Best Interval Timer vs Simple Workout 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.
Simple Workout Timer
This app provides a customizable timer to support your workouts. It can send notifications, record active energy and workout data to Apple Health, and display your workout history. Calculate active energy burned with detailed input options.
- Customizable workout timer
- Workout notifications
- Record to Apple Health
- View workout history
- Active energy calculation
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This App will support workout. Timer can be customized. Main Function ・Workout timer. ・Notifications. ・Record Active Energy and Workouts to Apple Health. ・View history. Active Energy ・Ex. METs 3.5, Weight 50 kg, Time 30 min. (3.5 - 1) x 50 x (30 / 60) x 1.05 = 65.6 kcal. Optional permission requests ・Apple Health: It is used to record data in Apple Health. ・Tracking: It is used to deliver personalized ads to you. ・Notifications: It is used to sending notifications. Languages ・Japanese, English.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Simple Workout Timer at every 3 months against Best Interval Timer's every 12 months. Best Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 21). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Best Interval Timer against 4.7 for Simple Workout Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 21 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 86% of Simple Workout Timer's.
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Simple Workout Timer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | Simple Workout Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 4.7 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Intersect |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
Simple Workout 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
Simple Workout Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
Simple Workout Timer
No in-app purchases
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