Best Interval Timer vs HC HIIT Interval 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.
HC HIIT Interval Timer
Create and manage custom interval training workouts with an integrated timer. Design workouts with specific actions, colors, names, and durations. Suitable for personal training or individual fitness routines.
- Create custom workouts
- Integrated workout timer
- Define actions with color, name, and duration
- Use default workouts
- Save and reuse workout routines
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This application is made by volunteers, trying to help their trainer to make things easy with their workouts for the members of the Health Club from Novi Sad, Serbia, but it can be used by anyone on the App Store! With HC HIIT Interval Timer you can keep your workouts simple and in one place with an integrated timer inside every action of workout. The goal of the application is to prepare workouts that can be used later for training. You can freely use the default workouts from the application, and you can make new ones for yourself. The main features of the application are adding and using workouts. Every workout is built from actions. Every action has color, name, and number of seconds for action. We wish you to create your best workouts and maintain your health!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: HC HIIT Interval Timer at none against Best Interval Timer's shown. HC HIIT Interval Timer also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and review sentiment (100% vs 89%). Best Interval Timer's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (81 vs 5). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Best Interval Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Best Interval Timer has 81 ratings behind it against 5, 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 100% of HC HIIT Interval Timer'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, HC HIIT Interval Timer every 21 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | HC HIIT Interval Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Dejan Dragic |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
HC HIIT Interval 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
HC HIIT Interval Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
HC HIIT Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
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