Comparison

Best Interval Timer vs Orbit

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

Orbit

Features
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Orbit is a focus timer designed for brains that drift — built for ADHD, friendly for everyone. Start a focus block and watch the ring fill like an orbit. Each completed block is one orbit — no streaks to shame you, no harvest to lose. Just gentle momentum you can actually feel. FOCUS, SIMPLY • A large, glanceable countdown ring • Turn the Digital Crown (watch) to set your focus length • Distinct haptics for focus and break completions • Automatic focus → break → long-break cycles ON YOUR WATCH FACE • Add a complication and your countdown lives right on your watch face • Glance from the Smart Stack without opening the app BUILT TO ADAPT • Orbit learns from your finished blocks and "I got distracted" taps • Optional heart-rate awareness suggests shorter blocks when you're agitated • Every suggestion is transparent — you stay in control GENTLE MOTIVATION • Orbits completed today, focus minutes, and a no-pressure streak • A 7-day chart and a focus heatmap of your history • End-of-block alerts so you never lose track iPHONE + APPLE WATCH • Start on your phone, continue on your wrist — they sync live • History follows you through iCloud PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts, no ads, no tracking • Your data stays on your device and your own iCloud • Completed focus time can be saved to Health as Mindful Minutes Find your orbit.

Screenshots

Best Interval Timer4 screens
Orbit2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Orbit at none against Best Interval Timer's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Best Interval Timer versus Orbit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBest Interval TimerOrbit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (81 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings81 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 12 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer倩 赵Tejas Bharambe

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

Orbit

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Best Interval Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Orbit

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Best Interval Timer free?
Best Interval Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Best Interval Timer or Orbit have ads?
Best Interval Timer shows ads; Orbit does not.

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