Comparison

Gymboss Interval Timer vs HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Gymboss Interval Timer

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various workouts, allowing users to set single or multiple work and rest periods. It offers extensive customization options for alarms, program saving, and display, ensuring a tailored timing experience for any fitness routine.

Highlights
  • Programmable interval timer
  • Unlimited intervals and rounds
  • Save and manage unlimited programs
  • Visual, audible, and vibrate alarms
  • Music access and dimming
  • Customizable display and background
Features
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The Gymboss Interval Timer app is a programmable interval timer perfect for any workout where timing is needed to time work and/or rest periods. You can time a single time interval, or multiple time intervals, and repeat them as many times as you wish. Perfect for running, HIIT, tabata, crossfit, home workouts, mma, boxing, weight lifting, stretching, or any other workout that requires timing. This app incorporates all of the recommendations we have received over the years from our users to bring you the best app possible. Thank you for your input!!! Customizable Features: - save programs to your iCloud Drive account - unlimited intervals - up to 99 rounds/repeats - unlimited saved programs - music access directly from the app - music dims for alarm - multiple alarm sounds - visual, audible, and vibrate alarm options - social sharing options - prevent sleep feature - screen lock - customizable, moving background colors - large, easy to read display - landscape mode option - set different alarms for each interval - change the end of program alarm - label activity names for each interval to be displayed - built in stopwatch - ability to make rounds box bigger or smaller - copy an entire program option Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

This app provides a customizable timer for various training styles, allowing users to focus on their workouts. It offers advanced features like location tracking and heart rate monitoring for detailed performance analysis. Enjoy voice coaching and background music to enhance your training experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable interval timers
  • Location tracking for routes and stats
  • Bluetooth heart rate monitor support
  • Voice coaching for tempo adjustment
  • Background music and sound notifications
  • Workout history and iCloud sync
Features
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Let our timer to coach your workouts so you can focus on actual training without staring at the watch. This timer meets the needs of amateurs as well as professionals. It was designed to be flexible and highly customisable so it can be used for all kinds of trainings. There is one important difference between this app and other apps on the App Store. No need to change timer configuration when switching exercises all the time. Create and configure timers once and use them multiple times. For more demanding users timers can be composed into entire workouts. All timers and workouts can be categorized into groups. For each timer can be enabled location tracking. With enabled location tracking you can seethe route and location based statistics like distance, speed, pace and altitude. Another great feature is support for heart rate training using a Bluetooth LE heart rate monitor. User can create multiple profiles and switch between them. Heart rate training profile contains all settings for your training like heart rate zones and notification options. During exercising user can be notified about current heart rate and zone. One heart rate zone can be selected as target zone. Voice coaching can notify the user to adjust tempo to stay in current zone. The user interface is designed to be clear and readable from a distance. For notification can be used vibrations, sounds and also text to speech voice. No more looking at the screen to know the current interval. Each timer is composed from intervals. Each interval has a configurable name, duration, color and music. Music can be set also for whole timer. Your workout sessions can be saved into history where you can see how you performed during exercising. All your timers and workout history can be synchronized into iCloud. Features: - Support for Apple Health (only for Full Version) - Synchronization to iCloud (only for Full Version) - Heart rate training feature. - Location tracking feature. - Timer sounds: last seconds, every second, interval end, timer finish and metronome. - Timer vibrations: last seconds, interval end and timer finish. - Timer text to speech voice: interval name, next interval name, duration at beginning of interval, current interval time, counting down for last seconds and timer finish. - Timers can be easily shared and duplicated. - Timers can be categorised into groups. - Timer music (playlist, album or song). - Multiple screens for running timer with different stats: Map, Location, Heart Rate, Timer, Intervals and Music - User can configure visual style for timer screens. - Screens for running timer can be locked. - Each interval has configurable duration, name, color and music. - Runs and plays music on background. - Universal app, works on iPhone and iPad. - Max interval duration is 99 hours 59 minutes and 59 seconds. - Max number of sets is 999. Free version includes ads and other restrictions that can be removed with Full Version InApp Purchase. If you have enable Track Location option please note: Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.

