SimplyTimer vs Gym Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SimplyTimer
This minimalist app is designed to help you achieve your fitness goals with ease. It offers customizable intervals and background mode to keep your timer running smoothly. Enhance your training sessions and stay motivated with this efficient, distraction-free workout companion.
- Easy to use interface
- Customizable intervals
- Background timer mode
- Supports HIIT, Tabata, Boxing, circuit training
- Minimalist design
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Elevate your workouts with the Simple Interval Timer, your new perfect exercise companion. Whether you're into HIIT, Tabata, Boxing, circuit training, or any high-intensity exercise, our minimalist app is designed to help you achieve your fitness goals with ease. *Key Features:* - *Easy to Use:* Kickstart your workouts with a single tap, thanks to our hassle-free user interface. - *Customizable Intervals:* Tailor the number of sets, workout duration, rest time, and more to fit your needs, optimizing your training sessions. - *Background Mode:* Keep your timer running smoothly in the background, even when your device is locked, ensuring you stay on track with your workouts. Enhance your training sessions, stay motivated, and track your progress effortlessly with the Simple Interval Timer. It's the ultimate tool for efficient, distraction-free workouts. Experience the simplicity and effectiveness of the Simple Interval Timer today. Download now to elevate your fitness journey! Your feedback is valuable to us, feel free to share your experience and help us improve.
Gym Cards
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Gym Cards is a workout diary that stays on your phone. One exercise or one photo is already a workout. Log a set in ten seconds, or write nothing at all and keep just the photo. Either way the month fills up. EVERY MONTH IS A CARD Your year is a shelf of month cards. Give a month a cover photo or a colour, flip a card to see the calendar, and tap any day to see what you did. LOG IN SECONDS Exercises, sets, weight, reps, warm-up sets, personal records. Repeating last session takes three taps. Nothing is required: not a note, not even an exercise. One photo is a workout. RUNS, STRETCHING AND YOGA A run, a walk, a stretch or a yoga session is a workout too. Time, distance and pace sit next to your sets, and your tonnage stays a lifting number. Record a route by GPS, or import your runs from Apple Health. PHOTOS AND VIDEO Attach progress photos and technique videos to any workout, and keep a gallery on each exercise in your library. Mark photos as progress and compare any two with a slider. YOUR OWN EXERCISE LIBRARY No catalogue of 200 exercises you will never do. Add the ones you actually train, with your own notes. Each one keeps its own records, totals and progress chart. BODY, GOALS AND PROGRESS Track body weight, body fat and measurements. Set a goal for a lift, a weekly rhythm or your weight and watch the ring fill. Streaks, records, volume charts and achievements. APPLE HEALTH Turn it on in Settings and every workout you time is saved to Apple Health as strength training. Gym Cards reads nothing from Health. GYM CARDS PRO One payment, no subscription. Pro adds: • Month and year recaps you can share • Progress photo overlay, timelapse and sharing • As many goals as you like, each with a forecast • Six themes, including a monochrome one, with matching app icons • Analytics: estimated max charts, rep-range bests, a year heatmap • Home screen widgets for your week and your month • Automatic backup to your own iCloud Logging, photos, the slider comparison and your first goal stay free. IT IS YOURS No account. No ads. No tracking. Your workouts live on your phone, not on our servers, because we do not have any. Backups go only to your own iCloud, and only if you turn them on. Export your sets to CSV, everything to JSON, print a month to PDF, and import a backup back in. Light and dark themes. Six languages: English, Ukrainian, Polish, German, Spanish and Portuguese. Reminders on the days you train.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SimplyTimer at none against Gym Cards's 1. SimplyTimer also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Gym Cards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. SimplyTimer asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SimplyTimer | Gym Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Maurice-Nikita Rafael Reichert | Maksym Tytechko |
In-app purchases
SimplyTimer
No in-app purchases
Gym Cards
- Gym Cards Pro$9.99









