Best Interval Timer vs FITimer
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.
FITimer
This fitness app helps you create and track custom interval workouts with audible cues. It also supports continuous run/walk tracking with detailed statistics and saves your workout history.
- Customizable interval timers
- Preset interval options
- Continuous run/walk tracking
- Workout history log
- Audible interval cues
- Background operation
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FITimer is an interval timer application for fitness training on mobile devices. The app has a very simple interface to quickly create custom time-based or select preprogrammed intervals. You can also create a fixed number of sets or go infinite reps. While running, the app provides an audible beep for transitioning to the next interval. Well, you're not in it for the intervals? That's okay, we got continuous run/walk tracking too. Your workouts run in the background with music and provide you the important information of the workout including distance covered, duration, number of sets, pace, etc. as applicable. All workouts are saved in the 'History" tab, with a symbol and date that can help you find the one you are looking for. Some of the key features of FITimer : - A clean and easy to use interface from the start of the app, that guides the user through the application. - Select a preset interval timer and create a custom one to personalize the interval workout to whatever you would like. - Continuous Run / Walk option without intervals and track key workout statistics, such as distance, steps, duration, and pace. - FITimer is equipped with beeps that can tell you when to switch the intervals, even while in the background. The beeps seamlessly mix with your music. - After your workout is completed, FITimer keeps track of the completed workouts in the history tab and can be accessed whenever you would like. - Background compatibility has been integrated with FITimer. It allows you to listen to your music while running or you could use other applications. Enjoy the app!! FITimer will soon have new, exciting, and useful features!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: FITimer at every 2 months against Best Interval Timer's every 12 months. FITimer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). Best Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
FITimer 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 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, FITimer every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | FITimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | AKRS Ventures LLC. |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
FITimer
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
FITimer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
FITimer
No in-app purchases
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