Screenshots

Gymboss Interval Timer4 screens
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

Gymboss Interval Timer and HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite's written reviews are positive against 37% of Gymboss Interval Timer's. HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gymboss Interval Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year and HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Gymboss Interval Timer against 4.7 for HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 797 and 357 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 37% of Gymboss Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 82% of HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gymboss Interval Timer ships an update every 5 weeks, HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gymboss Interval Timer versus HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGymboss Interval TimerHIIT & Tabata Timer Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (797 ratings)4.7 (357 ratings)
Positive reviews36.7% of reviews81.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings797 — better357
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGymboss LLCDenciSoft s.r.o.

Customer experience

Gymboss Interval Timer

All ratings797 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews270 reviews
Positive36.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative50.0%

HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

All ratings357 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.1%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral4.3%
Negative14.1%

User reviews

Gymboss Interval Timer

From 797 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Simple yet effective
  • 🚀 Perfect gym partner
  • 🚀 Grad App
  • 🚀 Great
  • 🚀 Simple easy to plan and workout

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Clear data
  • 🐛 Glitchy
  • 🐛 Another buggy update
  • 🐛 Landscape / portrait bugs
  • 🐛 Sagging under bugs

HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

From 357 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
  • 🚀 Great for HIIT and Tabata
  • 💡 Highly customizable timers and settings
  • 🎵 Integrates well with music playback
  • 💪 Functional for various workout types

Room to improve

  • 💰 Limited free version functionality
  • 🐛 Paid version bugs and glitches
  • 👎 Misleading information about free version
  • 😠 Frequent and intrusive ads
  • 📱 Incompatibility with newer OS versions

Bugs and requests

Gymboss Interval Timer

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Timer no longer beeps when screen is locked or app is in background
  • Intervals disappear or get shuffled after updates
  • Unable to save new workouts
  • All workout sounds have gone
  • Crashes when trying to edit intervals
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  • Reordering of saved workouts
  • Ads cover the timer screen
  • Timer stops working when screen is locked or app is in background

Requested features

9 requests
  • Verbal prompts like a countdown "3-2-1 Go!" and "3-2-1 Rest"
  • Ability to lock the screen
  • Option to see what's coming next
  • Workout block of 60/30/30 rather than just high and low
  • Ability to start from partway through the sequence
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  • Back and forward button to skip to the wanted element or go back during the sequence
  • Different alarm sounds for each interval/color
  • Countdown, CountUp feature
  • Dark mode option

HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Paid version 'piramide mode' does not work
  • App freezes when initiating timer settings on iOS 11.2.2
  • Audio cues stop working when phone screen is locked
  • Music for intervals not working correctly
  • Frequent full-screen ads interrupting setup and usage
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  • App abruptly freezes when initiating a workout timer setting

Requested features

5 requests
  • Allow starting song at a certain point
  • Loop a song for the entire workout
  • Volume of music drops when voice cue plays
  • More advanced timer customization options
  • Improved handling of music playback with voice cues

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Gymboss Interval Timer

Subscriptions1
  • Gymboss Premium Yearly$1.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Sound and Color Bundle$0.99
3 purchases

HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Unlimited Timers$1.99
  • Full Version$2.99

Questions

Is Gymboss Interval Timer free?
Gymboss Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite free?
HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gymboss Interval Timer or HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite?
Gymboss Interval Timer and HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 797 and 357 ratings respectively.
Do Gymboss Interval Timer or HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite have ads?
Neither Gymboss Interval Timer nor HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gymboss Interval Timer or HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite?
Gymboss Interval Timer ships an update every 5 weeks, and HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite every 6 weeks. Most recently, Gymboss Interval Timer was updated on October 14, 2026 and HIIT & Tabata Timer Lite on October 16, 2026.

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