Best Interval Timer vs Tabaline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Tabaline
This app provides a customizable timer for high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and other workout types. It features a clean design, voice guidance, and background operation. Track your progress and sync with your health data.
- Customizable Tabata and HIIT timers
- Voice guidance for workouts
- Background operation support
- Workout tracking
- Health app integration
- Universal app support (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch)
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Tabaline is a clean, simple, but powerful timer app for Tabata, also for HIIT, Crossfit, Running, Cycling, etc. Tabaline has the most unique personality with stunning design. The function is powerful enough, but not too complicated to make you confused like some other apps. It is the right app for you. Have a try, you’ll fall in love with it, and can't work without it. Main Features: - Clean & Clear & Graceful use logic and UI - Universal app, works on all devices! (iPhone, iPad, Apple watch, etc) - Easy to create any kind of Tabata timer - Portrait and landscape mode are supported - Voice guide you through your workout - Track your workout - Runs in the background - Apple watch app - Integrates with the Health app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Best Interval Timer at 89% against Tabaline's 0%. Best Interval Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (81 vs 1). Tabaline's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 12 months). On price 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. Tabaline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tabaline holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. 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 complicate that: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 0% of Tabaline's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Tabaline every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | Tabaline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | 林 卢 |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
Tabaline
Bugs and 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
Tabaline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
Tabaline
- Pro Features$2.99
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