Beautiful Timer vs Workout Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beautiful Timer
This utility app offers three distinct timer types: a simple elapsed time tracker, a countdown alarm, and a date timer for past or future events. Its unique visual design features intricate spinning gears to enhance the user experience.
- Elapsed time tracking
- Countdown alarm
- Date timer
- Spinning gear visuals
- Supports iPhone, iPad, iPod
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Beautiful Timer will mesmerize you with it's intricate spinning gears while you watch it track one of three different types of timers: (1) A simple timer (counting upwards to track elapsed time) (2) A count-down alarm (set hours, minutes, seconds) (3) A Date timer (set any date/time in the past or future)
Workout Timer
This app helps you precisely manage your exercise routines with customizable timers for work and rest periods. Create multiple custom timers with specific durations and repetitions for various training styles. It offers ready-made presets to quickly set up your workouts and focus on your fitness.
- Customizable workout timers
- Set work and break durations
- Multiple repetition settings
- Interval training support
- HIIT and circuit workout friendly
- Pre-set workout durations
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Workout Timer is a simple and powerful app designed to help you manage your workouts with precision and ease. Whether you are training at home, in the gym, or outdoors, this app keeps your sessions organized and on track. You can create multiple custom timers, each with its own name, number of repetitions, workout duration, and break time between rounds. This makes it perfect for interval training, HIIT, circuit workouts, strength training, and cardio routines. While creating a timer, you can quickly choose from ready-made workout presets of 5, 10, 15, or 20 minutes to save time and get started faster. For rest periods, the app offers convenient break time presets of 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes, or 5 minutes, helping you maintain the right balance between effort and recovery. Workout Timer is built to be easy to use, flexible, and reliable, allowing you to focus fully on your training instead of watching the clock. Set your routine once, start the timer, and stay consistent with every workout.
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Verdict
Beautiful Timer and Workout Timer both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Workout Timer's written reviews are positive against 50% of Beautiful Timer's. Workout Timer also leads on price (Free vs $0.99) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 39 months). Beautiful Timer's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads 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
Workout Timer is free to download; Beautiful Timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beautiful Timer against 5.0 for Workout Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Beautiful Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Workout Timer's.
Beautiful Timer ships an update every 39 months, Workout Timer every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beautiful Timer | Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paul Nettle | TROTHMATRIX |
Customer experience
Beautiful Timer
Workout Timer
In-app purchases
Beautiful Timer
No in-app purchases
Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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