Best Interval Timer vs Pro Timer
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.
Pro Timer
This interval timer app helps users create and manage custom workout circuits for high-intensity interval training. It offers intuitive design, quick circuit setup, and audio/visual cues to guide users through exercises. Users can also share their custom routines with others.
- Create custom workout circuits
- Quick circuit start
- Audio and visual cues
- Share circuits with friends
- Workout reminders
- Background mode support
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Whether you're leading a HIIT class, coaching a client or just trying to get in shape, Pro Timer got you covered. Unlike traditional timer apps we care about both design and simplicity. Pro Timer lets you create and time circuits in a new, intuitive and fast way. Like us, we want you to enjoy and focus on your workouts without having to keep track of either time or exercise. - Create new Circuits or use one of our built-in example Circuits - Quick start a Circuit in just two clicks, handy for those sparring rounds! - Stay up-to-date with new (free) Circuits in the Pro Timer store, made by experts exclusively for Pro Timer - Share your Circuits with friends or receive and import Circuits - Find, add and rearrange Exercises - Start your workout and let Pro Timer tell you what to do using audio and visual cues. - Workout reminders - Supports background mode Pro Timer, when success is your only option!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Best Interval Timer at Free against Pro Timer's $0.99. Best Interval Timer also leads on ratings volume (81 vs 1). Pro Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On in-app purchases 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
Best Interval Timer is free to download; Pro Timer costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pro Timer 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 point the same way: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pro Timer's.
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Pro Timer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | Pro Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Wesley Scheper |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
Pro Timer
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
Pro Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
Pro Timer
No in-app purchases
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