Comparison

Best Interval Timer vs Interval Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Interval Timer

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various fitness activities like HIIT, Tabata, and circuit training. Easily set up preparation, work, and rest periods, then save and share your custom workouts. Track your progress with detailed statistics and history.

Highlights
  • Customizable intervals
  • HIIT and Tabata timer
  • Workout planning
  • Save and share workouts
  • Workout statistics
  • Workout history
Features
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The Interval Timer is a simple and easy to use workout interval timer (HIIT timer, Stopwatch & Countdown) for your daily fitness training and workout at home, gym and everywhere else. This workout timer is suitable for fitness interval training HIIT/Tabata, interval running (jogging) and other time dependent activities (boxing, circuit training, meditation, breathing exercises, yoga...). it possible to carry out training sessions with preparation time, work time, rest time and number of repetitions. Features: - Intuitive and clear user interface. - Configure exercises with preparation time, work time, rest and number of repetitions - Create your own custom intervals - Group multiple exercises as a plan - Save, load and edit workouts - Share your workouts with friends - Create and load backups of your workouts - Track your progress with the workout statistics - Perfect timer for high intensity interval training (hiit, tabata) - Detailed history and statistics pages to track your progress. - Repeat a previous workout from your history, so you don't need to set it again. Subscription Details: - Monthly and annual subscriptions are available. - Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. -Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime with your iTunes account settings. you will not able to cancel subscriptions once activated. -Privacy policy: http://iglobalapp.com/privacy-policy -Terms of use: http://iglobalapp.com/terms-condition

Screenshots

Best Interval Timer4 screens
Interval Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

Best Interval Timer and Interval Timer both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 10% of Interval Timer's. Best Interval Timer also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Interval Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (402 vs 81). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Best Interval Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Best Interval Timer against 4.5 for Interval Timer. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 402 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Best Interval Timer's written reviews are positive against 10% of Interval Timer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, Interval Timer every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Best Interval Timer versus Interval Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Interval TimerInterval Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (81 ratings) — better4.5 (402 ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better10.0% of reviews
Number of ratings81402 — better
Update frequencyEvery 12 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Jyoti Virani

Customer experience

Best Interval Timer

All ratings81 ratings
Positive92.6%
Neutral4.9%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral6.8%
Negative3.9%

Interval Timer

All ratings402 ratings
Positive86.6%
Neutral5.5%
Negative8.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%

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

Interval Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Best Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Premium - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Premium - Yearly$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Best Interval Timer free?
Best Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Best Interval Timer or Interval Timer?
Best Interval Timer is rated higher. Best Interval Timer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Interval Timer averages 4.5 from 402 ratings.
Do Best Interval Timer or Interval Timer have ads?
Both Best Interval Timer and Interval Timer show ads.
Which is updated more often, Best Interval Timer or Interval Timer?
Best Interval Timer ships an update every 12 months, and Interval Timer every 6 weeks. Most recently, Best Interval Timer was updated on September 18, 2026 and Interval Timer on September 21, 2026.

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