Comparison

Interval Exercise Timer ™ vs MealMate

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

Head to head
About

Interval Exercise Timer ™

Optimize your exercise routines with a customizable interval timer. Set precise 'Prepare,' 'Work,' and 'Rest' durations, and manage multiple sets and rounds for efficient workouts. Save your custom settings for easy access to consistent training.

Highlights
  • Customizable Prepare, Work, and Rest timers
  • Multi-round and set options
  • Real-time progress tracking
  • Save and load custom timer settings
  • User-friendly interface
Features
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Take your workouts to the next level with Interval Exercise Timer, the definitive interval timer designed for those who seek to optimize their exercise routines. Never second-guess when to start, stop, or rest. Our customizable 'Prepare,' 'Work,' and 'Rest' timers guide you through each set and round, allowing you to focus on what really matters—your workout. Why Choose Workout Timer? • Optimal Efficiency: Our precision timing allows you to know exactly when to prepare, work out, and rest, so you can get the most out of your training sessions. • Fully Customizable: Dial in your exact needs with adjustable 'Prepare,' 'Work,' and 'Rest' intervals. Customize the number of sets and rounds to tailor your workout perfectly. • Never Miss a Beat: The 'Prepare' timer ensures you're always set to start your next exercise, making your routines seamless and efficient. Key Features: • User-Friendly Interface: Get started quickly and easily with our intuitive layout. • Custom Timers: Decide the duration for 'Prepare,' 'Work,' and 'Rest' phases to fit your unique training goals. • Multi-Round and Set Options: Vary your workout complexity with multiple sets and rounds, ideal for HIIT, circuit training, and more. • Real-Time Tracking: Keep tabs on your progress with live countdowns during each workout phase. • Save and Load: Save your customized timing settings for future sessions, making it easier to stick to a consistent workout routine. Who Is This App For? • Athletes and coaches in need of precise timing for maximum workout effectiveness. • Fitness enthusiasts who aim to enhance their interval or circuit workouts for greater results. Download Interval Exercise Timer now and experience a new standard of efficiency in your workouts. With exact timing settings and real-time tracking, you have the tools you need to achieve peak performance. Interval Exercise Timer app is free. You can use it forever, at no cost. However, Interval Exercise Timer does offer premium features for its subscribers. If you decide to purchase an upgrade, you will unlock additional features. ADDITIONAL FEATURES FOR SUBSCRIBED USERS • No Ads • Unlimited number of workout per day • Keep timer active in background. The timer remains active even if you switch to another app or turn off the screen. Terms of Use: https://kociapp.github.io/Interval-Exercise-Timer/term-of-use Privacy Policy: https://kociapp.github.io/Interval-Exercise-Timer/privacy-policy

About

MealMate

This app generates personalized meal plans tailored to your specific calorie, protein, carb, and fat targets. It offers high customizability, allowing you to set meal frequencies, dietary restrictions, and even repeat favorite meals. Analyze food with AI scanning and access a large recipe database to support your fitness goals.

Highlights
  • Macro meal plan generation
  • AI food and barcode scanning
  • High customizability
  • Handpicked recipes database
  • Dietary restriction support
  • Shopping list generation
Features
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MealMate exists for a single reason, to help you achieve your physical goals by providing practical meal plans you can actually follow. We know it’s challenging to fit a meal plan into your life. Every day can be different, and most meal plans only offer standardized options with little to no flexibility. But not MealMate! Our meal plans are as individual as you. When calculating meal plans, our MealMate algorithm not only takes into account your calorie-, protein-, carbs-, and fat-targets, but also how many times per day you want to eat. MealMate automatically generates meal plans for you that support you with your goals, from building muscle to losing fat. It doesn’t matter when and how many times you want to eat per day. MealMate is highly customizable and generates meal plans tailored to you. Simple calorie trackers only help you track your calories. But that’s only a fraction of the work. The hard part is deciding what to eat to ensure that you reach your desired macros for the day. That’s where we help you. ***Highlight Features*** MACRO MEAL PLAN GENERATION Meal plans are a great tool if you want to lose fat, build muscle, and live a healthier life. MealMate calculates your macros and calories and provides you with a meal plan that matches your macros. You can also easily adapt your macros and calories manually. Don’t like the meal plan? Simply regenerate the whole day or change single meals. AI SCAN Use our AI scan to analyze the macros of spontaneous meals or barcodes, include them in your meal plan, and receive suggestions for your further diet based on your scans. HIGH CUSTOMIZABILITY We offer a very high degree of customizability when generating your meal plan to ensure that it works for you. Do you want to build habits and repeat specific meals every day? Just insert them into your template and our algorithm will build a meal plan around your set meals. We also don’t force a structure on you. You decide how many meals you want to eat per day. HANDPICKED RECIPES Healthy and delicious meals are the heart of every meal plan. Our continuously growing database of over 1000 handpicked recipes offers many breakfast, dinner, lunch, snack, or dessert options. Additionally, select whether our meal plan should consider any allergies or other dietary restrictions. We’ll only show you the meals that match your eating habits. ***Feature Overview*** - Get meal plans based on your calorie and macro targets - Take pictures of meals and barcodes to analyze the macros - Easily regenerate the day - Change single meals with our easy shuffle function - No limitations: Supports many different diet styles (omnivore, vegetarian, vegan, keto, pescatarian, …) and allergies - Everybody’s eating habits are different: You decide how often and at which times you want to eat - Simplicity is key to a successful diet: Set fixed meals for specific days and times - Easily transform your meal plan into a shopping list - Copy your meal plan to other days if you want to repeat the day - Block meals you don’t like - Track your progress with voluntary weight-ins to stay motivated - Be consistent with the meal plan to build a streak - Customize the algorithm to your preferences. Do you prefer a plan that focuses on reaching your target macros or do you prefer more variability in your diet? MealMate is free to download and use within limited features. For full access, we offer 1-month and an annual premium auto-renewing subscriptions. Payment is charged to your credit card through your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription renews automatically unless you turn off auto-renewal in iTunes account settings or cancel your subscription at least 24 hours prior to the end of the subscription period. Ingredient & food database used: https://openfoodfacts.org Contact: hello.mealmate@gmail.com Terms of Service: https://mealmate.timozuther.de/agb_english.html Privacy: https://mealmate.timozuther.de/privacy.html [:mav: 1.6.43]

