btwb vs CrossTimer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
btwb
Log your workouts, discover new ones, and connect with your fitness community. Track progress, analyze performance, and manage nutrition with a comprehensive fitness tracking tool.
- Daily workout programming
- Discover millions of WODs
- Track workout results
- Macro and nutrition tracking
- Community and social features
- Performance analysis and badges
- Gym virtual programming
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btwb, the world's premier workout tracker, brings fitness communities together, in person & remotely. We are the world's largest workout Log with 100+ million results and counting. WORKOUTS - Get daily programming at your fingertips with btwb's Varied Not Random workouts. 4 versions available daily: Performance, Fitness, Dumbbell Only, and No Equipment. - Post results for every workout and/or create your own. - Discover the perfect workout among 12+ Million Unique WODs. - Perfectly capture and share your workout experience with attached images and location tagging. - See how you stack up against the world with World-Wide Leaderboards. GYMS - Keep your community connected by taking your gym virtual. Deliver custom programming to groups and individuals, include personalized movement demos and WOD briefs, view member activity and results via gym feeds and leaderboards, and encourage members with emojis & comments through private Squads. MACROS - Track your Macros. Get the best features of other macro tracking apps combined with our best-in-class workout tracking. With over 700k grocery items, 160k restaurant items, and 13k common foods, find exactly the food you’re looking for by searching our library or by scanning the barcode of your favorite packaged item! You can even create your own custom entries! Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. - Set your own macronutrient targets, or have coaches set them for you. SOCIAL - Create private Squads and build Follow lists to keep up with your friends' results. - Use direct messaging to converse about fitness with individuals and groups. ANALYSIS - Earn badges for various workouts, gymnastics maxes, 1RM lifts, and running & rowing intervals. - Discover potential major and minor strength, mobility, and technique issues in specific categories with Imbalances. - How fit are you? (1-100) Work to unlock your Fitness Level. Track body fat, benchmarks and more!
CrossTimer
This minimalist workout timer is designed for interval training, including CrossFit and HIIT. It supports various workout formats like AMRAP and EMOM, with optional voice cues and background operation. Enjoy a seamless experience with no ads or in-app purchases.
- AMRAP, EMOM, TABATA & FOR TIME workout timing
- No ads or in-app purchases
- Round counting feature
- Motivational voice cues
- Background operation
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CrossTimer is a minimalist workout timer without ads or in-app purchases. The app is perfect for timing any type of workout, but we designed it specifically for CrossFit, HIIT and interval training. • Time AMRAP, EMOM, TABATA & FOR TIME workouts / WODs • No ads or in-app purchases – buy once, for life • Ability to count rounds during workouts • Support for motivational voice cues • Runs in the background
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CrossTimer at 100% against btwb's 53%. CrossTimer also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and chart position (#197 vs unranked). btwb's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 121). On update cadence, ads, 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
btwb is free to download; CrossTimer costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CrossTimer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: btwb has 1.5K ratings behind it against 121, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of btwb's written reviews are positive against 100% of CrossTimer's.
btwb ships an update weekly, CrossTimer every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 8, 2026.
| Parameter | btwb | CrossTimer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.5K ratings) | 4.8 (121 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K — better | 121 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #197 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BTWB, LLC | Tenect Sweden AB |
Customer experience
btwb
CrossTimer
Bugs and requests
btwb
Reported bugs
5 issues- Subscription cancellation and billing problems
- Frequent crashes and white screens
- Inability to log certain workout types
- Barcode scanner and movement tracking issues
- Problems with data syncing and history display
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode or black background option
- Integrate with Apple Health and other fitness apps
- Improve custom workout creation and logging
- Provide better social/community features
- Fix issues with loading and saving workout data
CrossTimer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
btwb
No in-app purchases
CrossTimer
No in-app purchases
