadence. By increasing your cadence, you will be able to run faster and will be less prone to certain types of injury. The free version of Quick Steps defaults to a cadence of 180 steps per minute and will display your current cadence and activity time. It will also play a step-sound at 180 beats per minute to allow you to synchronise your cadence to 180. Through in-app purchase, you can change the target cadence to suit your needs. Using this feature, you can ease towards 180 steps per minute. If you put Quick Steps in the background the sound will continue to play, allowing you to add cadence training to your workout alongside other fitness apps. Quick Steps still tracks your activity, even in the background. At the end of your run, hold down the stop button to finish and show a summary of your activity, including an average cadence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Interval Timer at 73% against Quick Steps's 0%. Interval Timer also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 13 months). Quick Steps's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (10.3 vs 13.0). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Interval Timer sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Quick Steps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Interval Timer has 19K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Quick Steps's.
Interval Timer ships an update every 9 days, Quick Steps every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Interval Timer | Quick Steps |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (19K ratings) — better | 1.0 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NEO PIXEL LABS PTE. LTD. | Richard Levy |
Customer experience
Interval Timer
Quick Steps
Bugs and requests
Interval Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Ads block functionality
- App freezes or crashes
- Timer doesn't work in background
Requested features
5 requests- Add notes to workouts
- Provide workout history and analytics
- Allow syncing with Apple Health
- Improve Apple Watch integration
- Add more customization options
Quick Steps
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Interval Timer
- Plus - 1 Month$0.991 Month
- Premium - 1 Month$1.991 Month
- Plus - 1 Month$1.991 Month
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- Premium - 1 Month$2.991 Month
- Plus - 1 Year2 variants$4.991 Year
- Premium - 1 Year7 Days trial2 variants$9.991 Year
Quick Steps
- Change Target Cadence$0.99
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