Screenshots

Interval Exercise Timer ™4 screens
MealMate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Interval Exercise Timer ™ at 100% against MealMate's 59%. Interval Exercise Timer ™ also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and device support (3 vs 1). MealMate's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Exercise Timer ™ sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and MealMate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Interval Exercise Timer ™ holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MealMate has 107 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Interval Exercise Timer ™'s written reviews are positive against 59% of MealMate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Interval Exercise Timer ™ ships an update monthly, MealMate weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Interval Exercise Timer ™ versus MealMate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterInterval Exercise Timer ™MealMate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (20 ratings) — better4.5 (107 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better59.3% of reviews
Number of ratings20107 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB85 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndy SutantoTimo Zuther

Customer experience

Interval Exercise Timer ™

All ratings20 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

MealMate

All ratings107 ratings
Positive87.9%
Neutral2.8%
Negative9.3%
Written reviews27 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral7.4%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Interval Exercise Timer ™

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

MealMate

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • 🐛 Setup process starts every time
  • 🐛 Cannot delete list items
  • 🐛 Cannot add items to shopping list
  • 🐛 Freezes, can't enter info
  • 🐛 Goal weight slider stuck in metric
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  • 🐛 Onboarding issues, cannot enter measurements
  • 🐛 App hangs after finishing registration
  • 🐛 Won't accept weight over 155 lbs, reverts to 155
  • 🐛 Generated irrelevant ingredients

Requested features

11 requests
  • 💡 Meal prep guidance
  • 💡 Bigger food resource management
  • 💡 More goal options (meal prep, fast meals)
  • 💡 Consider storage quantities
  • 💡 Reduce existing storage as a goal
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  • 💡 Input product packages instead of individual products
  • 💡 AI recognizes package sizes
  • 💡 Adjust meal plan to reduce leftovers/storage
  • 💡 Build shopping list with package input
  • 💡 Search for dishes with few ingredients
  • 💡 Allow users to add own recipes

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Interval Exercise Timer ™

Subscriptions4
  • Workout Timer Pro$0.997 Days
  • Workout Timer Pro$1.491 Month
  • Exercise Timer Pro$6.996 Months
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  • Tabata Timer Pro3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Interval Timer Pro$39.99
2 purchases

MealMate

Subscriptions2
  • 1 Month Premium$6.991 Month
  • 1 Year Premium3 Days trial$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Interval Exercise Timer ™ free?
Interval Exercise Timer ™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is MealMate free?
MealMate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Interval Exercise Timer ™ or MealMate?
Interval Exercise Timer ™ is rated higher. Interval Exercise Timer ™ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while MealMate averages 4.5 from 107 ratings.
Do Interval Exercise Timer ™ or MealMate have ads?
Interval Exercise Timer ™ shows ads; MealMate does not.
Which is updated more often, Interval Exercise Timer ™ or MealMate?
Interval Exercise Timer ™ ships an update monthly, and MealMate weekly. Most recently, Interval Exercise Timer ™ was updated on September 19, 2026 and MealMate on September 22, 2026.

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