Comparison

Interval Timer vs Tabata Timer

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

Head to head
About

Interval Timer

This app provides a customizable interval timer for various training routines, including HIIT and Tabata. Easily set up custom workouts, track your progress, and stay motivated with visual cues and audio notifications. It's suitable for a wide range of activities from fitness to productivity.

Highlights
  • Customizable workout setup
  • Progress tracking with calendar
  • Saveable custom presets
  • Color-coded notifications
  • Listen to music/audiobooks
  • Large, full-screen display
  • Widget for easy access
Features
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Interval Timer: Tabata and HIIT is a customizable timer for sports. Use it for High-intensity interval training and workout. It's a free sports interval timer app that makes it easy to create your custom training routine. Use it as your timer for training or exercise. This sports timer is great for crossfit, fitness and running. The sports timer will also be useful for various activities such as crossfit, jogging, boxing,circuit training,breathing exercises and yoga. You can use this circuit timer as a productivity timer to focus on your work tasks. Key features: Setup workout Tracking your progress Customizable presets Notifications & colors Motivation Listening music or books Huge digits Widget SETUP WORKOUT Set up, edit and save your own workouts with the customizable feature. Add as many intervals as you like. You can add a 10 second rest period and a 20 second work period, as well as a 5 second interval between exercises. TRACKING PROGRESS Track your workouts with a Calendar. Plan and track events, and get notified when you have a training scheduled. With this feature, you will not miss a single workout and will keep track of your progress. CUSTOMIZABLE PRESETS Save your workouts in the presets section. It's also possible to create your own custom intervals. You can add an unlimited number of presets. NOTIFICATIONS & COLORS Each training phase is easy to distinguish by a different color and is initiated by an individually adjustable signal (sound, vibration, voice) MOTIVATION Each completed exercise motivates you to achieve higher goals. Enjoy your training and achieve your fitness goals with the interval timer. LISTENING MUSIC Listen to motivational audiobooks or your favorite music and get inspired and energized. Full screen color coded display is easy to read from a distance. Widget helps you train without being distracted by the constant unlocking of your phone. Interval Timer: Tabata and HIIT is an easy to use sports workout timer for your daily fitness training at home, at the gym or everywhere else.

About

Tabata Timer

Features
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Meet TimeMe—the pocket-sized tabata timer built for sweat-dripping sessions anywhere. Fire up this tabata timer, hit start, and feel the perfect 20-10 rhythm push you harder each round. But TimeMe is way more than a tabata timer: it’s also a hiit timer free, an interval timer free, and a versatile timer for workouts of every style. Why athletes keep TimeMe on the home screen • Fast, reliable tabata timer you can launch mid-warm-up. • Flexible hiit timer free mode: punch in work, rest, rounds, and sets—no limits. • Unlimited interval timer free templates: save, duplicate, tweak, repeat. • Honest workout timer with giant buttons you can smash between push-ups. • Bulletproof excersize timer (yep, that misspelling is intentional—capturing every keyword) that keeps counting if you dim the screen or swap playlists. • Stats galore: each workout timer session logs total minutes, round splits, and daily streaks—proof of progress. Lightning-quick setup 1. Open the tabata timer preset for an instant 4-minute blast. 2. Create a 30-15 hiit timer free finisher in three taps. 3. Build a custom EMOM interval timer free workout with ten rounds of 35-second kettlebell swings. 4. Save it, name it, and relaunch the same timer for workouts tomorrow. PREMIUM: 5. Check your session history and watch the bars on your workout timer dashboard climb. Designed for real-life training • Big colored rings and loud beeps keep you focused on form. • Vibration alerts make the timer for workouts glove-friendly—great for boxing rounds. • Background mode locks in your excersize timer even if your phone goes to sleep. • Light and dark themes so the workout timer never blinds you during sunrise yoga. • Multilingual UI: English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Arabic. All gain, no pain • 100 % offline—your data stays local. • Zero subscriptions. No shady ads popping up when your heart rate spikes. • Small install size, so this tabata timer and hiit timer free won’t eat storage. • Runs smoothly on phones, tablets, Chromebooks, and desktop browsers—cast your interval timer free session to the TV for garage-gym glory. Not just a workout timer • Study sessions: 25-5 cycles on the same interval timer free engine. • Cooking: perfect pasta timing without juggling kitchen clocks. • Meditation: gentle excersize timer chimes that fade into silence. Ready to move? 1. Download TimeMe. 2. Tap your preferred tabata timer or program a fresh hiit timer free circuit. 3. Smash Start. 4. Sweat, breathe, and follow the clear timer for workouts displays. 5. Celebrate the stats piling up in your workout timer log. Whether you call it a tabata timer, hiit timer free, interval timer free, timer for workouts, excersize timer, or simply your favorite workout timer, TimeMe keeps you on beat from warm-up to cooldown. Hit start now and turn every minute into stronger, faster, fitter results. Privacy policy: https://burnai.app/privacy-policy-timeme.html Terms of services: https://burnai.app/terms-of-services-timeme.html

Screenshots

Interval Timer4 screens
Tabata Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tabata Timer at none against Interval Timer's shown. Tabata Timer also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Interval Timer sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $2.09 per month and Tabata Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Interval Timer versus Tabata Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval TimerTabata Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (379 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings379 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSimpleInnovation LLCAhmet Yagız Sarıdogan

Bugs and requests

Interval Timer

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional app crashes
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • More pre-designed workout routines
  • Ability to name and customize exercises
  • Option to adjust countdown time between intervals

Tabata Timer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Interval Timer

Subscriptions8
  • Timer PRO for 1 month: 30% OFF7 Days trial$2.091 Month
  • Timer PRO for 1 month: 25% OFF7 Days trial$2.291 Month
  • Interval Timer PRO for 1 month$2.991 Month
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  • Interval Timer PRO for 1 month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Interval Timer PRO - 30% OFF7 Days trial$15.001 Year
  • Interval Timer PRO - 25% OFF7 Days trial$16.491 Year
  • Interval Timer PRO for 1 year$21.991 Year
  • Tabata Timer PRO for 1 year7 Days trial$21.991 Year
One-time4
  • Interval Timer - no Ads$2.99
  • HIIT Timer PRO Forever 30% OFF$27.99
  • HIIT Timer PRO Forever 25% OFF$29.99
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  • Exercise Timer PRO Forever$39.99
2 purchases

Tabata Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Weekly3 Days trial$3.997 Days
  • Premium Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Interval Timer free?
Interval Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tabata Timer free?
Tabata Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Interval Timer or Tabata Timer have ads?
Interval Timer shows ads; Tabata Timer does not.

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