Best Interval Timer vs Gym Timer Pro
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.
Gym Timer Pro
This free interval timer app helps you structure your workouts with customizable work, rest, and set periods. Easily configure countdowns or count-ups for up to three distinct workout items, with an optional ready time before starting.
- Countdown and count-up timers
- Up to 3 workout items
- Configurable work, rest, and sets
- Adjustable ready time
- Completely free with no ads or purchases
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The Gym Timer (100% free) NO Ads, NO subscriptions, NO in-app purchase Built for the author himself to use this app for his workout. You can count down or count up. You can have up to 3 workout items. You can configure WORK, REST, and SETS for each workout by simply dragging it. You can configure the ready time before the workout in the Settings. Enjoy the workout! I will update the app frequently!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Gym Timer Pro at none against Best Interval Timer's shown. Gym Timer Pro also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 12 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Best Interval Timer's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 11). On price, 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.
Gym Timer Pro 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 11, 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 Gym Timer Pro's.
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Gym Timer Pro every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Best Interval Timer | Gym Timer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (81 ratings) | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 倩 赵 | Dae Won Kim |
Customer experience
Best Interval Timer
Gym Timer Pro
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
Gym Timer Pro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Best Interval Timer
No in-app purchases
Gym Timer Pro
No in-app purchases
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