Comparison

Best Interval Timer vs Tabata Timer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Tabata Timer

This app offers a professional and user-friendly interval training timer. Customize workout plans, set durations for various sessions, and receive smart voice prompts. It supports background operation, music integration, and Apple Watch.

Highlights
  • Customizable training plans
  • Smart voice prompts
  • Automatic music playback
  • Background operation
  • Apple Watch support
  • Apple Health integration
Features
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Congratulations! You have found the most professional and easy-to-use Tabata Timer in App Store. Are you a bodybuilder still follow the video or music? Let go of old ways. They could just help to learn moves, but then you have to adjust the training plan accordingly to make your efforts worked. This is different from those with complex operation or gaudy functions. It is easy to set up all kinds of circuit training plans. You can custom moves pool, adjust theirs duration flexibly, and the dial interface is the settings page that allows you to complete most of the normal operations. WYSIWYG! Next time you work out, maybe you’d like to try this practical voice coach fitness app! This app also has more powerful and practical functions. It includes warm-up, cold-down, recover and work out sessions, and also theirs duration can be changed flexibly. It can change the music automatically during your workout if you have subscribed the apple music service. This app is suitable for personal trainers, fitness enthusiasts, bodybuilders, athletes, home exerciser and etc. Use with Tabata, HIIT, weight training, kettlebells, HIIT running, sprints, HIIT treadmill, and any interval fitness training. Help to establish a scientific, systematic, based on your characteristics and personalized training program and maximize your workout are all we can do. Depends on no equipment and exercise anywhere or anytime! Hope you enjoy it. AT A GLANCE: + Easy to customize you training plan + Smart voice prompts + Automatically play and change music + Runs in the background + prompts the next workout name + Fully customizable times, cycles and tabatas + Clean and smart design + Great on iphone X + Support Siri ("Hey Siri, start a workout using GoFit Now") + Support Apple Watch, Standalone Apple Watch workouts. Leave your iPhone at home! + Apple Health integration MORE INFORMATION: • Easy Customize Touch what you want to change to set work time, rest time, cycles, tabata, warm up time and cooldown time. Stopwatchs can be set in 1 second increments up to 60 minutes! • Customize your training plan You can custom every single attribute like moves and its duration, and accordingly the voice system will prompts you what the next move is. • Smart voice prompts system this app will alerts you when it is time to work, rest, warmup or cooldown, even when this app is running in the background. You can preset your workout names for per cycle, and this app will call out them while the timer begins working. You can turn off the voice prompts, and choose the vibration mode. • Automatically play music this app allows you to set different playlists for each of the work duration, rest duration, warm up duration and cooldown duration, and is easy to change the currently playing song in iPhone control center. Or you can just choose any music app you like, this app supports multitasking. • Runs in the background When the timer starts working, you can lock screen and run it in the background, and have it play voice prompts. Once your training plan ends, it won't run in the background any more, in case of more battery drain.

Screenshots

Best Interval Timer4 screens
Tabata Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Best Interval Timer at none against Tabata Timer's 1. Best Interval Timer also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (89% vs 75%). Tabata Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 12 months). On price and device support 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. Tabata Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Best Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Best Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 75% of Tabata Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Tabata Timer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Best Interval Timer versus Tabata Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Interval TimerTabata Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (81 ratings) — better4.3 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings81 — better26
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵宇超 朱

Customer experience

Best Interval Timer

All ratings81 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral6.8%
Negative3.9%

Tabata Timer

All ratings26 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral11.5%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

Tabata Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Best Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Tabata Timer

One-time1
  • UNLIMITED TABATA TIMER$2.99

Questions

Is Best Interval Timer free?
Best Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tabata Timer free?
Tabata Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Best Interval Timer or Tabata Timer?
Best Interval Timer is rated higher. Best Interval Timer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Tabata Timer averages 4.3 from 26 ratings.
Do Best Interval Timer or Tabata Timer have ads?
Best Interval Timer shows ads; Tabata Timer does not.
Which is updated more often, Best Interval Timer or Tabata Timer?
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, and Tabata Timer weekly. Most recently, Best Interval Timer was updated on October 11, 2026 and Tabata Timer on October 3, 2026.

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